hi hi hi!! sorry i haven't written for so long... i got a new journal so i spent most of my time writing in that instead. but just to get you up to date, we currently went through michigan (which is my mom's home state! woot woot). i loved michigan. it was so pretty and...people always told me my mom had an accent...and i never understood why until i heard how they talked. lol. i can't even imitate their accents. anyways, today we are in lovely ohio. we went to panera bread. this was the conversation i had with the guy at the counter:

ME: do you have any soup left?
HIM: yessum.
ME: ok, can i get some black bean soup please?
HIM: yessum.

...PRETTY AMAZING. ok..i have never actually heard someone say yessum... i've only read it in books and what not. i thought it was so cool. lol. he was young too. which made it weird. i thought only old men sitting in wooden rocking chairs on their porches with a piece of straw in their mouth said yessum. i was proven wrong. haha.

my kitty is getting big (she grows up so fast!) lol. she is somewhat destructive. SHE LOVES PAPER. and she begs for food whenever we're eating. she is such a DOG. haha. she rips up matt's papers...and one time we left her in the truck and we came back to find all the paper towels had bites and claw marks in them. her latest performance was this morning when she thought it would be nice to chew up the strap on my digital camera. luckily, i have a lot of patience with her. but she's worth it. oh yes. especially when she's snuggled up in your lap like a little angel. =)

well, not much else new. i read to matt while he drives so he doesn't get bored. he has just requested the TWILIGHT SAGA. lol. so we spend our days reading teenage vampire books. yup. it's the life =D

helllloooooo oregon!
we just arrived today and we passed through the lovely columbia river and portland too.
it's really beautiful here.
like really really. =)
today we are just waiting around because we got to our delivery spot early.
so we went on a nature walk and just enjoyed the beauty all around us.
lovely.
tomorrow...washington =)

we have been sitting at this terminal for four days now...
filling out papers...
getting the new (shiny!!) truck...
taking gnocchi to get her vaccines...
AND NOW- it is finally time to get back on the road!!! thank goodness, the days really seem to drag on when you're not driving somewhere.
now we will be heading to OREGON =)
i've never been there, so i'm pretty excited!

whew... see ya there!

and then god said..LET THERE BE REFRIGERATION...and there was. and he saw that it was good.

that's pretty much how monumental it felt when matt decided to buy a fridge for the truck. haha...ok...just imagine not having refrigeration. everything you eat has to be non-perishable...which is often pretty unhealthy foods. now we can have yogurt and lunch meat and even keep a carton of milk. mmmm! pure bliss. you really appreciate modern technology when you have to live without it. shout out to john gorrie for inventing the fridge (yup..i googled it...that's how thankful i am. lol.) we went to walmart and bought the fridge and i even bought gnocchi a ball of yarn (pretty old school =D). she likes it...but she's still a little drowsy from her vaccines she got the other day. anyways, matt and i aren't back on the road yet. he is still finishing paperwork for the new truck and the thermostat in the truck is all wickedy wack...so we are waiting to get it fixed. by tomorrow or the next day we should be up and ready to go!


yarn for gnocchi rooooo! =)

today was another eventful day in salt lake city. we finally upgraded to a brand new truck! the nose of the truck is a lot shorter, which makes it a lot easier for matt to see in front of him. it is incredibly spacey inside! with much higher ceilings than our last truck. so much more room!!! however, there is less storage space. which meant we had to get really creative ..and we had to throw away a few non-necessities. around midday today we headed for the shuttle that would take us to Petsmart so that Gnocchi Roo could get her shots. we waited quite a while at the terminal and finalllllly a shuttle came and he said he would be back in about 15 to 20 minutes. alright, cool. we could handle that. except he actually ended up coming back about two hours later. haha. well, matt and i were quite entertained by a few truckers who decided to talk to us for those two hours. one of them was probably in his late 60's and he told us a bunch of crazy vietnam stories. it made the two hours seem a lot shorter. haha. all the truckers absolutely love my kitten. it's so funny cuz they're all these manly men on the outside, but they can't help it when a little kitten steals their heart. lol. anyways, eventually the shuttle arrived and we headed for the vet. gnochhi was SO good! she got two shots and she didn't even cry! i was so proud, though it was so hard to watch an adorable little kitten get shots. well, now i'm sittin in the new truck and gnocchi is fast asleep. matt and i already moved everything from the old truck to the new one. it was actually quite a feat. i'm not really sure what's happening tomorrow..but i guess i'll leave that for tomorrow. see ya then!

