Today was my second day here in Chattanooga, Tn, and would you know it, it snowed here today. Not a lot like it would do in Michigan, but it snowed. I think it followed me here. Yesterday I took a liquid load to Hostess in Columbus, Ga and got back to the hotel around 10pm. Today I rode along with a driver and did a flour load to Little Debbie just outside of town, got back to the room around 3pm. I called in and I have to be at the yard at 4am to do a sugar load with a different driver. This is what I need to learn as sugar unloads differently than flour and sugar is what I am going to be hauling out of Savannah. But, I guess I need to know to unload it all since I may have to pick up a flour load as a back haul from somewhere and no telling where I will wind up. I hope they give me my truck soon so I can put my stuff into it. I have a bunch of stuff to take me through until April. It looks like a lot, but it's just strewn out a little. I need to repack it.
Jimmy was accepted into the Disney internship program and I'm excited for him. I sure hope Paula gets accepted too. I don't want anything to happen to his relationship with her during the time he is away. I know this is what he wants too.
I think Bruce is enjoying his time at home without me right now. I miss him, but we have went into this think knowing what is real so I am not afraid in the least that he won't want me to come home, or that I won't want to come home. It's just a job, and it will be over in the spring and we will be back to normal. I sure hope this winter goes by quickly. But, I miss him already, and my dogs, and my cats, and my mom and Nony.
I haven't gotten to start on my colored pencil class project yet, but plan on working on it a little while this evening after I get done here. I wish I would've made notes and taken pictures when I did the original... what a dummy! Will I ever learn??? Anyway... this time I will have notes and pictures.. and I hope I can get all this done before next summer so I can teach it.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
The Adventure Has Begun
I imagine I need to give you a little insight into what is going on before I walk right into a new topic. Although this isn't art related, it is my life and I want to include it into my blog.
I have transferred to Savannah, GA for the winter so at this time I am sitting here at my computer in the Best Western in Bowling Green, KY. We have stopped here for the night and will get into Chattanooga, TN tomorrow afternoon sometime. I will be working out of the Chattanooga terminal for a week learning to do the dry bulk side of our company, and then will be heading on down to Savannah, unless something changes which I really hope not. It's only for the winter and then I will be returning to Michigan in the spring... around the end of April. I know it sounds like a long time, and after a month or so it will start feeling like a long time, but I think it will go by quickly and when it's all done hopefully I will have made an aweful lot of money and paid off a lot of bills. This will be my first Christmas away from home in a very long time. Here lately my life has been full of a lot of firsts. Last Christmas was my first Christmas with my son living 2000 miles away in Arizona. I missed him so much, and Christmas just isn't the same without him. I also didn't put up a large tree last year. We had a little tree on the table in front of the picture window. I actually sent out Christmas cards last year. This is our first Christmas with Tito and Tyson. Well, actually Bruce will be with them for the holidays. Anyway...lets get back to my adventure.
We left about 7am this morning and stopped in Middlebury, IN for the breakfast buffet. I love the buffet, and not because you can eat as much as you want, but because it is all homemade amish cooking and tastes just like you wouold fix for breakfast at home. Real eggs and fresh hashbrowns, homemade sausage gravy, bacon that is more meat than fat and cooked perfectly. Bisquits that are small enough that you don't throw any of it away and it doesn't stuff you either. My favorite... the scrapple with butter and syrup on it... which is also cooked perfectly. Fresh fruit and this icey, juicy, fruit concoction with bananas, pineapple, and orange juice all frozen together and scraped like an Icee. Little mini muffins and petite little slices of banana, blueberry, and pumpkin breads. Mini doughnuts and fresh coffee that tastes great. Needless to say we both left there pretty stuffed... but off we went. It was a very nice ride down here, a little chilly, but the further south we got the warmer it got. Not a whole lot, but enough to notice. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain all day so we enjoyed the sunshine while we had it.
I'm gonna turn in... tomorrow comes early.
I have transferred to Savannah, GA for the winter so at this time I am sitting here at my computer in the Best Western in Bowling Green, KY. We have stopped here for the night and will get into Chattanooga, TN tomorrow afternoon sometime. I will be working out of the Chattanooga terminal for a week learning to do the dry bulk side of our company, and then will be heading on down to Savannah, unless something changes which I really hope not. It's only for the winter and then I will be returning to Michigan in the spring... around the end of April. I know it sounds like a long time, and after a month or so it will start feeling like a long time, but I think it will go by quickly and when it's all done hopefully I will have made an aweful lot of money and paid off a lot of bills. This will be my first Christmas away from home in a very long time. Here lately my life has been full of a lot of firsts. Last Christmas was my first Christmas with my son living 2000 miles away in Arizona. I missed him so much, and Christmas just isn't the same without him. I also didn't put up a large tree last year. We had a little tree on the table in front of the picture window. I actually sent out Christmas cards last year. This is our first Christmas with Tito and Tyson. Well, actually Bruce will be with them for the holidays. Anyway...lets get back to my adventure.
We left about 7am this morning and stopped in Middlebury, IN for the breakfast buffet. I love the buffet, and not because you can eat as much as you want, but because it is all homemade amish cooking and tastes just like you wouold fix for breakfast at home. Real eggs and fresh hashbrowns, homemade sausage gravy, bacon that is more meat than fat and cooked perfectly. Bisquits that are small enough that you don't throw any of it away and it doesn't stuff you either. My favorite... the scrapple with butter and syrup on it... which is also cooked perfectly. Fresh fruit and this icey, juicy, fruit concoction with bananas, pineapple, and orange juice all frozen together and scraped like an Icee. Little mini muffins and petite little slices of banana, blueberry, and pumpkin breads. Mini doughnuts and fresh coffee that tastes great. Needless to say we both left there pretty stuffed... but off we went. It was a very nice ride down here, a little chilly, but the further south we got the warmer it got. Not a whole lot, but enough to notice. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain all day so we enjoyed the sunshine while we had it.
I'm gonna turn in... tomorrow comes early.
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