March 24-28, 2014

This week actually went by really fast.  Spring break ended and I was depressed, now its friday and I am happy once again.  This weekend is sure to be a busy one, seeing as I have a lot of family events I have to attend.  My grandma's birthday is sunday so I have to help make her dinner and then go to my aunt and uncle's house for my little cousins birthday.  Gotta love conflicts in schedules.  The big thing I'm waiting for is my birthday.  I am (hopefully) getting a nice pair of White's boots from my parents which would make me sooooooo happy.  They're pretty expensive boots but they last a long time and can be repaired for free whenever something on them breaks or rips or falls apart.  They're just super comfortable, durable and all around great boots.  I really need a new pair to have this summer for work, seeing as its almost a given that you need a good pair of boots to work on a road maintenance crew.  I spend a lot of my time in a pickup driving through the county and spraying weeds, fixing signs, flagging while the roads are being chip-sealed (similar to asphalt paving).  The worst days are chip-sealing for sure.  We do it right at the end of august basically when its super hot, we stand on a hot road in the sun all day wearing jeans and high visibility vests. It's nice for a day when it's different than spraying weeds all day, but after that its just hot, messy, and terrible.  The chip-seal just sticks to everything too, the oil they put down is extremely sticky so the gravel chips stick to the existing road surface.  That also makes the rock stick to your tires, vehicle and everything else that touches it, so your shoes get ruined if you walk in it, which is what I do all day.