Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

I haven't blogged in a while. I'd love to say I'm just lazy but honestly I've just been too tired most of the time to bother. Plus, nothing too exciting to blog about. I had a nice little three day holiday last weekend in the North Carolina mountains with my hubby and a couple dozen of our dearest friends. It was a hot but completely awesome weekend. I'm so glad I had that little mini vacay. Since then I've been running hard and falling face first into bed at the end of the day. Today was the first I decided I wasn't going to go straight to bed before pulling out the laptop to check on some things. I'm not gonna say much. Just a big thanks to Allen & Rachel for taking me out for an evening in Atlanta. The food was amazing. The company was amazing. And the laughs... well... pretty sure I pulled muscles from laughing so much! I really appreciate you guys muscling through traffic and then putting up with my unfiltered, crazy ass for the durati...

So I was at a small truck stop over in Louisiana just the other day when I had an experience that was annoying and shocking. I had been at it all day, shutting down the truck with barely an hour left on my fourteen hour clock. I was exhausted and hadn't really slept well the night before. Let me say up front that I don't really feel like my exhaustion had anything to do with how I was treated at this truck stop. I tried quite hard to be positive and upbeat during the whole thing, you'll understand as you read on. I wanted a hot meal before I crashed out for the night, and I was pretty much starving (the downside to trying to keep fresh fruits and veggies in the truck is that they either spoil or get eaten very quickly and leave me stuck purchasing food). So I pulled into this truck stop with food on my mind. I went inside and used the restroom to wash my hands, because I was raised right and like being clean before taking a meal. Once my hands were as clean as they were...

Today I made the executive decision to stop using the social media outlet known as Twitter. I know, that was short lived huh? Only one person questioned my doing so (so far) and the best reason I can give is this: 90% of the people I followed and who followed me on Twitter were what I called "fake life friends". People I'll never meet in real life, people I don't really "need" in my day to day life. So what's the point of interacting with them as if they mattered in the grand scheme of things? I'm not in a place in my life, personally or professionally, where I need to "network" so I found it pointless. It was often amusing, yes. Especially Bigfoot the Bigfoot... he had the best tweets really. But honestly, the rest, while mildly entertaining, was just f*cking pointless. At least with FaceBook 90% of the people I have on my friends list ARE people I care about and know in REAL LIFE . The people with whom I have chosen to stay in touch f...

Well I went to Best Buy and bought myself a new digital point and shoot camera during my last time at home. I blame my sister, because she got a new camera and I was jealous. But I did want one since my old camera has a dead pixel that pisses me off every time I print a picture and see the red dot it leaves behind. Plus this one is 16 mega pixel with an 8x zoom. My old one was something way more pathetic and sad than that, with it's 8 mega pixels and puny 3x zoom. So I'm thrilled to have a newer better camera. The hubby is also happy to have my hand-me-down. So far what I like about it the most is that it has a lot of new preset program features that will make for some super fun photo taking. Like this little ditty called "fisheye". I mean, just look how lovely I am through the eyes of a fish! But I digress... So yeah, new toy! I can't wait to start snapping new pictures with it! Maybe I'll finally snag one of those elusive weenie waggers! Or not.

During our Anniversary weekend back in May the hubby and I decided to do something different. We have seen the New River Gorge Bridge from many different angles, thanks to the trails and various accessible overlooks in the general area of the bridge. But we had learned about a new opportunity to see it as never before. We headed over to the HQ for a company called Bridge Walk and got ready for "the walk of a lifetime". After a brief safety run through and a quick slip in to the safety gear, we were loaded onto a small bus to head over to the trail head of the Bridge Walk tour. This is where we started. Everyone got strapped onto a zip line of sorts as we filed onto the narrow catwalk to begin the tour. The picture below is a portion of our small tour group which consisted of about 6 people and two guides. The tour took about two hours from one side of the bridge to the other, not because that's how long it takes to walk straight across, but because it's time allo...