we are all sore but my foot is just sprained.  i'm on crutches but can't really use them because of the arthritis in my shoulders - my weight is just too much for my shoulders to support :-(  so i'm hopping instead.  i really only hurt my foot if my knee comes out further than my ankle so i'm trying to do things like go down steps and sit on the toilet kind of sideways to avoid making more than a 90 degree angle with my knee over my foot.  does that make sense?  i'm not supposed to put weight on it but honestly weight on it doesn't seem to bother it, just that certain position makes it crunch or pop and then it hurts all the way up to my hip.  figures it would be another weird thing lol.

 

i'm assuming they can catch the guy but i don't know if they managed to catch him while he was still drunk.  so they may only be able to charge him with hit and run instead of drunk driving.  assuming he was drunk - that's just an assumption on our part.  it wasn't his car - it was registered to a woman but there was a paystub on the seat they're assuming was his.  i didn't see his car and neither did scott - he ditched it about 1/4 mile up the road - the front tire was almost off so i guess he drove it as far as he could before he took off running.  witnesses saw him get out and run.  scott's family came to get us and they saw the truck.  even in the dark driving down the road where there's probably lots of stuff to see, they noticed it sitting in a lot and apparently it was damaged enough they could tell exactly which car it was.  i said he ditched his car up the road and they were like, yeah, we saw it.

 

i'm trying not to think of what could have happened.  if we'd been one second sooner or later where his car might have hit ours, if scott had reacted one bit differently - the telephone pole was right in my face and then it was gone.  i keep thinking what if we'd hit it or what if the guy had hit farther up and hurt chane more.  his door handle was sheared off - the paramedics had to get him to open his door from the inside. and i keep seeing him walking off with the paramedics all scared.  true, he wasn't carried off and for that i'm thankful but it hurt to see him and i couldn't get out of the car (i could have but they told me to stay put) so i had to yell for scott to go walk with him - scott checked on us and then immediately jumped out and started running after the other car to get its license plate so he was then out of that car from that moment on.  onstar came on and got the emergency vehicles - we were on a country road so they were able to give coordinates because we knew what road we were on but had no idea where to tell them to come.  yay for onstar - i was against renewing when the free trial period ran out but now we will.

 

i have a cold now - it started yesterday.  i was miserable all night but feel a little better right now.  i'm going to try to focus this morning.  i have a ton of calls to make - all important and non related to each other.  it's a big thinking week - i have to call the college and the police and the insurance company and the bus company about that job and a couple of other places that i can't remember right now - luckily i made a list of them yesterday because i knew i'd forget!  and a big creative week - we need to start on pinewood derby cars and the lego stuff for c's party and the pinewood derby trophies.  i did manage to force myself to sit down and get the invitations made yesterday - they're pretty cute.  a lego guy in a car and it says "come help chane build some memories" and i glued that on a piece of cardstock i already had and the other side has the particulars glued on so they were free - i made them to fit into envelopes i already have in my card drawer.  they are all cut out and ready to mail once i find out addresses for all the school kids he wants to invite - i'm not inviting every boy in the class since i'm up to 17 kids already so i have to get actual addresses to mail invitations.

 

not starting my diet today i don't think.  i feel way too crappy but i'm not going to eat a bunch of junk.  some grease though - i always need grease when i have a cold!  i'll probably have hamburgers and slushees - not healthy but at least not just shoveling in gumballs and hersheys' kisses and stuff.  i hope!

 

going to go over to your next post and start there.  sorry i'm babbling!