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The official nightshift thread....
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Nice haul @lacroyx
Also SSP Update:
So Star Wars Tuesday was a no go. My uncle wasn't feeling well so we were postponing until Wednesday. If SSP was a little miffed about it, he gave NO indication. He invites me over Tuesday night. He doesn't normally do that with the 'I want you to come over' bit. He's just not that forward. Something is up.
Since I gave him his gift(it was a $6 T-shirt that said 'Meh.' which is basically him toward everything) and he already opened it and wore it the whole time he was with his parents while I was watching his dogs and all that, he decided to get me something.
So in recompense for him spoiling a big part of Star Wars for me, I got a back massage(with some fancy massage oils
), some fabulous sexy times( ), and I go to leave because I'm hungry and he asks what I want and I told him I had a craving for Chinese food and I also wanted an avocado burger from Chili's. So he drove me to both restaurants and bought me both! Then I said I wanted to watch a movie and he asked what I wanted to watch and I got this man to lay next to me, NOT playing on his phone, NOT reading on his nook or Kindle, and watch a chick flick(Under the Tuscan Sun) with me!
Then after the movie, I go to leave, and he gives me $50 because he has to sleep for work Wednesday night, but still wanted to pay for my uncle and I to see Star Wars. I guess he wanted to cover all of his bases because it's $6 per ticket for the matinee showing. So it covered popcorn, candy, drinks of the alcoholic variety and tipping the bartender, with some leftover for the vending machine at work.
In the spirit of reciprocity, I got up at an ungodly 5am on Thursday morning and raced over to SSP's and cleaned his house and washed all of his bedding and had the blankets coming out of the dryer right as he pulled into the driveway at 8:15am. I tucked him in and got him all settled, he thanked me for the cleaning, kissed me and I was on my way home. I get home and he sends me a text thanking me again and saying that "coming home to a clean house and warm, fresh from the dryer, blankets after the night he just had was THE BEST!"
I said "I know
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ETA: I only hope we can keep this up for a little while before one of us goes full [expletive] [expletive] again.0 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »lilaclovebird wrote: »
ETA: It makes me almost cry when I look at it...
That's amazing. You look terrific!
Thank you @jennifer_417 and @lacroyx!
It was a smurfing long journey for sure. I hope to be on the wagon again by Sunday but we'll see.0 -
So I thought it would be super great to have slow nights at work, where I didn't have homework to do.
Turns out it just gives me lots of time to think about how tired I am. And how I want to eat all of the things ever.0 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »So I thought it would be super great to have slow nights at work, where I didn't have homework to do.
Turns out it just gives me lots of time to think about how tired I am. And how I want to eat all of the things ever.
Not a slow night, quite busy actually for me. Everyone at my work decided to bring and share all their leftovers. Tons of food but on the plus side, I won't have to worry about bringing food to work for the next few days.0 -
jennifer_417 wrote: »So I thought it would be super great to have slow nights at work, where I didn't have homework to do.
Turns out it just gives me lots of time to think about how tired I am. And how I want to eat all of the things ever.
This. I get this. I am thinking of that pecan pie waiting for me at home and the ham and eggs I wanna eat...and the mashed sweet potatoes...and the dutch apple pie...*drool*0 -
Side note: I am taking the 29th off AND the 5th off! BOO YA!
So, Jeanette can suck it up.
OR...I will come in and work for her because she will probably call in 'sick' a few more times before the year is out.0 -
I have tamales waiting at home.
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Frankie_Felinius wrote: »I have tamales waiting at home.
No FAIR! *stamps feet*
At least I have pecan pie.... *sniff*
My friend Alycia made me some tamales and she's got 'em waiting for me. I just have to get out to her place to pick them up. Right now. During the holiday travel nightmare. In Austin.
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But I have no pecan pie...and won't have any this season. Never even saw a slice...
We had tacos for (pre) Christmas dinner at one in-laws, tacos at the other in-laws for Christmas day lunch, tamales (plus white people food) at my Grandma's for Christmas Eve and we still have a bag o' tamales from the neighbors (which we exchanged home brew for). And Christmas Eve eve, we had tortas. Yay Mexican food!0 -
@bethanie0825 You're a dispatcher right? How do you deal with sending officers out to a potentially dangerous situation(like one you KNOW is bad)?
