New Year

There have been many happenings in my world around the New Year. 

Right before the New Year, I was in a car accident.  Just me against the elements was the cause.  I came around a curve on a road I travel nearly every day and found black ice.  I tried to turn into the slide like I was taught, turn against the slide, brake, no brake...but to no avail.  I went one direction then the other and then did a 180 and was on the other side of the road facing the wrong way but still moving, nothing seemed to slow the car.  Then things went from bad to worse when I hit the shoulder.  Suddenly hitting gravel made the momentum push my car over the edge where there was a hill.  My car tipped and rolled down the hill all in one continuous movement.  I rolled 1 and a quarter turns and ended up laying on the passenger side.  I realized I was stationary and tried to grasp what had happened.  In somewhat of a daze, I tried to figure out what I needed to do next as I was hanging sideways from the seat belt.  I didn't feel hurt so I then thought I needed to find my cell phone to call the police and needed to figure out how to get out of my car.  Things were strewn about the car, coffee was everywhere from my first cup of coffee of the day being thrown around the car.  Note to self, get a better sealing coffee mug, I could have really used a gulp of coffee about then.  

I braced myself and unhooked the seat belt so I wouldn't fall into broken glass.  I couldn't find my phone so I started to figure out a way out of the car.  Passenger door was against the ground, drivers door was too hard to open straight up.  Then a woman appeared and looked in the front windshield, she asked if I was OK.  I said I was, but I can't get out.  She asked me if I could open the sun roof, I tried but it wouldn't budge.  The glass was gone but the inside fabric door was stuck, no doubt the top of the car rolling over the ground compromised the entire roof.  She went to the back and was able to pry the hatchback door open.  At last, the outside was visible.  I crawled through the car and got back out into the open.  I'm ashamed to say I don't know that woman's name, but she helped me out stayed with me until someone else came and let me stay warm in her car.  I was so shaken up--I know I thanked her profusely but I don't think I ever asked her what her name was. 

I found my cell phone in the back of the car and called my house trying to wake them out of sleep to come over to where I was to wait for the police to come.  When my good Samaritan called for help, turns out there was another car just around the curve that had gone off the road too.  They thought that was us and didn't know I was off the road just around the curve.  Finally I got a hold of my daughter and she rushed out in her pajamas to get me.  The sheriff deputy got there and came up to talk to me, apologizing for not knowing I was there.  Hmmmm, very cute sheriff deputy and also had a sense of humor.  I thanked the universe for bestowing such a funny attractive man with pretty green eyes to take my accident report.  I'm sure I'm probably getting a collective eye-roll from the readers, but hey it is who I am.  (laugh)  I was also happy I wore a nice outfit to my interrupted trek to work.  Yes, I know, but vanity runs deep people!!!  

I was in the truck with my daughter, cute sheriff had driven away, we sat there waiting for the tow truck to come.  I am sitting trying to settle down and think and someone walks up to my window and says something, I jump out of my skin--did not see them approach.  I was pleased it was cute sheriff back again.  He was bringing me the paperwork to file the report.  He laughed at me when I jumped and he said "I hate it when that happens!  You can imagine how embarrassing that is when it happens to me." and then points to his police insignia on his uniform.  Then, as far as I remember, I did the hair flip and laughed...it's like breathing to me, I can't help it.  Trauma over, my flirt was back on.  Sore neck and back, but I will be OK.  

Now, because of my great friends helping me out, I have a new car.  It is Red Hot Metallic.  It appeals to me in so many ways.  It's another Pontiac Vibe, so it's practical and efficient so it speaks to my miser side yet a racy RED color so I get to be a little wild on the outside.  This is just one of my new year adventures and it's only about a week into January.  More to come . . . stay reading, my friends!!!