Birthday, Fat Lip And Crashing
Posted on December 15, 2009 - Filed Under Birthdays, Tacoma, Year Three
My 41st Birthday was on the 8th.
The plan was to have Mom, Flower, Alex, Barb and the girls and Travis come over for dinner.
I picked Megan up from school and then picked Alex up from day care. We had been home for 10 minutes, and I needed a shave so I wandered up to my bathroom and left Alex and Megan to play. A few minutes later I hear a solid THUD from the living room, then Alex erupted into screams.
Uh oh!
I raced down the stairs just as mom was walking in the front door. Alex was face down, bleeding from his mouth. He was excited and running around in the living room, tripped over his shoes and hit the floor face first. He actually bit into his upper lip and it was bad enough that I considered getting him to the ER for stitches.
He survived with a huge fat lip the rest of the night. Looks okay now but many it was kind of scary to see him bleeding like that.
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The birthday bash went well. Barb made dinner and mom and Flower brought salads and desserts.
The night was a little chaotic but I had a good time. We were going to fire up the Wii so my aunt could trash talk us, but we never got the chance.
I crashed pretty early that night because I was feeling a little tired and burned out. Turned out I was coming down with the flu and ended up in bed the next few days and am still recovering. I also have a sinus infection on top of it so I feel like crap.
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Because having the flu and a sinus infection is not enough, I decided to get in a car accident on Saturday to top it all off!
Actually, I did not decided, someone else decided that for me.
I was sitting at the stop light on South 19th and Stevens waiting for the light to turn green.
Light turns green and I start going through the intersection and then I notice someone coming down the hill on my right… fast. I remember thinking, wow he is going way to fast to stop a the light. Then I realized, he was not going to stop.
I hit my brakes hoping he would pass in front of me but no such luck. He slammed into the right front end of my car. Hard. I assume he was running roughly 30-35mph.
I was able to drive the car home, however the steering is messed up big time, and I have no idea what the rest of the damage is like.
The driver was young, and has no insurance. Just found out that the owner of the car is insured via eSurance. We’ll see how that goes.
Either way, not happy about the accident at all considering I just purchased the vehicle in October.
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I’m so sorry to hear about your accident. I hope your “hotrod” (isn’t that what Alex calls it) is repairable. It must have really ticked you off when he hit you, the idiot. If they don’t have insurance, you can always sue them for your deductible, at least. (I watch Judge Judy).
We will see.. I have estimate guy coming to look at the car tomorrow.