Car Shopping

I've been held out of work until Weds...so that gives me time to heal and get a new car. My insurance company already cut me a check for my car and I got the copy of the police report. She is 100% at fault. The witness I talked to was driving right behind her when she ran the red light. So now I have to wait to get all my out of pocket money spent on medical, rental and other issues. At least she is at fault!!! The best part is based on witness statement LBPD gave her a ticket for running the red light! YES. Too bad we can't do that at work...

I went out Thurs and test drove a bunch of cars. This is the car I'm leaning towards:

Finally Pics

Here he is trying to open the safe...hmmmmm

All of a sudden he was scared of the bath so we let him play with his baby bath in the living room:

When I tell him I want him to be a Footballer I think he thought I meant American Football

He finally made it make into the big boys tub!

Giving Mommy a kiss before night night

He can stand..as long as he isn't thinking about it. He's getting super close to walking

Groggy

Well it has been 3 days since the accident and I am super groggy. I'm amazed at how much paperwork I have had to do to get everything sorted out. I'm having issues typing and my train of thought is all messed up. Hopefully it will make me forget to eat!
It looks like I'll be trying to get a new car this weekend..I've been held off of work until Mon. That sucks because I burned a lot of my sick time with my knee surgery..there isn't much I can do because there is no way I can be at work carying a gun in my state right now.

Update

So the latest on my accident is this: Car is offically totalled..which I'm not happy about because I haven't had a car payment in a long time..and lord knows what they are giving me is not going to get me a decent car without payments..so looks like I am back to the life with a car payment. I had to go back to the ER yesterday because now I have a concussion..which totally sucks ass..I can't close eyes without the workd spinning around me..overall I'm feeling super crappy..and to top it off I have a cold.

I need a band aid

So this morning I got up at 0400 and went to work my first day on bikes..and guess what? I'm sick..and I decide to make my vest as tight as possible..which resulted in me pretty much passing out and being sent home sick..at 0600..so I get home around 0620 cough up a ton of phlegm then decide to go get bagels at Noah's when it opens at 0700. I'm heading over there when I decide to take a different route (mistake #1) so I'm driving south on Studebaker towards Stearns when I say to myself, "gee I'm hitting all the green lights...must be that it's 0700 (mistake #2) when I start driving through the GREEN light at Willow out of the corner of my eye I see a car coming westbound on Willow blowing through the red light! Resulting in this:




Her car:


Of course my brand new prescription sunglasses from Oakley ended up in the gutter..they flew out of the smashed rear driver's side door...I'm not happy! I'm sore as hell and have lovely seat belt burn.

UPDATE: I went to the tow yard to grab everything else that was left in my car..and from the pictures you can't tell how bad it was! The seat I was sitting in has been pushed over towards the center console and the beam between the rear and front of the car on the driver's door is pinched in..and the bottom were my feet were is also dented in...I'll be really surprised if they don't total out my car..the frame is bent!!!

Grump

We cannot believe his two molars have not popped through yet. You can see bits of them but they still are not 100% through...which leads to Grumpy Kai. Again he is getting super close to walking..but knows he can crawl faster than Nicole and I can walk. We really need to put him in a baby crawling contest...maybe at the OC Fair..look for speedy Kai.

getting there...

Kai is getting super close to walking. He has been able to walk holding onto the couch, table and walk with his push toy for a while now..but the last few days he has been standing by himself..then yesterday he was standing holding onto the couch and he turned and took 1 step! We are in trouble as soon as he walks. He is so fast crawling that it's hard to keep up with him...it's not like the house is huge but he gets away from us! So far he loves the closet in the front of the house and he LOVES the drawer in our bathroom..he has a favorite pastime of fling the tampons...

Work

Well I made it through my first week back at work. I had to work 4 days in a row..which is way too long. When I start at 0630 and don't end until 1915..that doesn't take into effect getting to work, getting ready as well as getting undressed and driving home. I get up at 0500 and try to get to sleep by 2100..so on the days I work all I do is work and sleep! It was great to see all my coworkers who I haven't seen since before vacation. Considering the job I have is nuts..it's nice to see that we are all ordinary people (with crazy sense of humors). It's been super slow at work which gives all of us working Patrol a chance to be practive. We turned into school PD and arrested a bunch of truants! Lets see I made two boys cry..man enough to ditch school but not man enough to not cry???

I haden't been on patrol since my surgery so it was weird being out in the sun and seeing how bogus 90% of our calls are! I can tell you this..there is nothing like driving to a call with the lights and sirens on...I've played in some big games in college and nothing compares to the rush..so it was great to drive again!

Kai is almost 11 months old..which means his first birthday is only a few weeks away. We aren't sure what we are going to do for his birthday yet..with the house on the market it's going to be tough having a party here..we'll see what we come up with.

I'll post pics later of Kai and a few of the people I dealt with work over the past week.