It's not good to let your health go. Sometimes, depending on what you do for a living, sometimes it can be a struggle though. I can't speak for all professions. I can speak for my own though. Trucking. Being away from home as much as I am. And to top that off, being an owner operator, the health insurance I have available to me isn't worth the money that it cost me.
What do I mean, you ask?
Well, when I was a company driver, the health insurance available to us was awesome! Here's the interesting part, or at least, I think it's interesting at least. When you're employed as a w2 employee, you have much better health insurance options. However, when you are an independent contractor, you have to go off the market place. Yes the plans on the market place are decent, but they are also very expensive unless you don't make that much and can get what they call income tax credit.
When I started with my current carrier, I signed up for health insurance through their contractor health insurance company they recommend. I had this coverage for probably the 6 months or so, and then we scheduled a checkup for our 2 girls. It was a basic checkup, just basically checking how they are doing. I wasn't there, as I was on the road, but I don't believe they did anything as extensive as blood work. You'd think, with insurance, the visits shouldn't have cost that much.
A month or two later we got a bill in the mail from both their appointments. Can you guess how much we were billed? $190 each. Insurance paid like $15 for each kid, and then we got billed for the rest. I was floored. When having insurance deducted from my weekly settlements, I was paying like $180 per week. I decided whats the point in paying so much money for insurance when it barely covered anything.
So, for a while now, I have not had coverage and hense have not been to a doctor myself. I've also gained a lot of weight the past 2 years. No matter what I do, whether I limit calories, and walk 10k steps, did that for like 2 months and still didn't lose any weight. I gave up for a while, doing small changes like unsweetened tea and avoiding fries, and still my weight climbed. For years in my marriage, I kept my diet pretty much the same, and my weight stayed pretty consistent. I was like 220 lbs for a while. It climbed up over a few years to around 245. Stayed there for a while, and over the past 2 years has gone up a little bit here, a little bit there. This past year I went from 280 to probably 315. I've also had other health issues the past few months that have finally gotten me to look into getting into a doctor.
Last week I made a change. I started drinking water 100%. I did lemonade once last week, but otherwise it was 100% water. I'd say I drank between a half gallon and a gallon of water every day. I've never peed so much in my life! LOL! When I used to drink sweet tea or sodas or lemonade tea, etc, I always had enough to drink throughout the day but I'm guessing I was just packing it on because I never had to pee that much.
Then last week, literally day 2, it was like the flood gates opened. Every couple hours I swear I must have gone about half a gallon. Funny thing was I'm positive I peed about 3 times more than I actually drank that day. Then last Friday, I went ahead and researched low testosterone testing centers here near Nashville. I figured, that I might have to have multiple types of tests done for things like thyroid, testosterone, etc, but obviously figured testing my testosterone levels would be a good place to start.
So I went online, found a Low T center about 6 miles away from where I live. Scheduled the appointment for 8:30 this morning, figuring I'd get back home yesterday. Went through the testing this morning, blood drawn, etc, and found out my levels are extremely low and could definitely be causing a lot of the issues I'm having medically. I received my first shot and am officially in a Testosterone therapy program. It's an extra $250 a month, but it covers all the appointments, shots, tests, etc.
So, in conclusion, I'm glad I'm on the Testosterone, and I will continue to drink mainly water, and hopefully within the next month or so I'll start to feel better, lose weight, and improve my overall health. Me drinking water I believe has definitely made a difference. I'm not as overheated as I usually am. It's not an easy change, but nobody ever said that it would be.
On that note, sorry if I seemed like I jumped around a bit on this entry. I'm actually home on my day off, hanging out with the family, and watching a movie, and so I'm kind of multi-tasking. LOL. I hope that you are all having a good day, and I'll talk to you next time.
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Friday, June 2, 2017
Onward and Upward!
Hello gang. I know its been quite a while since I last posted in my blog. Sorry about that. Honestly I don't know why I haven't come on for a while. So I figured, try to come on and resume these as often as I can. For a little while at least, I may not be able to come here a lot, but I will do what I can. Within a year, I expect I will have a lot more time to work with *I will go into that in a little bit in this post*, and will be able to post more blog entries.
So, what I'm currently up to is I'm sitting inside a restaurant at the Loves Travel Stop here in White House, Tennessee. I've been without AC in my truck for the past week. It has SUCKED! My truck is finally in the shop to get that fixed. I was in Florida twice without the ac this week. 105 degrees. Oh wow. Yeah. Talk about loving life. LOL!
