Off The Road And On The Move

Kind of a stupid title, but what I could come up with on the fly.

I have shaken up my life again.  I was at the point where I was about to have a serious nutty.  Now, if you don't know what I mean by a nutty, having a nutty is mean probably ending up in a padded room.

I have been driving a big rig for the last 17 months.  It is a lonely life if you are over the road.  Being over the road is sleeping on you truck and away from home for at least 2 weeks at a time.  I am not good with being by myself for such long periods of time.  To top things off, I have lost touch with so many friends that I really have no one to talk to.

Here is where I start having my nutty.  Nothing good on the radio.  Or, I have heard the same thing over and over again I stop listening.  When I stop listening and am living in my head, bad things happen.  I start to dwell.  Start to dwell on things that I have no control over.  Dwell on scenarios that don't exist or could never happen.  Miss my daughter to a point where I am on the verge of hysterics.  And if you don't know, average driving time is 8-10 hours a day.  Not to mention that I am on the truck about 22-23 hours a day.  Would like to see you keep your sanity under those circumstances.

Now you know why I am off the road.  There are many reasons why I am off the road, but the above is the main reason.  And that is the reader's digest version. 

I will be writing much more now that I am home.  Thoughts, stories, reactions and whatever else comes to mind.