I was thinking about this. I have wanted Richard to post about the accident all day. The hard part is that there really wasn’t much of a ‘blow by blow’.

We had just finished our errands up with a celebratory lunch at the Corner Bakery. We always get lunch after a grueling day of household shopping. Target is soo exhausting… So since it was a bit early to be heading home, I suggested a leisurely drive to the beach and look at the ocean in the new car. We took the 8 west to Ocean Beach. That was apparently the big mistake. 2 blocks later we were cruising down Sea Cliffs Road (or blvd. or st.) it was fairly bumber to bumper traffic, but moving along. We both saw her coming towards us in the opposite direction. She appeared to be looking up at something, paying no attention to her surroundings, and was veering out of her lane into ours (direct quote “the fucking hoor”). Richard honked, but she kept coming. It was a two lane road and the curb was lined with parked cars. Richard had no way to avoid her. She hit us and dragged her car the full length of Richard’s car. The sound of it was unreal. The scraping and crunching of the metal. We weren’t jarred really, but the poor car. The bystanders were shocked. It was almost comical to see their faces of sympathy. All she could (and would) say was “I am sorry”. Info was exchanged. Calls were made. The drama. She was, of course, a tourist. El Cheapo Insurance is the company that holds her policy. Of course.

Two side panels and the entire door will need to be replaced. Not to mention the rear rim, which was scratched pretty bad. I know this because as soon as we were done ‘at the scene’ Richard drove directly to the VW dealer for a body estimate. Poor guy. He had had the car for exactly 2 days. Early this morning he had just switched over his insurance, thank gawd.

I feel so bad for my boo.

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It’s a tragedy! A tragedy, I tell you!

I went with Richard to the mall today. Yes, my one day off and I still went to a mall. I know I am insane. But there I was. I had tagged along for one reason. I wanted to pop into Sephora for a new bottle of cologne. So while Richard was lingering at Nordstrom I went off on my errand. Only to find out they didn’t have any. So I went over to Nordstrom. They had none as well, but suggested Saks. So I explained my plight to Richard and proceeded to every high-end department store in the mall. The young man at Bloomingdale’s was the one that finally told me that it had been discontinued. Thierry Mugler B-Men was gone?? *sniff* He suggested e-bay. He also almost sold me Tom Ford’s new fragrance. But I can’t help thinking as I wore it around the mall that I smelled like the imagery in the ads. I felt like I had spritzed myself with vagina juice. Even though it does smell nice, that product is not for me…

So we finished up at the mall and headed home. It took forever, due to all the joyous shoppers out and about. Damn traffic. But I made it safe, and proceeded to my Mac to do some searching. Thankfully Amazon came to my rescue. They had a full catalog of B-Men products! Which is good, as I was not too excited about e-bay cologne. Or the vagina juice. Although I have to admit that one is growing on me… Weird.

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Earlier today someone wished me a ‘hateful day’. I don’t want to name names *cough*Richard*cough*, they know who they are. Well, my day was just fine. Up until the end actually. Ya finally got your wish you dirty whore! Heh! On my drive back to the valley I was victim of every near miss accident possible. I was cut off, other cars entered my lane, all that crazy annoying shit. But I was determined to have a good night. Even though I am on my own. There were plans, you see. We were invited, but the way it was mentioned to me… or I ought to say, the way I interpreted it was that Richard thought I wouldn’t want to go so he had said we probably wouldn’t go. It didn’t even seem like a question. When I talked to him this afternoon it was more like he thought I wasn’t too keen on it, but he planned to go anyway. So I figured I would just go along with that. By that time I was still at work, and his ride was already on the way, and things were in motion based on next to no discussion. I was kinda annoyed. Had I known he really wanted to go last night when he mentioned it, I would have. Whatever. I am tired and in no real mood to be social now.

Oh, so I was saying, being that I was on my own I needed a plan for dinner. After much distracted thought on my drive towards home (people kept cutting me off) I decided on Quizno’s. While I was in the area I thought I’d get a coffee at the Starbucks next door. After all, I was determined to have a good night! So I got in line. There was a man in a wheelchair ahead of me. I tried to be courteous and give him room to turn around and such, as one does. He ordered and then drove over to wait for his drink. It wasn’t till after I placed my order that I noticed he had parked himself directly under the pick-up counter. Okay. But it was clearly training night. The drinks were really backed up. So I watched as 5 people had to maneuver around and reach over this guy parked right in the way.