So, this entry I gotta keep short because its currently 730PM and I gotta go check on my truck. That and my phone *which is my internet source right now for my computer* is on 11% and I will need to plug it in soon. I deliberately charged it in the truck before I got down here because I figured I would be sitting inside in the nice cool temps, working on my computer. Now to go a little bit into what I am currently working on....
Yall already know I am a trucker. In fact, technically I'm a small business owner, because I am making payments on my trucks. Well now I'm also an online business owner. So through my online business, my plan is to be hanging up the keys, coming home, running my online business, and being home with the fam. When do I plan to accomplish this? No later than next summer, so a year from now. There is a very good chance that I'll come off the road sooner, but that is my deadline that I have set for myself. And I'm not planning to come off the road and work another job. Nope. I'm planning to strictly work from home on my business. I know it can be done! I'm currently working with others, who are already doing it, and are teaching others like myself how to get all set up. Not only that! They have already fired their bosses, quit their jobs, and literally live what they refer to as the "Laptop Lifestyle!"
This is what I intend for my life to be like come next summer. Not have to worry about money any more, no longer have to put in 70+ hours a week away from my family, home only one day a week, tired all the time, my health suffering. NOPE! This will no longer be how my life goes!
If you'd like to know how I'm getting this going, I'd like to invite you to watch a FREE online workshop! They are scheduled every Monday and Thursday nights, 6pm PST and 9pm EST. During these workshops they will educate you on the 3 pillars of success! Everything from creating sales funnels, finding high quality traffic that converts, and finding high commission products that people want! If you are someone like me that feels like you never have enough time because you work so much, and yet you are always Just Over Broke (JOB), then come check us out! You never know! It could very well be the best decision you ever made! I feel like it is for me! In fact, I had the opportunity to get into this about 6 months ago but I let my fears hold me back. NO LONGER!
So again, if you'd like to know more, go to my site.
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I think I'll close with that tonight guys! So, in closing, I appreciate ya'll visiting my blog, and again encourage you all to go to my link and attend our FREE workshop. All it will cost is an hour of your time. Thanks and I'll talk to you guys again next time!
So, what I'm currently up to is I'm sitting inside a restaurant at the Loves Travel Stop here in White House, Tennessee. I've been without AC in my truck for the past week. It has SUCKED! My truck is finally in the shop to get that fixed. I was in Florida twice without the ac this week. 105 degrees. Oh wow. Yeah. Talk about loving life. LOL!
So, this entry I gotta keep short because its currently 730PM and I gotta go check on my truck. That and my phone *which is my internet source right now for my computer* is on 11% and I will need to plug it in soon. I deliberately charged it in the truck before I got down here because I figured I would be sitting inside in the nice cool temps, working on my computer. Now to go a little bit into what I am currently working on....
Yall already know I am a trucker. In fact, technically I'm a small business owner, because I am making payments on my trucks. Well now I'm also an online business owner. So through my online business, my plan is to be hanging up the keys, coming home, running my online business, and being home with the fam. When do I plan to accomplish this? No later than next summer, so a year from now. There is a very good chance that I'll come off the road sooner, but that is my deadline that I have set for myself. And I'm not planning to come off the road and work another job. Nope. I'm planning to strictly work from home on my business. I know it can be done! I'm currently working with others, who are already doing it, and are teaching others like myself how to get all set up. Not only that! They have already fired their bosses, quit their jobs, and literally live what they refer to as the "Laptop Lifestyle!"
This is what I intend for my life to be like come next summer. Not have to worry about money any more, no longer have to put in 70+ hours a week away from my family, home only one day a week, tired all the time, my health suffering. NOPE! This will no longer be how my life goes!
If you'd like to know how I'm getting this going, I'd like to invite you to watch a FREE online workshop! They are scheduled every Monday and Thursday nights, 6pm PST and 9pm EST. During these workshops they will educate you on the 3 pillars of success! Everything from creating sales funnels, finding high quality traffic that converts, and finding high commission products that people want! If you are someone like me that feels like you never have enough time because you work so much, and yet you are always Just Over Broke (JOB), then come check us out! You never know! It could very well be the best decision you ever made! I feel like it is for me! In fact, I had the opportunity to get into this about 6 months ago but I let my fears hold me back. NO LONGER!