I just had both my officers, Sergeant Smith and Sergeant Wiland(SSP) head out to a call that could have been really bad.
Man called into county and said he had 10-15 people trying to break into his house and it was just kinda of right down the street from where we work. Not CLOSE but certainly not far.
They both left. County closed the channel and Sergeant Smith announced they would be on scene with their officers.
They both left and I just had to sit here, in this stupid smelly office, listening to that stupid infernal BEEPING!
I think this is how my dog Tessa feels when I leave. No idea when I'll be back. No idea if I'm ever in danger. And she's a little scared because she can't go.
I'm afraid for them because I can't go! All I can do is JUST SIT HERE!
They have opened the channel and just called for EMS to the scene, there's people yelling in the background...
All I can do is sit here and listen...
ETA: They're back!0 -
No loot here, I guess a benefit of living alone.
@lilaclovebird great job, certainly a big difference, excuse the pun.
I have one pre-loss pic and when I looked at it I didn't cry, but smiled, one of the extremely rare events in which I've done so.
I should do one of them before and after pics of better quality but meh... even after over a hundred pounds later I still think I look like crap in photographs.0 -
So the dude HUGELY exaggerated on the initial call. He had 4 people trying to break into his house because the dude is crazy and high as smurf and they were trying to help him.
He had to be taken to the hospital and everyone was fine.
Some of county even came back to the campus and had some coffee with SSP and Sergeant Smith and Sergeant Smith set up a mini chimp tour with Heather(Chimp specific animal tech). Definitely fostered some good will there.
Also, I have decided to keep watch every week for a police cadet opening in Houston. I can't sit around anymore. I want to be able to help people more and going to the academy is a more direct way to do that. I have the next couple Tuesdays off for SSP to give me some one on one fire arms training to brush up on my basics and I'm doing some serious circuit training to help set me up for success.
I will probably have to live in the dorms in Houston while working there, but that's life. It's super cheap and close access to the fitness center there. And if I can work in Houston for UT Police Systems then I get first choice for a lateral transfer back to Bastrop.
I'm not super monetarily motivated but if I DO become a cadet, my pay rate is at least doubled. If I get the transfer to Bastrop, it triples from what it is now. Let's not even begin about if I get a bachelor's degree...
This is the plan. It's new, which makes it scary. But I've done scary before and this will be nothing. I lost 56 pounds I can do anything!
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@lilaclovebird you look awesome!! And go for the job you want! Don't be me going 'what if?'
As for dangerous calls, usually it's not as bad as the caller says it is. We hold the channel and wait. It was much more nerve wracking when I worked at the sheriffs office bc their backup could be 20 mins or more out. The town I work at now is not too big. Just have to trust the guys and their training.
And it was harder working at the sheriffs office too bc my now hubs works there too and there were times I worked his channel. But I have this habit (which I've decided isn't always a good one) of emotionally detaching at work.
As for Santa, he brought me the shoes which I haven't been able to break in bc the park I hike at is closed due to flooding. I also got a Bodyguard .380. My hubs is awesome.0 -
My mom is a state police telecommunicator (dispatcher)...has been most of my life. All of her boyfriends (that sounds bad, she's had two loooong term boyfriends, lol) have been officers. I know the one guy, she never worked in the same district with so she never had to deal with that (but he also did MEG work so that is stressful) but I think her and the dude she is with now worked like that for awhile. I couldn't imagine that. When my fiance goes ice fishing...I'm sta-ressed the entire time. I couldn't imagine him being in possible danger every damn day.
Thank goodness there are people like you & SSP out there @lilaclovebird...
On a side note: I wish the loss of weight gave me that feeling of being able to do anything! I lost about 80lbs in the couple years prior to getting pregnant and it never gave me that feeling! Damn!
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bethanie0825 wrote: »@lilaclovebird you look awesome!! And go for the job you want! Don't be me going 'what if?'
As for dangerous calls, usually it's not as bad as the caller says it is. We hold the channel and wait. It was much more nerve wracking when I worked at the sheriffs office bc their backup could be 20 mins or more out. The town I work at now is not too big. Just have to trust the guys and their training.
