so my friend and i went out to go riding today and while we were moving one of her horses out of the round pen and putting the other in, hers spooked, which made the one i was holding spook and pretty much plowed right through me. thank God i stuck my hand up because as she ran by she kicked and got me square on the right elbow. It freaking hurt!! and while im on the ground i can feel my fingers going numb and getting all tingly and im just thinkin 'this aint good'. but when i went inside and stuck my hand under the water, i realized the finger pain was because i got a rope burn. but anyway, theres a scrape on my elbow from where the hoof got the skin and its a little bloody, but dry now. and there is a big a$$ bump, bigger than the size of a golf ball, on the inside of my elbow. freakin sucks. and its turnin all black and blue, too. it kind of looks like a have a tumor on my elbow lol (not that tumors are a laughing matter, because they arent, but.. yeah.)

i can move it and rotate it around so i dont think anything is broken, unless a little part got chipped off or something. but my fingers move pretty slow. its like when you've been outside in the cold for a long time and then you go back in and as you start to warm up your fingers are real slow, or if you've experience a 'dead arm' where someone knuckles you between the mucsles and everything feels real slow and heavy for a little while. yep, its like that. i should take some pictures and post em for ya'll to see. its gnarly.

well i went over to the pd and showed chief and our receptionist and they were like "looks like it hurts." and im like...'uh, duh.' and i go back to show our CSO (who we both agreed that we would go running together everyday at 3:15 until i go back to school) and she says "you shouldnt run today, i can go alone." and i go "i got kicked in the elbow, not the leg. i can still go." and i did, im such a trooper after the run, cso and i went back to talk to the serge and she was like, and i quote, 'for sh!ts sake! that thing is bigger than your boobs' haha. then she asked me about 5 different times 'lemme see it again' lol. she particularly enjoyed one angle where its just freaking huge.

both her and chief were examining it and trying to grab it and im like "back away from the elbow" haha. freaking chief was trying to poke and push to see if it hurt when he did that, which it did and i made him stop. he told me to put some horse linament on it. but i dont have any so i put ice on it but then my freaking hand started to go numb which i thought was wierd because the ice was on my elbow, not my hand. so if it gets any bigger or hurt more tomorrow, im prolly gonna go see the doc. i probably should have gone today but, meh. i figure hes just gonna say take it easy and ice it, which im already going to do anyway and i dont need to pay to have someone tell me that. so if i ever decide to quite being lazy and dig out my digi, ill take some pics and post em. toodles.

i did another ride along last night w/ officer b. it started out in the squad room with the serg doing briefing. there was a person on day shift who had threatened suicide by cop so she was informing the night guys on what the deal was. appearently they have a very large rifle so i decided to chim in "can i wear a vest tonight?" (referring to a bullet-proof vest) and the serg goes "well i dont know where the extra vest got to" "the CSO was wearing it yesterday, its probably in her locker since she didnt put it back in your office." serg looks at me "no, you cant wear the vest." (then i think i growled at her, or at least gave her a mean look. lol) then officer h said "that vest wouldnt help you none with the size of gun they've got anyway." then after they finished briefing and serg was about to leave she looks at my driver, points at me and says "she doesnt get a vest. you guys be careful and keep her safe. make sure you show her how to unlock the guns and use the AR." (im thinking 'saweet'! lol). so we get going and officer b showed me how to use the gun and stuff, which was pretty cool. all i has to do was hit the gun lock button on the control panel, pull it out, cock it, and pull the trigger. though she did tell me to make sure i dont shoot her, just the bad person. lol. but guess what? we never even actually got a call on them so nothing even became of it. (at least last night, might be a different story later on down the road).

our first stop was someone they had some pc (probable cause) on and wanted to make an arrest. we drove to the vacinity of the house, turned off the headlights as we were driving up and parked around the corner. i had to wait on the corner of the street while officers b and h went to go make the arrest. i was so excited!! then they came back about 30 seconds later cuz no one was home. major, major bummer. so we actually spent quite a bit of the night trying to figure out where this character was, they obviously knew the cops were after em so they laying low for a while.

now ill tell the story of the duii (driving under the influence of intoxicants). we were out on one side of town conversing with officer h when dispatch comes over the radio "drunk driver at such and such street" both cars hit the gas and were driving to the other side of town. dispatch had a person following the drunk driver so they were updating the location as the person was making turns. i think we were doing about 50+ in a 25 mph zone. hehe (but not too many people out on the road that late at night). officer h got behind the car first and pulled it over. i got to go up to his car and watch him conduct the FST (field sobriety test) on the driver while officer b stayed back at her car. well, turns out the driver was pretty freaking old! like - on the verge of 80 - old! and officer h only got to do the 'follow my pen with your eyes and dont move your head' deal on the driver. he asked if they wanted to do the 'walk the line' portion but driver declined due to just getting new hips not too long ago! lmao! so he put those pretty silver bracelets on em and took em to jail. i got to go with officer h on that part just so i could see how the rest of the proceedings go and that was pretty cool. although i didnt get to stay with him when we got to jail, i had to go to the control center and watch on a camera. but it was a good experience none the less.

i did pick up a new nickname last night. officer be so sincerely called me 'spanky' lol. (and she also called me some other things, too. but that ones the coolest ) well, all in all it was a pretty awesome night. i'll keep you guys updated on my next ones. but right now im still really tired so im gonna go take a nap. g'night

so, i use verizon and i hear they just bought out unicell. does that mean everyone who once had unicell will now be verizon members or are they still going to keep them at two different companies? im hoping they merge them because lots of my friends here in town have/had unicell and we text a lot. but i have unlimited to only verizon members and 500 to other networks. so basically my question is:

can i text my unicell peeps and have those under the 'unlimited' category or are they gonna go under my '500' category??

i suppose i could call verizon but i dont wanna be on hold and this way i get points. hehe.