So again, if you'd like to know more, go to my site.
ceazfreedom.com
I think I'll close with that tonight guys! So, in closing, I appreciate ya'll visiting my blog, and again encourage you all to go to my link and attend our FREE workshop. All it will cost is an hour of your time. Thanks and I'll talk to you guys again next time!
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Change in temps
Wow. Yesterday it was 60 outside. I actually had the truck ac on. Now it has gone from 50 earlier to 30 already and I hear it's gonna get to the negatives. Wow. Then warm again Friday. This should be fun. I wonder how many people are going to get sick this week.
So this one will be a short one since I don't think I have a lot of time. It's Wednesday, so that means I'm headed home tomorrow. I'm here at the oc stopped for the night. And I leave here bright and early to head to my 7:30 AM delivery appt.
I'm hoping I get home at a decent hour because I would love to hit the y tomorrow. Guess we will see.
On a school note, I'm in week 2 of my current class. Technically it's a retake because of two issues I had that I wasn't able to turn in 2 assignments and I failed the class. The class itself isn't hard really. But one of the assignments I wasn't able to do was the final exam so I knew I failed. All because week 3 I had to fix the truck cuz I had no way to charge anything, so I couldn't charge my laptop or phone. And the last week my phone literally died and I had to have Verizon overnight me a replacement. But because of that, I wasn't able to turn in my final so I knew I failed.
So, hopefully this time will be better.
So this one will be a short one since I don't think I have a lot of time. It's Wednesday, so that means I'm headed home tomorrow. I'm here at the oc stopped for the night. And I leave here bright and early to head to my 7:30 AM delivery appt.
I'm hoping I get home at a decent hour because I would love to hit the y tomorrow. Guess we will see.
On a school note, I'm in week 2 of my current class. Technically it's a retake because of two issues I had that I wasn't able to turn in 2 assignments and I failed the class. The class itself isn't hard really. But one of the assignments I wasn't able to do was the final exam so I knew I failed. All because week 3 I had to fix the truck cuz I had no way to charge anything, so I couldn't charge my laptop or phone. And the last week my phone literally died and I had to have Verizon overnight me a replacement. But because of that, I wasn't able to turn in my final so I knew I failed.
So, hopefully this time will be better.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
hurry up and wait some more
Once you've been in the military, and dealt with all the many MANY occasions where you are made to hurry up and wait, it is easy to deal with. For those of you that do not quite understand the term "hurry up and wait", allow me to attempt to explain.
In the military, especially when I was being honorably discharged, or even before then. When just needing to get some paperwork taken care of, or a task completed, or whatever, it'd be "get over there asap! GO! GO!" and then you get there and its "take a number . . . " and you'd wait like 2 hours before you could do what you came there to do.
That's basically the best way I could describe hurry up and wait. You hurry to get there to get it done, but then you have to wait. In the trucking field, you have that happen a lot. Yes there are times when I get to customers and I check in with the receiving or shipping office and get started being loaded or unloaded right away. But then there are also the times like tonight where I get to the customer in good time, but then sit for however many hours and wait for my appointment. Hense, me referring to it as hurry up and wait. ;)
So tonight, I arrived here at the BJ's in Rochester, NY, that I'm delivering at. Midnight appointment. I arrived like, 8pm? I picked up the load last night around 10pm, and shut down for the night in the parking area of that distribution center. Took of from there around 11AM today, drove 2.5 hours to the fuel stop which was a pilot just inside the boarder of ny, after leaving mass. Instead of fueling right away, I parked, grabbed my shower stuff, went in and hit the showers. There was hurry up and wait right there too, because they only have 3 showers, and they were all being used and so there were like 5 of us that had paid for our showers and then were just waiting around to have one available. So, even though I usually like a long "HOT" shower, I figured while I was waiting that I would be best to not take too long since others were waiting. Before hitting the showers, I got a sub from the subway inside the pilot.
