The never ending vicious cycle of life

So I've decided that life is just out to get me. :o)
Sometimes I wish that I could be 10 again....where my biggest stresses were whether or not I was going to be able to convince my parents to buy me the latest New Kids on the Block cassette or whether I was going to make it home from softball practice to see the new episode of Full House. But then I realize that being an adult is better overall. I guess.

I know that I need stress in my life. I don't function very well without it. But I'd really appreciate some sort of middle ground. I don't function well with large amounts of it either.
So continuing in this vicious cycle of figuring out how to get past the latest crises and waiting for the next one to happen....hoping that maybe I'll actually get a break and have a few days to breathe.....the next one came crashing down. Literally.

I was sitting at a stop light on Thursday afternoon when a lady decided to ram right into the back of me. Yay. I keep change in the little ashtray/trash compartment in the dash, and it popped open and all the money flew out at my face.
Of course my first two thoughts as this is happening are:
"Are you freakin kidding me?!?!?!? I just got my car back last week!!!!!" (from being fixed after the last person that decided to back into me) and "This is seriously going to cut into my nap time that I was so looking forward to"
I seemed to be ok. Just kinda shaken up a bit.
Pulled over. Got out of the car. The lady that hit me started apologizing saying she thought the light was green. Blah blah blah (shout out to Terry) ;)
She tries to figure out all her insurance information. Meanwhile I am looking at my car. The whole back end is completely smashed in. My trunk is popped open and won't close. The tail lights are all shattered.
Then the sheriff that happened to be driving by, pulled over. He was very nice. Asked us both for our licenses and he ran them. Turns out that the lady's license had been suspended. And my neck was starting to hurt a bit. Double yay.
This happened just up the hill from my apartment, which also happens to be just outside of Hillary's work....so she came out to make sure I was ok and stayed with me for awhile. She was very helpful....asking the sheriff questions I probably wouldn't have thought of. I had to hang out for awhile because they had to write up an incident report since the lady's license was suspended. While waiting, 2 other sheriff cars came. Tow truck came to tow the lady's car, since she couldn't drive now (well....technically she wasn't suppose to before either). I decided to drive my car home since it was just down the hill like a quarter of a mile. And thank God it was only a quarter of a mile.....it really wasn't drivable. The trunk wouldn't stay closed and the bumper was hanging down so far it was scraping on the back tires.
So yeah.....made a million phone calls to get the insurance crap going, my car towed to the shop, making a dr's appointment and getting a rental car-which was a whole other pain in the butt that I'm not very happy with. Currently driving a huge Dodge Durango for over $50 a day. TRIPLE YAY!!!!
Went to the doctor yesterday afternoon. She gave me super strength ibprofen, vicoden and flexirol. :D Which is good....because as of today I am quite possibly in the worst pain I've ever had in my life. I'm trying really hard not to be a baby about it....but dang. My back and neck are killing me.
So hopefully this won't take too long to get all worked out.....but I'm not holding my breath seeing as how there is going to be a whole investigation process because of the stupid lady with a suspended license. *sigh*

Anyways......my new current obsession is a new album by Brooke Waggoner. It's kind of folk/pop. Catchy stuff. You should check it out.
I promise to blog sooner than 6 months next time. :o)

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Now playing: Brooke Waggoner - Young Friend
via FoxyTunes