A Little Bit About Miss U

So I told you that part of my new blog would include alot about my job as well. Of course I have alot to tell you! First of all I will never give actual names to protect myself as well as who I may be blogging about.

So here is a little about Miss U. Miss U is an elderly old lady that calls and comes and visits the police station often. I have reason to believe that Miss U has a mental condition. When you talk to her you know that she isnt all the way there. I dont mean that mean in any way. However, she lives with her elderly sister who seems to be really sick. Apparently Miss U has memorized the police stations phone number and calls it often. When I say often I mean at least 40-50 times a day. No, I am not kidding. She will call just to talk at all hours of the day. On my shift she normally starts calling around 7 or 8 pm and slacks off around 9pm. Between those hours we normally get about 20-25 calls from her. Apparently sometime after 10 she goes to sleep or does something because she doesnt start calling again until about 3:30 am. Depending on the day and weather she will continue to call till about 8 or 9am. Again we receive about 20-25 calls during the morning hours. Then this cycle repeats itself every day.

On mornings where its nice and I mean no rain she will walk to the police station. She lives about a mile away and has no problem walking to the station. When she comes in she asks us to "grade her paper." With this she always brings in some type of paper or brochure where she has written different things on it. Most of the time its stuff that is copied right out of a magazine or a commercial and its normally some type of medical disclaimer. Its usually says something along of the lines of "if you take this drug possible side effects are irritable stomach, diarrhea, headache and so on." Like I said she literally copies it right out of the magazine. We HAVE to put an A + and a sticker on her paper or she will freak out. When I say freak out she will get all loud and demanding (and has cried before) until we put that on her paper.

We have to deal with her on a daily basis. I feel really bad for her because she is so old and she really doesnt have someone to talk to but when she does call us its all nonsense stuff. Sometimes its even hard to tell when she really needs something. There have been several times where we have had to dispatch an officer out to her because we dont know what shes talking about so we want to make sure she is ok. Plus her sister is very sick and has several medical conditions. I know she has heart problems and is diabetic. They are both older I would say in their late 70's maybe early 80's.

So this is a little about Miss U. I have some other stories about her so stay tuned...

Quick Trip To Atlanta

Jason has been with us all summer. His school starts in about 2 weeks and he wanted to go on home. So since Kevin had to work this weekend we decided to take him home today. I was hoping for a quick trip...but that really didnt happen.

We left around 11 this morning. We made pretty good timing most of the way over there. Then we hit 285 and it started raining. This reminded me of why I will NOT live in Atlanta. Nobody knows how to drive and there were several accidents. None of them looked serious but of course it slowed traffic down...to a dead stop. Where it normally would take us about 30 mins on 285 to get to Jason's house it took us about an hour and a half.

We finally got there and unloaded all of his stuff that he accrued over the summer. Him and his dad gave each other bye hugs and of course the "be good in school" lecture and then we were on our way. Again it took us over an hour to get back to I-20. We ended up stopping in Douglasville to eat. We grabbed a quick bite and then got back on the road. I really wanted to be back in Alabama before rush hour. We hit a little more traffic but for the most part of the return trip it wasnt too bad until we actually hit Birmingham. However, since I worked in Birmingham for years I am use to the traffic and its much more tolerable than Atlanta traffic!

We finally got back to my inlaws to pick up Kaylyn and ended up getting her out of the pool which she had pretty much been in all day. She looked pretty tired so we came on home and ate supper and gave her a good bath. I thought she would go to sleep pretty soon but nope I had to make her go to bed. I know that as soon as she slowed down it hit her because it didnt take long for her to fall asleep! So after spending 6 hours in the car today I am off to bed too!

New Blog

Hello Everyone! I am working on moving all of my posts to this new blog. I changed the URL on my last blog and everything went crazy so I decided to start fresh. A new start...a new blog! I am tired of trying to keep up with a blog for my little girl, a blog about my weight, a blog about my life so here it is...all in one. My life, my job, my thoughts, my daughter...everything in this new blog.

So for an introduction...

My name is Alicia and I live in Birmingham, AL. I am happily married and have been for 7 years now. We have a 6 year old daughter Kaylyn and hope to have another child one day. I work as a Full Time Police Department Dispatcher and I love my job. Sure its intense and it does have its moments but its what I do.

So...like I said, here on my blog I will talk about anything and everything. So wont you join me!

Alicia