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Lessons were learned.

Since I’ve last spoken to ya’ll I’ve moved into my RV for full time living! *Insert crowd applause* So what have I learned?? Well for starters I went threw all my piggy banks yes I have piggy banks! and I put AAAALLL my quarters into one container to make it easier for when I have to go do our laundry. Overall it took me about an hour. Two months later and I have yet to use a single quarter… Yes I do laundry! So for some reason in the RV parks their laundry mats use other options for payment. The first one you had to go to the office to buy a pre paid card to use in the machines. The second place we went to you could use your credit card or download an app and you can scan a QR code on each machine. Honestly I’m not complaining about the app because it’s VERY handy! So I can open the app while I’m in my RV and it’ll tell me how many washers and dryers are open, also it tells you how long is left on your machine, and it’ll send you a push notification when your load is done. So yeah that’s that lesson.

Next lesson learned? It’s kinda gross so you’ve been warned. We’re in a area right now that gets below freezing at night so we’ve got to keep a slow drip in one sink to keep our pipes from freezing, we’ve got a couple space heaters going to save on our propane they do have a drop off and delivery refill service here though which is nice. We don’t have a skirt because they’re just SO expensive and we honestly don’t know how often we’ll be staying in freezing temp areas. OK here’s the gross bit so yesterday, I go to the bathroom and do my business, upon flushing I noticed that it’s flushing differently then normal. So I take a closer look and flush just water to see wtf is going on…. Oh EW! There is poop water ALL THE WAY UP TO THE HOLE! I’m OBVIOUSLY not dealing with that so I call my boyfriend lol. I say that it’s got to be frozen somewhere and he says it’s clogged somewhere. After we walk around the outside and knock on things and act like we know stuff, my boyfriend asks me to get a big stick from outside to see if he can unclog the tank. Upon stabbing into the tank area with a stick he tells me that it’s frozen down there I AM THE CHAPION! So he stabs a bit to get the shit literally down and after it goes down we just put some hot water in there to thaw out the poop shoot!

So final lesson? It’s a easy one that I live by but obviously my boyfriend doesn’t… Some things it’s better to just buy the more expensive legit one and not the cheaper China made crap! Case and point, a transformer for the RV. I woke up in a nice mood, put on my unicorn onesie and decided to make breakfast in bed for my boyfriend. I’m in my happy mood dancing and cooking minding my own business when I hear a loud POP and turn around to see where it came from only to see a ember jump out from my heater followed by the glow of fire shit! So I lunge for the fire extinguisher and can’t get the damn thing off the holder! Now I gotta yell at my boyfriend to wake up and get the fuck out here to help me with the fire there goes my nice surprise for him he comes running out in his birthday suit with sleep in his eyes and is greeted by a fire! Now I have to abandon breakfast, rally the dogs up and lock them in the bedroom so they’re out of our way, get the vacuum and broom to start the clean up because fire extinguishers leave a BIG MESS! My boyfriend is trying to work on the area where the fire is and I’m trying to clean up the mess. Later on I find out that he was a little suspect of one of the transformers he got because the wires were thinner then he thought the should be guess which one caught fire? I of course gave him a stern talking to and told him to go buy the good name brand and to bundle up because we can’t use any of the space heaters and that was his karma for being a ding dong. We have security cameras inside our RV and I have a video of the fire so hopefully I can get it uploaded for ya’ll to see.

That’s all I got right now! K BYE!

I’M BACK!

Hey y’all! Welcome back to my basic, not flashy blog! Sorry I’ve been radio silent for so long but I did say that I would only be posting if I’m in the RV! So I’m obviously back in it. However, WE MOVED INTO OUR RV FULL TIME! Today has been the one month mark for that. I’m sorry I didn’t post anything for that first month but honestly we had to do a mad dash pack and move out of our house. I literally just threw boxes into the RV and both my boyfriend and I over packed 🤪 so I’ve been having to go threw everything and try to organize the RV the way I want it, then realize that wasn’t a good idea and reorganize and so forth lol. Plus we need to decide what to take out of the RV and put into storage. Plus I’ve been searching for a place to store my car, it’s just a lot more to do when moving into a RV than just moving. But I can tell you something I learned at this park!

