Today was a good day (...in my Ice Cube voice)

Hiiiiiii.......
I hope everyone is doing well.
  
   My week is has been really good. Long as usual but really good. I think I finally got Reese feeling better. I took her to the vet...which sucked super hard. They didnt really tell me anything and Reese was a total psycho-spaz the whole time we were there. They gave her some dewormer to be safe and then bent us over with the bill. She wasn't eating her puppy food...only a few bites all day so I think she ended up vomiting early in the mornings from her stomach churning around on itself. I took her off the puppy food and promoted her to a natural adult dog food for dogs with sensitive stomachs. She ate that shit right up and seems to be doing much better....and just in time, I couldn't handle her hurling every morning at 3am anymore.
   
    A good week so far at school as well...academically I'm am still holding strong...averaging like 97% on my quizzes I think. And although our quizzes are really easy its still nice to ball out on them. Monday we had to do our first PT assessment. It consisted of a timed mile and a half run, push ups and sit ups. We ran the mile and a half on the track; which when your legs are as short as mine is total torture but I will take 6 track laps outside over 18 laps inside our academy building. We are required to pass the run in under 13 minutes so I was pretty stoked when I crushed that time finishing in 11:27... and I dont know if you have ever seen a midget run but 11:27 is a pretty solid time. (and better than quite a few of the boys) After the run we went back to the gym to do out push ups and sit ups.  We had a minute to do as many push ups as possible, the same with sit ups. The boys had to do their push ups down enough for their chest to touch to a persons fist who was placed under them... us chickies had to do them down enough for our chin to touch a fist on the ground (not that my boobs are big enough to create an advantage lol) We only had to do 35 to be considered passing so I wasn't worried about it. I smoked out 64...  my PT instructor made a huge deal about it... mostly to make the guys who could only do 15 (yeah we actually had a guy only do 15) look stupid. Sit ups were cake... Im not even sure how many I did.. enough to pass. SO... long story long monday was good, I was really happy to start my week that way. 

   Tuesday was EMT class. BORING. Thats all about that.
  
   Our first CPAT was today. I was pretty pumped about doing it so I was bright eyed and bushy tailed at 5am. Get to school all ready to own it, only to find out that the gym was taken and we would  have to wait until after 1 o'clock. Awesome. I had to help proctor the rest of the class member's tests which gave me another 3 hours to watch them all go through it...watching some of the guys struggle was slowing draining my confidence. The two other girls in my class went before me, neither one of them passed...great. So then its finally my turn to go. My instructor reminds me Im the class president and I need to represent (thanks for the added pressure, because the pressure from myself and classmates wasnt enough) I will try to explain this test as well as possible without writing a novel.

Station one is a 3:20sec walk on the stair stepper while wearing a 50lbs weighted vest and 25lbs of added weight. (this was a LONG three and half minutes) then the 25lbs of added weight are removed and you complete the remainder of the test with the 50lbs vest on.

Between every station you must walk 85ft

Station two is the hose drag. You must grab the nozzle and hose (150ft of hose) over your shoulder, and run down and around the barrel. Then you have to take a knee and pull, hand over hand, another 50ft of hose.

Walk 85ft

Station three you have to pick up a chain saw and rotary saw from a shelf and carry it down around the barrel and put them back on the shelf.

Walk 85ft

Station four is the ladder raise. You have to raise a 25ft ladder up rung by rung up the wall, then move over to another extension ladder and raise the extension all the way up and all the way down.

Walk 85ft

Station five is the forced entry station. You must take a 12lbs sledgehammer and hit this plate thing until the buzzer goes off (this is when I really started getting tired)

walk 85ft

Station six is the maze crawl. Which is exactly that... you have to crawl through a pitch black maze with obstacles in it.

Walk 85ft

Station seven is the dummy drag. You must drag the 165lbs dummy by the harness handles down 45ft, around a barrel and back. (Im totally miserable now)

walk 85ft

The eighth and final station is the breach and pull. You must take a pike pole (long pole with a point and a hook) and you have to push up three times on a weighted panel and pull down five times on a weighted bar. That is repeated four times. I was so gassed at this point....starting to see spots and shit. That vest just worked me. To be considered passing a candidate must complete the entire test in under 10:20sec. 

What was my time you ask?????

Oh, you know, 10:17. :)

Im even extra excited because I found out today that if I happened to get hurt and cannot take the test next time I will be able to use this time even though it was a practice CPAT. I was happy to hear this because flag football starts in a few weeks and I was really paranoid about getting hurt playing while in school. Now no worries!!

".....Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I gotta say it was a good day"

Love.