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The funny thing is that I haven’t been to a Gay Pride event in years. Just not interested after so many mediocre to bad experiences when I was younger. This year I cannot go because I have to work. Somehow I am bitter about that. But then that is just like me, isn’t it? Always wanting what I can’t have. Heh. Well, it’s true. *cough* iPhone *cough*

I keep trying to look at the bright side. I am missing out on the traffic. I am missing out on the chaos. I am saving money. I am missing out on hanging out with my new friends. I am missing out on meeting fabulous bloggers heading into town for the weekend.

Wait. All of that wasn’t so ‘bright sided’. Bitter, party of one?

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Okay. WTF. Today is a piece of crap. First of all, my site was down again. Somewhere, somehow I have traffic spikes that knock me offline. Now I love me some traffic. I am a traffic whore! But seriously. I didn’t think it was that high. So I must still have a robot or bandwidth sucking situation. It’s the only thing I can figure! So I blocked more bots, and put the Google Bot on a really tight leash. No more Image Bot. Speaking of images, I used to only block known ‘hotlink’ places like MySpace and Blogspot. Now I have blocked any and all hotlinking. No more Mister Nice Guy. Hopefully this will work, because waking up to no blog kinda sucks. So does spending your whole morning looking for unwanted traffic reducing solutions and code.

Where was I before I started the tech ramble? Oh, my crappy day so far! Yeah, so I have been for the most part tied to the computer trying to keep my site online. All the while the washing machine has been beeping. It started last night. It just won’t shut off and keeps beeping. I think it is making me slowly insane. I am starting to hear patterns in the beeps. Maybe we are haunted. The weird part is how it’ll stop for a while, then start again. Beep, beep beep, beeep…

In the meantime the sun has come out. Am I out driving in the convertable? No. I am here. But not for long… I am so out the door after a quick shower!

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Remember the other day when I twittered about how long I thought the day was gonna be. That was nothing. Today will be a long day! I showed up at work at 8. I was doing my thing, you know… working. Around noon the closing manager called out. Long story short, I left for a few hours so that I could return and close. There just weren’t many options.

Beh. So here I am at home, knowing I need to be heading back. I don’t *need* to be there till 6, but the longer I sit here adds time to the drive. Traffic gets progressively worse in that direction starting like right now. See what I mean? Long ass day. I think I will do a princess shift tomorrow. Something short. Not too early, off in plenty of time for dinner. Like that. We’ll see.

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So it was a long day at work, and I was tired. Even I was surprised when I stopped my car to let a woman pull out of a poorly placed driveway. It was one of those so close to the traffic signal that she could have been there all day! Eh, I could use the good karma. On the way home I had to stop at the bank. In the parking lot there was a pregnant woman with a stroller waiting to cross. I stopped for her too. At this point I was close to home and in a much better mood. I parked the car and trotted over to the ATM.

As I approached I saw that there was a cute guy in mid transaction. I went to the side to fetch an envelope. Gah! The bin was empty!! This is one of those satellite ATM machines with no attached bank to run into for an envelope. I tried to look around the young man to see if there was a bin on the side. He noticed me and asked if I was looking for on envelope. I said I was, cause you know… that IS was I was looking for. I was a caught off guard that he even spoke. In my experience the ATM is kinda like an elevator; people keep quiet. He opened the lid on the bin there and we both saw it was empty. Then he totally surprised me.

“I have an extra one in my car, lemmee just finish this…”

Can you even believe it? I was so happy! He totally saved me a trip across town to the main branch. I was stoked! My good karma paid off!!

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My plans are canceled. Sigh. I am bummed! Richard and I were gonna go to dinner with Betty and the Beetle for dinner tonight. I skipped lunch, knowing we’d be feasting on Mexican at Santee’s famous Marietta’s Restaurant. It all should have been fine. Sure, there was a Charger game today and we are kinda close to the stadium, but with the flow of traffic that we’ve seen time and time again Betty and Beetle should have been able to get to our place, no problem. We then could have taken a back road to get pointed towards Santee and started a fun evening. It was not to be…

I was a block away from home when I texted Betty with the go ahead to come on over to get us. The light turned green. We didn’t move. Then slowly we crawled ahead. A truck in front of me signaling left turned right. Weird. Then I saw the accident. It was placed in such a way that what should have been a one way traffic inconvenience became a all way nightmare. I was forced to turn into the traffic, away from my house. Suck! I called Betty and told her we needed to cancel. There was no way I was having them fight that traffic only to have our escape route clogged up too.

So no dinner out tonight. No dinner in either. We have no food right now. Well we do, but not the right combination for a meal…

At least the damn Chargers won.

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