Today I had a crazy day. Last night I had one glass of an alcoholic drink, I don't typically drink anything at all but I figured what the heck why not? Well apparently I am a super lightweight and don't handle alcohol that well, I 'fell asleep' shortly after I had my drink. But then about an hour later, was awakened by loud crashes of thunder and bolts of lightning that I was pretty sure were going to strike me through the window.
I was not feeling like being awake, I just wanted to sleep for goodness sakes, all week I have had such trouble sleeping. I got online and ended up talking to Chris for an hour when I told myself it was just going to be for 10 minutes until the storm settled down. So by the time I actually went to bed it was 2a.m. Then Ana - my lovely little daughter - woke up at 7.
We then went out to Pennsylvania (2 hour and 10 minute drive to my in laws, then another 1/2 hour to my photo session location) where I spent an hour hoping that I would get some good pictures of kids whose backs only seemed to be turned towards me. I got distracted about 15 minutes in and ended up taking pictures of a few lovely hawks in a tree when I realized I needed to focus.
I tried to tell myself that it was a life or death situation to get amazing images of these kids to motivate my half-sleeping brain into doing my job. It kind of worked, but not really. I still got good pictures, because well, let's face it, I'm awesome.
Then we made another stop before heading back home. On the drive home we saw 6 cars pulled over and I was like no way, so I just went the speed limit. But I had so many stupid jerk drivers on my tail and trying to pass me, or cut me off and when it wasn't that it was some stupid driver who probably got their license in China, going 20mph under the speed limit with no way to pass.
I really had to pee about an hour into the trip so we stopped at this little gas station in Parkman, Ohio - a little hodunk town in the middle of nowhere, I got out to use the porta potty - because that is all they had, and I immediately walked out. I was gagging and gasping for air and there was poop AROUND the toilet, not in it, not on the toilet seat, around it. I was like are you f***ing kidding me!? I still really had to pee and I knew there was nothing else around for at least another hour so I grab some of Ana's baby wipes and I go in there and clean the crap up. That should totally give me like a million wife/mom points right there. I do my thing as quickly as possible because it's like 95 degrees outside and I'm gasping for air while slowly being suffocated in a poop hole that has had time to ferment.
After that horrid experience, I head inside to get a RedBull for the hubs and I and some milk for Ana. I see some hick who is wearing torn clothes a raggedy white wife beater and standing outside of a car that had a missing window, telling them of his victory over drunk driving and being caught by the Po-leece. I walk into this little store and it looked decent until you saw the girl at the counter who was probably 25 but her skin was so saggy from all the drinking and drugs she looked about 40, her clothes were hanging off her body, teeth were all brown, hair was all knotty and as I approach the counter another girl comes up "hey you mind if I go smoke some ...youknow.. out back while you do this?"
"Sure, go ahead" she responds.
Really? I mean, I guess I shouldn't expect much from a town that's not much better than West Virginia, but seriously, in front of a customer? You don't know who I am, what if I were a cop and was like you're under arrest. lol oi.
Anyway, as we're driving home we almost ran out of gas and had to stop, well guess what ? No one was there! We had cash, but we couldn't use it because while the door was open, no one was at the counter. Good way to set yourself up for a robbery BP, way to go. So we had to use the card, which we hate doing but life is life and we needed to get home.
So we finally made it home and now I'm just sitting here waiting for my pictures to upload to my computer so I can work my magic and make people look better than they really do. ;-)
Until next time,
Cherise
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