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This morning I made myself a smoothie and headed out the door to work. I glanced over to other drivers and saw them sipping on their morning coffee. I was probably the only one with a smoothie. I wondered who was going to have more energy throughout the day – me or these coffee lovers! I finished my smoothie just when there was heavy traffic because of a car accident. I’m one of those drivers who like to see what happened. I was driving in the far left lane and the accident and cops were in the right shoulder of the freeway.

I was coming up to the scene and saw that the first car was the same as my Mom’s car. I quickly glanced over at the driver and it was my Mom! She was staring up ahead and just sitting in her car. Everything was happening too quickly while I was driving and by the time I realized I wanted to pull over… I couldn’t.

It hit me hard that I just passed her and I couldn’t do anything or pull over. I started wheezing and crying. Also it’s the time of the month so I’d like to blame some of it on that too. I was a hot mess!

I got to work and finally after a while she got to work and e-mailed me.

Mom: Basically I was just driving along, about 10-15 mph when I heard the impact from the 3rd car hitting the car behind me, then felt the impact from the second car hitting me.  It all happened so fast, and needless to say I was very surprised when it happened. My bumper is all screwed up, and will need replacing.

Me: I saw the accident and recognized your car then saw you and I know no one else in Phoenix has the same hair do so I knew it was you.

Mom: My bumper and side panels are popped off. That makes me feel good to know that no one in Phoenix has the same hair do. Is my hair really that weird???

Me: LOL no it’s not that weird. Just that you’ve had the same hair for SO many years that I can recognize you from anywhere. The guy got out to talk to you?

Mom: Yes.  They both got out of their car on the passenger side.  I had a skirt on and decided I didn’t need to throw my back out trying to crawl over the middle console to get out.  I think I made a good decision!

Me: I can’t imagine you trying to do that anyways!

Mom: I would have if I was 30!!

My Mom is fine with no injuries. I’m grateful for that! Gotta love her sense of humor with all of this though. I also realized that every car accident I’ve been in I have always cried. I think I don’t do well in those kind of situations. I just hope I won’t be 60 and still crying in these kind of situations. Pfft!

Oh, and I still have energy!!! I think all the coffee lovers are exhausted by now…unless they’re drinking more coffee.  I don’t hate coffee lovers… I’m actually jealous because I have tried to like coffee and I hate it but love the smell. Bummer, I know.

Last week we had guests in town from California.

Chase & Haley

We hung out with friends and played Pictionary Man.
Poor boys, they had a hard time winning especially trying to draw an invisible man.
How are you supposed to draw that?!

Lindsay, Me, Haley, Jana.
We won the game!

Me, Tyler, Haley.
Haley and I have known each other since 1st grade.
She’s one of the few who has been there since the beginning of my relationship with Tyler.

Midnight snacks are eeeevil and no longer welcome in my house.

Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun!

September 2008 – taken by Jason Gervase

I’m behind with Google Reader and my TV shows. I really don’t want to know what I have been doing instead. I think it has to do with being way too addicted to Super Mario Bros. I can now say we finally finished it so I’m done with video games for a while! I don’t know how Tyler can play video games all the time and not get sick of it. I guess it’s something I’ll never understand…

Recently I have been trying to figure out what I want to do with my life right now. Tyler and I need to take advantage of it now while we are still young and do not have children. We do want to have children some day but right now we still have things we want to do for ourselves. I do not want to have children until I lose weight first anyways. When we do start a family we want to be able to say we accomplished things we wanted to before becoming full-time parents.

I recently discovered that they have a boxing club in the area. Their website and FAQ page has me convinced to join. I’m going to check it out on Monday anyways. Trust me I’m not joining to become a professional boxer…that’s not my goal. I love their insight of how you can lose weight and become fit with punching bags, exercising with kettlebells, jump roping, drills and conditioning. Both my parents are interested too but I’m not sure which one of them is going to join me. On the other hand, Tyler loves dodgeball and unfortunately they don’t have a team here at our community center. He is going to look into trying to set one up though and I hope it works out since I want to see him do something he loves.

I’m excited to see what this month and upcoming months will bring for us especially becoming more involved in our community.

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey MacKay