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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

Love Marie and Sam



Home for Christmas

A New Chapter, US Offically Ends Iraq War

Not only do I hope these men and women of the military are home for the holidays but I hope it'll be home for good.

:(

I had a dream early this morning about getting a "Home Safe" text from Sam. It was in poem form and a little longer than usual. I guess when I woke up around 4am I didn't think much of it. I woke up again at 6am thinking about the text, I rolled over to look. I had no unread texts from nor did I have a text saying he was home from work. I sent him a quick one asking if he was home. A few minutes later I get a phone call from him. He starts off with "So to make a long story short".

And yes, to make the long story short because thats the only version I have; he started to have chest pains at the beginning of the shift and thought nothing of it, that they'll go away by the end of the shift. Well I'm not sure exactly when he went to the ER, if it was during shift or at the end this morning, but he got admitted and is still there.

I hope nothing its nothing serious. It was in his voice though, I could something was off when he started talking. He seemed fine though yesterday when he left for work. :(

All Men are created equal, then few become Police Officers

Darn! I meant to post this before, however, I've been forcing myself to take withdrawls from the computer since I'm on it 8 hours straight and then some Monday thru Friday with occassional Saturdays like the one I'll be working tomorrow.

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful officer. I can't believe he's been with the department for 2 years already. He just grumbled about it when I brought it up. There have been some ups and downs that he and myself have encountered in this past year. I snagged this from Mrs. Fuzz's blog on looking back through this past year:

• attended and completed radiation training making him qualified to assist in a nuclear emergency. He just attended a training scenario a week ago at the power plant.
• RADAR Gun Operator Certification. Speeders beware! He can also judge a car's speed just by eyeballin' it; he likes to get "two-fers" or "three-fers" when he pulls over speeders: not wearing their seatbelts and outstanding warrants.
• Was able to get back to duty after 2 months and with physical therapy with no problem after a leg injury during a chase with a suspect the day after completing radar classes. His knee though still gives him pain but that's because there's a bone fragment floating around in there.
• CIT training certified - he gets to wear a shiny pin on his uniform and can affectively encounter and diffuse situations involving mentally unstable individuals.
• He's been recognized by the department in catching restaurant grease theives.

I think that's all the big stuff that happened toward the end of last year and this year. He's looking to apply for a position with the detective bureau. That'll get him another step closer into working traffic homicides which was his goal when we first started dating. I'm so proud of my man. :)

A Thanksgiving apart

Thanksgiving and Christmas are times when family and friends who have off travel the long (or short) miles to come and exchange good times, delicious food and watch football. Holidays are a little different when a loved one happens to be an officer.

Last year we were lucky to have Sam over for dinner. If it weren't for that knee injury, he probably would have worked the holiday. It was also the first year we had two Thanksgiving dinners in one day. Talk about sleeping on a full stomach.

This year my Thanksgiving has been stretched over the week. Because he is working tonight, we had Thanksgiving dinner with his family on Sunday. Yup full on turkey dinner. But I'm missing him tonight. Everyone is here at the table laughing and eating, then gathered around the tv for football. And he's out there patroling the streets probably getting shot at and called a racist nazi pig. Not how I or he would want to spend his Thanksgiving. But I can't be selfish. If he wasn't out there, someone else's officer would be and others are in the same boat as me and his family.

So Happy Thanksgiving to everyone near and far. And if your officer is out there tonight, may he be watched over and kept safe so you can have Thanksgiving together when he comes home.

Busy for the holidays

So for the past few weeks my schedule has been rearranged. Five days a week I've been waking up at 4:45am to leave the house at 5:40am to be at work by 6am...unless I'm at Sam's because then I have to leave at 20 after. Atleast I get to leave at 2:30pm, that's if I don't work overtime. Sam's jealous about the hours and especially the overtime. The company practically hands it out like Halloween candy. Whenever we want to work overtime, need extra hours or a little extra money we can work overtime. So nice. Though I feel like an old woman lately since my bedtime every night is between 9 or 9:30pm.

Upside! I'm finally employeed making decent money and hours just in time for the holidays. Downside is that some family members are expecting some nice gifts this year.

Great news

Yay!! Everybody jump for joy! I finally got a job after what seems like forever. This one, however I didn't even apply for. A neighbor of mine recommended me for a data entry position that opened up at the company he's been working for since I've known him. I showed up there this afternoon thinking it would be a simple tour of the facility and interview. Well they were ready for me to start that afternoon! But I'll start Monday since there is paperwork that needs to be filed and I have to attend a safety orientation for new hires (the woman who is in charge of it wasn't there today), and the woman who was going to train me was getting off work. Right now its only a temporary full-time position and I'm being hired as a contractor but I'm hoping and so was the man who gave me the job that it leads to a permanent position.

Sam is happy too because this will mean I get to move out of my parents' house and in with him. And we'll get to see each other every day. So much is changing on my upcoming 25th birthday in a few days and I'm loving it.