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Yesterday evening, a motorcycle attempted to pass me as I was making a left turn on my way to our small group. Either he was on something or he didn’t see my blinker from the sun. Of course, it happened in the middle of nowhere, but RIGHT in front of a biker bar. At first I thought this might be one of their friends and then imagined them coming out with aggression. The bikers were cool though. I was so shaken up that I couldn’t even dial 911 and I couldn’t think of my age or kid’s birthdays or any of the other details for the reports.

Here is the damage to my CR-V . . .

This is the bottom of my door. After the incident, I had to thrust all of my body weight against it to get it open and get out.

Another shot of the door and damage to the wheel/tire.

Here is where the guy’s helmet hit my door. Another two inches and glass would have been all over me. Another three feet and glass would have rained all over Mackenzie.

Another shot of the helmet damage to my door. The guy was bleeding from the face when the ambulance took him away. The EMT told me was extremely lucky and that he would likely be fine. That’s good news!

More damage.

My power mirror isn’t looking so powerful now.

Technically, the car is drivable, but the door doesn’t shut all the way and I have no rear-view mirror. The sheriff said I should only drive it home and to a repair facility. Looks like Kimberlie will be my chauffer for now.

Tristan says that my car is “All Boomed Up” and he actually woke up last night having nightmares about the whole ordeal.  Mackenzie keeps saying “that man break daddy car”.  The kids are fine though.  I’m sure they have some great stories to tell at school today.

I don’t know how, but somehow we are going to reduce the stress and drama in our lives in 2009.  That’s my first new years resolution.  This year has been full of disaster and I don’t know why its happening to us all this year.  So far this year, I have had to file claims with travel insurance (trip cancelled due to my mom’s death), life insurance (Mom’s death), and now auto insurance and health insurance (Mackenzie’s upcoming surgery).  The only thing left is homeowner’s insurance.  Let’s just pray my house doesn’t burn down or blow away.

I guess if we didn’t have bad days we wouldn’t appreciate the good ones.