Stand Down Soldier

If I see another BDU in the next 3 days I may just roll over and die.

Yesterday was Stand Down Saftey Day and Alert First Fire Equipment, Inc. was there in all it’s blazin’ glory. I was in charge of the booth inside while the boys got to give the demo classes outside…kinda disappointing but better than nothing I guess!
We had over 1,000 soldiers visit our booth, I enjoy talking to them, finding out where they are from and where they’ve been. Got to see some of my good pals and met some new ones.

We handed out tons of goodies, they all seemed to be happy to get free stuff (but then who isn’t?). I took tons of pictures, once they are developed I’ll put them in the photo album so ya’ll can see my “real” job *snicker*. I went out to the demo site right before lunch and Charlie walks up to me and simply said:

“I caught myself on fire Sarah.”

Then he started to laugh like a maniac…damn boys. Turns out he’d started a fire in the bin, grabbed a Co2 unit and when he sprayed it down got a lil too close. Singed the hell out of his arm, there’s a lovely red mark. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Charlie has this long ass mustache ala Virgil Earp and it got toasted on one side. I have to laugh because this morning he came to the shop with an itty bitty mustache and it just didn’t look right! Never seen him any other way…but he’s in good spirits about it so I reckon it all turned out ok.

But enough about all that…

I’ve got to take a moment and tell you about my new friend. His name is Dan, lives in a castle…and is scared to death of spiders. Honest to god…there’s no punch line here, he’s a real dude! Anyway, Dan’s a really sweet guy and he runs a really neat jewelry shop in England which you can visit by clicking here! Or if you get on down by the UK you can pop in and say hello as the addy to the shop is on his site )

Next on the adgenda is that Sebastien will be turning 17 tomorrow. And god do I feel old’er then dirt right now. My baby brother who towers over me is getting older…he’s officially going to be a senior in highschool in 24 hours. *sigh* Where does the time go I ask you? Pretty soon he’s going to be off at college and I’ma be sitting here in the desert wondering where our childhood went. Anyhow I’m sure you don’t have the time to sit here and listen to me ramble about the days of yore…

I got the cake ordered, buncha teenagers will be here tomorrow at 11am. I’m praying it’ll quit raining because otherwise all them kids’ll be cooped up in the house and so help me god…But there’s gonna be pizza and weather permitting the pool. And of course there will be NO underage drinking *snort, cough, hack, giggle* Jeez almost said that with a straight face! Well, I do believe I’ve rambled enough…onto deal with the inbox!