Blog #563

Twas a long day, but better than I expected it to be. I woke up on only two hours of sleep. I came downstairs, then walked back up to lay down again thinking to myself screw it, the logger’s breakfast was an optional thing. So laid down and then though that my squad has always been really good to me so I really should get up and go and ughhhh. So I went, took a shower and used that to wake myself up and went. Jeff and Sherri were already there and I ate some of the things we had waiting for people. It was pretty lazy for a while and I served people and played waiter as well since the rest of the squad didn’t seem to be very motivated to do it. 

So yeah…I cleaned and served and smiled a lot. Lots of fake smiles. My mind was pretty mellow and neutral, getting to have more of a slightly positive point of view as time went on. I got a hug from a little kid who has a crush on me (or so I hear). I met some people and when it was slow I sat down and talked. Was actually a lot more pleasant than I thought it was going to be. 

And some four and a half hours later we were done and we were breaking down….and my chief harangued me into driving the ambulance in the front of the parade because I was part of the on-duty crew. So….ended up doing that. That irritated me slightly at first because I care little for that kinda thing and I wanted to just break down and go to sleep I was so tired but it wasn’t too bad either. We were behind the marching band and the american legion because that’s just how it always goes but they wanted us in the front in case we got a call, we’d just go lights and sirens, clear the road and go. That didn’t happen though. I waved at people and smiled and I started targeting little kids, like 2-6. The adults mostly didn’t care unless they recognized us (some did) and older kids didn’t care at all. But the little little ones would see me looking at them smiling and waving and they’d usually wave back timidly which is a good thing. Some were pretty excited to be noticed so that was okay. My goal was to get them to feel more comfortable around the lights and the ambulance in case they have to get in it but it was nice that they actually enjoyed being waved to too. So I was focusing on driving + doing that while my partners were gossiping about who knows what. I wasn’t paying much attention to their talk lest a kid run out in front of me and I not notice. And then it was over and we parked and my partners wanted to watch the parade so I parked on a side road and we watched. Candy was thrown and I grabbed a piece of gum and all was well. Mardi gras beads were thrown out by one of the vehicles and a woman yelled to a guy that if he showed her his boobs she’d give him some beads and he did it and it was amusing. That was pretty much it. Well, I suppose I saw people I knew, including Ashley from the rolled buggy. She’s doing a lot better now and they decided nothing was wrong with her. I saw Justin riding a tractor too and I heckled him and got him to look something other than bored. He was amused. Then the Miss Wabeno person came through and it was someone I worked with back at the Hillcrest. A nice girl, but a total dummy. Some of the ridiculous things she’d say at work would just….dumbfound the rest of us. She wasn’t malicious or terrible, just a really unknowing and naive kind of foolish. I like her all in all, though, she’s a really nice person. 

And  then it was done and we got back in the ambulance and sugar had all sorts of mardi gras beads and other things. I didn’t bother picking up anything they threw out and I thought about stealing one of her popsicles but decided against it. We drove back and everyone went home except for me because I apparently was the only one who remembered we still had to finish cleaning up, so it was just me, Sheri and Jeff. We talked and fixed everything up at the legion hall and it was decided that I could have the extra box of eggs, some 150 eggs since we had nothing we could do with it. So….I told Sheri I could probably figure out places to give them and she said okay so I left and did. I gave my neighbors across the way 60 eggs. They’re nice enough people and they have a rough time with things because only two of them are adults who work and there are tons of kids at their house, many of them not theirs but their parents don’t want anything to do with them so they end up staying there. They’re kind of trailer park trashy in feel, but they’re not bad people, nor dumb either, that’s just the feel of them when you talk to them or look at them. I like them a decent bit. So I gave them a ton because I know money must be tight with only two of them being adults at all and out of them only one working and with the 10 or so kids constantly over there….yeah. Seemed nice. Went across the way to my other neighbor whose husband died last year and filled up her egg carton, went down the road to another house with people I don’t know and introduced myself. Gave her 28 eggs. Then called up debbie, one of Amy’s friends, and gave her 30. Gave another 24 to April, someone who donates a lot of time to the church. Then I put the rest way and went to bed. Slept well for like 6ish hours, no calls for the ambulance thank god, and I gave 30 more eggs away to my next door neighbor. He’s been a decent guy, he jumped Amy’s riding lawnmower when it was down and I wasn’t around to do it and he’s always been pleasant with us. After that we had only 6 extra eggs so I popped them in with our farm eggs and we’ll just find something to do with them. No problem. 

And that was my day. A decent day and I’m not nearly as irritable as I thought I’d be with running on so little sleep. The nap I took in the afternoon took away the headache and I’m-running-on-empty feel I had throughout the day and now I feel like I’m just tired like I need to sleep and I shall…omnomnom. I don’t even know if I’m on call tomorrow or not….I’ll just assume I am until I get around to finding out the schedule I guess. Whatevs. 

The whole day was weird though. It usually takes a lot out of me to be social and around people in a general sense and today wasn’t like that at all, it was actually decently enjoyable. Maybe that means a shift in my whole way of thinking and way of being. Maybe. Maybe I just get drained by people who stress me out. 

Then I got home, hopped on rift and helped my guild out with some world pvp, much havoc occurred on both sides. 

I’ll add a picture entry soon, but for now I’m tired still, going to sleep a second time, hopefully for a good eight hours or so. Sleep well all of yous. Here’s a funny one and a cute one to tide you over:

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