Oh yeah, I have a blog......update time.

So I'm back to work after taking a week off for vacation with my daughter before she heads back to school. 1st grade already, my word does time fly by! What did we do for vacation you ask? I had planned to go camping with her for a day at Yogi Bear Campground in Sturbridge, MA, and possibly a trip to Six Flags New England, and my Dad's in Westerly, but due to my never ending bills, funds were to low. It felt like we did nothing, well, as far as day trips, but we did end up spending time with one of my best friends, and his kids. Unfortunately, he had some stuff go down at his job and ended up quiting, but he had already started the interview process for another job. So needless to say, we were both off from work, and had the kids, which our daughters are best friends like ourselves.

So we pretty much relaxed and let the kids go at it every day. We did get to go to Quaddick State Park for an afternoon and I never realized how much of a fish Hayleigh is. I sat on the bench under a tree, as I hate swimming with fish, and there were three huge pumpkin seeds lurking around when I first went in, so needless to say I wasn't in the water very long. So I sat on the bench nervously gazing out into the water, while my 6 year old and her friends were flopping around and diving underwater without her usual Hannah Montana life preserver on. She wears it while in pools, as the water is usually close to being over her head at times, but she was smart and wouldn't go into the lake too far. After a while she came out and we played in the sand for an hour or so, then headed back to my friend's house to have dinner on the grill.

Our last day was last friday, where I treated her to a pedicure at one of the local nail salons(the ex wife loves to spoil her with girly stuff, it wasn't her first time). I spent the time sitting across from her, glancing back and forth from her to the front of the store where the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen was getting her fingernails worked on. Of course I was to shy to do or say anything, so I continued to watch Hayleigh while she attempted to have a conversation with the oriental lady that was painting her toe nails. Honestly, I know the lady didn't understand what she was saying, and spoke in extremely broken english, but it was cute and funny to watch Hayleigh at the same time enjoying her "pidicure" and trying to talk to her. We then continued on to the friend's house again, before bringing her to North Windham to meet up with the ex around 6:30 pm.

I spent the rest of the weekend relaxing and doing fire department stuff, and went ATV riding with friends on Sunday, before heading into work Sunday night. Now I feel like the "white cloud", as it's been extremely quiet all week so far, on the 9-1-1 front, so I decided to try out my laptop's movie maker and made a slideshow. It's my first attempt, so I decided to make one about my trip last September to Scotland. My friend Linda(who's probably the only one that reads this blog..lol) has mentioned that she wants to go, so I figured I should post it. I'm hoping to get some more fire department pictures so I can make one for that. Enjoy and feel free to let me know what you think....
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