Finally!

After over 2 weeks of fast food and eating out, I finally made it to the grocery store. I hopefully got enough stuff to feed us for about 2 weeks. I used some coupons and saved 30 dollars =] I really want to work my way up to getting almost everything free but, from what i've heard its super hard and takes lots of practice. I'm going to keep working on it though. I've also made a new friend recently which i'm super excited about. One of the other skid pro operators came to work at the shop with Patrick and his girlfriend is here with him. We have been working out almost everyday together. Its so nice having someone here to do things with during the day. So far we have done yoga/pilates and zumba, friday we are going to start this boot camp course and i'm super excited about that. I'm just not really looking forward to getting up at 5am to workout.
 Since I went grocery shopping today I'm actually going to get to cook tonight. I think I've decided on making pork chops. I really like marinating them in Italian dressing and seasoned salt for a few hours then baking them, I usually make soul food potatoes and another veggie to go with them. To make soul food potatoes you just cut up some potatoes and smother them in soul food seasoning and cut up about half a stick of butter and just put it on top of the potatoes and bake them until they're soft which usually takes about 30 minutes at 400 degrees. I cant wait to eat a home cooked meal, its gonna be sooo tasty.

My weekend...

So I've decided I live a very exciting life... Not! This morning I got the Sunday paper and the highlight of my weekend was seeing all the coupons lol I don't think I've ever seen so many coupons in a single paper before! It made my day =] Anyways, I've not done a lot this weekend. I walked my dog and played with her in the Texas heat for a while and went out with Patrick's work family yesterday, and we had some drinks together. Hopefully soon I'll be going grocery shopping, I feel like I've been living off of fast food for over a week now. Which there is a reason behind that. We had to spend a week in Oklahoma so we didn't want to have a bunch of food in the trailer that could ruin while we were gone and we just got back Thursday so I haven't had much of a chance to make it to the grocery store. I've mostly been trying to get caught up on cleaning and all of that good stuff. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to Waco, TX with Patrick's boss' wife and his co-worker's wife. I've never been there before but I'll let you all know how it goes. Hopefully we will have fun. We are supposed to go shopping and out to eat at olive garden. Maybe when I get back I'll make it to the grocery store =/ but I suppose for the rest of today I will be spending my time sitting in the skid pro shop watching Patrick try to get his drag up tank (  extra fuel tank ) and welder hooked up and ready to go for the next job. Like I said I live a very exciting life ha-ha

In the begining...

Okay, I'm going to start by introducing myself. My name is Miranda, I'm 21 years old, and my boyfriend currently lives on the road working as an operator on the pipeline. We have been together almost 8months and known each other for about 4 years. I'm currently in college working on getting my diploma to be a certified medical assistant. When we first got together, while he was still in town, we agreed that I would continue to do on campus classes. However, that changed after he left, and we saw how much we missed each other. At least I thought it did anyways. I looked into taking online classes and we decided I would do that so I could stay with him on the road. After I thought about it for a while though, I decided I should just go ahead and finish what I had already started. Its much cheaper, less stressful, and we still be able to see each other at least once a month. So it wont be completely horrible. He is definitely not to happy about it though. In my opinion I think distance makes the heart grow fonder and makes you appreciate what you have. When you get used to having something good in your life you tend to forget what life was like without it, and you don't keep doing what it took to get it. So anyways, I've been with him on the road for spring break and pretty much my whole summer break so far and I'll be heading back to Kentucky August 17th.

 Now that you caught up on everything i'll let you know what I do with myself while i'm on the road. I'm gonna try to post on here at least once a week. I clean, cook, coupon, workout, and hangout. Pretty much just do what I want, I just gotta do it by myself 90% of the time. As I make posts and stuff on here i'll let you know what I cook, what kinda workouts i've done lately and all that good stuff. I just thought it might be good for ladies who are curious about leaving home for their boyfriend or husband to see what its like for someone else. Well, that's all for now. I'll post some more sometime next week =]