So I found out that not all laundry facilities use quarters anymore. This is after I didn’t about a half hour going threw my coin tub and separated all the quarters! So after I put my clothes in the washer machines I notice there’s a card reader where my quarters are supposed to go. Insert frustrated groans here. I leave my clothes there and run back to my RV to get my credit card because I of course didn’t bring my purse with me. Right, I get back in there and the machine isn’t accepting me card! Oh HELL no! Now I’m pissed, and I’m about to go the fuck off, until I see on the other washing machine there’s a sticker. What did this sticker say you ask? That basically I had to go to the office and get a pre paid special card to use in there 🤦🏼‍♀️ so now I’m feeling like a jackass and I’m hoping no ones watching the cameras seeing me and my multiple fails.

The Throne

So I learned a horrible lesson today! Whoever designed the toilet for RV’s is a fucking asshole! Here’s the story. My toilet seat started to come loose, no biggie I’ve tightened plenty of toilet seats in my day I am woman, watch me fix shit! So I go to tighten up the bolt and nut and the nut falls off. Ok whatever I’ll get a flashlight and look for it my toilet is in a corner so it’s not flush against the wall. Now I’m searching for this damn nut and can’t find it ANYWHERE! I break out a mirror to try and see all the angles, still can’t find it 🤨… WTF! So I’m like “ok let’s trace the path with my hands and see if it might’ve hit something to send it in a crazy direction” I’m feeling my way down and notice there’s a hole…. You know how in your house you got the water pipes just out in the back? NOT ON THIS BITCH! They’re INSIDE in their own little cubby hole! MOTHER FUCKER! Well fine, I didn’t want this piece of shit plastic seat anyways! So I go to Walmart and get me a nice wood one! Fucking nut fell down Buffalo Bills hole to get it some fucking lotion! If you don’t know that reference, you better go educate yourself! Sooooooooooo I’ll be going to Lowe’s tomorrow to get 20 million nuts just encase any other nuts wanna get the hose again! I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED!

It’s decided

So as you know, our goal is to move into the RV and live in it full time. After paying bills and seeing just how much we have left over to live off of WHILE we’ve been frugal and not using ANY electricity, we’re calling it finally. We’ve been moochdocking for about a month now visiting family and it’s FINALLY a priority of my boyfriend to get our asses into the RV.

I’m beyond excited thinking about it! I’m bummed thinking of the people I’m not going to be able to see as often and honestly my neighbors are the fucking BEST. But it’s time for me to start my next chapter. I bought one of those maps of the United States to show where we’ve gone and also to see where we need to go next in celebration of this decision. Also being full time means more blogging and telling the world my life lessons aaaaaaaaand fails.

I’m honestly hoping that by doing this it’ll help my mental stability. I’ve had a pretty rough few years or more… But by getting rid of most of my things and having more freedoms to work remotely and be able to take my lunch break outside in the kind of place you see pictures of in your office to calm the employees. To be able to go for a peaceful walk and see how many different animals I spot. To be able to be done with work once I’m off and not carry that stress around plus all the stress from other shit in life. That’s what I’m looking forward too. Not to mention being with the love of my life experiencing all these beautiful things. Yeah, I’m ready. Bring it on!

BETA!

