Buh-bye, training wheels.

I feel like a little kid who just got her first big-girl bike. One without training wheels. It still has the cool tassles on the handlebars and everything that she adored about the old bike, but it means that she’s growing up. It means progression.

Okay, enough analogies. I’ll cut to the chase. After ten months in training at work …

I’M A REAL DISPATCHER!

I’d been signed off on answering phones for quite a while, and have been on my own dispatching Bonney Lake police radio for a couple months, but I was still in training on Puyallup police radio. Big, bad Puyallup. But now I’m signed off, and I’m officially on my own in every aspect. Well, I’m on a six-month probation period, but still. No more trainers hovering and listening to everything I say. :)

Saturday night was the first night I worked Puyallup on my own, and I ended up having two shootings, TWELVE minutes apart. My heart was pounding, and adrenaline was rushing through me. It was insane. My coworkers all told me I did an awesome job, and several officers even complimented me on how well I did. I tell you what … there’s nothing better than an officer handing you an “atta-boy” about your dispatching skills. Especially when you’re still sort of a newbie and you’re just praying that they don’t think you suck. :)

So now I have a new permanent schedule for the rest of the year. Dayshift. Still don’t know how I feel about that. Ask me in a few weeks when I’m used to waking up at 4:30 in the morning. I’m just thankful to know my schedule more than a week in advance. Haha.

Besides, on dayshift we tend to get rediculous calls. Like yesterday. The Great Peacock Adventure. I’m not even kidding. We had a loose peacock on Meridian, the busiest street in Puyallup. So we had like four officers out there, shutting down traffic, trying to round up this freaking peacock. They couldn’t catch it, and then they lost it. And apparently, KK isn’t allowed to chase peacocks anymore because according to the Sergeant he “doesn’t have any peacock finesse”.

So anyways, that’s my exciting news for the night. The being-released-as-a-dispatcher part. Not the peacock part. Haha.

In other news, the fur monsters are doing well. They’re getting big, almost to the point that they aren’t kitten-sized anymore. They have an obsession with the potpourri in the living room, and that had better end quickly. Because I’m sick of picking up bits of potpourri from all over the house.

I’m in Yelm at my mom’s house right now. I was visiting her before she leaves tomorrow for a horse show in Walla Walla. Had lunch with my dad today, and tomorrow I’m helping him fix the Chevelle. More like watch while he fixes it. Haha. He has to replace something with the brakes before he lets me borrow it. I love driving that car. It’s a freaking beast. And it’s a guy magnet. Because no guy can resist a nice muscle car. At least, no guy that’s worth my time. :)

Anyways. I should probably get to bed. I’m still used to nightshift hours, and I need to break myself of that. Even if it means forcing myself to go to sleep. :)