3 days till christmas

Hello all. It's december 22nd, 2013, and I'm up here on Interstate 80 east bound parked currently at a rest area. I had stopped and gotten a subway sub, and then I knew I needed to stop for an hour or two to get some school stuff turned in. So, that is what I've been up to the past two hours. I'm getting ready to get back on the road but I wanted to come on and do another blog entry. As you can tell, I'm trying to be fairly regular with my entries lately. We'll see if I can keep it up. I'm hoping that sometime soon i can buy one of those keyboards that you can pair with an ipad because then I think some of the things I do online might be easier. I would still be on the computer doing school work, but I would like to blog regularly, and I would also like to get back into working on my book that I have like 100+ pages or whatever. I havent written in it for like, a year or so. Part of it is writers block, but another part is my computer is a net book and so it isn't exactly the fastest pc in the world. It lags from time to time, as Ashley would be able to tell you from when we used to oovoo chat all the time. It's great for basic stuff such as me doing my school work, and stuff like that, but anything that requires good performance it starts to lag. Sometimes when I'm trying to write, it will miss a letter that I typed. I would type "want" and it would miss the N and say "wat". It'd do that for multiple words, always the same letter, and so I'd read over my blog entry afterwards and go "ugh, sonofabitch". Then I'd have to open up my entry and edit it, correct what was wrong, then republish.

So anyway, I went from jersey to ohio last night, delivered at a bj's, then from there 30 minutes to the schneider drop yard, dropped my empty, picked up my loaded trailer, and went to sleep because by that point it was 2 AM and I was dead tired. Got up probably by noon, went down to the pilot and got fuel, then hit the road. Stopped at a loves right on the boarder of pa and ohio because they have a subway there and I figured I had like $7 worth of points on my loves card, and so I thought "might as well get a sub and use up some points." She was ringing me up and I was sure it was going to be like $5.75 cuz of how I get a $5 footlong meatball, and she was like "that'll be $4." I stopped and just looked at her for a minute, and then was like "oh ok, I was expected it to be like $5.75, but 4 works." She was like "yeah, its for this month they are doing $2 6 inches and $4 foot longs. I was like "oh, sweet!"

So anyway, I'm thinking I'm going to cut this one short for today because I gotta get going again. It's definitely true some days are better than others. Yesterday and today I have felt ok. Still broke, but out here doing my job and not having a bad day. The only bad thing, which I still dont know what was going on, was right when I stopped at this rest area, I couldn't see out of my right eye. It felt like I had something in my eye, but I swear it was like "half an hour" where I was forcing myself not to try to rub my eye, and it probably looked like I was crying because my right eye was non stop running. Then after like 45 minutes while I was focusing on my school stuff instead, I stretched, and suddenly my eye was back to normal for the most part. THANK GOD! I am still having the eye twitches for some reason, so I'm not sure whats up with that.

So, I'm headed back to the bj's in burlington, nj tonight, and then i'll head over to the yard in fairless to shut down for the night. Then tomorrow morning I have a live load appointment at 11AM, then I'll go an hour and a half to a walmart thats still here in PA to deliver, then they have me routing back to the bj's in burlington. Sooo, I'm "fairly" sure that whats going to happen *since I've been overdue to have the truck in for a PM (preventative maintenance) for the past 3 weeks*, is that they will load me up with a bj's load tomorrow night, then route me to carlisle to the Operating Center, where I assume I'll be getting the truck in for a pm, and being sent to the hotel for the night while the truck is worked on. Yes, that's right, I assume, and yes I know it makes an ass out of you and me. Sue me! :P

Is this definitely going to happen? I don't know. I'm only assuming because this week, I get back home the day after christmas, and I'm using my vacation so I'll be off on the 26th till January 3rd. HELLLLLLL YEAH! or I should say.... THANK GOD! I'm looking forward to the break. Would be even more wonderful if we had money to do a few things while i'm home but its the time with the family that counts. Maybe we'll plan a few cook-outs or something, or hang out with the inlaws, or whatever. I dont know. It'll be a nice break from it all.

So as you can see, more pictures down below. One is a picture of a picture, I don't have my phone pics uploaded, so I literally took a picture of my phone with the image on the screen. It's my youngest girl Zoe with Santa. She'd been asking for the past few weeks about going to see santa so we finally went. The other picture because I'm sitting here on the shoulder by a rest area on I-80, so you get the joy of seeing a shot of the actual interstate. i know, so interesting.. lol. :P

On that note, I hope you all are well, God bless, and talk to you next time.