as i previously mentioned, i am on spring break. i am really having a greaat time. i really was worried about the whole idea that it was spring break. i def needed the break but had no fantasticly wonderful plans. i really had been wanting to go someplace warm and to fly. i have never flown and i really wanted to. i had some great plans and was going to go to somewhere like hawaii or vegas. i really was going to take off and go. i didnt have anyone to go with, but i figured you know what, i will just go to vegas for a day or so and have a good time. i really thought long and hard and came to the conclution that i was not going to go. i am not sure why exactly i didnt. i want to say that because i didnt i am safer. i dont know that there would have been anything that would have happened, but decided that i was not going to go.
because i didnt go....
i have been able to stay home here in twin and have had a wonderful opportunity to work. i have been working almost everyday. it has been wonderful. instead of going somewhere and spending money, i am here and earning money. what a good trade off. at least that is what i thought. i have gotten to meet some absolutely wonderful and amazing families. the longer that i do this career the more i realize how much i love it. it amazes me what fantastic people there are that live here on earth. the stories of those who have passed on are amazing. it is really cool to see what people are able to complete in their lives. i just love the opportunity that i get to work in such a wonderful career. i feel so blessed and grateful for this chance that i have been given.
i even love getting up in the middle of the night and getting to get dressed as if it were morning and i was going to be up all day. i have the attitude that i should adn will look the same way as when they see me as they come in and make arrangements and do different things throughout the week. though it is hard sometimes to get up and shave and such. i do it. i wear a suit. and the greatest pay off is when the families comment on how professional they feel that i look. it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to know that they appretiate that i take the time to get dressed the way that i do.
though at the beginning of my work there in the funeral home i was really worried about whether i would even be able to hear the phone go off or whether i would be able to get up and go out on the call and be able to function the next day. it truly is amazing to me that those nights when i get to get up and go help a family in the middle of the night that i am very much awake and allert the next day. take for example last night i received a call at 1:30 in the morning and there were a few more that followed and i didnt get home till about 4:40 this morning. what a wonderful night it was. one thing that i absolutely love that we do is that as we go in to remove a families loved one, we take in a little gift to leave for the family to let them know that we love them and that they are not alone. kind of the idea behind this is that we want to leave somthing in the room so that when the family comes back in there there is something there. so that they dont come back to a totally empty room. ideally we would leave a red rose, but as deaths are very unpredictable and the fact that there are times when we go a week or two without a single call, it really doesnt make a whole lot of sense to do the rose. so instead right now we are leaveing a little thing of chocolate hugs and kisses with a little saying letting the family know that we are there ANYTIME. that all they need to do is call and we are there.
i really love my job and am the luckiest guy alive. :)
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