Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

I'd asked for questions and one person sent an email FULL of questions. I also received two other questions via comment which will be answered at the end. So sit back and enjoy! 1. Did you have any trepidation making this decision, knowing that it would take you away from your family, friends and boyfriend? My goodness I was blind at first to the actual reality of what this career was going to entail. I knew I'd be over-the-road but I did NOT realize how much time it took to be over-the-road. I didn't know really how much of my "real life" I'd miss out on. I just wanted to drive a big truck and see the country while I did it. It wasn't until after I'd completed school yard training with my company and was set to meet up with my training engineer (TE) that it sank in. My sweetie still reminds me frequently of how hard I cried the whole drive to meet my TE, I was scared, tired, scared some more, freaking out, and did I mention scared? 2. I assume you and...

Man I can't wait for my vacation to start! One week from today yo! I'll be rollin' into our company terminal in an undisclosed location, where I will clean out my truck and haul my happy vacationing ass home for a week... paid to relax and enjoy the heck out of life! In the meantime, I gotta work work work my happy truckin' ass off so I can have a little play money for my little holiday. After my brief time off this past weekend I headed to Maryland then down to Virginia then up to New York. Now I'm en route to Illinois. I will deliver tomorrow morning/early afternoon then who knows where I will go from there. I won't have a whole lot of time left on my day once I do deliver so I'll likely end up at our Gary terminal in Indiana. I call it our company dust bowl. It's one of the dustiest places because of it's humongous gravel/dirt lot. And of course I'm never there after it rains so it's just a big dusty mess. It's even worse when i...

My visit to Texas was, if nothing else, at least entertaining. I spent the night at a T/A truck stop in Denton on I-35 north of Dallas. It was hot, miserable hot and I needed a place to get my grub on. So I headed inside, bypassing the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut express and going straight into the sit down restaurant. Usually I get a kind of sixth sense about a place when I walk in and take a gander around. But I guess the scorching Texas heat was messing with my weird sensors and strange receptors. I sat down and waited for a waitress to approach to take my drink order. I waited... and waited... and when I was just about to give the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut serious reconsideration a young lady appeared out of nowhere. I looked up and she smiled and leaned in close... tooooo close and asked me softly what I wanted to drink. I stumbled over my standard "water with lemon" response, shocked at how CLOSE her face was to me. A slight movement and we'd probably end up kissing! (min...

It's hot. I'm in Texas and it's hot as a pile of fresh crap. Minus the flies, because even the flies realize it's too hot to be doing much of anything. Today would be a perfect day for sitting under an umbrella by the beach sipping mojitos and reading a good book. Instead, I'm in my truck idling like a big orange beast, curtains pulled as tightly as possible, big cup of ice water at my side...blogging. haha! It doesn't get any better than that for this trucker right now. Unless, of course I was on the beach with that umbrella, mojito and book. *sigh* I'll be delivering in Grapevine, TX in the morning... hoping to get a follow up work assignment tonite or in transit to the delivery destination in the morning. Whatever I get will likely get me moving back towards the north east, since I have time off coming to me this weekend. I am due to be in Carlisle on Friday. I hope I can get a few good runs in before then, make that money! Last week was pretty dang good....

It's been a while since I opened the floor to my readers to ask me questions . So, *ahem*.... please take the floor! Send me your questions and I will post a blog after I get enough to make a worthy blog! In the meantime, be sure to check out the newest additions to my WEBSITE . I've added a reading list page which I will add to as I finish reading books. And I've added a new short story! Yay! Enjoy!

One of my most favorite things about the warmer weather of late spring, early summer is the simple pleasure I find in taking a shower. I get to start out with a nice hot spray to wash away the grime and stress of the day(s). Then, throughout the duration of washing and suds'n up and rinsing I gradually lower the temp of the water until by the end, it's nearly freezing. It's simple, but man it sure is awesome. Another simple pleasure I have for summer time is painting the tiny toenails upon my feets. First coat of the season is "Golden Twilight" which I bought from my friend and Avon rep over the winter. It's a black base with golden glittery goodness mixed in. I love it. If I didn't screw them up so fast, I'd have the finger nails polished up as well. So just the pigs get painted.

I can't believe it's June 1st. Already. Geesh! Where does the time go?! Last time I was home my sweetie pie and I sent to visit his family for the weekend. During several discussions over the course of the weekend I was reminded of how precious time really is. It surprised me to learn from one topic that it had been not just a couple months, but instead it had been quite a few months, since my last visit with them. As in, it was probably around Thanksgiving the last I saw anyone on that side of his family. I could have sworn I'd seen them since, but I hadn't. Dang reality bites! Another conversation brought up the need to do a quick calculation to determine just how much time I've actually been home over the course of 12 months on the road. I was disheartened to learn that my best guesstimate of the amount time I'd been home over the course of a year was somewhere in the ballpark of just over two months. Of course that two months is taken in 2-3 day incre...