Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

Can this even be considered the dog days of summer? *lemme go do a quick Google search to find out* According to Wikipedia : "Dog Days" (Latin: diēs caniculārēs) are the hottest, most sultry days of summer. In the northern hemisphere, they usually fall between early July and early September. In the southern hemisphere they are usually between January and early March. The actual dates vary greatly from region to region, depending on latitude and climate. Dog Days can also define a time period or event that is very hot or stagnant, or marked by dull lack of progress. The name comes from the ancient belief that Sirius, also called the Dog Star, was somehow responsible for the hot weather. So, yeah welcome to the dog days of summer y'all. Man it's been sweltering here lately. I'm not fond of weather extremes, especially not the heat, more especially not humid heat. And in the past few weeks it's been the latter loathed weather that pretty much the whole country h...

I just deleted the "Other Side of Gi-Gi Roxx" blog. It was crap. And I only had 15 posts in a period of what, 6-8 months. Hardly worth it, I figured. But thanks to those of you who read the few posts I'd made. I'm sure many of you are quite aware of my lack of blogging over here, too, lately. My posts are getting fewer and farther between, especially since I got rid of my internet air card. I'm just not as compelled to tell my stories as I was once. So consider this fair warning that things might be getting even quieter around here. If you need something to read, click on a link over to the right, any of those blogs will keep you totally entertained! Some of them are updated daily, some of them even mutltiple times a day. So there you have it... :o)

So I've finally arrived back to some sort of normalcy since my 10 day vacation. Which, by the way, was amazing on so many levels. My first run back was a late night pick up, all night run, and early morning delivery that took me from our Columbus terminal to Warren, OH to acquire the load then over to Rochester, NY to deliver. It was exhausting, especially since I'd had a full nights' sleep the night before and couldn't do more than cat nap before hitting the road after sunset. After I delivered, I shut down for a ten hour break behind the K-Mart store I had delivered at and managed about a two hour nap in the scorching heat. I idled off and on but to little avail. It was near 100 degrees out and this is not a girl who likes to sweat. 10 hr DOT break complete I headed over to Macedon, NY to pick up my next assignment, only to get there and be told it didn't exist. argh. So I moved down the street a piece to a local Wal-Mart where I occupied 65' of space for a fe...

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....