When It Rains It Pours

Calgon, take me away! Seriously, just once I would like to live a normal life without some sort of crazy catastrophe, tragedy or major meltdown! Every time I get my brain in the right place and think I'm ready to get my butt in gear and get healthy and lose weight, something crazy happens. One step forward, two steps back.

Every day I write an article for my blog in my head but I never seem to get my ass in front of the computer and actually put it writing. I could probably be really productive and successful in life if I could just make myself follow through...with anything. Anyhoo, last month, I was on my way to my daughter's play at school and as I was turning into the school parking lot, a car came around the corner and smashed right into me. I was freaking out. I have never been in an accident before and I didn't know what to do. She was going too fast and as I started to turn, she sped up even faster. I'm not sure why. Probably distracted with a million other things on her mind just like the rest of us. The insurance company found me liable because I was the one turning. Whatever. But my insurance company was awesome. They took care of my rental, my repairs and it was all really fast.

Two weeks later, my little sister calls me and tells me my aunt has been in an accident and is in ICU. Her brain was bleeding and they had to cut out part of her skull and drain her head and let the swelling go down. She was getting better and responding by squeezing the doctor's hands and giving thumbs up. They took her off some of the support systems (breathing tube, draining tube, etc) and were talking about sending her to rehab. The very next day, she wasn't responding anymore and was crying a lot. Today she's a little better but not as good as she was.

Two days after the call about my aunt, my husband calls me on his way home from work and says, "I just got in a wreck." WHAT???? First of all, he has been borrowing his uncle's car because we no longer work at the same company and can't carpool anymore and we only have one car. Second of all, he was ALMOST HOME!!! An old lady pulled across 3 lanes of traffic to go south when my husband was travelling north. Smashed right into him. Witnesses came out of the businesses that line that street and gave my husband their business cards because they saw the accident and said that it was clearly her fault. He was just going straight down the "highway" and she pulled out in front of traffic. That was last Tuesday. We had to get a rental car out of our own pocket. Today is Friday, 10 days after the accident, and her insurance company still hadn't gotten the police report or interviewed any of the witnesses. Our insurance wouldn't let us make the claim because they said it wasn't my husband's fault. His uncle's insurance said it was clearly the other lady's fault, too. And her insurance is still sitting around with their thumbs up their asses waiting for pigs to fly. He finally called and left a message for a supervisor and they called back and told him that the one witness they talked to said that my husband was switching lanes and it was both of their faults. Even if my husband was switching lanes (which he wasn't), he still has the right of way in the street. The side traffic and just pull out in front of oncoming traffic because someone is switching lanes! The one witness they talked to was on her cell phone during the accident and told my husband she didn't see where he was when the accident happened. And now she's telling the insurance company that he was in a different lane. The reason why he was in another lane was because the old lady who hit him KNOCKED HIM INTO ANOTHER LANE WITH HER CAR! 5 more feet and he would have been in oncoming traffic and he could have been seriously injured or killed. Thank God he wasn't hurt. But we still have this rental car and I have no idea how we're going to pay for it if her insurance isn't going to. My husband told that supervisor that she needs to call the other witnesses and get their statements. She was so put out by this request. She couldn't believe that he wanted her to talk to more than one witness. I'm so mad right now I can't even think straight. Plus, we have to figure out a way to buy a second car because we can't keep paying for a rental car and without his uncle's car, he now has no way to get to work.

On a positive note, I FINALLY bought myself some new clothes last weekend. I know that when I feel good in my clothes it's easier for me to stay on track with losing weight so I just gave in and did it. I actually found some pants that I love. I recently caught a glimpse of myself wearing the new pants I bought just a few months ago and I was mortified. I don't have a full length mirror in my room so all this time I've been completely oblivious to how I looked. I was in my daughter's room one day and walked past her full length mirror and when I saw myself in those pants, I freaked out. I asked her and my husband why have they been letting me leave the house in those pants??? Not to mention, I have them in gray and khaki. So about 3-4 days a week (since I don't have many clothes I usually end up wearing the same 2 pairs of pants during the week and my jeans on Fridays), I've been walking around in what are supposed to be straight leg pants and actually look like tapered pants. Or as my daughter calls them, riding pants. As in horse riding pants. How humilitaing!!! I bought my new pants in black and they are bootcut this time. I really like them. They have them in gray and khaki but none of the Fat Girl stores have them. I've been trying to order them online but the freaking website won't take my card. I tried my husband's card and it gives me an error on that one also. It's telling me to make sure I'm keying it correctly. It's not declined, it's acting like I'm entering the wrong number. I guess I'll have to go in the store and order them. Oh well.