So, seriously, my last post was what, January? I still work at Lowe’s, and I still hate it. Hate it with a great and burning passion, but I haven’t reached the same level of hatred that I had when I worked at Amazon. So I guess there’s that. However, I’ve been looking at going back to Amazon or picking up another job on top of Lowes. Why?
I finally got my driver’s license. And I finally got a car. And damn it’s expensive.
I have a small late ’90s model Mazda. It’s nothing fancy, but it has a good stereo, great AC, and decent gas mileage. I usually get 28-ish miles in town, and can hit 33 miles/gallon if I’m doing highway driving. My tank holds a tad more than 14 gallons. Now, if I would just drive to and from work (12 miles, more or less), and the occasional Target/grocery store trip, I could easily make a full tank last me an entire paycheck. I haven’t hit $50 per tank yet, I usually pay around $45 per full tank. However, I drive. A lot.
And everyone told me I would drive around a lot, which I understood at the time. However, I took that to mean instead of driving to the local Kroger’s, you’d head up to the fancy one on Rt. 60 instead. And I’m guilty as charged. I got my license on May 18th, and in the roughly three and half months I’ve been driving, I’ve racked up some craz-ah stats:
- I’ve driven to the Huntington Mall and Ashland Town Center (KY) more times in the past three months than in my lifetime.
- I’ve driven to Charleston an average of three times a week. However, my sorority sister/best friend/former roommate Jeannette (yes, that Jeannette) got married, and as her wedding coordinator, I had to do all sorts of stuff, like getting introduced to the sheer delight that is Yogurt Mountain. YUM.
- Columbus several times
- Lexington twice, mostly to peek at the Paris TB Hospital:
- You can’t get in, they’ve got it locked up pretty tightly. HOWEVER, take a 4 foot step ladder…you’ll see what I mean.
Moonville, Ohio (not too far out of Athens)
- TAKE BUG SPRAY. Also don’t go alone, despite the fact there’s some pretty heavy hiker traffic, my sister and I were trailed by people who were tailing us. We’d turn around to see who was there and we could see people jumping behind trees.
- Knockemstiff, Ohio:
Not much there, mostly farmland. And the setting for a Donald Ray Pollack short story set which I have yet to read.
- Somewhere deep in Southwestern Virginia. A friend and I spent a few days hanging around Lewisburg. While she had to go home to study for the exam that allows you to become a LPN, I took a jaunt through parts of Virginia. I ended up towards Staunton before realizing that, shit, I had to go to work the next day. A shame, as I’ve been wanting to see Staunton’s historical district.
You might have noticed I have yet to head to DC. That’s mostly due to my hours being cut at work and being too broke to afford going to DC.
I do have some other roadtrips in mind. Next weekend will be Utopia, Ohio, with my friend Shane, and then San Toy, Ohio, before the weather gets too cold. I’ll probably take my little sister along with me to San Toy because she goes to school up in Athens and will actually be on the way up.
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