April 28th, 2017

I woke up, made breakfast, drove to work, ran calls that i can’t talk about on the online, drove home, and went to sleep.

April 25th, 2017

I woke up at 08:30 and got ready for work, I drove 45 minutes to my station and checked out the ambulance and got ready for my shift. we had 6 calls before 18;00 all of which I had to write reports for. The rest of the night was quiet until 00:00 when I got to go home

One of the first  fights Rebecca and I got into as a married couple came dring our first week back from out honeymoon. We were at the grocery store and I wanted to buy corn dogs. Her reply was “you don’t’ need corn dogs, you are an adult” flash forward almost 5 years and she seent me a text asking what I want for the store Corn dogs was at the top of my list, and once I got home… there was a box of corn dogs waiting for me in the freezer. I guess I won that battle.

April 26th, 2017

I awoke promptly at noon and rushed to get ready to pick up Rebecca at school because she had taken the white car in to get the oil changed. The car wasn’t read so I dropped her off at school and took the blue car into town to work my shift behind the bar.

I got to the mall 2 hours early, so I got a sandwich and hung out. Once my shift started, everything was ok until a customer ordered a drink I didn’t know, a slight panic began to overwhelm me until the other night bartender showed up and started making drinks.

Most of the shift was not worth remembering until Rebecca showed up. She ordered food to go, but I was too busy to talk to her, even though I haven’t seen her since Sunday evening.

Around 8, I sent a text to one of the managers from the other bartender’s phone stating that I had forgot to ID a customer and that I had been busted by the liquor commission. The Manager on duty was in on the joke, so we played along for about an hour until I let him know that I wasn’t really busted for forgeting to ID a minor (which would have caused our restaurant and the bar next door to loose their liquor license). The manager applauded me for fooling him with such a clever ruse.

I got home around 1:30 and stayed up way too late trying to get the kittens to eat the food I left out so they would trust me. 

April 24th, 2017

I woke up at 08:30 and got ready for work. The night crew was still out on a call and my partner and I were so busy talking that we forgot to clock in. We had to call the district chief to let her know that we were in fact at work. 

The night crew came in and I did the rig check and then sat down to check my email. I awoke 30 minutes later with my hands still on the key board and “jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkjjkjjjjjjjjjjkkjjjjj” typed across 45 lines of an e-mail to which I was replying.

We went to a pizza place for lunch and I got a slice with pepperoni, pineapple, garlic, and jalepeños. 

The rest of the night went by and I drove home at midnight.

April 23rd, 2017

Rebecca tried to wake me up for about 45 minutes starting at 10. I got off the couch, went to the bed, but she was persistant. I ate a quick breakfast and we were off to church.

We went home, ate lunch and I took a bunch of cat naps until I had to get ready for work. I was called in for a special assignment at 20:30. I finished at 02:00 and drove home and was asleep at 03:30.

April 22nd, 2017

I went to sleep around 5 and woke up at noon. Rebecca came home from someplace at 2. She had told me where she went, but I don’t remember.

Around 5 we went to Target and bought a stroler and went home and made dinner. We watched movies until she went to sleep at 9, so I managed to entertain myself quietly until I fell asleep on the couch at 3.

April 21st, 2017

After gong to bed around 04:00 last night, I awoke promptly at 10:45. Last night I had sent a text to a coworker asking her if I could pick up her shift at the bar. She agreed, it wasn’t a hard sell. I just mentioned that she could stay home on a Friday night and spend time with her husband and kids.

I puttered around the condo for the rest of the afternoon and at 16:00, I drove to town. I got to the mall way earlier than I had expected, so I wandered around the book store, got a burger and took the food to the restaurant to eat before work.

I like bartending so much more now that it is not my only source of income. Everyone who remembers me is always really excited to see me, there is almost no stress because nobody is going to die if I mess up, and customer service is a big part of my EMT job, so I jut turn on the charm and people love me.

I had a couple sit at the bar and order drinks, when I was taking the food order, the wife asked me “What comes with the fish and chips?” I looked at her and said “fish and chips”. Her husband nearly spit his drink all over the bar trying not to laugh.

There was a trainee tonight, so we had 4 people behind the bar instead of the usual 3, I told one of the bartenders that I have forgotten all of the drink recipes, but I still had the charm which is why they still let me work. Tonight is probably only the 10th shift I have worked since June, but management still lets me pick up shifts because I know what I am doing, I work hard, and the customers love me.

After work, the lead bartender and I hung out in the parking lot with a couple of cigars and talked story until 03:00. I drove over the mountain and found that Rebecca had parked on the street, leaving our parking spot open and saving me from having to park a quarter mile away from the building. I stayed up for a while, looking for the kittens, but never saw them…I hope nothing happened to them. I have already named them “Meatball” and ” Ssal 2 beon” which is Korean for “Number Two with Rice”.

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I set my alarm for 08:43, and after hitting the snooze button more times than I like to admit, I awoke around 09:00. I made my usual work-day breakfast of eggs, Portgesse sausage, and tater-tots, and slowly got ready for work. The kittens who were waiting outside my door yesterday were not there today. They must know I plan to trap them and get them spayed or neutered.

At 10:40 I walked to the car which was in our designed parking spot because Rebecca was kind enough to find street parking yesterday, and proceded to drive the 45 minutes to work. It was raining on my side of the island, and I thought it would be clear on the north shore, but no luck… it was raining all over the island.

I did the pre-shift rig check on the ambulance and checked my e-mail before settling in to wait for a call.

We had one call, and then drove back to a sandwich shop where my partner picked up lunch. On the way back to the station, we caught another call, which was a guy who had scrapes from being taken down to the ground by the police, we did not transport him, but I cleaned his wounds.

I spent the next 4 hours studying my pathophysiology book, when a lady appeared. She wanted to thank me for helping her with a medical problem back in February, she was all better now and came by to thank us for helping her in her time of need.

By 20:00, the bugs were overwhelming me, so I went inside and took some EMT practice exams online to keep up my knowledge.

The night shift crew arrived at 23:30 and I gave a report of what we had used and watched them re-check the rig. I drove home which took 45 minutes and was exciting to find the kittens, but they were nowhere to be seen, so I wen inside to say goodnight to Rebecca. As leaned down to kiss her goodnight, se punched me in the face, opened her eyes and said “I’m glad you guys made it home safe”. I looked around, seeing no one else around and laughed it off as sleep-talking, something she does more since the pregnancy.