The Graveyard

We are on the 2nd to last major shift of the FTO phase. Wes will be on his own in a little over a month's time! We are so excited. Don't get me wrong, he likes having a guy in the car that has more experience, but some things he knows that he just needs to learn himself.


Right now, we are on Graveyard shift (which is really night shift...just from 9:30 - 7:30). I love how they call it Graveyard. It makes it seem so much more ominous, intriguing and scandalous.  And when I was looking up the origin of it's meaning, I came upon just that...


'Life in the 1500s':

England is old and small and they started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."

 Being somewhat of an historian, this fascinates me. I knew that it had something to do (obviously...) with working in a Graveyard, and I knew that people were often buried alive, but I hadn't heard of the "Saved by the Bell" and "Dead Ringer" before!


I digress...


Working this shift for Wes and I is AMAZING. I love having my evenings with him, and I love being able to watch what I want after he leaves (let's be honest...I do that when he is home too...he's such a good little husband), I get to read for as long as I want in bed, and I have no one waking me up!! Then in the morning, I can have lights on, I can turn on the news loud enough so I can hear it while I'm getting ready - It is awesome. And then - I get practically FOUR days off with him! He doesn't go in to work Sunday night, Monday night or Tuesday night...and then he doesn't have to go in until Wednesday night!


Graveyard shift rocks my socks....and what a perfect time for Halloween...