hello salt lake city! hello gorgeous mountains! today we pulled into Central Refrigerated Headquarters located in Salt Lake. (that's the company we drive for). we actually have been routed back to the utah headquarters because matt has decided to upgrade--to an owner operator. which means he will get more runs, make more money and own his own semi. the downside is that he'll have to pay for his gas and his truck, but it will still come out to a bigger paycheck in the end. i need to take my kitten to the vet soon. she needs to get her vaccines. we took a shuttle out to the main part of town and we went to Petsmart...where i got Gnocchi Roo a catnip toy and some wheat grass to snack on. so she scored today. the rest of the day was spent reading and doing laundry at the headquarters laundromat.just a random fact.. i absolutely adore laundromats for no apparent reason. they are SO romantic! dreamy... kind of picturesque. lol. i'm odd, i know. anyways, the upgrade should take a day or two... and then we'll be stylin' in a new semi ;)

today was spent in kansas. which, incase you didn't know is very flat and uneventful. well, we actually ended up driving through dodger city, which is a historical cowboy town. ya know...good ol' wyatt erp lived there. and i was quite excited because, after watching the movie tombstone, i actually knew who wyatt erp was! :) toward the middle of the day there was a huge random rainstorm. and it was magnificent. i had to run from the truck stop back to our truck and the rain was coming down so hard that i literally couldn't run. it was insane. and i was laughing so hard for some reason. i had just taken a shower and did my hair and suddenly it was all blown away in a matter of seconds...and i found it absolutely hilarious. eventually i made it to the truck and we put the radio on the weather station. tornado warnings. i felt my stomach squirm as flashbacks from the wizard of oz went through my mind. but on the brightside, if it took me somewhere like Munchkinland...maybe it wouldn't be so bad. anyways, the storm finally subsided and now we're back on the road: storm free! it's funny how fast they come and then go. now we are headed to utah...which i thought was a very beautiful state last time we drove through. so i'm stoked. :)

hello hello hello! i think i'm somewhere in iowa. it's raining and i'm thoroughly enjoying it. my cat's new arch nemesis is the windshield wipers...which she just can't seem to kill. haha. this morning i woke up to "we're at the biggest truck stop in the world!!!" so i proceeded to poke my head out wearily and see a huge parking lot and a huge sign that said Iowa 80. cool. it was indeed the epitome of truck stops-- complete with a restaurant, fast food, huge gift shops, chiropractor, dentist and even a movie theater! pretty legit :) unfortunately we couldn't stay long and all i can say is that their bbq sandwhiches were pretty delish. haha. now we're back on the road and i'm pretty chill. just reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett...it's pretty intense and i can't stop reading! the size of the book is a little daunting...but you get over it. lol. anyways, fourth of july was cool. i was actually able to see a firework show from the truck stop. so i was satisfied. :) ...heading to colorado right now. see ya there!...kinda :)

somewhere in indiana today.
...fireworks are far from me :( sighhhh
we've stopped somewhere on the outside of town... and the sight of fireworks is probably going to be unattainable tonight.
aw well.
at least i'm american. woo :)
sadly i am somewhat melancholy today.
no bbq... and i bought a slice of pie from the truck stop restaurant..
but its life ended quite suddenly when it got smooshed.

BUT HEY.
yay for freedom, even if i don't have pie and fireworks!!
God bless America...and America bless God :)
hope you all had a good one.
<3
much love from indiana