Little Bit about Life as of Late

Well.

I am home for conference. Figured I would let anyone know, just in case they wanted to play this week. I'll be here until the 6th of April.

Work is going SO Well! I love it! I have my schedule figured out and am working 4 twelve hour shifts a week. I work Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 5 pm to 5 am. And then Mondays at 10 am. Kinda hard to switch to the day shift like that, but that's the scheduling office for yah, they really didn't think that would affect me and my partner to much. The hard part of it is, my weekend is on Tuesday and Wednesday, so dates are hard to schedule (not like I get asked much anyway, but hey).

I work on ambulance AP49 with Jason, who is freaking amazing!! He knows exactly where everything is and what needs to happen. I'll turn around to ask him to set something up, and he'll already have it ready, he anticipates like crazy! He is so good! We have way to much fun! We get run ragged though. The second we clear from a hospital after taking a patient there, dispatch drops another call on us. Which is good because it makes the night go a little faster, but it is very taxing! They only have a few ambulances running at night on the weekend covering the whole valley, so you can imagine how much they run us. The craziest part of it is, we'll easily put over 200 miles on a rig a night. Poor Jason has to drive so much, and he gets so tired sometimes. I have only had to throw things at him a couple of times from the back of the rig while we've had a patient, just to make sure he's alert, yah know. At any rate, I am loving my job, loving my room mates and my house. I am in the process of planting a garden, that will probably be my next post, that backyard is very neglected, but not for long.

Anyway. Life is grand!

Transportation

Dominican Republic

Well, it has been a month since I have been in the wonderful Country of the Dominican Republic. And boy do I miss it! Don't get me wrong, I am loving Arizona, but I do miss my Familia Dominicana.

Some of my favorites . . .

What you wake up to, and watch the sun go down in. So Vast! 

For years I have tried to capture Joe doing this face!!! I finally got it! And, it is just a Great looking shot of the guys! All pretty in their blue! 

Here is the entire crew. 

Our best day so far! the total: 103. 

Roberto!! My Bachata Instructor, Dive buddy, and Body Guard. Whom he calls "Watchyman"

Cookie!! Takes care of EVERYBODY!! He is so great! And his dimples just make me smile! 

Roboco y Cookie

Some random kid in the street popping a wheelie side saddle style, and then doing donuts in that same position . . . SKill! 

And where would the boat be without the infamous all-seeing Canelo? 

He is probably going to be our future captain. He practically is already. Man, I have a lot of respect for this kid. He just knows how to have a good time to! 

Love the boat! Miss it like crazy! Excited to get back there soon. 

Well, we can start with this . . .

So Much has happened in the past month of my life! I will start with the basics.

I got HOME from the Dominican Republic on the morning of the 8th of February.


While I was still there,
             I got these pics emailed to me on February 3,
                         My courageous car tried to take on a snow-plow head on. The results . . .

Somehow Dad ALWAYS has a back-up plan.

          He arranged a new vehicle for me . . . And now, I am sporting a Dodge Ram 1500.

 Okay, so that's the car situation. 

I moved to Arizona. 

I live in a condo house thing with 4 other girls. They are so much fun! 

I have my own room. Of which I Love! When, I actually get to be in it. 

I am working as a paramedic for Southwest Ambulance. I have been with the company for 15 days and already worked a grand total of 186 hours. Mathematically, that would be the equivalent of working 12 hours every day I have been here. I have had six 24 hour shifts. 

And countless other crazy random shifts.

I WORK A LOT! 

Which, I get paid Time and a half after I work 40 hours within a pay period, which is just 2 days of working for me. for this pay period, which started Saturday, I have already acquired 50 hours. And there are still 10 more days left in the pay period! I'm pretty excited! Making Bank. 

Everything is going good. My singles ward is way funny, and HUGE!  

Welp, that's about all the time I have to update. More to come . . . sometime.

 Thanks for reading.