A day like all the others 

August 4th 2015 started out like most of my days had. Waking up in the middle of nowhere. As I stated in my last blog I was a truck driver. I would go almost every week from Minnesota to California. Well this particular day I had trucked until around 2:30 am maybe a little later I can’t quite remember. I usually only slept 4-5 hours a night. I know I’ve since learned it’s not near enough sleep. Well this morning I got up did everything I could to shake the cobwebs out of my head. I had a daily log book I had to do. This stupid little book let commercial vehicle enforcement what I had done and where I had been. I hated this book with a passion I hated having to do it. It was part of my job but the part I hated the most. 

I loved my job. I had freedom I basically got paid to travel. I grew up in a truck as my dad did and still does the same thing. August 4th logbook done time to go. I had pulled over and slept at an off ramp in western Nebraska. As I would drive down the road and get going I would listen to music. Talk to friends on the phone or periodically check Facebook. I know highly frowned upon but also I hadn’t seen a car or a house in 30 miles one quick glance was all I needed to feel like I wasn’t going insane. 


Ding!! My phone was going off. I had a notification. It was from match. “Oh boy” I thought to myself. See match.com had not been very good to me. I had gone on a few dates. They either used an old picture. Don’t do that us guys don’t like that. Or they didn’t like the fact I was. “Truck driver” or to be honest I felt no spark and that was important to me. So I open the message and to my surprise a very attractive young woman had sent me a “hello” funny thing is I was giving match one more month and I was done with it. So I responded back. That opened the flood gates of conversation that day. We messaged all day back and forth. She had asked me every question under the sun and I was happy to answer. She told me she wanted to call me later that night little did I know it was going to be a 6 hour phone call. We had a spark, chemistry and from pictures we seemed to have a mutual attraction. I was also aware of the three kids she had as she had told me in an earlier message. I thought to myself that’s not a big deal I love kids. Little didn’t know at the time my life was going to be forever changed from that point on. Change that at first was not easy for me but change that has made a very positive impact on my life……. 

Until next week. 

How it all started…..

I’m currently laying in bed with a football game on. Tennessee is tied with those pesky kids from Appalachian State. My daughter just destroyed the bathroom and my fiancé is not impressed. When I say destroyed I mean how does a 12 year old girl drop a deuce that a grown man would be ashamed of. My life with kids yes I said kids (my fiancé has 3 of her own from her previous marriage) has been quite the life changer. This is the reason I’m writing this blog. I want to share my transformation and my story with you. I find it entertaining and I believe you will to.

Single life.

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Yes this is me. I apparently I think I’m cool. I’m the one on the right, in Vegas, drunk. I’d love to tell you all about this trip but as you know “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”. This was basically my life. Hanging with my buddies and drinking and basically just doing whatever I wanted. If I wanted to save three paychecks and blow it all in Vegas I did that. I mean why not I’m single I can do whatever I want.

My job was trucking and I would be gone 5 days and come home and goof off for two of them. Then repeat the cycle. It was a job that paid me well which led to some expensive habits. Case in point the 2012 Dodge Challenger I owned. Yes I said owned I’ll get to that in a later blog. Expensive nights out where I would take out 200.00 dollars at the atm before going out then wake up at noon the next day with 37 cents in my pocket. I felt like I had it all figured out.

Fatherhood

Yes I’m claiming single. As I was out galavanting around all over town I had a daughter that lived 600 miles away. I would see her in the summers and Christmas. I was with her mother for 7 years. I left that relationship when I was 29 I’m now 35. I did what most guys do. Paid my child support and tried to call and see her when I could. The weeks I had her in the summers I would stay home with her and do the Dad thing. Although deep down and yes this sounds horrible I’d sometimes count the days she was going home so I could get back to routine. Yes I know sounds horrible. I had a good life in my opinion. Got to do what I wanted and still got to experience the joys of being a dad. Little did I know that was all going to change. A change that no one could’ve prepared me for. A change that no one could’ve ever predicted. A change that no one and I mean no one has ever encountered. As my blog continues I will be sharing once a week how my life went from single to party of 6. I’ll be sharing the good the bad and the ugly of having what I now have. The life changing events that took place on August 4th 2015….

Until next week.

Michael