So my cousin/roommate of a total of 3.5 years left Saturday to TX ultimately en route to U Michigan in the fall. The night before I finally decided on a new roommate, who is the same age as my now former roommate which should be a good sign. She also says she has some inside knowledge of Comcast cable, so I'm looking forward to saving money! She doesn't move in for another two weeks, so I have the place to myself again. Living alone is truly paradise.

Sunday afternoon I was in Alexandria waiting for my cousin to come and lead me to another cousin's house by car. I had decided  to wait outside since my car has no A/C (brutal btw). As I was standing in the parking side between my car and another, this woman drives into the two cars! As she hit the first car on my right, that car was dislodged from its parking spot and hit me, and she continued to barrel into my bumper! She stopped while her front bumper was stuck under my bumper so I yelled to her to reverse. As she got out of her shock, she came out and asked how I was. I just had a few nicks, so I said I was fine and in turn asked her how she was since she was completely disoriented! Completely. Disoriented. She ran back into her home and her husband (?) came out and assessed the damage. My uncle came down and since there was just paint peeled off my bumper, he waved it off. I wanted to leave there immediately, so I followed him and my cousin (who arrived shortly after the accident) to the other house.

Two ice packs on my elbow and it's doing pretty well. I've noticed I've had some short, splitting headaches. But otherwise I'm doing okay. After remembering Liam Neeson's wife's incident,  I did have a few thoughts of going to the doctor. However,  I think I can soldier through this. Thank God it wasn't more damage than that!

I feel like the theme of 2009 for me is death. I'm still trying to understand what I'm supposed to be learning from it- besides heartache. MJ just throws it off the kilter for me.

"let's turn down the chatter and turn up the music."