Last night i did a ride along with officer b. we go to a 'noise complaint' where the person on the top floor is stomping around his apartment and annoying the people below. first, we park outside the apartment complex so we can sneak up the second floor and catch the noise-maker in the act. we can hear a guy cursing pretty loudly so b knocks on the door and says its the police dept and we need to talk to you. a younger guy answers the door drunk off his skunk and lets us come in. turns out b knows the guy so for about 7 whole minutes, she is talking to him trying to calm him down when all of a sudden its like he finally sees me standing next to her. he goes "who is she?" and b says "this is joie, she's my ride along" then he leans in a little, squints at me and goes "shes fckin fine!" and b is like "hey, hey, she doesnt need to hear that." meanwhile im trying my damndest to not laugh my butt off, they started talking again and then he randomly goes "how old are you?" i looked at b, then looked at him and said "21" and he stares at me all dumbfounded and goes "so...you're of age?" "yeah" "you're fckin fine!" and b's like "hey! what did i just tell you?" and then they started talking again. he lays down on the couch and he's telling b "i dont have anyone, i only have you." then he looks at me and goes "and her! she's fckin fine!" (and by now, i dont think its that funny anymore) then he has the liquid courage to say "you know, my wife's gone." well by all means let me just strip off my clothes and we can get it on right now! lol. (and for some reason i just couldnt fathom why his wife was gone...) so after we were there for 15 mins or so, we're trying to walk out the door and then he asks "where does she come from?" (i kinda wanted to blurt out 'my mom's uterus' but didnt know how well that would fly) but b spoke up first and said "washington" the he goes "me too!" im thinkin, 'oh, thats great.' lol.

we finally get back into the car and the first thing she says to me is "he off limits or you're grounded." haha! my response, "don't worry!"

Ok, here's another story from one of my ride alongs. its a pretty good one, too.

Im on a night ride with officer cuteness (im just gonna call him that cuz he is ). i hadnt done one with him yet but i had met him once and he seemed like a pretty cool guy. so i go over to the pd before it was time to go on patrol and officer c(uteness) and officer z are the two that are patrolling for the night. but their shift hasnt started yet so they were just kind of waiting around for the big hand to hit the 12. well, apparently those two are quite the movie fanatics! they were reciting lines back and forth to each other from the Princess Bride movie! i was effin rollin on the floor laughing so hard! those two are a freakin riot! haha

so the night shift officers have some daily duties. they have to lock up the park bathrooms, the cemetery, and do the dark house list. i asked cuteness if we could do the cemetery and park and give z the dark house list. he was fine with that so when it came time, we drove out to the cemetery and we get to the first gate and he goes "ok. see those trees over there?" "yeah" "ok, you go walk that way and i'll meet you on the other side." im thinking "holy crap! i dont think thats rutine procedure. z didnt make me do that last time i was here" so i just looked at him and said "are you serious?" he goes "yeah." then he started laughing and said no. haha. im so glad he was kidding because it was dark and those trees were like two football fields away! plus, the other gate to lock was to the left, nowhere near the trees!

so we go driving through and he tells me that those bushes that are shaped like a heart is where all the little kids are buried. we drove over there and got out to go look since i hadnt ever seen it before. when we walked to the other side of the bushes, there is a big vacant field and i was shining my flashlight into it and i see this reflection in the light. i was like "dude! look! do you see those eyes?!" he saw them and the thing started moving but it wasnt coming towards us. he's like, "well, if its a cougar itll come closer because they tend to be curious." it dissappeared so we shut off our lights and walked a little ways back then whipped around real quick to see if we could see it again. we saw the eyes again, but we couldnt see the body at all. we just declared it a chupacabra and went about our business. lol.

next came the mausoleum (its like a tomb if you arent familiar with the term). there is a big tree right outside of it and cuteness goes "so what would you do right now if a big vampire thing came jumping out of the tree, hissed and bared its teeth, then flew off?" (what a wierd question) "uh, call in Mulder and Scully?" haha. so then we walked up to the door, he grabs the knob and its unlocked and he goes "you know, i was really hoping this thing was locked." lmao! so we went inside and there are no lights so its pretty creepy. these people who are in there arent under the ground, they are pretty much just stacked up on top of one another so they go up high, about two stories or so. at the far end we noticed something had spilled on the floor and there was some kind of strap lying in it. i think it went to a bag or something. but there was a closet next to it and cuteness thinks this looks a little suspicious. so he pulls out his gun and opens the closet, extremely prepared, and there was some kind of pantry looking thing in there too so he opened that just in case as well. no one was there, but it was kind of an intense moment. of all the rides i've done (9 total) no one had to pull any kind of weapon (be it oc spray, asp, or gun)! but after that we decided it was time to be on our merry way before our imaginations started to get the best of us. lol.

later when we caught up with z, i told her all about our chupacabra. she's like "you know there is a little fox that is living out there, right?" fine. whatever. throw ants on my picnic, blow up my parade floats, why dontcha just punch me in the gut while your at it? lol. ah well, it was fun while it lasted

so thats my cool story. i had one of the best times on the ride along! next wednesday or thursday im going with another officer i havent ridden with yet. z tells me she's one of the funnest because she absolutely loves her job and she's really funny to boot! i cant wait