Birthday party

I have really enjoyed my new car. I love it. I am still jumpy about getting hit. But hopefully I will get over that really soon. But its a really cool car. I am happy with my choice. I dropped Kaitlin off at the airport Friday morning to go visit her boyfriend Justin. I miss her all ready. She has text me several times and sent me pictures. Justin has been taking her to all the cool places. Since he works for Disney he took her all over the Disney lot. She will have a lot to tell us and show us when she gets home.

Today we are going to Brady's 3rd b-day party. I cant believe he is 3 already. It will be at Hero's in OH. He will have so much fun! I cant wait to see him today. Will post pictures as soon as I can.

My new car

Well I finally found a vehicle that I liked. It is a GMC Terrain. Boy it was a terrible experience for me finding a new car. I looked at lots of cars and suv's. I finally narrowed it down to wanting a SUV. I looked at quite a lot of them. Didn't want a big one and I didn't want it to look like a crossover. I test drove them all and was disappointed by all of them. None of the car companies are making anything I feel is good. I would have bought a Ford Explorer but they are really expensive. Cory asked if I looked at the Buick/GMC dealership and I said no...why would I want something there. I didn't even know what they made. But after a few days of feeling frustrated on not finding anything I liked I pulled in to check it out and saw this suv I thought it was cute. And that was it. I kept looking for cars and kept coming back to this suv. They gave us the suv for the weekend and I fell in love. We took it back after work Monday night and put a deposit on it and started the ball rolling. Said we would pick it up on Thursday. We had to wait for the check from Triple A from my old car as we were using that as a down payment. So I got the check today and cannot wait till tomorrow. I am quite sure tomorrow will go so slow as I am excited to leave work to pick up my new car. I am just so happy to finally have found something and now I have this off my plate and my accident finally behind me.

Car accident

Yesterday started out just like any other day. We had the chili cook off at work so everyone was so full all day long. It was too bad it was so busy at work that we couldn't really enjoy it as much as we should have. But all in all it was a fun day. Only a few people dressed up. I could not wait to leave at 3:30 pm as I had so much to do before trick or treating began. So at 3:30 pm I started packing up my stuff and told my boss I was leaving to go home. I took what was left of my chili home. I had it in my big crock pot. I love crock pots! I had just taken the exit ramp off off 94E to get onto 275S and a mile down the road a orange car tried to get into my lane and didn't see me and hit me. He hit me and it spun my car around 3-4 times. Then I stopped and thought oh no and 10 seconds later I saw the orange car coming to hit me again. It hit me hard that time. I spun around quite a few times and hit the guard rail and spun some more and finally came to a stop. Mind you it is rush hour traffic on a major highway. I am so lucky no one else hit me. A very nice gentleman had stopped to see how I was. He asked if I could back it up a little as I was hanging out into the highway. I did and he asked if I could get out. I tried my drivers side door and it would not open. So he helped me out of the passenger side door. Mind you at this point I started to look around my car because all I smelled was chili. Sure enough there was chili everywhere! I asked the nice man about the other car and he said he didn't see another car. When he got me out we saw a lot of smoke coming from the the trees on the side of the road and heard someone. That is when we saw the orange car. It had spun right off the road into the bushes and trees. You could not even see the car very well. Thankfully they finally got up to the road and they were fine. Not a scratch on them. I have to say that I thought to myself that I was so grateful that no one got hurt.

The police were on the way so I called Cory to let him know what happened and he left work to come survey the damage. I called my boss since I was just waiting there to let him know that I was involved in an accident and I would call him later to let him know about coming in the next day. Well all I said was I was in an accident and he said oh no, are you ok, and where are you, I am on the way. So he came up there too. The nice gentleman that stopped to see if I was ok was joined by another young man who stopped also to make sure everyone was ok. They gave me some water as I had bit a chunk of my tongue off during the accident and it was bleeding. The men did not want to leave until the police or my husband got there which was very kind. The 2 young men that were in the other car were down the road on their phones. One of the guys ended up leaving. Someone came and got him and he left before the police got there.

The police took forever. I did not wear a coat that day and I had hurt my foot during the accident. Cory and the police arrived at the same time. So did my boss. The police took me and the guy that was in the other car into his squad car. Tow truck arrived and Cory was already on the phone with Triple A. I will tell you this much...it is not comfortable in the back seat of a police car! Wow...they have no padding back there. I hope never to see the back of a police car again! The police officer had to let me out as I had to get my purse out and anything I wanted or needed out of my car as they were lifting it up onto the flatbed. So my boss and Cory helped me get my crock pot out and Brady's car seat and my purse and my Starbucks coffee mug out. There was Chili on everything! We took some pictures of my car at that point. It was taking them forever to get the orange car out as it was wedged between some trees. They did finally get it out. The police officer finally told me that I was done and gave me my report number and said I was free to go. So Cory and I were on the way home.

Cory looks at me and says..."so you like the Mazda 3's then right" I laughed. I had told him last year that I like the Mazda 3's and I might get one eventually. But I was in no hurry as we only had 2 more payments on my car and I was going to enjoy not having a car payment for a while. Life is funny like that. I don't know if they will total the car or not. They will look at it in a couple of days.

So all in all I was very lucky indeed. I could have been hurt very bad or someone else could have been hurt. Sure I am bummed about my car but at the end of the day its only a car! They are replaceable....people are not. I am such a lucky person. I have always thought I was so blessed and I am.

So I am up and very sore! Going to go into work late today as Cory has to take me.

I will hear in a couple of days about my car. Will keep you updated.

Off to get ready for work now. Hope everyone has a wonderful day! I will never forget this Halloween! lol