24 Hours

The last 24 hours of my existence have, perhaps, been the best of my life. Even the not so great occurrences have been laughed off.

Looking for a restaurant in a part of town you are not familiar with can be tough. I trusted yellowpages.com to help me with this one. After a brief search I decided that a place called The Italian Pie Shoppe sounded good. Yellowpages.com had their hours of operation and directions on how to get there. Sounds great, right? Wrong! I drove to 777 Grand Ave. in St. Paul to find a dark store surrounded by an even darker parking lot. The store had closed down! Thanks yellowpages.com for failing to mention the restaurant was closed. I actually laughed at this situation pretty damn hard. Leave it to me to choose a closed restaurant.

After my advanced criminal investigations class I was walking back to my apt for a much needed nap after a night of staying up until 8am. Not relevant, don't ask why. Tough to sleep when you are enjoying a good night. Anyways back to the story at hand. I checked my mailbox like I always do when I come back from class. I find a letter from the Minneapolis Police Reserves. I had recently done a background investigation with them for a volunteer police reserve position. Since I had not heard from them in almost 2 months I assumed that I had been denied a position based on a mistake in my background or failure to omit something they wanted to know. I open the letter expecting bad news, but to my surprise the letter was the exact opposite! The letter stated that I had successfully completed the background check and now I need to make an appointment for an interview!!! This is huge! Way huge! On so many levels, this is so big and such good news that I wanted to wildly pump my fists in the air and scream! The acceptance is huge because I am one step closer to getting the police reserve job that gives me experience, training and not to mention a major, major reference for my Las Vegas testing, if I receive the police reserve position with Minneapolis. Second, this means that my driving record is not in serious enough trouble to fail a background check with a major metropolitan police department! If I can pass Minneapolis police reserves background checks, my chances of passing Las Vegas background checks just skyrocketed!! Wow, I am on cloud nine right now. I also have Mall of America security calling me about a open position, which would be another huge job for my resume when I test in Las Vegas this winter and spring. My life is coming together nicely and my hard work and honesty are paying off. Every aspect of life right now is great. Holy cow my adrenaline is pumping right now.