Split personality march

Spring and summer are on their way! Even though March can be frustrating with it's multi personality weather and beautiful yet horribly windy days it means warmer weather is on it's way. Warmer weather equals camping, hiking, fishing, riding, cloud watching and all the good stuff! Baby platypus is going to love summer he doesn't even know what he's been missing. On to bigger better and more beautiful days!

Blagh

Guys make no sense and take with out meaning or trying to. They are almsot all the same. I don't know if the size you up and lable you as an easy target or if everything is a coincendence and the way things work out. But everytime you meet a good guy and think you may have found a great friend they are unintentionally using you, even for something as simple as company on a Tuesday night. They always tell you how amazing you are and that you are a great amazing person but when it comes down to it there is always someone else in their life, usually an ex they aren't over who you will never match up to and occasionally they just want to have you around to "have their cake and eat it too." They will build you up an unintentonally tear you down in the worst way, leaving you to doubt yourself and wonder what is so wrong with you that someone who is abusive, unavailabe physically or emotionally or takes them for granted is better than you. The funny thing is you know the next day you will somehow put yourself in a position to be hurt becasue who wants to miss out on anything good in life or become a walled off person to avoid being hurt, you miss out on something good in life. At the end of the day I'd rather be a better person for knowing someone for a little while. Besides who wouldn't want to be able to say the majority of the guys who hit on you are drunk, high, on morphine you administered on the ambulace or have you marked as an easy target cause you have a kid. Gotta laugh through life to survive right?

One Crazy Hippo and a Baby Platypus

It's official Baby Platypus is a boy and everything appears to be well. He was a chunky Platypus today weighing in at a wopping 14 oz :) (who knew platypuses ate so much). If everything goes acording to plan and he doesn't complain of his cramped accomidations he should be hitting the market in Februray :D

Meeeee!!!

and my sister.

This is what we do on Sunday evenings.

And this is why you NEVER give out your password!

Propane Fire Class

So last night at class if you couldn't guess from the title we had a lesson on Propane Fires. It was awesome!!!!! After a lengthy lecture on the dangers of a propane fire and having the reassurance that this was a worst case scenario cross your fingers and hope this never comes your way in your career type of a thing, we learned the brigade march. A group of 7 firefighters march toward a flaming propane tank in a formation called the brigade with two hoses spraying in a fog pattern (a wide thick misted spray) to shield the heat. We had a prop loaned to us that was a small propane tank with fixed lines to flow the propane through. Since it was our first night with live fire they only opened a line shooting straight from the top of the tank mimicking a pressure valve. The flames were amazing with a lot of pretty blue. Propane is kept at a very cold temperature with a boiling point about -44 degrees Fahrenheit so as the flame was hovering about 5 feet above this container it created a column of flaming ice one of the instructors was later able to hold in his hands. We got to march toward this tank about 3 times in our groups learning this formation and how not to put the fire out (a very bad thing in this case) while getting close enough to close a main valve and stop the fire. A guy in my class took pictures so hopefully I'll have some to post soon.

Day one

I am almost completely computer illiterate despite the fact that due to my age I am the first one looked for whenever a computer related problem arises at work. Right now I'm feeling pretty satisfied that I have found out how to get this far on blogspot (I'm a dork I know :D) If I ever find out how to put blogspot to it's full potential it will be a miracle! So to anyone who happens to stumble across this I apologize in advance lol.