Feb 06, 2009 15:48
I have now been flying solo as a paramedic for three shifts (or one week as it were). The first ALS attend call I ran as a solo paramedic was a delivery. I delivered a little girl at 03:00 in the morning, healthy, no complications with mom or baby, and then transported them to the hospital... I let the hospital deliver the placenta. Gross. My partner is annoying as shit, and has a really negative attitude... he acts like he's burned out and he hasn't even been an EMT for a full year! How sad is that!? He even told me he envied me because I still had that happy spark and seemed to enjoy life. Wow. Thats sad.
Homeownership, while rewarding in some ways, is more than it's cracked up to be in others. Between my morgtage payments, my HOA payments, and my utilities... SHIT SON! I drained my bank account. I was spending a little frivilously in the past week, relishing my new paramedic salary. I can't do that anymore. I paid my bills today and drained my checking to 7 dollars... And then I opened my property taxes for 2009, and almost cried. I have 440 due by the end of February in addition to another morgtage payment and another HOA payment. Life is expensive. This part of being an adult sucks. I truely understand the value of credit cards now... How sad?
Ok, I'm done ending sentences on a sad note. I recently started a book club, and our first meeting is on Sunday!!!! We've been reading the Wind up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I'm really enjoying it, but I regret picking such a dense book for the first book - not exactly the tone I wanted to set. There's no way I'm going to finish it by Sunday, but I'm more than halfway through. From what it sounds like , many other members are not going to be able to finish it either. I did find some discussion questions on the book for a little bit of book discussion, but the first meeting is most likely going to be mostly logistics and getting to know one another. I'm going to choose the book for February - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, and then we'll start rotating who choses the book. I'm so excited!
I also recently finally purchased the Nikon D60 that I ahve been saving for. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, and have been taking photos like a mad woman. I really want to get together a portfolio and show my photography, but I don't even know where to start with that. I asked my aunt, a professional artist (mostly painting) for advice. Hopefully she can point me in the right direction!
Oh yeah, and in other news, I started seeing somebody new. His name is Bill, I met him on e harmony. So far there is no lightening strike or anything there but he's cute, he's nice, and I enjoy hanging out with him. We're hopfully going indoor rock climbing this week. I'm really excited to do that. I haven't been climbing in only God knows how long. I'm not expecting anything to happen, but we'll see where it goes. It's fun to be dating someone new.
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