No I didn’t get a fish. One of my favorite things about being in a RV is that I can see my family! My friends are also apart of my family because I’ve made my own family. So I have a few peeps spread out all over the US because I was in the Navy but also because I had a traveling sales job so I made friends from AAAAALLL over lol. But last night I got to see my Beta no this isn’t the name her mother gave her it’s the name I gave her! Also NO it’s not a My Girl reference thing either! ANYWAYS!!!! Beta is just one of those people that I can be 100% me and she can be 100% her and there’s NO judgement because we fully accept each other as is. I missed her so much but until I left her house last night, I didn’t fully know just how much I missed her. She’s one of those people that is necessary in my life. Love ya betch! I’ve had so much of me beaten and taken away since living near her that the moment I’m near her I just start feeling it all coming back. I LOVE who I used to be. I was strong, confident and didn’t care what ANYONE thought of me because I LOVED ME! I’m still working at getting her back and I’ve made great progress but it’s still a bit away from me.

Funny story, When I first got my RV I called Beta and she told me THEY’VE BEEN LOOKING AT RV’S!!! Oh ya’ll know we gonna be travelling together! I can’t wait for that to happen! Beta and her fam isn’t gonna be full time like me but it’s still fucking awesome because we’re gonna be able to see each other more often. Especially because she never moved away from Virginia and I moved AAAAALL the way to California got that long distance relationship strength doe. Also she’s so much apart of the family that my mom and her have a relationship lol like I’m sure they’ll meet up with my mom in their travels. I only have 2 friends that are like that, in the sense that they have a ongoing relationship with my family the other is Katrina and her husband they count as one because they’re married. They were really close to my dad, actually my dad told me all about them before I moved back to help take care of him. I’ll talk about them more at a later time if they give me permission, I know Beta is cool with me talking about her but I haven’t spoken to them yet about it.

I totally didn’t mean for this post to be a kinda love letter to my betch but fuck it! It is what it is! Aaaaaand I have my boyfriends nephew in here now playing so I gotta hop off here now! I guess I’ll make lunch for everyone. LATER!

Ryder up in this bitch

Sorry I’ve been so quiet on this trip but we’re moochdocking at a family members house so we’ve been busy spending time with them. However, I’ve got some exciting news! If the title of this post confused you, then good that was my goal! While at the Tractor Supply buying dog food I saw the man walking around with a kitten that looked like my recently passed cat and of course me being a girl and loving all animals I immediately asked to pet her lol. We talk and I find out that he and his mom were called by someone they knew saying they found a stray kitten at Walmart (yeah we’re in the south and in a SMALL town) and asked if they could come pick it up. Turns out this is the 3rd kitten this month they’ve fostered, the guys mom told me that they’re the unofficial foster house in this area and they were just at Tractor Supply to get a crate for the kitten until they found a home for it. My boyfriend has been saying no more animals for a while now so I thought I’d mess with him for a second and walk over with the kitten telling him how I just got us a new kitten. Well when I walk over with her he reacts just how I thought he would and the guy and I laugh at him cause that was the whole point.

Well talking to the guy and his mom with my boyfriend he blurts out that he was planning on adopting a cat for my birthday to surprise me. That completely shocked me because I would never have expected that from him. He said he was going to adopt a full grown cat for me which made me get a little misty eyed because it was such a nice thing. We talk about it and I brought up that us living in a RV would be better for us to get a kitten and not a full grown cat because the cat knows living in one place but a kitten would adjust better to life on the road, in which he said I could have the kitten in my hands. I of course ask him a million times if he’s sure and won’t get mad later on and when he insists it’s a good idea I begin to cry (yeah, yeah, yeah I know but I recently lost my cat!) The guys mom tells me she likes to sleep on boobs to which I reply “I’ve got those” (I have a great skill of just saying what I think.)

The guy and his mom named her Ryder and we thought that was a perfect name for her because she’ll be riding with us all over and I said she’s gonna be my “ride or die pussy” (again, I have no filter) I’m pretty sure she’s not 8 weeks old yet so I’ve had to get her cat milk and get used to waking up throughout the night to feed her and make sure she goes to the bathroom. But it’s so worth it! After a few days she’s now coming out of her shell and super playful. Today she got a tinfoil ball and at first she had NO idea wtf to do with it and just stared at it. That didn’t last long though lol now she’s sliding all over the floor with her ball. This is kinda perfect because we installed a cat door to a outside storage that we sectioned off to fit a litterbox. Today’s job for me is to get the kitten used to going all the way to the back of the rig to go threw the door to use the litterbox. She’s only gone to the other end of the rig once and that was last night… Wish me luck!

