when the person selling the car quickly gets in and drives away after he sees you writing down the VIN, you don't want to buy that car.
July 2007 Archives
i'm no longer a car owner.
not quite three months after i wrote about celebrating our 15th anniversary, i may have to say goodbye to her forever.
around 7:30 this morning, the black range rover i was following up the hill came to a sudden and unexpected stop. i wasn't going very fast and i wasn't too close, but i was close enough to not have enough room to bring her to a stop before this happened:
i slammed on the brakes, i tried to swerve to avoid impact (into oncoming traffic, so it's probably good i didn't succeed). instead of a near-miss, i heard an awful noise and saw a whole lot of blue hood where there shouldn't have been any.
the car's been towed away, i've been to the doctor because my leg and arms are sore, i've picked up a rental car and i'm just about to leave to go meet with the insurance company. i'm petrified of what they're going to say. absolutely petrified. all the horrible ICBC stories i've heard during my life are coming to mind as i anticipate this meeting.
i'm still a little shocky and prone to unexpected tears. thank goodness my boss let me go home and christopher is being his wonderful, supportive self while i alternately break down and then swear a blue streak.
well, at least it's sunny out. *shrug*
it took me 12 hours to read 'harry potter and the deathly hollows' today. i was bound and determined to finish it before returning to work tomorrow morning as i know a co-worker will be chomping at the bit to talk about it.
poor christopher was a potter widower through most of it. i took breaks just short enough to eat dinner with him and be of no help whatsoever in his trying to match my progress in 'super paper mario world'. i felt more than a little bad about abandoning him so, but really... sometimes you just gotta read.
yeah, that was fun. i haven't read a book in a day in a very, very, very long time. usually, i'm lucky to get through a book in three months of lunch-time reading. i miss the good old days of reading ALL. THE. TIME. audiobooks are starting helping fill that gap for me, i've found. in the last few months i've listened to the 'eragon' books and 'wuthering heights' on my mp3 player and i have a queue of several more taking up space on my external drive just waiting for me to get a-listening. a friend recently pointed me towards librivox and i can't wait to dive into that catalogue. yum!
by the time you read this, i'll be back at work. at my desk. for another fifteen years of forty-hour work weeks before i get three more weeks off in a row.
good thing i enjoyed this one, huh?
my boyfriend just called and sang 'happy birthday' to me. i've a freshly-made giant-sized latte in front of me. my dad's taking me out for lunch. the aforementioned awesome boyfriend is taking me out for a very fancy dinner tonight. it should be a good day.
i'm thirty-five years old today.
there's not quite the sensation of trauma i expected, but i am feeling it more than any of the last few birthdays. i've mentioned it to several people over the last month or so, but in my mind thirty-five has always been the age at which you should have it all together. you've got a career, a relationship, a home and you're just... adult. the problem is, i don't feel like an adult yet. well, maybe in some ways, but not entirely. certainly not in the way i perceived adult-hood as a six-year-old looking up to them around my parents' house.
this last year has been a complete blur. honestly, it's gone by far too fast and i kind of wish i could go back and do some of it again. not to correct any mistakes, but just to enjoy it a little more. i hope this coming year won't be quite so quick to slip away from me. i have several goals for my thirty-fifth year. they're pretty big and will take a lot of effort on my part to achieve, but i hope i'm up to the challenge.
here's to me... all growed up. who knew it'd look like this?
where's my damn cake?
