I wish I could fly

Honestly, I really couldn’t come up with a title for this post so that is what popped in my head. LOL

Pretty much my life has been going on as normal as possible without connection to the internet. I’m at the library now trying to get everything done in the hour they have allotted me.

I’ve been in a funk the past weekend but have decided for certain that I want to be moved by the end of May to early June. I’m just going to do it – even if I have to lock up my condo and leave it empty for a few months. Like Wayne said, leave it for family vacations or something. Like my family ever vacations that much anyway. Still, I’m determined that this is the time I will move and if I have to live with someone for a few weeks, then I will just have to do that.

I don’t want to be a 911 operator in Iowa so I’m going to look for something when I get up there – apply at the University but also with temp agencies to help pay the bills till I find something more permanent.

So anyway, that is my declaration and I must say, Baxter and Simon seem pretty pleased at the idea. Baxter is just too heavily coated to enjoy this weather – he gets overheated so quickly. Today we went for an hour long walk which he loved but had to rest once and then I had to carry him the last block and a half because he was so worn out.

Tomorrow I hope to go to Fort Myers though I doubt I will. In any case, I plan to see the movie “The Mist” tomorrow for sure. My house is a true disaster so I need to get to work on cleaning it as well.

Sorry it takes me so long to post new stuff but until my internet at home is resolved, I can’t get on anywhere but at the library. Hope everyone has a great day and be safe, people.

Wyoming Trip

I got the rest of the books I ordered for the Wyoming trip I plan on taking in June. It was fun looking through the stuff but I didn’t read any of the stuff I bought for the others because I want them to tell me about it when we get together later. As I said before, stories for around the fire and geographical/history information as we hike.

I’m going to get the packages in the mail tonight so they can all get them by this weekend hopefully. I know they will be somewhat disappointed because the anticipation has been building about these packets so they’ll expect more information then I have to give them. That is really a normal thing – just like the anticipation a child has for Christmas presents that they will soon forget after all the presents are unwrapped.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

I really hate not having the internet at my fingertips – seems like I lose the desire to write posts when I know it might be days before I can post them to my site. They seem like old news and not worth the effort it takes to type them in.

I got into trouble twice this past week – one went into my file. The first one was giving a message to someone from a Lieutenant that I wasn’t apparently supposed to give and it ended up in such a mess. The Lt ended up telling the person that her daughter’s body was found and that she had been murdered. Well, the Lt’s Captain had put in a request that a deputy be present when the Lt told her the news but someone else handled that request. So when the woman called in I gave her the message the Lt had given me to give to her. One would maybe say it wasn’t my fault but the truth of the matter is, I knew it was about her dead daughter but I thought the Lt wouldn’t tell her over the phone, you know? I thought he’d ask her to drive to his office for a meeting.

The second one was a man who complained I was rude to him. Now, while two supervisors listened to the call and agreed I wasn’t rude to him, they wrote me up anyway. I was written up not for being rude but for referring him to a non-emergency number for his non-emergency request when I was on 911. We do it ALL the time but because he complained, they wrote me up for it. Whatever. I’m so over the politics of this job. Both supervisors agreed too that he was the one that was very rude to me, not vice versa but again, oh well.

We had several sad calls too – one was an accidental OD of an 18 yr old boy and the other was the suspicious death of a 57 yr old woman.

The calls continue to pour in as people get more and more anxious about getting all the stuff done they needed to before Christmas. There is little Christmas cheer to be found anywhere. I find the absence of it a rather sad and disheartening commentary on how our nation values the wrong things in life.