2,143 miles later

Yup! We’ve driven over 2 thousand miles! Sorry I have been radio silent the last few days but honestly I just couldn’t think. We drove over 1k miles in 2 days and I was just over it! I didn’t think ya’ll needed to deal with my tired and cranky moments so I just kept quiet for ya’ll. Well now we’re visiting some family in the south and I’m so happy to say that I had Zaxby’s today for lunch! I also introduced my boyfriend and his sister to it and they liked it! Of course it starts raining the second I start talking to ya’ll. I didn’t sleep well last night and the sound of the rain on the RV is making me sleepy lol I’ll just take a nap after I post this update.

RIGHT, what have I been up to? Well I’ve been relaxing for 2 days… Well kinda. We haven’t traveled in 2 days and I’m not gonna lie, it’s been great! I stopped by Wal-mart yesterday and got some Command hooks and found out that they have more then just hooks! I got this cute little dry erase bored that has some little hooks on it to hang your keys and they had a nice looking strip of hooks that I hung up for the dog leashes! Wow I live a fun life full of excitement of organizing lol. Whatever, it’s my blog haha and yeah I am excited because I’m slowly getting our RV set up to be our home! I did some other organizing yesterday and I’m going to do some more today, but honestly I’m super excited to move into this full time! I love the minimalism of it. Yes I know it’s not totally minimal but compared to our “norm” it is. I’ve gotten rid of SO many clothes, kitchen items, furniture, and just all around everything. It’s so freeing to get rid of all those things that you feel like you need but really you don’t. I honestly don’t want to go back to the house to stay, I’d rather just get rid of the rest of the stuff in the house and grab the last bit there that we want with us and call it a done!

I don’t know what it is but when I’m in the RV I just feel like this weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I’m happier, my boyfriends happier, and our love for each other is just a magical thing. Ok enough of the mushy shit. Sorry I’m a bit sleepy so it’s hard for me to collect my thoughts properly. Well as I said we’re visiting some family in the south, we’re moochdocking (our first time *squee*) and it’s in the country so it’s jut beautiful and quiet and full of cute little animals. UGH but it’s also full of some not cute bugs! WARNING YUCKY MOMENT COMING. So the second we get here I take the dogs to go to the bathroom and not 1 minute late I’m flicking a tick off my leg cause it’s crawling up it and I don’t mess with no bugs! From that second on I’ve had the creeps! I went and got 2 big bottles of OFF and that’s my new perfume! I’ve found 2 ticks on my poor Peanut! That’s one of my dogs for those of you who don’t know. And the poor baby she’s the only one out of 4 dogs (yes I have 4 dogs) to get any ticks.

Anyways, I feel like I need to start making little notes or something about my blog posts because I really just word vomit and have no structure lol but hey like I said in the beginning I’m gonna just talk to you like I would if we were face to face and that’s how I am normally. OH BLUE SKY. Rain, rain, go away! Ok I’m shutting up now and gonna go take a nap! Talk at ya’ll later.

Sick?!

Ok so we didn’t make it to New Mexico yesterday but we will today lol. We found out what was wrong with the solar loosing power, the fridge… Yup that thing was like a vampire on our solar so we switched it over to propane and now it’s perfect! We ran the AC for an hour this morning and the batteries didn’t go below 100% so if you’re just starting with solar like us I wouldn’t use the fridge on it till you know you have enough to cover everything. We don’t yet, we’re only half set up.

