I am so incredibly exhausted but pretty much every moment of the last 2 days has been worth the exhaustion.

Saturday: I went to Doukenie with a couple of friends who were threatening to give up on VA wine after trying another place and they just were not impressed at all.  I took them as my guests on Saturday.  They liked it so much that one of them signed up for the club.  We hung out on the "club members" patio for probably about 3 hrs, partaking in the pig roast (soooo good!) and killing a couple of bottles.  We started to leave about 3, and just as we were leaving…other friends of mine pulled up.  Since the first set were just leaving and heading home, I kind of "ditched" them and stayed and hung out with the second set…and joining them for food later.  It really turned out to be such a wonderful day, even better than I imagined.  While I missed seeing other friends who were out at Breaux, this was still a very enjoyable day.

Sunday: ENGINE time.  I haven’t ridden a fire engine in probably 2 years, mostly because I thought it a waste of my time while pursuing my medic.  But now, I am trying to get engine time and start looking at how to be the EMS provider for an engine company.  It started out with 1 call, then get food, then do some housework, another call, then some training videos/discussion, then finish the housework…then hose testing in the parking lot (basically, this means testing/inspecting all the hose lengths for any leaks, ruptures or other issues), then reracking the hose.  Shortly after this, we got our last 2 calls back to back which were on I95….in opposite directions.   We finally got back to the station just in time for me to change and go into the bingo hall to work bingo.  I didn’t even have time to help them take the engine out of service, and put everything away, etc.  Today completely and totally kicked my ass though.  I was cursing that I didn’t take any workout clothing…I didn’t need to, I got a hell of an upper body and even lower body workout through the hose testing.

I’m going to go collapse in bed now…SLEEP!  (Oh, and tomorrow, I’m doing this type of thing again, but with the ambulance)