First of all… Thanks for all nice feedback on my last post about my voice. I wrote it hoping to explain that it is not my choice, we all have something we do that others may or may not like and we, ourselves can’t change it because we don’t know any different.

When I woke up yesterday morning, everything was just as normal. Left the house and went to work. Nothing major happened really. Participated in a walk of life at one of the hospitals for a veteran that was leaving for Dallas for organ donation. That was an honor and a little emotional. I wasn’t meant to be there, I was just standing in the hallway when they came by.
During the day I saw that there was no one to relieve me this morning and my guts feeling told me that I was going to be held over. I didn’t have any problems with that but I didn’t have anyone to feed the dogs. And I had forgotten to leave a door open for Shannon that I usually do so she can go out and potty. So I called scheduling up and said that if they wanted me to stay over for another 24 that was okay, if they could let me go home for approximately 2 hours to feed the dogs. I don’t want to leave them 48 hours without food, and in this case not being able to go out and potty! At this time it looked like they had it all covered with swing and stand by employees and I didn’t have anything to worry about. Well, that was about to change. Later in the afternoon they called me back and asked if they could hold me over for 12 hours and the dogs could wait. Well well, good money so sure… I felt horrible for Shannon but I would just clean up whatever mess she had made.

Around 8 this morning scheduling called me again. Oh Lord… not looking good I thought almost ready to fight to get my 2 hour break sometimes. But that was not the case. My coworker Angela who works B-shift had offered to take the back half of the 24 hours and had asked if I wanted to go home, she could come in earlier. Well she could come whenever she wanted as far as I was concerned. I would not mind to get home and love on my dogs! so instead of 12 hours overtime, I only had to do 2!

Do I love my coworkers or what!!! And how about Shannon! This girl, 11 years old had been able to hold it for the entire 24+ hours!!! But she almost ran out this morning too! She got a special treat on her breakfast because she was so good and I think she liked it!

Twix and BamBam was as crazy as usual when I get home from work! Twix is like a little fireball and just so happy as can be. I decided to take my regular walk with them after their breakfast. After a couple of minutes walk I came up with the bright idea to stop by Wills Point Nutrition downtown and see if I could order a shake in the door. Didn’t expect to be allowed to bring the boys inside but they had no problems with that! It was awesome socialization for both of them, and they behaved really well (thankfully)!

Then came the challenge… walk home with two dogs that was now tired of walking because it was humid and hot and the sweat was dripping off me too, holding and sipping on my banana split shake and then take a picture of this entire ordeal without tripping, falling or getting hit by a car!

No one got hurt in the process of making this picture! We all got back home to the house safely!

I am just going to enjoy my day off today. There is a lot of stuff that needs to be done, not sure if that will happen or not. Time will tell. I want to enjoy being off after this rollercoaster of overtime or not overtime!