scrapsandsass
Oh Ricky you're so fine ...
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So you know how you are reading a book or watching a show and there is foreshadowing about things to come?? I had an up-close and personal experience with that this week. LOL. I can laugh about it now, or I will just curl up into a ball and cry.
We've been without a car since mid-July when ours broke. Even though my hubby works at a bank as a credit underwriter, he has no financial sense.
I did some calculating, and the best option for us was to combine the mortgage on our two properties and re-finance, using the lower interest rate, saving a lot of money, and getting a bit of cash back to buy a car and not have a car payment. We've been "in process" and waiting for the appraisal (which finally came through). So hopefully we'll have a car by next week. ANYWAY, my grandma loaned me her car last week so I could get Kennedy back and forth to school. She drives a few times a week to get to the store or to the hairdresser or to church, but she's cut back on driving.
Friday, I took Kennedy to school, and then took my grandma to run a bunch of errands. She's 96, and lives on her own, still drives, and is in good health. So she's always amazing people and a lot of people were talking to her on Friday. She told three different people, "I'm 96 and still driving, although I probably shouldn't be." After all of the errands, she told me she needed to go to the clinic for a urinary tract infection on Saturday, so she took her car and drove home. After her saying that all day, I was a wee bit concerned because of Friday afternoon traffic. She made it home fine, but then...
She called on Saturday to tell me that she accidentally crashed her car into her washer and dryer when she was putting it back in the garage (because it had gotten stuck in a rut off of the side of the driveway... she gunned it and BAM). She said that her neck was a little sore, but it wasn't that big of a deal. She said she was fine and refused to go to urgent care or the hospital on Saturday. But she did say that it was probably the end of her driving days. Really? You think? Oh yes, gentle readers... the foreshadowing did tell. I was seriously waiting and listening for a narrator's voice at that point.
But I couldn't really have imagined. OMG. I got over there and found she'd totaled both machines, part of the wall, and her car. The front of her car is crumpled, the windshield is fractured because the impact broke the side mirror off and it flew around and hit the glass. The driver's side door doesn't open anymore. Both the washer and the dryer were totally mangled, but she was just worried that she had a batch of underwear and socks in the dryer that needed to be taken out. :/ Tim got a pry bar and managed to get most of the laundry out. But I told her she had no choice, and I took her to urgent care, where they found a fracture of the C2 (with displacement) and compression fracture of C7-T1. She was walking around like nothing had happened, and she had a freaking broken neck. They completely freaked out at urgent care, and then couldn't send her to our local hospital because no one can apparently handle that. They had an ambulance come to whisk her off to Harborview which is the northwest's major trauma center. It took forever because it is a major trauma center, and there was a ton of craziness going on (amazingly she didn't have any neurological issues and was just flat on her back in a brace). Now she's getting another type of brace and is going to be sent home because they don't want to operate on her. She completely amazes me. Breaks her neck in multiple places, and spends the day griping at me to go home and be with my husband. LOL. She is a crazy woman.
I just feel like life is completely insane these days. My daughter said, "You know how, when bad things happen, people always tell you God doesn't give you more than you can handle... if someone says that to me again, I'm going to punch them in the throat." I think I'm with her on that one.
I'm totally missing the Pad peeps (and my sanity). I seriously need some scrap therapy!!!
We've been without a car since mid-July when ours broke. Even though my hubby works at a bank as a credit underwriter, he has no financial sense.
I did some calculating, and the best option for us was to combine the mortgage on our two properties and re-finance, using the lower interest rate, saving a lot of money, and getting a bit of cash back to buy a car and not have a car payment. We've been "in process" and waiting for the appraisal (which finally came through). So hopefully we'll have a car by next week. ANYWAY, my grandma loaned me her car last week so I could get Kennedy back and forth to school. She drives a few times a week to get to the store or to the hairdresser or to church, but she's cut back on driving.Friday, I took Kennedy to school, and then took my grandma to run a bunch of errands. She's 96, and lives on her own, still drives, and is in good health. So she's always amazing people and a lot of people were talking to her on Friday. She told three different people, "I'm 96 and still driving, although I probably shouldn't be." After all of the errands, she told me she needed to go to the clinic for a urinary tract infection on Saturday, so she took her car and drove home. After her saying that all day, I was a wee bit concerned because of Friday afternoon traffic. She made it home fine, but then...
She called on Saturday to tell me that she accidentally crashed her car into her washer and dryer when she was putting it back in the garage (because it had gotten stuck in a rut off of the side of the driveway... she gunned it and BAM). She said that her neck was a little sore, but it wasn't that big of a deal. She said she was fine and refused to go to urgent care or the hospital on Saturday. But she did say that it was probably the end of her driving days. Really? You think? Oh yes, gentle readers... the foreshadowing did tell. I was seriously waiting and listening for a narrator's voice at that point.
But I couldn't really have imagined. OMG. I got over there and found she'd totaled both machines, part of the wall, and her car. The front of her car is crumpled, the windshield is fractured because the impact broke the side mirror off and it flew around and hit the glass. The driver's side door doesn't open anymore. Both the washer and the dryer were totally mangled, but she was just worried that she had a batch of underwear and socks in the dryer that needed to be taken out. :/ Tim got a pry bar and managed to get most of the laundry out. But I told her she had no choice, and I took her to urgent care, where they found a fracture of the C2 (with displacement) and compression fracture of C7-T1. She was walking around like nothing had happened, and she had a freaking broken neck. They completely freaked out at urgent care, and then couldn't send her to our local hospital because no one can apparently handle that. They had an ambulance come to whisk her off to Harborview which is the northwest's major trauma center. It took forever because it is a major trauma center, and there was a ton of craziness going on (amazingly she didn't have any neurological issues and was just flat on her back in a brace). Now she's getting another type of brace and is going to be sent home because they don't want to operate on her. She completely amazes me. Breaks her neck in multiple places, and spends the day griping at me to go home and be with my husband. LOL. She is a crazy woman.
I just feel like life is completely insane these days. My daughter said, "You know how, when bad things happen, people always tell you God doesn't give you more than you can handle... if someone says that to me again, I'm going to punch them in the throat."
I think I'm with her on that one. I'm totally missing the Pad peeps (and my sanity). I seriously need some scrap therapy!!!
