Archive for May 17th, 2007

Lucky

by athena714 Thursday, 17 May, 2007

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:

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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.

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32 Years

by athena714 Thursday, 17 May, 2007

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.

Momdadsunset

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