Crazy hours

Recently there have been quite a few options for overtime for Big Monkey at his fire department job. Normally this would be great and he would even want to work them all if they were a bit spread out. This has not been the case this week. Let me show you how the past week and a half has gone.
Wednesday: Regularly Scheduled Shift, Thursday: Overtime from a call out, Friday: OFF, Saturday: Regularly Scheduled Shift, Sunday: Held over for Overtime from a call out, Monday: OFF (but we were gone most of the day with the gym and getting our will finalized), Tuesday: Regularly Scheduled Shift, Wednesday: Worked 2 hours at second job, OFF, Thursday (today): Overtime from a call out (got called at 7:15am to be in at 8am), Friday: Regularly Scheduled Shift, Saturday and Sunday: OFF!!!!! Finally! Two days in a row! Amazing!
So while this is not normal and it does stink that he has worked 3 48hour shifts in a week and a half, the money is nice. So I cannot complain too much since we could use it. (When he was out on injury there was no working at his other jobs and also no overtime.) We can always go up to the station and have dinner or hang out but it is not the same as being home. Thankfully Little Monkey hasn’t been a complete terror this week! Hopefully next week will be mostly just Regularly Scheduled Shifts!

Gym Today

Little Monkey and I went back to the gym this morning. There were not very many people there and Little Monkey was the only kid in the childcare. I spent some time on the treadmill again, about 30 minutes. Unfortunately, when trying to change my speed on the treadmill, I accidentally hit the STOP button. So once again I have no idea how far I managed to walk. I’ve got to get better about that!

I also did a few machines. The abdominal machine, leg extension, leg press and hip abduction. I took a small notebook with me today so that I can chart my progress for how much weight and how many reps I can do for each machine. Thankfully my Ipod worked just fine today and I was able to listen to some of the songs on my gym playlist. I have to skip around on my playlist each day though because I have over five hours of music in the gym playlist! The current plan is to go back to the gym on Saturday, hopefully in the morning and hopefully with Big Monkey.