Happy Mother's Day, and Adios Texas!!

Adios, Texas!

First, a very belated Happy Mother’s Day wish to you all!!!

We crossed from Texas into Oklahoma late last night. For a change, I was glad to see the last of Texas, for a while anyway. Those feelings are not all due to the so-called “swine” flu, but, after sitting idle for 3 days in three digit temps this weekend, and for 5 days in sunny Southern California last weekend, we needed to get the show on the road.

After the blinding scorching sun of southern Texas, the cooler, rain misted morning in Oklahoma seems almost refreshing. My friend Sherry, who, along with her husband has a large farm in Oklahoma and has been praying for rain for months. From your lips to God’s ear, Sherry. Its been raining there for a couple weeks now.

And although it’s a good thing that we have a load finally and are moving, we are pretty much going in the wrong direction. We have to be in NY this weekend but we are headed for East Peoria, Illinois. We will see what kind of head games they have in store for us after we get unloaded, we will probably end up dead heading all the way to New York.

The conversations of other drivers within the company we have been seeing, as well as our experiences, have been disheartening to say the least. I think that’s another reason why I’ve been lapsing so much on my posts, there really have not been too many “good” things to write about lately. Trust me, there have been no lack of “not-so” good things to write about lately, but my momma always taught me, if you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything! So, add that to not feeling well and the usual (lack of) service lately with AT&T, you can understand why I have been so quiet.

We did, however enjoy the hotel room we were in this weekend, I sat by the pool, read and soaked up the rays, while Joe lounged back in the A/C joined at the hip with the TV remote. We have a discount hotel card through OOIDA which gives us big discounts on hotel rooms, so we used that for the first time. It wasn’t much more than what we would have spent running the truck for 2 days straight and we were a hell of a lot more comfortable. Its all about the amenities…..lol.

The card is called Check Inn Card and you can get information on it at checkinncard.com. If you have an OOIDA membership, the card is free, if not, there is a small charge of $10 to join the services. Once you log in, you put in a location and it will give you a list of hotels that honor the card (there were 13 in Laredo, to give you an example). I always check that list against the reviews on tripadvisor.com.

However I will take one second to vent my (very great) frustration regarding my hearing aid (I know the angels in my hard of hearing group can appreciate this) My one year old hearing aid decided to stop working last week! I’m sure once I find the warranty, its was probably within a day of its expiring too. Unfortunately there is only one type I have been able to wear and their product reliability leaves a lot to be desired. So when we get back to NY, I will have to drop it off at the audio and have them send it away for a rebuild.

The worst part is, we have a big family social event this weekend, of course, gee, do they still make those old fashioned gramaphone-like thingees??? SIGH (It wouldn’t be any other way….lol)

I’ve got a lot of pictures to post, but of course, blogger is seeing to it that they arent getting posted properly, so I will run both blogger and word press blogs for a while and test word press before switching. I’d much rather work on my healthy cooking blog, but, alas, that one will have to wait until I have a kitchen again. Meh, I think a kitchen would definitely be a plus if one is going to do a cooking blog, no? I’ll try and keep this updated at least until we get to NY.