Oy Vey.

What a day.

I went to Sherwin Williams today. It is the only place locally where you can get a gallon of paint to match the base housing paint. I am going to be painting my house from the waist down tomorrow. Maggie has spent the past six months going all Jackson Pollack on the walls and it is time to return them to their plain old cream color. I think she’s mostly over the color all over the walls phase. At any rate the novelty seems to hav worn off.

Sherwin Williams is located in the seedy part of Fairfield. It is not a place I go a lot and I usually go with a friend just to make myself feel better. This time it was just the kids and me. On the way home I stopped behind a few cars at a red light. I glanced in the rearview mirror and saw an old boat of a beater car speeding at my stationary tail. It did not slow down or seem to notice that there was a line of cars stopped until the very last second and I knew that this rust bucket was going to rear end me. My eyes were wide in panic, my foot heavy on the brakes so I didn’t go crashing into the cars in front of me, and muscles that I didn’t know I had tightened in anticipation.

The junker’s tires screached for a good ten feet as it tried to stop. I sat in horrified silence while my brain said, “AHHGGGGGGG!” Somehow, the brakes worked and their car gave mine only the lightest tap of a hit. And then the extremely ghetto couple in the old car laughed at me and sped away without stopping to asses for damage. I. Kid. You. Not.

I sat there, stunned, momentarily blocking traffic while my body began to unclench. I’d been having a moderate fiboromyalgia flare. I hadn’t been feeling great, but I was managing. As my body slowly unclenched, this catapulted me into a pain level so high I’ve been nauseated from the pain. Seriously.

The car has no damage, thankfully. The kids had no idea that we were in an accident.

Now, cross your finger that i win something from NaBloPOMo! If I can’t have Kerflop’s web redesign, I’m hoping for an itunes gift card. Although I will of course, accept any prize and be totally stoked.