There's this new sub they have now called the Chicken Enchilada Melt with Fritos. Seriously! Fritos on the sub! I heard it advertised out in Ohio last week, and I stopped and got one to try, and OMYGAWD!!!! lol. I'm still a meatball guy, but I LOOOOOVE chicken enchiladas, and to make a sub of it? and then to add frito corn chips on it? wow. Gives it a really good crunch. Mmmmm. So freaking good. LOL
One of the managers came back there to help make subs, and I swear he must have been the nicest customer service I've ever received. He smiled and was like "Hey sir! How are you doing on this beautiful but really cold day?" I was like "I'm not too bad, and you?" "Great! What can I get for you today?" Then when he was putting the fritos on, I was like "that's the best part i think!" he was like "Would you like me to put more on?" I was like "suuure!" so he did, commenting that drivers deal with way too much stuff and that we should be able to be happy with the way our food is prepared at least. Smiling the whole time.
Then when I was waiting for my shower, he walked by and asked me how my sub was. I was like "oh man it was great!" he was like "thats what I like to hear! Better than just 'good', tell everyone you know if they come down I will make sure to do whatever I can to make it a great experience for them!" I was like "i appreciate it sir! Thank you and have a wonderful day!" All the time me thinking "wow, I've never had anyone in the service industry act that nice." I mean, everyone is "polite" and "kind" for the most part, but never that much. I have one guy at an arbys in a Love's truck stop that I swear if he is at the counter, I wont order. He's kinda the "yeah what do you want." type. Then if he gets your order wrong, he's like "oops, oh well." I'm like "fucking seriously dude?" He clearly just is there for a paycheck.
So anyway, in conclusion, tonight I got my final exam turned in for my current class. Then I stumbled on a link from a popup that directed me to this info about getting certified as a pharmacy technician. It said "only $200 down! and then $95 per month, graduate debt free!" I thought "hmm. I'll check it out." Then I thought "well let me look up what they make," and i saw the low end was like $14 or $15, and went up from there. Personally, although my parents suggested doing a pharmacy tech training, personally I don't see myself switching to something else just to make the same as I do now, or less. I'm in a good career right now, and I'm not going anywhere in the forseeable future. I'd love for Erin to look into something like that or cna or something that would be a stable and higher paying job than her current, but when looking at the cna, I didn't forward the link because I thought "you know? I want erin to be happy. I don't want her to go into a field just because the money would be better. If that means that we stay how we are with me working my trucking career, and her working whatever hours giant will give her, and we just do the best we can? Then so be it!" I figure if something is meant to happen, then it'll happen. I'm not going to try to force anything. And all the same, although erin would love for me to try to get a local job where I can be home more, she knows I wont just jump at anything. It has to be worth the switch. Just getting me home more isn't necesarily a good change because if I'm still making what I am now, or less, then we will still be struggling. So, I'm open to change in the future if it improves things all around. Oh well, guess I will just keep pushing forward and doing what I do best!
Hope you all are doing well. God Bless!
In the military, especially when I was being honorably discharged, or even before then. When just needing to get some paperwork taken care of, or a task completed, or whatever, it'd be "get over there asap! GO! GO!" and then you get there and its "take a number . . . " and you'd wait like 2 hours before you could do what you came there to do.
That's basically the best way I could describe hurry up and wait. You hurry to get there to get it done, but then you have to wait. In the trucking field, you have that happen a lot. Yes there are times when I get to customers and I check in with the receiving or shipping office and get started being loaded or unloaded right away. But then there are also the times like tonight where I get to the customer in good time, but then sit for however many hours and wait for my appointment. Hense, me referring to it as hurry up and wait. ;)
So tonight, I arrived here at the BJ's in Rochester, NY, that I'm delivering at. Midnight appointment. I arrived like, 8pm? I picked up the load last night around 10pm, and shut down for the night in the parking area of that distribution center. Took of from there around 11AM today, drove 2.5 hours to the fuel stop which was a pilot just inside the boarder of ny, after leaving mass. Instead of fueling right away, I parked, grabbed my shower stuff, went in and hit the showers. There was hurry up and wait right there too, because they only have 3 showers, and they were all being used and so there were like 5 of us that had paid for our showers and then were just waiting around to have one available. So, even though I usually like a long "HOT" shower, I figured while I was waiting that I would be best to not take too long since others were waiting. Before hitting the showers, I got a sub from the subway inside the pilot.
