Wednesday

I missed a day, meaning I'm calling off the blog a day for 365 days thing. for now. I may pick it up again, but life really is moving way too fast for me right now.

add demanding children, a summer cold, and 105-degree heat, and blogging gets pushed aside.

not to mention I'm in school.

I don't know what I was thinking is the answer to the question you all want to ask.

but here I am, I'm doing it, well, and it will be over soon.

in the meantime, I will come here as often as I can, but don't expect too much from me. no words of wisdom or paths to the ultimate reality. just checking in, saying hey, and providing a little look into the person I am now.

Monday, part 2

I will now prove how non-tech saavy I am.

something happened to my small, cute, and fits-in-very-nicely-with-my-others little banner thing under my "What I Believe In" heading. no longer was it cute or VISIBLE.

my cure?

put on the other one. the bigger one. and really show who believes in blogging with integrity.

I'm happy to support the effort to bring all bloggers into a respectful space, where sharing, reading, responding, and caring are all part of our blogger needs and wants.

did I just write that? does that make sense? must I refer back to the heat problem of the previous post?

eh...

Monday

so effing hot I want to die. can't think, can't blog, can't.

what I would do for central air...

Sunday

last night was quite a night.

Harper came down with a cold and was up many, many times. but Penny slept through! yea!

and we were awoken at 4:30 by the police. our car had been hit.

I made Tate go down to talk with them. it was enough for me to open the door in my underwear to the officer at my door.

what we know: dude side-swiped the car in front of us and then hit our car on the driver's side front, sending our car BACK 20 or so feet. dude wasn't drunk -- he wasn't arrested. we think he fell asleep. but I can't imagine how fast he was going to hit our car like that.

here are the details in pictures:



our car, seen to the right, was under the tree to the left. yeah.



our damage: missing grill, bent bumper, messed up turn signal



and a little body damage.

dude's car?



clearly totalled. the dark spot to the right is the liquid contents of the truck's engine compartment.


I have three things to say:


1. very thankful no one was in our car at the time
2. can you believe the dude just walked away
3. buy Volvo.


our car still runs, as it did pre-accident. it's amazing.


and a final note: this is the second time this car has been hit while parked on the side of the road. we're thinking maybe an airplane next, or a tree, or aliens will capture it in a tractor beam wanting to study the amazing engineering of 1980s Swedish carmakers. you know, because apparently this car is invincible.