Has it really been this long???
In my last post I wrote that I was now a boxer, well let's completely forget all that and say that I am now a Frozen Food Specialist! Just what does this mean you may ask. Well I now work for Schwans. If you are not sure exactly what a schwan is, it's a bird...oh no wait, that's a Swan. A Schwan is a person who drives an "Inka-Gold" (bright ass yellow) freezer on wheels! I deliver such foods as Ice Cream, Pizzas, Meat, anything your little stomach can think of. So this is the job that now pays our bills, and pays does it! I make a very nice amount of cash, sadly that is that only good part to the job. There are also lots and LOTS of bad things, one which upsets me the most. So since it's late and I have to be up to do this all again in a very short time, I'll cut to the chase!
My hours suck my big left toe!!! Blunt enough for ya? I will leave our house around 7:30, drive an hour south, get my truck, drive the hour back to Ashtabula, run my route, drive back south, than drive home. By the time this all takes place 14 - 18 hours have passed! Now mind you, Danielle gets home right around 5:00, I come staggering in anywhere between 9 and 12 at night. I shower, crawl into bed, kiss her (and duck, she's a jumpy girl) sleep then wake up and start the wonderful process all over again! Have you been able to track exactly how much time I get to spend with her? Let's just say it's not a whole hell of a lot!!! This kills me, because I can see my baby hurting and her being alone here is not good for her at all. She is changing, not in a bad way, but not in a good way either. This is the girl that used to love to go out and be with people, she will tell me stories of her going to clubs and dancing. I remember her calling me up one night, before we started dating. She called me at 2 am. She was lit up like a christmas tree. She was having a great time, and called me to say hi. She can't do that anymore, because she is in Ashtabula. A place where nothing ever happens! Where there is nobody, except my folks and their friends, to hang with. And I'm sorry, but people our age, just shouldn't hang with our folks friends!!!
I don't know if she is going to be able to handle this much longer, so there is going to have to be a decision made. I just wish it would make it on it's own for once. I hate having to make them, it feels like the ones I make, never lead me and in this case, us to the right place. The lives we want we can't have here this we know. But we also don't have anyway of getting to where they are. This is the only answer that I have found, and I really don't like it.
So now, I must think. I have to rack this big, fat, zit-scared head of mine and come up with yet another game plan. Cuz the dice I have rolled this round, ain't the number I wanted. Till than, keep plugin' away.