There's this new sub they have now called the Chicken Enchilada Melt with Fritos. Seriously! Fritos on the sub! I heard it advertised out in Ohio last week, and I stopped and got one to try, and OMYGAWD!!!! lol. I'm still a meatball guy, but I LOOOOOVE chicken enchiladas, and to make a sub of it? and then to add frito corn chips on it? wow. Gives it a really good crunch. Mmmmm. So freaking good. LOL
One of the managers came back there to help make subs, and I swear he must have been the nicest customer service I've ever received. He smiled and was like "Hey sir! How are you doing on this beautiful but really cold day?" I was like "I'm not too bad, and you?" "Great! What can I get for you today?" Then when he was putting the fritos on, I was like "that's the best part i think!" he was like "Would you like me to put more on?" I was like "suuure!" so he did, commenting that drivers deal with way too much stuff and that we should be able to be happy with the way our food is prepared at least. Smiling the whole time.
Then when I was waiting for my shower, he walked by and asked me how my sub was. I was like "oh man it was great!" he was like "thats what I like to hear! Better than just 'good', tell everyone you know if they come down I will make sure to do whatever I can to make it a great experience for them!" I was like "i appreciate it sir! Thank you and have a wonderful day!" All the time me thinking "wow, I've never had anyone in the service industry act that nice." I mean, everyone is "polite" and "kind" for the most part, but never that much. I have one guy at an arbys in a Love's truck stop that I swear if he is at the counter, I wont order. He's kinda the "yeah what do you want." type. Then if he gets your order wrong, he's like "oops, oh well." I'm like "fucking seriously dude?" He clearly just is there for a paycheck.
So anyway, in conclusion, tonight I got my final exam turned in for my current class. Then I stumbled on a link from a popup that directed me to this info about getting certified as a pharmacy technician. It said "only $200 down! and then $95 per month, graduate debt free!" I thought "hmm. I'll check it out." Then I thought "well let me look up what they make," and i saw the low end was like $14 or $15, and went up from there. Personally, although my parents suggested doing a pharmacy tech training, personally I don't see myself switching to something else just to make the same as I do now, or less. I'm in a good career right now, and I'm not going anywhere in the forseeable future. I'd love for Erin to look into something like that or cna or something that would be a stable and higher paying job than her current, but when looking at the cna, I didn't forward the link because I thought "you know? I want erin to be happy. I don't want her to go into a field just because the money would be better. If that means that we stay how we are with me working my trucking career, and her working whatever hours giant will give her, and we just do the best we can? Then so be it!" I figure if something is meant to happen, then it'll happen. I'm not going to try to force anything. And all the same, although erin would love for me to try to get a local job where I can be home more, she knows I wont just jump at anything. It has to be worth the switch. Just getting me home more isn't necesarily a good change because if I'm still making what I am now, or less, then we will still be struggling. So, I'm open to change in the future if it improves things all around. Oh well, guess I will just keep pushing forward and doing what I do best!
Hope you all are doing well. God Bless!
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It's been a cold past couple of days. And i'm not just talking "oh man its so nippy out here!" HELL NO! I'm talking 5 minutes outside and you're freezing your ass off. Like, sub zero temperature cold. And that's not even the worst part! Sub 0 isn't terrible, WITHOUT WIND!" WITH wind, it's freaking miserable! And lately theres high winds, so 0 degrees turns to -20 or worse. So cold that last night I didn't idle the engine, I ran my bunk heater. The bunk heater kept the inside of the truck warm enough that I didn't 'freeze', but I still woke up pretty cold. The engine actually sputtered pretty bad at first when it first started up. Apparently when it's down below 15 degrees we are supposed to leave the truck running. I guess diesel fuel can gel up if it gets cold enough.
So, yesterday was so fun. *NOT!* Delivered at 8:30, met up with Erin to get my keys for my car (long story.actually not really.. i'm just lazy).. Then drove 25 miles south to do a pick up, then went back towards carlisle and went south to york to deliver, then drove 25 more miles, picked up, then it was 100 miles to delaware to deliver. Of course, I was supposed to go from there to burlington to do a pick up to come to ohio for a bj's run, but I was looking at my hours and thinking "shit I'm running tight on hours." So I called my dbl and talked to him about it. He basically said "i know it's gonna be tight, but that load has to deliver by midnight tonight, and it looks like you have the hours to get it there." So, I got it there, and I had 20 minutes on my time when I arrived. I saw a rest area 15 miles north that I figured if I had to, I would run over on my hours and be in violation if I had to but I would come up there to that rest area.
