This morning I crushed in the bottom corner of my rear bumper. And
just like last week, it was the damn trash can's fault. The snow is
still piled up on either side of the driveway and with the trash can
added into the mix, it makes it difficult to reverse out at an angle
and then straighten it up in time to get out. This time I was
looking at the passenger mirror to make sure I was clear of the trash
can and ended up going right into the snow bank on the drivers side.
It didn't help that right before that I remembered my parking break
and releasing it increased my speed quite a bit. The hit felt about
as solid as last week but the speed did me in. When I got to work I
checked and there it was, a caved-in bumper. Relative to the size of
the bumper it is a fairly small bit that got damaged but they can't
replace just a little bit so that sucks. I got online at work and
saw estimates everywhere from $500 to over $1000. There goes my tax
refund. It's also annoying that I finally decided to put a bunch of
money in my Roth IRA and days later I damage my car. I think
tomorrow I'll call my insurance company and then go out and get an
estimate from a body shop. But I don't plan on fixing it until the
snow melts because I'll be damned if I get it fixed only to back into
the snow again.
There wasn't a lot going on at work today. A couple classes in the
lab, second grade reading groups, other stuff. Wednesday is usually
my slow day and I had one class cancel because of their Valentine's
party, so I had even more free time. I spent it working on
storybooks. I kind of lost track but I think I finished up the book
I was working on yesterday and then finished two more books. Maybe.
All I know is that I am on my second to last book. I am so close. I
will be happy to say good riddance to these books.
I brought in my pipe cleaner flowers and left them in the teachers
lounge with a note. I was originally only going to write three lines
but then I found out it was a birthday day, where once a month people
bring in food to celebrate all the birthdays in the month. And that
caused me to add a couple more. I used different fonts and sizes for
each line and it looked pretty cool but I'll just recreate the words
here.
Happy “Valentine's Day”
Take a “flower”
And some free “quotation marks”
(Not edible, by the way)
(The “flowers”, the quotation marks are obviously inedible due to
their intangibility)
After school I picked up Chipotle and when I got home I read my book
until dinner. When my sister came over I learned that today was a
day for car accidents because my brother had been in one, that turned
out to totally trump mine. He was on an on-ramp, turned to look over
his shoulder to see if anyone was coming, and when he turned around
the car in front of him was completely stopped on the ramp. There
wasn't any time to do anything so my brother ran right into the car
going about thirty miles per hour. It completely crushed in the cars
trunk and the front end of my brother's truck but he and the other
driver were able to walk away. Although, speaking from experience,
they are going to be really uncomfortable tomorrow. In my brother's
defense, it is a horrible on-ramp. Most of the people on the road in
the near lane want in the lane that the on-ramp turns into and most
people on the on-ramp want anywhere else but that lane. And the
on-ramp barely ends before there is a stoplight. I don't even use
that on-ramp because it has always felt like an accident waiting to
happen. Obviously. I'm just glad my brother wasn't hurt too bad,
and hopefully won't have any long-term effects. When my sister lead
off with our brother was in a car accident I immediately had that
sinking feeling in my stomach. When I was in middle school my dad
called to tell me one of my friends from Scouts had been in a car
accident and was killed, so I don't really like leading off with the
car accident thing.
Tonight I watched some YouTube videos and played a little BF4.
For a few rounds of Domination I switched to a different LMG. I'm a
big fan of the LSAT but I figured I should try some other guns. I've
noticed that it is rough going from a gun with a 100 or 200 round
magazine back to a much smaller magazine. Now when I use assault
rifles I feel like my clip is empty after one click of the mouse. I
do need to level up my assault class though because I still haven't
unlocked the medkit yet, which is sad.
Now I am going to read for awhile
and then go to bed. Reading and sleep, two of my favorite things.
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