Ok so now on to the title… I feel a cold coming on. I’m hoping it’s just allergies or a head cold from the change in location. As of right now my left nostril is clogged and my left ear is a little bit too, I also have a slight soar throat. No chest problems, no chills, or a anything else. I’ve been using my face mask (Vogmask) everywhere and I’m washing my hands AND using hand sanitizer. I’ve also had fuck all for sleep and we’re really pushing ourselves in this drive so yeeeeeeeaaaaah… 🤞🤞🤞

Day 2 of the cross country trip

So I don’t know what’s up but last night EVERY rest area was WAAAAAAY over it’s max capacity. I’m talking ever car parking spot taken, truckers lining both sides of the road in and out, they were packing themselves in there like sardines! If it wasn’t so late I would’ve liked to talk to a few of them to see what the unspoken rules are amongst them for that situation because it would really come in handy to know seems how our end goal is to live in the RV full time. Plus it’s just nice to show respect for them, they work really hard and are away from their families a lot especially right now with this pandemic. If any truckers come across my blog I’d really like to have a conversation with you, I’ve tried on our CB radio but no one talks to me lol.

Right so needless to say, we didn’t stay at any rest stops last night. We were so tired that we were screaming along with the songs that came on and acting like total morons to stay awake long enough to find a place to sleep for the night. We were lucky enough to find a not so we’ll advertised gas station with a big gravel lot to stay for the night though… However, we parked in the way back to give the truckers plenty of space but didn’t know until we were in bed with the windows open that we were DIRECTLY next to train tracks (busy ones at that). Since I’ve been typing this 3 trains have passed so far. Side thought- does anyone remember when the graffiti on trains was really good? Like it used to be art and now it’s just bleh! Anyways yeah that sucked for like 10 minutes but thank God I was so tired that I didn’t hear anything the rest of the night! So now it’s the afternoon of day 2 and I’m sitting outside with the breeze talking to you guys. Something is messing up with our solar panels, but we’re not sure what it is because our AC Kris turning off and the batteries connector thingy ma jig keeps turning off! Sooooooooooo we decided to put more solar panels on the roof (well my boyfriend did, I cleaned and organized inside while randomly bringing him something to drink because we’re in the desert) he’s trying to figure out what’s up with the solar set up. I’m sure I’ll be stripping wire soon to help with the extra solar panels.

Right back to the trip! In about an hour and a half we should be leaving and continuing on with our journey. The plan is to sleep in New Mexico tonight 🤞🤞🤞 I’ve been on www.freecampsites.net looking for possible places in both Arizona and New Mexico (another train) for us to sleep tonight. Hopefully we make it to New Mexico so the next night we can sleep in Oklahoma and go out to dinner with one of my good friend Alexis!!! That’s all for now, I’ll talk at y’all later!

Shady area but IT’S FIXED!

That’s right, it’s fixed! We found some springs at a Pick n Pull and went to Harbor Freight to get a jack and stands and TADA! All fixed. However, it was a bit uncomfortable for a little bit. We’re in a kinda shady area but whatever it is what it is. However we had to drop our TT because we couldn’t pull with the airbags not working. So we drop it in a gas station that half of the pumps are closed in so we don’t inconvenience anyone but also have a somewhat safe place to leave it while we go get our supplies. We’re gone for about an hour, and literally when we get back and park the truck a couple pumps away so it’s in the shade for us to work on, I see a hoopty stop in the middle of the street right in front of our RV and just stair at it. Immediately I’m like “ok I know that move, she’s casing it out to steal it” my boyfriend, bless his heart, doesn’t agree… Sorry love but I grew up around the shit and I recognize it but, ok! The world is perfect… Flash forward 20 minutes, I’m sitting in the RV, enjoying the AC while I eat my lunch and give the dogs there’s and the door to the RV flies open with my boyfriend standing in the doorway with a hatchet (1 point me for being right) he’s telling me to lock the door and keep my phone on me because some truck just pulled up beside the RV with a tow hitch on it and they were walking around it checking it out and as soon as he walked up they hauled ass outta here… So I spent the next hour with the blinds up constantly checking to see if someone was gonna Rob us while kidnapping me so he could focus on fixing the truck. So now we continue our journey!