And it was harder working at the sheriffs office too bc my now hubs works there too and there were times I worked his channel. But I have this habit (which I've decided isn't always a good one) of emotionally detaching at work.
As for Santa, he brought me the shoes which I haven't been able to break in bc the park I hike at is closed due to flooding. I also got a Bodyguard .380. My hubs is awesome.
Stupid flooding...
Definitely going to stay compassionate at work.
I don't wanna to my rounds tonight..... it's yucky outside....0 -
Frankie_Felinius wrote: »My mom is a state police telecommunicator (dispatcher)...has been most of my life. All of her boyfriends (that sounds bad, she's had two loooong term boyfriends, lol) have been officers. I know the one guy, she never worked in the same district with so she never had to deal with that (but he also did MEG work so that is stressful) but I think her and the dude she is with now worked like that for awhile. I couldn't imagine that. When my fiance goes ice fishing...I'm sta-ressed the entire time. I couldn't imagine him being in possible danger every damn day.
Thank goodness there are people like you & SSP out there @lilaclovebird...
On a side note: I wish the loss of weight gave me that feeling of being able to do anything! I lost about 80lbs in the couple years prior to getting pregnant and it never gave me that feeling! Damn!
Well you have had blue hair. THAT should give you the feeling you can do anything. :laugh:
I can do anything EXCEPT rock blue hair....0 -
Christmas loot...some cash, some gift cards, some bandana/scarf holders, a Ninja bullet thing (you know I'm making margs with that bad boy), a stocking of junk food, an apple pie and zuke bread, dried fruit/meat/cheese box thing, a Shotski. We do my mom's Christmas next week.
The Shotski. So, my father in law does woodworking for a hobby (we have a MASSIVE bookcase from a couple years prior) and he made us kids a Shotski. It is a wooden ski about four feet long with four holes for shot glasses so four people can take a shot at once. Funny thing is...I can't tell you the last time I took a shot. And we don't have friends. But it looks awesome hanging in our kitchen!
We didn't give each other gifts this year. He just bought the crap he wanted and I bought the makeup I wanted and called it a day. We just bought gifts for the tater tot. (Who by the way...has probably 15 Barbies complete with a froyo stand, a pool, a shizzing dog...and we still have two Christmases to go...one of the gifts is a pack of EIGHT Barbie princesses and another is a camper with a pool and top deck...plus other stuff I don't know about...sheesh).
My kiddo asked for Barbie stuff...that is it. But so far the three things she plays with are a can of slime, a stuffed dog with a whoopee cushion inside and a Barbie dog that you feed biscuits and it poops (complete with pooper scooper). I chose all of those. YES!!!! That is the kind of mom I am! LOL (I also bought Barbies, for the record.)
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I'm working some OT tonight and there are bagels in the breakroom. To include everything bagels which are my favorite!!!!!0
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I want to do NONE of the things... I wanna sit and eat. I have been working out like crazy and this weather is making my allergies all nuts so my face hurts and my teeth hurt and I'm not in a great mood.
But I did Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 when I got home and then got on the elliptical for 20 minutes before coming to work today. I managed to stay in my calories thanks to all the activity and I at least hit my protein macro.
I cannot wait for tomorrow night's shift to be over and I am going to take some allergy meds and sleep for 3 days. With maybe some intermittent workouts and eating...maybe.0 -
bethanie0825 wrote: »I'm working some OT tonight and there are bagels in the breakroom. To include everything bagels which are my favorite!!!!!
I MIGHT actually murder someone for a bagel right now..... if it had jalapeno cream cheese on it.0 -
I love everything bagels!!! I just ate the last two tamales. I miss them already...
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I gotta unload...sooo...sorry and or thanks in advance.