When I got to the procter and gamble in delaware, I asked the guard if there was any place close that I could bobtail park. Basically he recommended the rest area that I had taken notice of anyway, so I thought "ok, well there's my answer." When I left there, I was already negative on time but it couldn't be helped. I drove the 15 miles north and parked.
This morning when I was 15 miles from burlington, I got a message from my DBL asking me to call. I pulled over and called, and he mentioned the log violation and was like "when you got to procter, there wasn't any parking?" I was like "nope, I asked, they recommended the rest area that I parked at. It was the closest place." He was like "oh, ok, good, well I just wanted to make sure. We never like violations but we understand that sometimes they happen and can't be avoided."
Of course I thought "i could have avoided it if I stopped and delivered in the morning" but of course I didn't say that. If I had to do it all over again I would just deliver late and not run into that issue with the hours. My dbl was worried that going from there, 90 miles to burlington, that I wouldn't have enough hours to get from burlington up here to ohio. Well, I had almost the whole 90 miles to drive to burlington this morning, and I still made it here to ohio with an hour and a half on my time. I even stopped for fuel and stopped to take my DOT break which is normally a half hour but tonight I did 45 minutes because I had to make a phone call.
So here I am in Ohio, been here since like, 830. Layed in the bunk doing the publishers clearing house entries online, and then on facebook for a little while, and then I thought "i better get online and see if I need to do anything for school tonight". Thankfully since today is the first day back from our two week winter break, there was nothing yet. So, last but not least, before logging off the computer and going back to the ipad, I wanted to come on here and blog.
Course, tonight I've left my truck running the whole time I've been here. So, I'm still just sitting here. I'm pretty sure that soon there will be someone coming out and taking the seal off the trailer and telling me to go ahead and back into door two, but for now I'm just waiting. There's a ton of snow out here. They apparently got hammered bad the other day.
So anyway, that'll be all tonight. I hope you are doing well. Have a good night and God Bless!
C
So, yesterday was so fun. *NOT!* Delivered at 8:30, met up with Erin to get my keys for my car (long story.actually not really.. i'm just lazy).. Then drove 25 miles south to do a pick up, then went back towards carlisle and went south to york to deliver, then drove 25 more miles, picked up, then it was 100 miles to delaware to deliver. Of course, I was supposed to go from there to burlington to do a pick up to come to ohio for a bj's run, but I was looking at my hours and thinking "shit I'm running tight on hours." So I called my dbl and talked to him about it. He basically said "i know it's gonna be tight, but that load has to deliver by midnight tonight, and it looks like you have the hours to get it there." So, I got it there, and I had 20 minutes on my time when I arrived. I saw a rest area 15 miles north that I figured if I had to, I would run over on my hours and be in violation if I had to but I would come up there to that rest area.
When I got to the procter and gamble in delaware, I asked the guard if there was any place close that I could bobtail park. Basically he recommended the rest area that I had taken notice of anyway, so I thought "ok, well there's my answer." When I left there, I was already negative on time but it couldn't be helped. I drove the 15 miles north and parked.
This morning when I was 15 miles from burlington, I got a message from my DBL asking me to call. I pulled over and called, and he mentioned the log violation and was like "when you got to procter, there wasn't any parking?" I was like "nope, I asked, they recommended the rest area that I parked at. It was the closest place." He was like "oh, ok, good, well I just wanted to make sure. We never like violations but we understand that sometimes they happen and can't be avoided."
Of course I thought "i could have avoided it if I stopped and delivered in the morning" but of course I didn't say that. If I had to do it all over again I would just deliver late and not run into that issue with the hours. My dbl was worried that going from there, 90 miles to burlington, that I wouldn't have enough hours to get from burlington up here to ohio. Well, I had almost the whole 90 miles to drive to burlington this morning, and I still made it here to ohio with an hour and a half on my time. I even stopped for fuel and stopped to take my DOT break which is normally a half hour but tonight I did 45 minutes because I had to make a phone call.
So here I am in Ohio, been here since like, 830. Layed in the bunk doing the publishers clearing house entries online, and then on facebook for a little while, and then I thought "i better get online and see if I need to do anything for school tonight". Thankfully since today is the first day back from our two week winter break, there was nothing yet. So, last but not least, before logging off the computer and going back to the ipad, I wanted to come on here and blog.
