Life from a truck window: Books, movies, and more road

It is 12:30 a.m. I know I should be in bed, Josh is sound asleep in his bed snoring away and my mind won't stop or shut down long enough to sleep. I am very prone to taking naps a lot of the times but I can't even say that I can't sleep because of an earlier nap. Trust me about noon today I could have napped but things came up and didn't get a chance. I am sure I will want one tomorrow.

We have been to some new places lately but there isn't much to report on the new places. The first one is Georgia. The scenery that I saw was pretty much the same as it is was in the surrounding states. The one thing that did stand out for me was the 14 lanes of interstate, 7 lanes going each way and the traffic was still congested. This was in Atlanta, GA and it has to be one of the busiest and most congested places that I have seen to date. I am just glad that I didn't have to drive through that as it was quite stressful. The other state is Iowa. I have been to Iowa but not very far into it, this time we were past Cedar Point and I have to say that is pretty much flat and lots of farm ground, which isn't a bad thing but there isn't much to report on. There was some kind of weed growing along the interstate that I did like, it was a tall grassy type of weed with white fluffy tops to it and when bunched together it made a pretty sight.

Josh and I did get to listen to the audiobook of Death at Pemberly and it was pretty good the only bad thing is I learned a valuable lesson on downloading the books from the library. I knew that you could only borrow the books for 14 days and I assumed that was from the download date but I was wrong, it is from the time you put it on your list of books you would like to borrow. We listened to all but the very last chapter as it was gone from our computer because the 14 days were up. I would have to download the whole book again to hear the last chapter and decided against it, the earlier chapter pretty much wrapped up the book anyway. We also listened to Dead City, it was a book about zombies as Josh is really into that kind of thing right now, almost obsessed with them really, it was an ok book but I was ready to move on. We then listened to the book Heaven Is Real and I had such a turmoil of emotions from that book but I am so glad that we did as Josh and I had a pretty good discussion about it and our beliefs in general. Parts of the book really made me stop and think on what I think about what heaven is and what to expect, I am not saying that what this boy saw is what everyone is going to experience but when he talked about Angels having swords and he knew his father would have to fight in the war against Satan in heaven while the children and woman watch it that was very depressing and made me mad. We have wars on earth and to me heaven is to be a place of peace, love, and no illness or death and where you will be joined with your loved ones again. How can that be if there is war? The boy continues to say " don't worry daddy Jesus wins" but this isn't exactly comforting. I know we cannont even fathom what heaven will be like and to worry over it or try to figure it out won't help, we just have to know that it is there and it will be glorious.

We are now in Pennsylvania and it beautiful to see that the trees have started to change. I can't wait until they are in full color as I am sure I will take more pictures than are necessary but I can't help myself. I have absolutely loved my camera on these trips and love the fact that it has where I can take multiple pictures in fast secession. I have only read a bit of my book on how to use all of the bells and whistles but I know I am learning. I only have to take a picture of something about 5 times before I get the picture that I want..lol. I feel like I am one of those modeling photographers, give me fierce, now look away, give me shy, oh you are a tiger! LOL!

Josh and I have been watching the Walking Dead as he bought the newest season on DVD and now I am obsessed with one thing, the grass. According to the show it has been quite some time, at least a year since the zombies started showing up and I notice that everytime they visit a neighborhood to try and find supplies the yards are perfectly mowed. I guess if the zombies are taking care of the yards then maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have a zombie around. Josh just rolls his eyes after each time I point out how manicured the yards are and he called me a fruit loop, I just looked at him seriously and said no.. im Special K! He died laughing! So out of all of the cereals what explains you the best? LOL!

We did get to see a macaw bird riding in the back of someones car, he was in the back window just walking back and forth, I guess riding is better than flying. He was a big bird and you could see his colors perfectly.