Last week I decided to take a break from the clinic and EMS and just spend a week up at Familial Home Base. Originally I was just going up for the weekend on my way to Little City to visit my brother, but one thing lead to another and I ended up spending the whole week and following weekend away from Home.
The visit with my brother went quite well. We saw l'elisir d'amore which was very entertaining and remarkably well done. Much better than I was expecting considering where we are. My only regret is that I could only partially make out faces. My brother still hasn't replaced his glasses, so I lent him mine so he could read the prompter and actually understand what was being said. (My vision is still good enough that I could read it, just the fine details got lost.)
After the opera, we went to my brother's friends' place and played League of Legends. I was pushing to see Harry Potter 7.5, but since my brother had work in the morning we didn't get around to it. Speaking of morning, at some point around 2am, my dear brother said "okay, I'm going to bed, if you're still up at 6am give me a call." and promptly walked out the door. Now, I was tired and in the middle of a game, so I wasn't paying much attention and it didn't dawn on me until a few minutes later that he had left. I don't know where he lives, and since his old place burned down, neither do his friends. So I was like 'well, who's up for another game?' *twitch* In the end, I stayed up with one of his friends playing LoL and watching It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia until 5:45am at which point I decided "screw this, I'm waking my brother up and going home." Yes, I am a spiteful person.
The drive from Little City back to FHB was uneventful, thankfully, but my mind decided to play club music nonstop in order to keep me awake (I also ate 11 riesens >.>). Seriously, I don't even know where I heard some of those songs, but I never want to hear them again. My pulse was providing the annoying base rhythm and I could feel the throbbing in my head. :S When I got back to FHB, of course everyone (being sane) was still asleep and the front door was locked. I've been told where the spare key is kept, but honestly, I couldn't remember for the life of me. So I just sat in the back of my car and read until my Tante came out. I ended up crashing around 9am and only slept until noon.
Because of that, I decided that driving all the way to Home would probably be a bad idea and since my family was planning on going back to Little City on Monday I decided to tag along so I could see my brother again. That visit went much smoother, but lasted the entire day so once again I decided to postpone the drive back to Home.
On Tuesday, I was just having too much fun with my cousins to bother driving, and since my Opa's birthday was the following weekend I figured I might as well just stay for the rest of the week and save myself all that driving... not to mention the fuel. The rest of the week passed by in a bit of a blur, and Friday saw the arrival of pretty much my entire extended family. Almost all of them ended up staying under the same roof, so it was a little cramped Friday night... well, morning. We were up playing video games until 5am. Zzz...
Anyways, once I got back on Monday I learned how much I had missed. 26 ambulance runs in under 48 hours, a double medevac to an Air Force Base just outside of Big City (this was the first time in YEARS that we've even had to send one patient to that AFB, so sending two there on the same flight was unheard of). One ambulance ended up returning with three patients. Called out for one, ended up having two on scene, and on the way back picked up another who had been in a moose related accident. And a plane crash! I missed out on a plane crash! T_T /sigh But what can one do? It figures that the one week I decide not to be in Home, they would have an incredibly busy and exciting week. Spending time with my extended family and brother was worth it though, especially considering I usually only get to see the latter about once a year and the former never. What with them being on the other side of the continent and all.
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