*Yeah, I know it isn’t the weekend, but I figure I can get away with it, seeing how bad I’ve been at keeping a regular blog schedule lately.
*My whole schedule and body seems to have been thrown off with summer starting this year. I’m sure some of it is stress-related from school closing and dealing with the hit and run on my car, and going on interviews and trying to regain some order to my house and life, so it’s been a bit insane the past few weeks.
I’ve mentioned for….several months that I have news to share but that I wasn’t ready to share it yet. I’m still not really ready but it’s more of a reality now, so I might as well put it out there. I’ve never really known how to say it, so I might as well just say it flat out.
At the end of October, our school received news that it was going to be closing at the end of the year due to low enrollment. If you know me personally, you’ve known about this since October. And you also know that I’ve struggled with the decision since then.
If you saw my Instagram post earlier this week, you know that someone pulled a hit and run on my car. Meaning, while it was sitting in front of my home, someone backed into it (as evidence by the dents/scrapes/etc on the front bumper) and left without leaving a note, knocking on my door, etc. It’s fully driveable, but there’s easily, at least $1000 worth of damages to the front of it. And it’s making me sad (not just because I’m the one stuck paying for it) because someone didn’t have the decency to at least leave their phone number on my windshield. I fully accept that whoever did it, didn’t do it on purpose, they probably misjudged how much room they had, and that’s fine. But, now my car, that I love, and that I’ve only had like…3 months…has damages to it, and I’m the one stuck with the bill.
And all of this happened in front of my home. We live in an apartment complex, so really no one comes into this parking lot that doesn’t live here or knows someone here. So, odds are, it’s a neighbor or a friend of a neighbor who did it, which just makes it worse. Whoever did it, has probably driven by my car a couple times since it happened and can still see what happened. I even sent out a note (through our leasing office) to all residents stating, I know someone here did it, please just come forward if you know anything…and…I’ve gotten nothing. It’s disappointing, to say the least.
If you haven’t seen my Instagram, this is pretty much what the front bumper currently looks like:
It’s hard to see in pictures because the car is black, so I tried to brighten the picture a bit. But just envision the bumper being fully dented in on the passenger side. The fog light (that you can see in the bottom right corner) is fully pushed back into the engine, where it isn’t supposed to be, the side panel was moved back (because now when I open the passenger side door, the panel and the door scrape each other), the headlights on that side don’t work anymore, there are scratches and scrapes all over the front grill and front side.
I did get one small bit of good news, however, from my insurance company. Because my car was unoccupied, sitting in front of my house when it happened, on private property; this damage is covered under our uninsured motorists/personal property damage coverage, so the deductible for that is half of what our normal accident deductible is. I’m very grateful for that fact, however still annoyed that I have to pay for it at all.
And yes, I know in the grand scheme of life, this is minor, it’s not the worst thing that could ever happen, it’s not even the worst thing that’s happened this year. But compounded with all other crappy events of the year, this just seems to be one more thing to just cause undue stress and annoyance.
And I don’t know of anyone who wouldn’t be annoyed to have to pay for damages they had nothing to do with. It just kills my faith in humanity a little. I’m not a saint, by any means, but I would also feel horrible if I damaged someone’s property and I just left and left them to handle the cost/bill/etc. But I guess not everyone has that active of a conscience.
I’m trying to give it a couple days to see if anyone saw anything or if anyone was willing to come forward with any information about the incident. If not, I need to take it to the service center on Monday. I am covered for a rental through my insurance as well, so I can pick up a car there. Hopefully, they don’t need to keep it too long and I will be able to get it back quickly.
I am definitely going to be a lot more careful about how I park at home from now on, though. Even if it means parking a little further away. I don’t want someone to back into me again.
*Devon is making ribs for dinner. I’m so ridiculously excited, I can barely sit still. They’re AMAZING!!
*If you saw my Instastories the other night, you’ll see that I’m playing around with the idea of going low-carb. Not no carb or no carbs on certain days or whatever, just being cognizant of the amount of carbs Im consuming and not overdoing it. Its absolutely no secret that I could eat carbs three times a day and be perfectly happy. However, my stomach has been not overly happy with me as of late and I feel like limiting my carb intake might help a bit. I want to focus on incorporating more lean protein and whole food (fruits/veggies) into my diet. Luckily, Devon is also feeling the need of a similar lifestyle change, so it might make it easier.
*Yesterday I had an amazing breakfast from Panera. It was our last SAT administration and I always get Panera as a small thank you to the teachers who give up ther Saturdays to help me proctor this test. I got bagels and stuff for everyone else and for me I got their Mediterranean Egg White Sandwich. Now, it does come on a ciabatta, so obviously there are carbs, but I didn’t eat all of the bread. I ate about half the sandwich and then just ate the rest of the inside of the sandwich off of the bread. It had egg white (obviously), spinach, cheddar cheese, basil pesto, and a roasted tomato sofrito that added a nice kick of heat in the back of your throat. It filled me up really well, too. I ate it around 6:45am and wasn’t actually hungry again until around 1:30. Definitely worth it!
*It is the last week of school for prettty much everyone in our area, including Devon and I both. It’s kind of bittersweet for me, but I’m also really excited to have the summer off and focus on maybe getting a little bit healthier, doing more wedding planning and definitely getting more sleep! A summer off has definitely been hard-earned and well-deserved in my house. Hopefully we have a productive and quiet summer to recharge for getting back to work at the end of August.
Have a great weeek everyone!
Finally it’s here!!!
Well…the post anyway, I’ve had my new planner for like two weeks already. I just hadn’t had the time to do a full post on it that would do my love of it justice.
We know I love everything Erin Condren, all you have to do is search my blog to see how many posts I’ve made about her products. They are my holy grail of planners, I have yet to find anything that works as well for me and my life than these.