Course, tonight I've left my truck running the whole time I've been here. So, I'm still just sitting here. I'm pretty sure that soon there will be someone coming out and taking the seal off the trailer and telling me to go ahead and back into door two, but for now I'm just waiting. There's a ton of snow out here. They apparently got hammered bad the other day.
So anyway, that'll be all tonight. I hope you are doing well. Have a good night and God Bless!
C
Monday, December 30, 2013
Vacation time!!!!
Yup, that's right. I said vacation time. I'm on my week of paid leave from Schneider. Today is only day 1 of 5 but it was great. Hung out with the family. Played a little and watched stuff on tv as well as movies. I have 2 more days where the girls are off from school and then Thursday it'll just be me here at home cuz Erin works and the girls go back to school. Zoe still has her after school care that day so I'll see Erin first, then at 330 we will pick up Zoe, then at 6 we will pick up ally. I'm glad to have this special time.. It makes me being a company driver and not leasing seem alright because I have this paid leave. After September 20, 2014, I'll then have 2 weeks paid. I like the idea of spacing out my weeks off. But I also like the idea of taking 2 weeks off all at one time. I've joked with cousin Mary how a year from this summer, which would be summer 2015, we should all plan a family Disney world trip. Who knows if we will do it but it would definitely be cool. Erin and I want to take the girls to Disney as soon as we can. So who knows.
So on that note, I'm gonna call it a night. Had a wonderful Christmas. And I was glad that I was able to tke my vacation time during New Years. Hope you all are well. Talk to you again soon.
C
So on that note, I'm gonna call it a night. Had a wonderful Christmas. And I was glad that I was able to tke my vacation time during New Years. Hope you all are well. Talk to you again soon.
C
Monday, December 23, 2013
Merry Christmas Eve!
So its officially christmas eve! I'm not going to write much tonight because honestly I'm pretty tired and want to hit the hay right now. Today wasn't much as far as miles go, but I went to like, 4 places. 5 if you count where I went to get my empty. I went to Marshalls in philly to pick up an empty, then about 4 miles from there to get loaded, then about 15 miles from there to pick up part two of that load, and then up 476 north to I-80, then 15 miles over and a few miles off the interstate to deliver at a Walmart DC. Then from there, about 60 miles north to Tunkhannoc, picked up there, and now headed south again to deliver at Kmart in Fairless. I'm stopped currently at a plaza along 476 south. Basically just parked, covered my windows up and got ready for bed. Got online thinking "i think I might have school stuff to do" but looks like it's all done already, so I thought "ok, let me do a quick blog and then go to bed" So, there it is! lol
So, I don't know over the next few days if I'll be back on here. Ideally I'd like to, but I don't know. If I'm not on till after the holiday, I wish you all a very merry Christmas!
OH! That's one thing to write about here. I'm kind of amused lately. Everyone I run into is like "Happy Holidays!" And I respond with "You too! Merry Christmas!" When I picked up today at the 2nd pick up which was a load of ladders, they were apparently having a christmas party and they had a ton of food and were like "hey bro you hungry! We got a ton of food!" I was like "suuuure!!!" We're talking lasagna, chicken marsala, potato salad, etc. It wasn't bad at all. I only got a small scoop of the potato salad because I couldn't tell by the smell if it was the potato salad that has mustard in the mix. When I ate it, it was really good and I thought "damn I wish I would have grabbed more." LOL.. But, I am very thankful for the free food! Thank God! :)
So on that note, Merry Christmas everyone! Talk to you again soon!
So, I don't know over the next few days if I'll be back on here. Ideally I'd like to, but I don't know. If I'm not on till after the holiday, I wish you all a very merry Christmas!
OH! That's one thing to write about here. I'm kind of amused lately. Everyone I run into is like "Happy Holidays!" And I respond with "You too! Merry Christmas!" When I picked up today at the 2nd pick up which was a load of ladders, they were apparently having a christmas party and they had a ton of food and were like "hey bro you hungry! We got a ton of food!" I was like "suuuure!!!" We're talking lasagna, chicken marsala, potato salad, etc. It wasn't bad at all. I only got a small scoop of the potato salad because I couldn't tell by the smell if it was the potato salad that has mustard in the mix. When I ate it, it was really good and I thought "damn I wish I would have grabbed more." LOL.. But, I am very thankful for the free food! Thank God! :)
So on that note, Merry Christmas everyone! Talk to you again soon!
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