I've been having "lady issues"...mentioned the cyst last week. Well, Tuesday I had some scary shizz happen so I call my doc. They tell me she wants to see me that day. I call my fiance and he comes home from work so he can take me and not have to bring the kiddo in the room with me. We get there and the doc was kinda rude to the lady in front of me, rushing her. (Last time I went, it felt rushed but that was the first time and I've gone to her for years.) I just thought "Eh, maybe she's having a bad day." She calls me in and she is in a big hurry telling me that someone is in the ultrasound room (which is what they said they were going to do over the phone) and she has a woman in labor. Fine, I get it, she is an OB...this happens. As I'm explaining my symptoms/issues she tells me it is either bowel related or "mid-cycle" related (I wasn't mid-cycle). She leaves the room and says she will get me in for an ultrasound as soon as she can. Comes back a few minutes later and says she has to go perfom a c-section and I need to reschedule after the holidays. No peeing in a cup, no pelvic exam, no nurse to check me out, no reference to another doc. I walked the fudge out and went to the ER. They couldn't figure out what was wrong so they told me to see my gyn...who I had just left! (They did acknowledge I clearly had more than one problem so I'm not just being a nut job.) The doc gave me a reference to a new gyn but I couldn't make an appointment last week. So now I still have all the issues and things are getting worse. I've had zero appetite for months, losing weight without trying...scary stuff.
My fiance knows what is going on but he is such a effin weirdo about illness that I can't really talk to him about it...and he is being a complete selfish azzhole lately...just what I need right now! My anxiety has already been quite severe lately and now THIS? And then him stressing me out on TOP of it??
Ugh. Again...I had to get this out. I don't have friends or really anyone to talk to. I don't want to tell my fiance I'm scared because then he will REALLY worry but the truth is...I'm scared. I don't get scared often...especially with health concerns but this time...
I'm not asking for sympathy or expecting to be comforted with a "It will all be fine." I just need to get it off my chest and I know you guys are always good for listening...0 -
That stuff really can be scary...I remember the 1st Dr appt I went to with my issues, the nurse practitioner said, "Ok, first we gotta check ya for cancer!" Mind you, I was under a tremendous amount of stress at the time; my mom's kidney's were in the process of failing, but we didn't know that yet, she was in and out of the hospital, my stepdad was being a huge....well, it wasn't fun. Sooo, when I started to cry after she said the "c" word, she slapped me on the knee and was like, "YOU'RE GONNA BE FINE!"
I did not go back to that office. I did not have cancer.
Anyway, I wish there was something I could do, that stuff can feel really scary...but I will say a prayer for you!0 -
Stuff like that is scary and if you're listing your symptoms as you did here, she should have been patient and thought about what they could do to give you some comfort until she could get you in for an ultrasound.
You're scared, obviously, and that doctor was no help.
I definitely understand the 'not having someone to talk to' about stuff and I'm glad you felt comfortable enough to vent to us.
I'll be hoping with great fortitude that you can get some help with your stuff quickly and that it isn't anything major beyond a surgery to remove an offending ovary. I also hope that if you DO need surgery you get another doctor to do it. I wouldn't want her to be rushing around and leaving stuff in there... 0 -
I sure hope after an appointment like that, she didn't charge you for the office call. If I acted like that, other vets would quit referring clients to me. What a jerk. Hope the new GYN is better.0
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Thanks for the kind words.0
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Oh wow. I hope you get it resolved soon and it's nothing super serious.0
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sufferlandrian wrote: »I sure hope after an appointment like that, she didn't charge you for the office call. If I acted like that, other vets would quit referring clients to me. What a jerk. Hope the new GYN is better.
I bet YOU could fix her!
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Curiosity killed the cat after this showed up in my recent postings The official nightshift thread.... 666 new
Saying that, I do hope you feel better soon, and that you need to have nothing more to do with that particular office, being understanding to someone who is scared should be high up on a Dr's list, unfortunately, a lot does get de-sensitived after a while, and forgets that each patient needs some level of emotional care as well as medical care. My step dad is a nurse, so we have discussed this quite a few times, as he sees it daily. Hope you get your results back soon and that it is good news (as in something that is easily treated, not invasive, and you'll recover quickly)0 -
It is sleeting like crazy right now! Speaking of Mother Nature...the other day there was a tornado warning...right before we were to leave to celebrate a pre-Christmas. I got all of the cats in the basement (in case we needed to move quick...those jerks do not co-operate) and kept an eye on the news. They said one was confirmed over our city and they were moving fast. I looked our back window and could see the clouds moving SO fast coming from the direction that previous confirmed tornados. I grabbed pillows and comforters and we hung out in the basement for awhile...none ever formed in the "city" part of my city. It was only about 20 minutes or so from the time we first were alerted and the time we left but it got scary for a second!0
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