I know there are times that go farther between posting than I’d like.  It’s not for lack of ideas, it’s because I try to be smart and think before posting.  I refuse to be like so many other sites and post info that in my opinion violates privacy laws.  I try hard about that and it’s not easy for me as I’m such an open book.

Tonight and day, hubby has been busy.  He’s been helping my Dad build a fence, finished up two big projects here at the house and had a busy set.  It was rough to send him and rough for him to go to work today because he’s been so busy.  TOO BUSY!  We run off to friends when he gets off work and then he’s said he’ll start another side of our fence the next day when we get back from the lake.  NO, I don’t think he will  I’m pretty sure we need to go have a fun day of play with the youngest.

Anyway, the blog title.  Do you post TMI on your blog?  Do you think before you post?  It’s a rough line.

For one thing I don’t want to embarrass my family.  To many people know who we are because of FB.  The internet is not as anonymous as it was when I first started building sites when the dinosaurs were around.

Secondly, I don’t want to have hubby lose his job or be reprimanded.  Quite a few from his work follow my FB account and updates from this blog go to that account.  While I don’t have a worry about corporate for anything I say, I am aware of how things could affect his work.  Yes, I hate that and it can stifle talk.  However, I’m thankful that I’ve always been a horrible liar and any opinions that do come out of my mouth are backed up by some facts and I will own them as my opinions.  Feel free to send me more facts so I can change my opinion by facts presented.  From years of my Dad being in government, my holding positions on boards and now hubbies job, yes I do know things I’m not supposed to.  After 16 years I’m aware of this and I don’t post and I don’t talk about many, many things.  It’s a rough line for me at times to know what may be public knowledge so I just ignore it until later. lol

Right now, hubby has had a super busy day.  How do I know this?  I thankfully got to see him. I passed him driving the engine (HOT!) and then did a turn around so I could drop stuff off at the station for him.  But since then I haven’t heard anything.  It’s always a wonder if it’s that busy or if his phone ran out of juice. lol  I haven’t been home so I’m not sure if sirens have been rocking or not.  Then we’ve had movies up loud so we can’t hear outside noise as much either.

But it’s almost midnight and we’ll be going to the lake with friends for a few days.  Man I’m excited to see him for more than a few minutes.

This wasn’t too far from my house. Not dangerously close by any means, but a little ways down the road. I wasn’t home and my friend texted me to tell me the district must have just blown up because there were sirens going from both stations like crazy.

We heard a plane had crashed and sadly that has happened a few times during hubbies career.  I hoped it wasn’t too bad. We live by a private air strip and people build there own planes. Now that’s a brilliant idea isn’t it?

Luckily it wasn’t that bad and the old man made an emergency landing. His ultralight stalled from what I can find out on the tv channels and he landed in the field and ended upside down. There’s some cool footage and pics.

Hubby’s not in the footage and I can’t get a good pic of the extra rigs there that were first called out to see if he’d even made the call.  It was a busy morning.  But there’s a lot of guys in the pictures that owe some ice cream tonight.  I made sure and posted the link on facebook so they can be called out.

Well last night I posted about summer schedules, hubby called me outside to help with the gate and then the call came in for OT today. Our friends are all out of town so we knew we’d get it. lmao Hey, it’s the price they pay for winning this snobby charity event golf tickets that pricetag would BLOW YOUR MIND. Anyway, I don’t mean snobby for realz. But they will be mingling with celebs.

I was lmao when he said what the call was. Of course take it, we’re only doing projects and we could get the gate done before bed. Not to mention we just put the fence and big gate in and the new skylight. Doesn’t hurt to get a little of that back. lol

True to fashion, the planned 4 day is broken up. He ended up working with some guys we really like AND he’s working third on the engine. So he’s loving his day of work today. I got an unexpected day of no one at home. It’s a late night watching movies on the newly streaming Wii with netflix, catching up on my blogs and hitting this hill of laundry.

Jealous?

I think tomorrow I will finish painting the master bath finally. Our buddy is coming over to roof in the new skylight in the main bath. I can’t wait to have light in there again. Our old one was leaking so it’s been covered for months. That will be 2 projects off our big list this summer! SWEET

Wow, it’s only our 4th summer after getting hired and so much has happened that his seniority isn’t bad. We’ve had 2 groups of rookies hired and recently merged with another district. We aren’t that close to the bottom anymore and that means…? WOW, time off during the summer? WHAT?!

We went into this gig knowing that we’d never have time off in the summer. We’d been warned and we knew as the rookie you don’t get to pick. But here we are with a lot of time off.

It’s not easy to schedule work around, but it’s very difficult to complain about it. This year we are finally getting over some bills and getting projects done around the house. OK, he’s mostly getting projects done. But he used to be a carpenter in his past life, if I help it typically takes longer. lol

Camping, short trips and projects galore. Oh, then there are the friends stopping over, the bday parties, the weddings and the just getting together cause we want to BBQ’s. It’s packed and I’m having a heck of a time getting sites updated. This means it’s time to sell off more sites and scale back. If it doesn’t get updated much this summer, it’s outta here.

Hubby is working it again as usual. I know that he hasn’t been scheduled on the day for two years, but so many years of being a volunteer just sticks with ya. We had a party every year and I hung out blowing sh*t up with our friends and he would end up on calls. Nothing can be done about that.

