How excited am I that Ryan Adams is coming out with a new album in a few weeks? And how good is his new single, “Two”?
Very.
Archive for May, 2007
The insurance company decided that my car was a total loss, so I get a new car! What should I get? I think I want one of the new 2007 Honda CR-Vs, but Hawk was pointing out to me that we could get a used BMW X3 for about the same price. Hmmm. I love me my Hondas, but a BMW would be awesome, and just as safe, maybe even safer.
Any input?
Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed or called or commented with their good wishes for me. It’s just one of those times where I am overwhelmed by how many people love me and who are glad that I am OK. And I am OK. Still immensely freaked out - I don’t think I will ever get the visual of being dragged backwards down the freeway out of my head - and my neck and shoulders are pretty sore, but I am alive and well.
To answer some questions, the other driver was fine. His truck was barely even damaged. It was a big hauling truck, about the size of a garbage truck. You can actually see the truck in the pictures in my last post - it’s the truck in front of the CHP cruiser. We were just going along, and he just changed lanes straight into me. The force from him hitting me spun me around backwards to the other side of his truck where I was dragged backwards for fifty feet or so before coming loose. Magically, all the other cars behind us uniformly stopped and never came close to hitting me.
The driver of the truck did stop, and the CHP came, and there were witnesses who all told the CHP that it was totally not my fault. We got my car to a body shop and we are awaiting word from the insurance company whether or not they are going to fix it or just total it out. Everybody cross your fingers that they total it out, because if nothing else, I would like a new car out of this. I don’t know how I would feel about getting back into my old car, although it certainly served me well. Thank you, Honda, for building a strong car and keeping me alive. I have just become a customer for life.
Hawaii pictures are coming, I promise. That’s what I was *planning* to do Thursday afternoon when I got home from acupuncture, and we all know how that turned out. So it will be a few more days.
Again, thank you all for good wishes. I feel the love 
This afternoon on my way to acupuncture, I got into a car accident. I was on the 134 headed to Pasadena when a big hauling truck changed lanes into me. I tried to swerve out of the way, but our cars somehow got hooked together and I was dragged, then flipped around so I was going backwards, then dragged. All of this at about 60 mph. It’s extremely fortunate that my car didn’t roll.
I thought I was going to die. As I was being dragged backwards down the freeway, I couldn’t imagine how I was going to get out of this. I truly thought that I was going to die in that car.
SOMEHOW, our cars got unhooked and I rolled *backwards* over to the side of the freeway and stopped. I burst into tears and couldn’t stop saying “I’m alive I’m alive I’m alive”. I had to crawl out my passenger side door because the driver side was wedged shut.
Here’s some pictures of my car that Hawk took with his phone when he got there:
I made it out of that without a scratch. My shoulders are a little sore and I am totally freaked out, but I am alive and whole.
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!
I know it hasn’t always been easy. Maybe it’s never been easy. What I admire most about your marriage is that you’ve never hidden that fact. You’ve told us how you’ve had to work at it. And you have worked at it - you never gave up, even if sometimes you thought about it. But through kids and work troubles and grandma issues and good old fashioned husband and wife communication issues, you guys have been committed to each other for more than thirty years. Not to mention that you raised a couple of fine (if I do say so myself) children who love you dearly. Now that I am a married woman myself (going on seven years now), I can truly say that you taught me what a marriage is supposed to be.
You make a wonderful team and I love you both deeply.
Did you miss me?
We had a wonderful time in Hawaii. I took a bijillion pictures, but it will take me a few days to go through them before I can post them here. We relaxed by the pool, took a snorkeling trip over to Ni’ihau, saw a humpback whale (!), toured the island in a helicopter (!), and ate lots of amazing food. I also got a pretty cool souvenir - a new tattoo of a plumeria blossom on my wrist.
I’ll get more detailed when I put pictures up. It may require a whole album.
I just really don’t have much to say today, but I feel guilty when I don’t update my blog.
On Saturday, the husband and I head to Hawaii for a week with my lovely parents and brother. Can’t. Fucking. Wait. I have two new bathing suits and don’t plan to do much except lay by the pool and drink.
My plan for eating healthy and taking care of myself has been going very well, thank you. I have been enjoying our new juicer, my favorite combo so far being apple/orange/carrot/celery/ginger, but one day I added a beet and that was really good too. And a very pretty color to boot. Acupuncture and yoga have been great, too. I hadn’t been to yoga for almost six months and I realize how much I missed it. I can *almost* touch my toes now.
My stupid brain is still acting up and I’m being particularly obsessive about my fertility this week. For no reason. Rationally, I know that my doctor says I’m fertile (in no uncertain terms - the last time I talked to him he said “Miranda, you are a fertile woman”) and at this point there’s really no hard evidence to the contrary, but me being me, I overanalyze everything to death and can’t stop. It’s seriously like an addiction. I wish they had a twelve step group for this crap. “Hi, I’m Miranda and I can’t stop checking my cervical position”. Sigh.
I’m sure a week on Kauai is exactly what the doctor ordered and once I am there in that tropical paradise I will feel much better. A break in routine and some good family time is just what I need. You all take care while I’m gone, and I promise that I will have great pictures when I get back!
