Gym, Tan, Blog

   I would like to again apologize for being such a neglectful blogger. Life has been so crazy... I dont even know where I left off let alone where to begin. My sister and I moved two weeks ago which has been great but has also totally thrown my routine completely off. Its also taking Reese and I some time to adjust to my sisters odd schedule. (more Reese then me, she barks every night at 3am when Rachael comes home) But its great...my sister and I have a great relationship and its nice to see more of each other now.
   School has been a blur to be honest. I cant believe we graduate in 19 days. EEEKKK. We suffered through hazmat week which was pure torture. Fought car, brush, and a dumpster fire at the tower.  Put out 65ft flames at the propane burn. Got pepper sprayed with the police cadets (not the worst thing ever, but pretty bad for about an hour) uuhhhh what else.... went to the pool today for water rescue class.
I forgot to tell everyone about the guns vs hoses competition... So for the last seven years the police and fire academies have competed against each other in 5 events for a trophy. Basketball, volleyball, dodge ball, soccer, and football in a best of 5 format... and all seven years the fire academy has won the trophy (no pressure right) SO we started out horribly...losing volleyball and basketball... but we are on the comeback trail with a strong showing in dodge ball and soccer being our next event. The competition has been great for class morale... we started getting real bitchy and tired of each other so its been nice to come together and have some fun.
   In the next 19 days I have a EMT final, a fire final, a Hazmat state exam, an EMT state practical exam, and a state fire practical. After I pass my practicals I will have to take my state EMT and Fire written exams at the end of may. Don't pass the tests... don't get certified. Don't get certified.... don't get a job. With all that end mind I have to cut this short and study. I'm sorry its so short. I will again smooth over my slacking blogging with photos....

propane burn (very cool)

Love her. Love you all.

 

Back to bloggin...

Helllloooo! Sorry its been a minute since I last wrote. Lifes been a blur the last few weeks... some of it was business some of it was booze :) great times though. OK. SO, since the last blog...  School has been going great. We've been to the burn tower twice since returning from spring break. Yesterdays trip was especially challenging. We had to carry whats called a hotel pack (100ft of hose bundled up in straps) up tot he sixth floor of the tower and back down...then connect to a standpipe (2" pipe in the wall) charge the line and crawl down into the basement to squirt water. Basement fire are notorious for being some of the meanest, nastiest fires there are... I was backing up my squad member on the nozzle and we were having a hard time finding the door to the basement when I began to feel heat on my knees... heat from the basement below was heating up the floor we were crawling on... the concrete floor. (crazy hot when we finally made it down to the fire)
   We had our PT midterm...so we had to re-run the timed mile and a half and re-do the pushups and sit ups. I took 9 seconds  off my run time but only managed 61 pushups and 50 situps : / a little disappointed about that but still not terrible. I did my clinical shift in the ER the other weekend and I gotta say it was pretty cool. Really gross at certain points but overall it was a pretty sweet way to spend 12 hours on a saturday.
  We are in the final stretch... just 5 more weeks until graduation. Things start getting crazy...so much to do. 5 more tests, hazmat week, fire station clinical, move, two more trips to the tower, state practical exams... STRESS. They wouldn't call it the hardest four months of your life for nothin though right..
     We've got our second go'round with the CPAT tomorrow morning. I've already passed but I would like to get my time down some (I only passed by 3 seconds the first time) Then its the weekend!! GB night tomorrow... very excited to see my B's. I need to study some... next weekend is jam packed with an alumni soccer game and moving into the new place so there wont be much time for anything else.
...and now for a little photo montage.....................
                                  School picture (my mom insisted I order some lol)

                               This is what Reese does when Im trying to study :)

                                          Rusty's buggy!!!! Watch out world!!!

                      And last but not least....Reese eating a bacon flavored sucker :)

  Hope all is well!!!
Love.