3's Company

Well we are now sitting at home because we have a load that doesn't deliver till Tuesday in Reno and we live about 500 miles from there and ended up coming through the house. We were lucky enough to be able to have my daughter on the truck with us from the 27th-1st of January. It was great and she loved it. Although my mother will probably be cursing me because her sleep schedule is all messed up now! She was awake till about midnight or 1am and then sleeping till noon on the truck! LOL She stayed up with me while I drove and played video games on the laptop or listened to books on tape (She said she hated them but once we started listening to one that she found interesting she was telling Dad what it was all about when he woke up LOL) It was a bit more crowded than it usually is with just me, hubby and our dog but it was worth it to be able to spend time with her.

Christmas was great although we did get more money than presents because most people did not know what to get us LOL After all last year and the year before it was mainly just house remodel stuff....now it's stuff for the truck that we want. Which is fine because money always helps out with some of the big ticket items we want to purchase. We didn't get to see his son though which is sad...we have yet to see him because it's so hard to "schedule" time with his mother...but then I won't get into talking about her at this time! I hope everyone that reads this is doing good and I am headed to Reno...My mother said to put 50 cents in a slot machine for her...too bad it will be my 50 cents that wins and not her's LOL

My new ring

4 years ago I got an engagement ring for christmas. Now this year I got a NEW ring for christmas. Since I lost my other one :( This ring is amazing!! It was the one I wanted and dearest hubby said I could have it. It was a little more than I really thought about spending but it's so pretty. 2 carats!! I'm still trying to get used to it. It's very sparkly LOL I've put a picture up of my new ring. It's the same thing except we got it in white gold not yellow gold as the picture shows. I am very lucky to have a man that loves me enough not to buy me a new ring but the kind of man that looks at me and says that I can get whatever I want....that I can be selfish for once because I never am. It has the two bands and one is the 3 stone past present and future band....I think that was very fitting for us since it's not an engagement ring and then wedding band but it represents our past that we have shared, our present that we are enjoying and of course our future.

He was so funny though because after we bought it and such he looked at me and said Okay now i'm getting a drink, you get a ring and I get an Orange Julius!!

One Meal At a Time

I have started a diet lately. I had lost about 20 pounds or so when my dearest hubby was gone but when he came back and I was trying to feed him everything he missed and of course stress eating I gained it back...and I think a couple pounds!! So I have started a diet. It's from Readers Digest called One Change or something similiar. It's pretty simple it has a normal eating pattern and normal food but more about portion and eating healthy. Also you make one change a week. For example this week it's about breakfasts...so I have been eating breakfasts according to the plan and you don't change anything else but that this week. Concentrate on it and eat regularly the rest of the time. So I have been VERY GOOD and of course getting much better at taking my meds so hopefully it will go well!! Next week it's lunch....so I eat the same breakfasts that I have been eating but now I adjust lunch. I think it's great and really easy. Will keep you all updated since now I have my new fancy laptop, new cingular wireless connection and it's all doing good!!!

New Laptop

I thought for sure I was going to go crazy. Our laptop broke and of course was very very stressful for me. I couldn't send out an email to have a conference call for the Navy, couldn't check my email, bank account, NOTHING!!! It was horrible. So we went and bought a new laptop. That HP can be used for target practice for all I care...Well okay as soon as we get the stuff off the hard drive. It was the same problem that we had before when I replaced the motherboard which took almost a month and cost me like $600. Well hubby and I talked about it and thought it might be best to just look at getting a new laptop. So we found one at Circuit City the other day. The shipper was going to take 4-6 hours to load our trailer so we decided to go and check out the stores and see if we could find one. We did. It's pretty small but that is a good thing for what we do. It's also very light and wasn't that expensive. I like it though because it's very convient to take into the truck stops when we eat so that way we can check the emails.
When we went in and looked at them and saw the one we wanted it was a little disheartening that we were standing there and nobody was asking if they could help us. So finally I went up and found a mgr type and said I wanted to buy this laptop. I hope those other people don't work on commission. We bought the advantage plan so they will do an accidental replacement should we drop or damage or break this one. But also will fix it for 2 years free. Even replace the batteries. But when we bought it the cashier rang it up and said "how will you be paying for it?" Hubby smiled and said "Will green do?" LOL He pulled out $1200 in $20 bills. We took the money out of the ATM LOL But anyway now that I have my super little laptop I will be writing more hopefully.

