Update on the new job

So I have completed my first week working at CareFlite. It has been all classroom, which is kinda boring, and my butt hurts at the end of the day, but I really am digging the 8a-5p thing. I have had plenty of time in the evening to hang out with Jeremy and relax at home. I feel like I have a life. Its great. And it's nice having a little refresher. The classes are really good, and I'm getting CE hours that I can apply to my recertification. We also did a bit of driving, and I had to sit through Defensive Driving with videos that are 15-30 years old. Boooring. We also got to play with sheep guts on Thursday. They had a complete sheep airway, epiglottis, trachea, lungs, and also the heart. So we "intubated" the trachea and got to watch the lungs reinflate. It was cool. Lung tissue is incredibly lighter that it looks like it should be for it's size. I got to perform a crichothyrotomy on the trachea. It was interesting, but I wasn't feeling well that day and the plastic gowns and smelly guts didn't help much.

The guys in my orientation are pretty cool too. Most of them are 21-24 years old, and they are hilarious. They sit through the entire day, talking shit to each other and making snide comments to each other. It's great.

Next week we start what is called 'boot camp.' It is all day classroom stuff to make sure we know how to do stuff, and then tests. We have standing orders for Rapid Sequence Induction. It's cool, but if they test us over it and we don't get 100% on the test, or random retests while we are working, then our primary status gets pulled. I'm not too worried about it, though.

I think I am going to like working here. They have several 24 hour shifts, and one of them is in Irving, about half a mile from my apartment. Acutally, they have an apartment rented in a complex on the same street as my complex, that they use for their 24 hour station. Shannon, the guy who hired me, says that because I am a paramedic, I have a good shot at getting a 24 hour shift because my seniority will rise quickly and there aren't enough paramedics yet. That would be so cool to have a 24 hour shift right next to my apartment.

Anyways, I am happy.

I have been emailing my dad since I have had a hard time communicating with him by phone due to weird schedules/business. I sent him the pic of me and my honey that I just posted, and he sent this one back. I think I was 10 or 11 or something. But notice the t-shirt I'm wearing is New Kids on the Block. Awesome! And, of course, I am with my dad. This was taken on July 4th when we had gone to see the fireworks and were eagerly awaiting their start time. I think I have his nose and chin. What do you think? Wasn't I a cute kid? My hair was crappy, but I think everyone says that. Besides, this is from when my mom used to cut it for me. So it does not necessarily reflect on my taste. I am much more fashionalbe now. My dad asked me when I started to look grown up. It's a good question.

Hey look! It worked! This is Jeremy! Isn't he cute? I think it's a rather fabulous picture. This was taken at Jeremy's brother Jared's wedding. Notice my hair is brown. It has faded a bit since this picture, but it is still darker than any of you have seen.





And this is the fabulous ring he got me. It's huge. Neither of these pics is really clear, but you get the point about what it looks like. Here's the specs in case you are interested: the sapphire is just under 3 carats and it has 14 diamonds around it totaling just under 1 carat, with white gold. Ain't it special...





Well, I finally managed to post a picture to my blog. It's actually really easy, once you get past the website screwing up and being uncooperative. I will be posting more pics of us and of other things. I have no more excuses.

I have tried to post this picture that I have of Jeremy and me for the last 30 minutes. I have gotten the picture shrinked down to 211MB, and when I try to upload it to the Blogger server, I keep getting an error saying that the server has timed out before it can be uploaded. After three times, I am giving up for the night. I also have pictures of the ring. Albeit, they are bad pics that I took with my camera phone, but they get the point across. That is, if I can get the stupid pics posted. Any suggestions? Have any of you encountered this problem and know a possible fix? I am going to try again tomorrow and see if it works better then. Maybe there are just too many people online trying to do things. Eh, at least I tried.

I have a really good picture of Jeremy and me that we took at his brother's wedding, but I downloaded it onto my desktop computer, and it so happens that I always update my blog from my new used laptop. So I don't have the pic with me to post. But I have one. So I will try to post it
when I get home. I just have to figure out how. And I will post the crummy pic of my ring that I took with my camera phone. I still have not gotten around to getting Mitch to take a pic of it with his super cool professional camera.

I have had the last two and a half weeks off from work, since getting fired from MedStar. It has been wonderful. I like not working. But, alas, I have to return to work at my new job this Monday. My hiatus has come to an end. I have one more full weekend off, and then I have two weeks of 8-5 work before going back to shift work. I have no idea what the training and orientation will be like. But it should be more fun than at MedStar, which was a bunch of sitting in a classroom for two weeks. I am looking forward to the helicopter ride out.

Joey's Bar Mitzvah is coming up at the end of this month. My parents are spending more on Joey's Bar Mitzvah than I plan on spending on my wedding. It is supposed to be a rather big shin dig. I get to read a torah portion at the Saturday services for his Bar Mitzvah. I'm rather excited. It is one of the few areas where everyone appreciates my over-preparedness and perfectionism.

Oh, random: I am a brunette now. It was not intended, but when I told Stacy that I wanted to go back to my natural hair color after my excapades as a blonde, she took it a little too far. She says it should fade down to my normal dark blonde, but it is still definitely brown. You shall see in the pics I will post from the wedding. It looks really good. I like it a lot, but I don't think Jeremy does. He likes me blonde.