ooooklahoma every night my honeylamb and i!

Sorry, I stared at the screen for a sec going "well gee, what shoul the title be?" lol. I'm weird yes I know. Do I care? nope, because I have to amuse myself somehow. ;) So lets see, whats up? Me? not much. Didnt really accomplish "TOO" much today. Got to my delivery this morning by 8am, was there for probably like, 4.5 hours before i got unloaded, had to go to the nearest Loves Travel stop to fuel which was probably 30 minutes away, but I was in dire need of fuel, food and a restroom break so it was worth the drive. Plus it was in the general direction I had to go anyway for my next load. I fueled, grabbed a $5 foot long, and hit the road towards my pickup which was still a two hour drive from where I was at. For the sub, I got a foot long meatball on wheat. Of course, after I bought it, I immediately started driving, and I had two thoughts going through my head for a while as it layed there on the seat next to me. I thought "dang I'm hungry!" followed by "i wonder if i could pull off eating this sub while driving without making a huge mess!"

I say making a huge mess because I have this bad habit with meatball subs to be lenient with the meatballs and let them sneak out of the sub. Not really, I don't "let" them, but they always find a way out, they're sneaky those lil guys! lol. After a while, i still had over an hour to go to get to my pickup, and so I decided I would try. Thankfully I managed to be able to eat the sub without losing any of it on myself *kings to me!* ;)



So I went to the pickup, of course I didnt wash the trailer out *because sometimes I cant afford to pay out of pocket for it, so I have always just gone straight into the customer and 99% of the time, they have not care. Sometimes they have made me take it to a truck wash to get sprayed out, like if i'm getting ready to haul a load of meat or something. Tonight they had me put it in the dock, then they had me come inside and go in with a broom to sweep it out. They also had me wear not just a hair net, but a beard net also. I just thought about that and thought "dang! I so shoulda taken a pic to upload!" but alas, I didnt think about it. I had other stuff on my mind. Like for instance, by this point, my 14 hour clock had already gotten below 5 hours. The trip from the pickup to indiana where I'll drop my truck off and get a greyhound ticket home, is like, 950 miles, so my hope today was to be able to get the load, do at least half today, and get to indiana tomorrow. But by the time I got out of the customer, I only had like, 2.5 hours left, and so I took off, drove just over 2 hours, and then pulled into the first travel plaza i came across. FIgured, "hey, MickyD's, why not." Was just sitting in the drivers seat browsing facebook for about 45 minutes first, then went inside. As I went in, this busload of like, 20 girls from a soccer team or something was coming into the mcdonalds. I thought "i'll use the restroom, then get my chips and gatorade to see if I can avoid the huge crowd." When I came back into MickyD's, it was only like, 10 minutes later and I was almost expecting to still be in a huge crowd, but to my surprise all the girls team was gone.

I asked the girl running the register "What did they only get french fries or something?" She was like "heh, nah, they all got like a $1.00 cone." So I proceeded to order, I was going to get the chicken selects, and when she asked "what sauce would you like?" I said "ranch please" and she did this inhale and goes "ohhhhh.. i'm sorry, we're out of ranch." I was like "well what do you have?" She goes "barbeque, chipolte, honey mustard." I was like "Hm. let me get the combo with the chicken blt sandwich and a tenpack of nuggets, do you guys carry honey?" She was like "oh definitely!" So thats what i did. When I typed "honey mustard," I for some reason typed "honey money." NOt sure why i did that, but that'd be some sticky money!

So instead of getting to indiana tomorrow, I have like, 8.5 hours till I will hit the road again, I'll drive as much of the 850 miles remaining, then stop for another 10, then drive the rest. So I estimated to Erin that I'd hopefully get to indiana by early on wednesday, If I get there early enough, I may be able to catch the 11AM bus to the greyhound station. Otherwise, 3pm is the next one. I figure, as early as I can be on the bus home, the better. ;). Speaking of the upcoming job, I spoke to someone at JBhunt today about the orientation on monday, and was told that I just gotta check into the hotel in NJ by any time sunday, and just tell them I'm with JBHunt, and the room is payed for, and he made it a point to mention "Oh and single occupency too." I was like "sweet, I was half expecting to have a roommate." He was like "nope, not at that one." Cool stuff. I guess with England during both the school, and the upgrade process, I had a roommate each time. During the upgrade, I had this roommate that was apparently still a week out from getting his licence, and he had this lil "pep talk" with me about how "i'm sure we're both here to change our lives, and I wont mess with you, you dont mess with me, " or whatever, until i mentioned that I was already licenced and was upgrading, he was like "oh, well cool! sorry man, you just never know, there are a lot of these guys that really couldnt care less!" I was like "oh i know what you mean!"