Totally Committed

Okay I was driving through Fort Worth the other night and figured out one thing in life…You must be TOTALLY COMMITTED in the choices you make. Especially if one of those choices is to pull out in front of a Semi Truck who is going 55 mph and you are NOT! There was this group of 3 cars getting on the on ramp and traffic was pretty bad. Imagine Fort Worth on a Friday night at rush hour and you have my world…..Now make your car like 70 feet long! So the first car speeds up and gets in the lane in a hurry and is gone. Great I had slowed down a bit but was surrounded by cars and couldn’t move out of their way which I would normally do of course. So I slow down a bit and put on the jake brakes and the regular break to see what the Saturn was going to do. The stupid car speeds up, great wonderful I don’t care I start to back off…but wait now the driver slows down! We are quickly running out of on ramp room and this car is still trying to merge where there is no merge left and is now headed into my tire….Speed up!! The driver speeds up a little then slows back down. Well by this time (all of this is happening in like 5 seconds of course) they speed up again! I slam on my brakes the dog goes flying into the back of my seat. Hubby’s hand reaches out to the dash board and god only knows what happened to the freight I have in the trailer and I’m actually surprised that the car behind me wasn’t getting a dash full of ICC bumper. I’m cussing and trying to downshift and just thinking to myself….what an idiot!

Moral to the story….if you are going to make the choice to pull out in front of a semi truck. Be totally committed and just go for it. Don’t waste time being wishy washy about it. Do it and be done with it. I am the first one to give someone driving a car the right of way but if I give you a hole and you don’t take it when it’s available you are lucky if I give you a second chance. You will also be lucky that you aren’t seriously hurt. After all my truck takes a lot longer to stop and does a lot more damage than your plastic unibody Saturn that is for sure!

Midnight Ramblings

These last couple of weeks have gone by sooo fast it’s unbelievable. I have cards for Veterans Day that I have yet to mail. They will go out on Monday. We have crisscrossed the country, had our truck in the shop for a broken fifth wheel and are just now getting home to get the rest of our things. When we left we couldn’t fit all our stuff or “comforts” in the rental car so we had to leave some things at home…looking forward to our coffee pot and microwave! We splurged and bought a real fridge ($570) but it is SOOOOO worth it!! Unbelievably worth it!!! We are able to keep meat and salad stuff in it and it’s great to have not just cold water but frozen water. It is similar to what you would see in a camper or something. But it is great for when you are stuck at a shipper or receiver and would be sitting there for 6 hours eating out of the vending machine….I made a chef salad last time that happened. It was twice as good as the one we paid $5.99 for at the Waffle House the day before!!

We are currently in Wyoming visiting our daughter and we are under a load to Utah for Monday so we are going home tomorrow to pack up the rest of our stuff so we are ready to go on Monday. I think I will end up running some errands during the day on Monday while he goes and unloads then he can pick me up when he is done. I am working on a couple posts about some of the stuff we have seen etc but right now they aren’t ready to post yet. I need to get to bed today was very tiring. I got woken up early by hubby because we went through some bad weather between Denver and Wyoming. Wind was blowing pretty bad and had rolled over 3 semi’s in a short distance. So it was time for me to put my clothes back on and get in the front seat as well. If you are going over it’s best if you are awake and in a seat belted in than flying around in the sleeper (naked LOL). It’s getting to be that time of year though. Our choices to get to Utah were I70 (chain law which means it is very bad and no way am I slinging chains in the snow!!) or I80 (high winds, slick roads, blowing snow…did I mention HIGH WINDS!?!?) so we chose I80 and of course to see Pip’s as well! Hubby has been asleep for a few hours I think it’s time to go join him. Update laters!!

Just A Test

Just wanted to try out this blogging with Microsoft Word. Right now we are in Kingman AZ headed to California. We left Missouri yesterday late afternoon. Had hoped to deliver tonight around midnight in California but they wouldn’t take it so that means we have to hang out till the afternoon to unload which will suck because we will loose a day waiting. Need to get home to get the rest of our stuff because we didn’t take it when we took the rental to Seattle to recover a truck for the company right out of orientation. With this it’s nice because I can type the messages while I am sitting in the truck then when we get to the truckstop with the wireless I can connect and upload! Just wanted to test nothing really to say. It’s been a week and I’m already tired of truckstop food LOL