First Blog

Well this my first blog in a long while. Years ago I used to host and administer my own website that was a blog and photosharing site. I kind of miss that, but I no longer have time to handle the server side part of things. So, a free hosted blog it is.

Well I'm sitting here at the TA in Hurricane, WV waiting for their typically slow servers to come take my order. Don't ask me why, but I'm going to see if they can whip up an order of three scrambled egg whites, wheat toast w peanut butter and a bowl of fresh fruit. Not on the menu but it struck me as sounding good. Its a change from my usual dietary choice for breakfast, Cornedbeef hash, eggs, hashbrowns and butter lathered toast.

I've been doing a lot of thinking here lately and I'm not happy with a few things in my life. My weight and my finances being the primary concerns. The latter of the two cause my other problem, not being able to see my family as often as I want. A radio show host I listen to a lot, Kevin Rutherford, always says to people "If you want different results, you gotta change ho you do things." I believ Dave Ramsey says the same. Probably a lot more people do to but it's absolutely true.

First step is this morning with breakfast. Next step is to adjust my load planning and hometime frequency. It's going to suck because I'm going to have to be away from what matters most to me and thats my kids and girlfriend. However, I just hope they understand that I feel like I'm failing them because I'm not running my business in a manner that allows me the kind of hometime I want nor the financial stability I need. There is a lot of money on the table I leave because I go home. It's awesome to go home but it sucks cause when I'm there, we have no money to do the things I want to do with them and my mind is constantly on whether or not we will be able to pay for the things we need.

I need to change the way I do things to make the changes my family needs to be in a better position. We have a lot of goals for this year, all of which will fail if I don't straighten our finances out. I can easily make $8,000+ after all business expenses are paid for over the next six weeks. That will put me making it home for a good amount of time for Monkey's (Ayden, my two year old) birthday. I'll have to stay out for Valentine's day unless it just happens to pan out I'm home, as much as I really hate the idea. I need to miss a few things like that this year so I can get my ship floating right and then be able to take the time off at the end of the year I want. Eventually, I want to take a bunch more time off, which is a part of why I became a business owner. But, I have to buckle down for the first quarter and get myself right. I wasted that chance last year with a lot of bad decisions, this year will be different. So will the years after.

After I get that going, it's time for me to focus on my weight but first my family needs me to man up and take control of things.

Wel breakfast is here, sans fresh fruit. They didn't have any, imagine that. No wonder we can't eat healthy out here.