So to backtrack a bit, today at the pickup, this other england driver was there, and i was parking beside him. I hadnt set up properly because of where I was at before, and when I came in, I think i bumped his mirror that is up on the corner of his hood *used for being able to see your blind spot easier" because his driving partner pointed it out to me. I didnt say anything at first to the actual owner of the truck, but went inside to figure out what I needed to do with my trailer, and the owner of the truck comes in and goes "we gotta do something about the mirror bro." I was like "yeah i know, Im sorry about that, let me see what I can figure out." Because when I bumped it, the mirror cracked, so he was like "first major bump I hit, its going to break completely." So he and I were talking about if we could figure something out between the two of us without reporting it, and I was able to get an express code for a com check for him. I figured, it was such a small incident, wouldnt be worth points on the licence, and since he was willing to figure something out between us, I was like "sure, that sounds good." Otherwise I would have written him a check for the $75 we thought it might cost to fix, and asked him to hold it for two weeks till I hopefully get my first paycheck plus the sign on bonus.

To top that off! the trailer I was getting had one number difference from the paperwork i had, so i went in and told them and he was like "yeah its the right trailer, I just put it in wrong, but I loaded it myself, so let me change the number really quick." So he did, and then the trailer didnt want to cooperate with me as far as hooking up to it, so I was out in the 100 degree heat cranking this thing away, and about 45 minutes later, finally FINALLY I was connected, and I was drenched, heat exhausted, and seeing spots. I pulled myself back into the cab with the AC blasting, and must have easily went through a quarter gallon of my water bottle. After I did the water, I definitely started to feel better after a while.

So forward tracking again! tonight on facebook there were a few funny posts, like pictures or what not, and people making smartass comments. LIke the picture I saw that erin and I both made comments on was this guy, apparently ran from a cop, jumped out his window, and ended up hanging from a phone line, and the pic shows him completely naked and the female cop at the window with this look like "omgosh." Then a bunch of us making smart ass comments like "full moon on a wire" or "but I thought we could just hang out!" or "But mom I swear dad said he does this all the time!"

Yes it is stupid in a way, but a little laughter each day is good for ya. Sometimes if I'm chatting with Erin, or my cousin Mary, or there have been times where I was being quite a smartass to Ashley. lol. *sorry :P* some days are definitely different and better than others, some days I'm the usual smartass self :P. I dont plan it! lol.

So yeah, i really wish I had taken a pic of me all funky with the hair and beard net and safety goggles. lol . That would have been a keeper! :D

In conclusion, I was thinking recently about how when I get back home and end up home nightly, and off 2 days a week, I will still be a few weeks out from the end of my current school class, and with only two left *including algebra.. ugh, not looking forward to that again!*.. I may try to give the CLEP test a shot for algebra. I havent done it yet because out here, I'm rarely home, and when I have been, I was always broke so I couldnt. But it may be possible, and if I pass, it gives me credit for the class and I wont have to take the actual class! So Ash, fyi, for your nursing stuff in the future, keep CLEP in mind because you can test out of classes and not have to actually take the class. I'm sure you already knew about it, but I just thought I'd throw it out there for ya just in case. ;)

On that note! I will call that a night. Gonna finish my nuggets and fries and the orange drink, and do my prayers and bible reading for the night. Tonight's chapters are 2 Kings 5, 17, and 22. There are often times when I read the chapters from the study plan, and I end up going further in that chapter because what I'm reading intrigues me a lot. Other times it still intrigues me but I stick to the study plan. Fun stuff! On that note, I wish you all a good evening, God bless, and Good Night!



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