Easter!

Well well well... I nearly forgot about this thing.

Lets just say that the job has been going better since I last posted. We hired more people, and things are looking up. Still applying and getting rejected from all sorts of parks, but I'm ok with that.


It's Easter once again.. one of the busiest holidays in the park. Visitors cracking confetti eggs over each others head, trashing the place, complaining that they cannot have fires/grill with charcoal because of the extreme dry weather we have been having. Apparently they live under a rock and have no idea of the massive wildfires Texas has been experiencing because of careless people. It's days like this that I wish I was a commissioned officer.

On a side note, I cannot wait until Ireland. Less than 30 days until the madness commences.

Update..?

Well the new job is going pretty OK. Definitely not used to sitting inside all day, but oh well. I miss Colorado more everyday, but I think this job will turn around once they let me play outside.. Haha. Besides all that, started the P90InsanityX the other week, and its starting to get easier and easier. I have about 85 more days left of actual training. Trying to lose about 20 pounds.. this is the heaviest I've weighed in my life. Sooo I want to get fit and healthy again :-)

Anyhoot. Thats about all thats happening. Not much of an update.. haha

MSU?

I think it's starting to hit me that I wont be going back to MSU this fall. Everyone is talking about welcome week, football games, tailgating, etc; and it's making me pretty depressed. Not fair. I feel like college flew by quicker than any other stage of my life.. and I thought high school flew by pretty quick.

Kind of makes me think.. Am I growing up too fast for my own good? I mean fuck, I'm only 22 years old and I already have a full time job (maybe two) lined up. What ever happened to backpacking across Europe, being completely irresponsible, traveling the USA, or going to Australia for a few weeks? I feel like I'm missing a huge part of life by jumping into my career this quickly..

Summer is ending..

Well the summer sure has flown by pretty quickly. Here we are, already August 10th, and I have no idea where the summer went. It hasn't hit me that I'm not taking the usual trek back to East Lansing, but I'm sure in the next couple weeks I'll wonder why I'm not on the road. Well, I guess I will be on the road, but only to start a new chapter of my life in Texas. It feels pretty weird getting a full time job, having to look for a semi-permanent place to live, and moving all my stuff across the country again. I really started to love living out in CO, but I guess the job had to end sometime. Met a ton of awesome people and had some amazing times. At least I'll have a place to stay out here if I visit again.

Had quite the weekend. Went to the shooting range with Mark yesterday. Shot an AR-10, .38 special, .40 pistol, .22 magnum mousy-gun, and of course, a 12-gauge. Felt good to explode some clay pigeons! Then I got the full time job offer for Choke Canyon State Park, went fishing a couple times- caught a nice little brown trout on my kastmaster lure (first one ever!), ate lunch in Steamboat and caught up with Siggy, and did my laundry. Awesome weekend.

Hoping to make the best of the rest of my time here. :-)

Job

Mark - "Did you patrol all the campgrounds?"

Me - "Yeah, except McKindley. I was up their earlier today and only one site was occupied by a tent."

Mark - "Oh great. Now some poor child is getting sodomized by his grandfather in their tent because you didn't patrol around McKindley campground. "

Hahaha! Gotta love the job!! :-P

Colorado

Ok well quite a bit has happened since I updated last. I still havent heard ANYTHING from Texas.. and my hopes are dwindling everyday.. So I came out to see what Colorado had to offer me. So far it has been a blast. I've met a ton of sweet people and I'm doing what I've always wanted to do. Life is going good!

Been training all week for the job. Lonnnnng days of classroom time. Then got OC pepper sprayed on Wednesday. Quite possibly the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life. Basically it burns like you just put the hottest chili pepper juice in your eye, and when you try to wash your eyes out with water, the burning gets more intense, yet you have to wash them out. One hour of pure torture and temporary blindness. Then its the gift that keeps on giving. The next shower you take, the pain comes back as it all washes down your body, stinging EVERY place there is. Just terrible.

Anyway, I just finished my second day of work, and have yet to write a single ticket. A good thing, yes, but it gets so boring when people are doing the right thing all the time. Haha. This morning a guy got a fish hook stuck deep into his finger, so another guy volunteered to cut into his skin until he can get the hook loose. Awesomely entertaining!

Going out on voluntary patrol tonight to see if people will get a little rowdy.. maybe a few citations will be written.

Graduated.

I am officially a Michigan State University Alum - Class of 2010!!!

Were they the best four years of my life? Thats hard to say considering I'm only 21 years old, and still have over 79 more years to live (I'm predicting to be 100+ when I die). So far during these 21 years of my existence, I believe it is safe to say that these past 4, hell even the past 8 years have been the best.

Whats next?... Colorado? Texas? Hopefully I'll know for sure by 5PM tomorrow...