2010- Not going to be my year

I bought a new car a couple of weekends ago and two days later Toyota issued a recall of the car saying it's an out of control deathtrap (I think this whole Toyota thing has been blown a bit out of proportion- but it's still not great news). This was after I had just totalled my other car and all within the first month of 2010- which was clearly not going to be my best year. I was telling my co-worker about all this and she pointed out that maybe it was my 'bad luck' year according to the Chinese zodiac (she's from China) so we googled it.

Google did not help make me feel better. It turns out this is my bad year! I was born in the Year of the Tiger and 2010 is also the Year of the Tiger. Apparently, when it's your animal year again it's bad luck for you, something I did not know! Technically the Chinese New Year doesn't actually begin until mid-February but I've decided that it's just going to be all of 2010 so I am now preparing for 11 more months of bad happenings.

I was told by another co-worker that wearing red helps deflect the bad luck so I'm going to try that as well as crossing my fingers, throwing salt over my shoulder, getting a lucky rabbit foot and praying that my luck turns around! If the rest of the months follow January it will be an incredibly interesting year:)

My Car Wreck

I got into my first car wreck and decided to go all the way with it and completely total my car. I was driving down Highway 290 in dear old Houston, TX when a few cars in front of me a ladder fell off a truck (1st lesson of the day- don't drive behind a car carrying a ladder). The cars in front of me came to a complete stop and although I braked hard, I hit the car in front of me (in my defense it was raining at the time and I slowed down a lot). Everything was okay at that point, though, just some slight damage to both of our cars, when from behind a car came flying and hit the back of me.

This was the point that I hit the car in front of me so hard my air bags deployed, windows shattered, I flopped around the car and the guy in front of me hit the two cars in front of him. Needless to say my car no longer had a trunk.

I must say I find those pictures a little impressive and a little terrifying because many think I should be hurt much more than I actually am. It ended up being a 7 car pileup and somehow I was the only one even slightly hurt and that was just a bump on the head and bruise on my arm. I did go to the hospital though to get checked out and had my first cat scan, ambulance ride and experience of getting taped to a gurney. I had to lie on the highway as the rain came down and we waited on the ambulance, but a cute paramedic saw fit to crouch over me and guard my face from the rain, while I got to stare at his crotch.

My coworker was in the car with me (he ran a marathon two days later so he was fine) and stayed with the car as it was taken to the wrecker and his favorite part of the entire story is the number of shoes that somehow fell out of my car. I tend to live in my car and apparently my trunk was my second closet. Since the truck was no longer, every time they moved my car more shoes fell out of it. The cops even suggested I sold shoes and ended up counting at least 12 pairs on the highway, some of which were saved and some that weren't. (2nd lesson of the day- clean my car out more often).

My poor car is no longer but I am getting a new one and thankfully everyone was okay!! I already had a driving paranoia though so I don't think this is going to help.

Lesson Learned form Paranormal Activity

I saw Paranormal Activity last night and the first half was incredibly boring (and the camera movements made me slightly nauseous) but the last half really freaked me out. I don't know what the filmmakers wanted me to learn from this movie but what I got out of it was that if I am ever in a relationship or living with someone who is haunted by a demon it's best to just cut my losses and leave them. I will definitely not be sticking around to film it.

Last, Last Weekend (My first post!)

So this past weekend, I did a whole lot of nothing and it was great. I watched the rockets game, saw friends, bought some clothes, and most importantly slept. That's a pretty normal weekend for me but the weekend before that (last, last weekend) was jam packed and absolutely fabulous. Since Mandy (sorry it took me two weeks to do this:))made this fantastic blog for me so I can keep a record of my life, I felt I had to blog about it, moment by moment, so here goes:
Friday Night- Me and a friend went to see "Rent" on tour. I first saw Rent as a movie in 2006 and immediately fell in love with it (side note: while at the theatre my friend's car froze over and we used credit cars to de-ice it, being the unprepared college girls we were). I loved the movie and so when the next time I went to NYC I made sure to get tickets, and after seeing the show on its original stage, I loved the stage version even more. Which is why when I heard that not only was Rent on tour but that two of the original Broadway cast members (Roger and Mark) were in it I begged for tickets for Christmas, and my parents happily obliged. My friend had never seen the stage version so we were both really excited and the show blew both of us away more than we even expected. Getting to hear the original Roger and Mark sing 'What You Own' for one of the last times (the show closed this past year) was a once in a lifetime experience and that in itself would have made the weekend worth it but it wasn't over.
Saturday: This was my relaxing day. I slept until noon and went that night to see Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. It was one of those movies where you knew how it was going to end the whole time but it was still exciting to get there and Matthew looked gorgeous (and extremely tan) like always. I definitely recommend it.
Sunday: This was the big day. I went to church in the morning and then took a nap in preparation for that night because that's when my sister and I went to see Kenny Chesney! I bought tickets the day they went on sale and had been counting down until the show because Kenny is my number one, all time favorite singer. I figured out that this was my 7th time to see him as I've been every summer since junior year of high school. I know he doesn't have the best voice but he loves what he does and when he gets on stage in those tight jeans all is forgiven. I go to a lot of concerts and I've seen all types of performances but Kenny definitely is one of the best and he didn't disappoint, last Sunday. From the second he came on stage with 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy' to the moment he finished signing autographs he never let up. He was full of energy and ran around the whole time. He sang all of his hits (except How Forever Feels, which I still can't figure out why that was left out) including my favorite Don't Happen Twice which he saved until near the end. The second he walked on stage my crappy week at work and the crappy week to come went away and I just got to have fun! It was one of his best shows and I was so happy I got to go and I have vowed to never miss a Kenny concert if he comes to my town.
By the time I got home from the concert it was after midnight so my weekend was over and it had been amazing. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to top that but now it's a challenge to see if I can:)