Poor youngest wants to blow stuff up and Dad’s always at work. He’s growing up on the stupid ideas of what he can get away doing. Hello, your Dad said don’t be stupid. Well…he really didn’t know that it was stupid until MOM told him. lol Hey, common sense dude. WHAT?

We lit stupid stuff earlier and it was stupid. Stupid funny cause it didn’t blow up. bayahahahaha But no daddy, so we only have weinie stuff to light. Yes, I will admit it. No matter how much I love to wat!ch it, I’m still a girl and a momma, it has to be more mellow.

Happy 4th to all the pyros out there today

Ok, sorry for making you watch it, but I couldn’t help myself. lol

It’s definitely time for a new tattoo.  WAY PAST TIME!  Mine has needed touching up for years and in fact the lines are so bad that it needs to be incorporated into another design.

This weekend all us girls were talking tattoos and trying to help figure out what our next one’s should be.  I see a girls night at the tattoo shop in our future   Probably not a great idea with our group, who knows what we’ll talk each other into getting.  lmbo

I’ve been trying to figure out where to put the logo for my personal blog at. Busy Momma was my first blog and I had it custom designed by a friend almost 2 years ago. I love the design and knew immediately that I wanted it as a tattoo. It’s been suggested that maybe she should go on my ankle. Could have them extend the wings more and make a full anklet out of it.

But the one I really want to do is my lower back piece.   My tribal eagle holding 2 feathers in one claw and a haligan tool in the other.  No matter how long it is the tattoos can’t have names right?  So we’ll stick to symbols. lol  My worry is finding someone that can draw up the tool correctly or it’ll screw it all up.  It’ll be a big piece so have no idea how much it’ll cost, which always holds me back as well.  Just can’t justify the money on it.

Hubby and I do a lot of research on tattoos cause he’s always looking for his perfect one even though we’ve found so many that would be perfect for him. Strike the Box is obviously the place we constantly go to for new tattoos and old. So many different pictures on there you can’t possibly go through them all. But you’re sure to find one that’s perfect for you on this site or pieces to combine to make your perfect tatt.

Any of you fire wives have tattoos to share?  I’d love to post some!

photo credit: TheeErin

So happy this 72 hour shift is over. I can’t believe how long it was. I have been to the station twice and it still has been forever. I’ve kept busy with work and cleaning and it went slow. THE KIDS HAVE SAID HE’S BEEN GONE FOREVER

It’s hard to wait for him to get home. In fact I’m up way too late and I know I won’t be sleeping much tonight. I’m trying to figure out what movie to put in and what food to stay out of!

He’s worked 72 hour shifts before, but this one has felt crazy. Is it partly the weather? Total new post started about that. Is it because the kids are getting out this week from school? Is it because I’m coming out of a funk and my biz is moving forward?

Hmm, wonder if it could be all of the above pushing it together and making a nice, neat, bowed mess? I’d feel that way except the kids have said that Dad’s been gone forever as well.

I’m so ready for a weekend away with my man! It’s been over a year since our last night away, let alone trip away. That’s not good.

WHAT?! We haven’t even been able to get much OT lately because so many are taking it that never used to. But mandatory? I know a lot of women complain about it, but in over 3 years this is only the second time it’s happened. He didn’t sound too tired and not much time to talk when it’s shift change, hopefully he got sleep.

We didn’t have any plans, was just looking forward to him being home. This puts him into a 72. Thankfully after that it’ll be our 4 day. Kids get out of school this week and I was looking forward to our last couple of days before they are home.

Hubby said to come on down for a bit and say hi. I told him he just totally jinxed himself with that one. Cause we know planning dinner went so well. I’ll go for a jog and run to the station, that way it’s not wasted gas if they aren’t there.

Guess I can get more work done today then. It was definitely not the plan to work much today, just if he was going to take a nap.

They rarely run sirens during the day and our traffic is nuts and never gets out of their way. I am awake too late and probably won’t sleep much now. Trying to sleep and sirens are going. It’s after 2am and seriously…having to hit the sirens usually means something big. No one is on our road and it was the station down the street. It’s our shift so I know who was driving earlier and he isn’t a siren hound, a little worry does set it.

It’s been a busy day for them and so far a busy set. If you recall, I didn’t get to eat dinner with them that I’d made. They did get a good dinner tonight…or so I hear on FB. lol I’ll be giving them so much more crap about that. But I didn’t get a text until around 9:30 and a friend was here. By time I got the text and replied he was in bed, glad of that and I didn’t want to reply to his funny he put in the text and just let him go back to sleep. Hey, if you want to go to sleep, don’t crack jokes in your text reply. lol

Anyway, friend was here to pick up her little one and we were visiting is why I missed the text. It was a very good reason to miss it. Honestly, it has been so long since I’ve just chatted with a friend in my kitchen and laughed with no hubbies around.

Oh, anyway, it’s after 2am and I heard sirens. It was too late for last call bar fights or even fights in the parking lot. Town close up earlier than that on a Monday night, but it’s the right time for a wreck. Just a weird direction for the wreck to be going. I’ll get the details soon, but yes, put the word in. I’d love a scanner. No, don’t tell me I wouldn’t. I’m already an insomniac and nosy by birth. I was a volunteer wife for too long not to know what the calls are. It annoys me. lol