Long Hours

I was excited to get off of the ship. No more deployments, fast cruise, 2hour commutes or dog duty weekend. (Where you have to work all week, stay on the ship all weekend, and then work another full week. Yeah, it is that bad.) Here I am, missing the ship and working just as crappy hours (on occasion).

Last weekend I had duty from Friday to Monday morning. No big deal. We had a bird comming in for a patient Saturday night, so I knew I had to work a little. Well, I had a bad headache Friday so I came home and slept while Ronnie did stuff on the computer. My duty phone rang at 6, then 730, then 8! About 7, Ronnie ran over to Wendy's to get supper. We then played the PS2 for a while. About 9 I layed down and told him to wake me at 10 so I could call home. The next thing I notice is my duty phone is ringing again, I am on the couch alone, it is hot as balls and it is 130 am! I ended up having to go to work. I got there about 2 and did not get back home until 130 pm Saturday! Ronnie and I had dinner plans. He was getting ready to leave me and I talked him into letting me sleep for 1.5 hours. So he woke my up at 3 and off we went. We got home about 1030 or so. I had to get up at 2 to go back to the hospital to bring patients to the flight line on the Air Force base. Got back home about 830. That weekend shot!

This week, I worked late on Monday or Tuesday. Then I had duty on Thursday and got another patient about 2 pm that had to be processed. I left work about 430 and went to the little store we have to buy some OJ for Hurricanes this weekend. As I am standing in the check out line with my 3 packages of Little Smokies, bottle of Parrett Bay, and half gallon of OJ....You got it, duty phone rings. "HM2, we need you to find someone else to go on this trip. The medical attendent has to be the same sex as the patient". So, back to my office I go and I make my phone calls, fix it, and leave back for home. Now, I work 10 minutes from the house and it is only like 3-4 miles. I was 1 red light away from our street and....DUN DUN DUN....phone rings. "HM2, I am about to ruin your night, but only for an hour or so". (Let it be known, those words, however honest, ARE NOT GOOD!) So, I went home put up the food I bought and told Ronnie I had to go back to work. (Ronnie=NOT HAPPY. He had cleaned the entire yard at this point and needed some help with stuff around the house which he rightfully deserved. He had been a good little house bit#$ with all the late days I have had recently.) I figured out that I could do what I needed to do from home! YEAH!

Friday, May 18! Party day is here, almost. I get off of work early so I can run some errands and pay the bills. I get home, help with stuff around the house and we have a guest for a little while. About 750 we left to meet some friends for supper at the Sharaton...... We get home about midnight. I check the caller ID and notice that my duty phone called about 8 and the hopital called about 10. I called my office and had to go to work. Good thing I was the DD! I got home about 730 Saturday morning......

Came home, kissed Ronnie, went to bed, Ronnie woke me at noon. The end of a long night and start of a LOOOOOOOOONG day! Ronnie had done almost every thing....what a sweety! My little smokies were in the crook pot with 2 bottles of BBQ sauce and a can of beer. The water and beer were in the coolers on ice already and he even changed the bottle for the Glade plug-in upstairs! I was impressed. (If you know Ronnie you are too!) We had decided that we were going to make pizza dough in the bread maker for the pigs-in-the-blanket. It came out too gooey somehow so we used cresants. Let me tell you.....they were the shi^. We had like 150 of them and they went pretty fast! (I had my fingers crossed for left overs; next time I will make more.) It was a long night with about 35 people at the house. Ares had fun and seemed to enjoy the love everyone gave him. Last person left about noon today! Party ended about 130 this morning and Ronnie was slobering all over himself....it was funny.