Well the renovations are almost done on my living room and dining room. I'll be posting before and after pictures this weekend once I get my house put back together again.
I'm not sure why I'm at work. What's funny is that we all voted on what schedule we were going to work this winter. Everyone but me voted for 4 ten hour days per week. I voted for 5 eight hour days, for reasons I'll get to in a second. The 4x10's won, much to everyone's relief but mine. The funny part about all that is that I'm the only one at work. That's right. Everyone got their precious 4x10 schedule and I'm the only one who has to work it. Damn you all! That's ok, tomorrow is my last day before I head off for my vacation.
You would think that 4x10's would be exciting, after all you get a 3 day weekend every week. But think about it. Now you have to be at work 10 hours per day and with a 45min commute, you drive to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Worse yet, our so called "gym" at work is a piece of crap so I have to go to the gym before work. And since I start work at 7am and have a 45min commute, I have to be up at 4:15 am (or 0415 for those of you in the federal government) to get to the gym. So my days go like this: up at 0415, eat breakfast, have coffee, go to the gym for about an hour, drive to work, work, drive home, eat, go to bed. Sometimes I stay up a little later to shower but when I get real tired that's the first thing to suffer. I don't really know when my last shower was. But then I get 3 days off in which I still wake up at 0415, get up, have coffee and work on my house. What could be better? How about having a little free time 7 days a week instead of 3 and getting some decent sleep?
I was going to have quite the attendance for Thanksgiving and was excited to host it at my place this year and show it off (after all, Thanksgiving is what made me buckle down and get the work done) but everyone is cancelling. I'll be lucky if I get 4 people. There's a possiblilty I will spend it alone and eat a 20lb turkey by myself, with all the fixings and wine of course. Nice.
On the bright side, Corey is coming up on Friday to come check out my place and pick me up for our trip to....IRELAND!!!! Yay! We're flying out of L.A. on the 28th and coming home the 9th or 10th, I forget. Maybe I'll never come home, we'll see.
I'll be in Arizona for Christmas to see my family and then I'm moving to North Carolina for the winter. I'll be working on a hotshot crew out of Blue Ridge, NC (just outside of Asheville) from January through May and then coming back here to work the fire season back home. It'll be a busy year.
That's all I've got for now, I'll post pictures of my house renovations this weekend. Have a great Thanksgiving!
