Holidays From 08 to 09

I do not remember when was the last time I wrote but I figured I should probably describe Christmas and New Years. On Christmas Eve I worked and missed the family get together at Hubby's family's house. Hubby brought me some Christmas cookies. I thought that was very sweet of him. So when I got home from work, there were the cookies waiting for me! I am so happy about that. Work was work that day. I had to guard a place in Santa Cruz that has five big buildings to walk around. It was pretty big. Christmas Eve was my training day for that place and on Christmas day I was there all by myself. I didn't hit all the buttons with the wand my first time around but the next time I went there I hit them all. I liked it there on Christmas because I got to watch some DVDs that were left in the guard shack. I watched Step Up 2 – The Streets and Kung Fu Panda. It was the night guard's mini DVD player.

On Christmas Day before work I went to Grandma's house for a family get together. Origionally the dinner was supposed to be at two pm but they moved it back about an hour so I could participate in Christmas. That was very nice of them to do that for me. I had to show up to Christmas in my uniform but no one minded. I had to leave at two thirty so we opened the presents within the last ten minutes of me being there. I just barely made it out on time. Then I had to go to the bathroom very badly so I stopped at a gas station to go pee and prayed I would make it to work on time. Thank goodness I did make it to work on time and had a mostly boring work day. I got off work at midnight then came home.

The next day after Christmas I thought I had that day off but I was wrong. I read the text message wrong. I really thought I wasn't scheduled. I got in trouble because I couldn't make it to work on time so they had to call in someone else to cover the shift. I felt really really really bad that day that I missed work.

On New Years Eve I had to work in downtown Santa Cruz with the police department from 18:45 to 02:00hrs. It was a very cold night and was very boring until this guy came bye and started to chat with me for a while. And then chat a while more, and then chat a while more. He stayed with me for almost my entire shift just to keep me company. So I made a new friend who lives in Santa Cruz. He said a lot of nice things about me and was a perfect gentleman the whole time. He called me a beautiful angel. I thought that was really cool since I think I look like crap in my uniform. He flattered me so much I let him give me a small kiss at midnight.

The next day on New Years I worked at that place with the five buildings again, this time without a DVD player. So I read my book. Just go through reading the seventh Harry Potter book again. I also read the New one that just came out by J.K. Rowling called The Tales of Beetle the Bard.

The day after New Years I worked at this place in Felton at a Safeway shopping center. I tell you it was one cold night. That was also the night when my Hubby decided to give me and my family a hard time.

Then on the third I was back at my normal post at a shopping center in Santa Cruz where there is also a Safeway and my new friend decided to pay me a visit and stay with me for the whole shift again. He was very nice and we played cards. First we played flux, then war, then speed, then double speed, then king's corner, then rummy. I won almost every game. He was not very good at cards. Also, somewhere in there I made a star out of paper. I like origami. He said I was very talented and patient with my hands. Isn't that nice?

Then next day on the fourth I show up for work and I was immediately texted by my boss to call the patrol guard that works my area. She then quickly whisked me off to the flea market where I stayed most of the day. When I showed up at the market I was given some papers to hand out and then I was to patrol all around the place. I was given two radios, one for my company and one for the flea market staff. I tell you when I was moved from my normal spot I wasn't looking forward to the change in pace but that is my job, to go with the flow so I accepted it graciously and did my job. At about 16:30 I was given a ride back to my car at my normal post and finished my shift at that place until 17:00.

I got Monday the fifth off which was nice but yesterday through me for a bit of a loop. I was given a message then night before on Monday, telling me to be ready that I may have work the next day. So yesterday I get as ready as I can for work and then I was told around 13:15 or so that I had to be at work as soon as possible. It takes me about an hour to get to Santa Cruz form here so I was a bit upset that I had to be there so quickly because it gave me no time to actually be on time to where I needed to be. I ended up watching a burnt down building and spent the rest of the day and part of the night being bored out of my mind.

For five hours I was outside in the cold until one of the patrol drivers told me I could bring my car around and sit in it to keep warm. Then for the next three or four hours I stayed in my car and kept warm for the most part. I kept turning my engine on and off so as not to waste too much gas or have the check engine light come on. The light came on anyways but I tried. I ended up texting various people during this time. Then when midnight rolled around and I was off duty I met up with two other guards who said they had been there since nine. I wondered at that. It didn't make sense since the patrol driver told me I was to be there until midnight. So apparently there were three guards there when there was only supposed to be two. When I called off duty, dispatch was confused as well asking me who was on duty at the time of my departure. Then I handed over my radio and left.

Now at this time there were no bathrooms around because all the places were closed and I had to go real bad to I went to the Chevron nearby and filled up my tank then tried to go inside to go pee but the idiot inside wouldn't open the door for me to go pee so I had to hold it until my car was done filling up then I went next door to the Shell station, whose bathroom was thankfully open.

After that I saw two cops trailing me on my way to the freeway. I thought "Uh oh! They are looking for some reason to pull me over I just know it." And I knew it because they were going so slow just to stay behind me. They finally found a reason to pull me over so they did and I pulled over to the side of the road. Then a voice came on a loud speaker telling me to go into the parking lot of the other gas station on that road so I did. Then the cop came up to my window and told me I had a head light out and that I should fix it. I said, "ok". I basically played stupid because it was my first time ever being pulled over and I was a bit intimidated. Next he noticed that I was a security guard and asked me if I was on duty. I told him that I had just gotten off duty and he asked me for my drivers' license. I told him my purse was in the trunk and that I could get it for him if he wished. He said no that it wasn't necessary then asked me if I was armed. I said "no." and he let me on my way without giving me a ticket. It wasn't until today that I realized that I left my drivers' license in my other jacket pocket and didn't have it with me at all. I got really really lucky that he didn't insist on seeing it yesterday. Needless to say, today Hubby fixed my headlight.

Today we also paid a bill, got some food and picked up a schedule for the ballroom place I go to. Other than that today I have been looking for a job for the rest of the week. I also checked out the job market in New York since we may be moving out there in April or so. There is a school for acting in New York that I really want to go to and some friends of ours are moving there and invited us to go with them.