you win some, you lose some

so i've known my husband for a VERY long time.  we worked together at Pick N Save when we were just 14 and 15 years old.

he always had a big crush on me.  as he would put it, i was his "fantasy girl".  but, because i was older, i just thought he was my little dorky friend (poor guy).

when we got a little older, he finally got a girlfriend.  and of course i did what any girl would do...i got jealous.  especially when his girlfriend forbid him to talk to me, which only made me like him more.

anyways, fast forward to present time...

we are happily married, most days anyway ;) he broke up with that girl years ago, and hasn't really spoken to her since.

but we see her and her family.  all.  the.  time.  they are everywhere!  at the grocery store, at Friday Night Live, at Kohl's, and most of all, at church.

they are usually nice to Mark and say hello, but do not acknowledge my existence.  sometimes her mom will stand directly in front of me facing Mark, talking only to him.

when i started Zumba, i forced Starla into coming with me because i was terrified her and her mom would be there.  they weren't there that first day and didn't attend for many months.  but as luck would have it, they started coming a few months ago.

and it is SO awkward!!  they still won't look at me or acknowledge me or anything.

so i decided i wanted to be the bigger person.  i hate having any sort of tension with anyone, so i thought i would try and talk to her and get it over with.  i didn't want to be friends or anything, just wanted to be able to say hi and not continue ignoring each other.

i had to spit out my gum and of course the only garbage can in the humongous room was right next to her.  i walked over and spit it out and she was just  standing there alone so i took that as my opportunity.

here's how it went...

me: "hey, um, so i think it might be ok, if um, we say hi to each other every once in awhile?"
her: "well since this is MY church and people at MY church are nice, they usually do say hi to me."
me: (mouth gaping open for a moment) "i guess i just never felt comfortable because you all say hi to mark but don't acknowledge me at all.  like i don't exist.  and there are more of you, so i just didn't know what to do"
her: (rolling her eyes) "um ok"

and i walked away.  went back to chatting with Starla and other NICE people that attend HER church.

you win some, you lose some.  at least i tried...

car accident

Unfortunately Marky Mark got in a car accident yesterday with my car.  Luckily, he was perfectly fine!  But my car is another story...  :(  We won't know until Mon or Tues just how bad it is.  Most people that saw the pictures think it's totaled which is probably the case, so we will have some big decisions coming up on what to do about that.  He actually slid under the bumper of a truck that was in front of him.  The truck made a quick stop and the car wouldn't stop fast enough.
It also got me thinking about how fortunate we are that nothing was wrong with my hubby.  I don't know what I would have done had something happened to him.  It's crazy how things like that can make you very appreciative of the things you do have.  I love my family and would be devastated if anything bad happened.  A car can be replaced.  Although I will definitely miss my Camry...

a car came flying through the front yard!

About a month ago we had a drunk driver drive through our front yard!  I didn't get a chance to write about it until now, since I got the day off of school.  Can't wait for school to be over!!  Anyways, more on the drunk driver...

We had just gotten home from puppy class and I still had a ton of homework to do, so I went upstairs to the office to get started.  About a minute after I sat down I heard the loudest BOOM ever!  I quickly looked out the window and there I see a car flying through the front yard.  All I could think was that Mark had parked his work truck in the street and someone must have hit it.  So I quickly made a run for it and yelled for Mark to call the police because I thought someone had hit his truck.  I get outside and the car (not Mark's truck) had actually stopped across the street in our neighbors front yard in a snow bank. 

sorry the pictures are pretty blurry cause I took them from inside the house

 I got outside and the kid who got in the accident was standing outside his car just staring at it.  Our neighbors had just gotten outside too.  I immediately told the kid to sit down because he could have been seriously hurt.  All of a sudden, our neighbors wife comes running outside with a fire extinguisher and starts yelling that the car is on fire!  We all got back from the car, and luckily my neighbor was able to put the fire out.  After all that craziness, I started looking around to see what happened and the kid mentioned he had slid on some ice.  I look into our yard and I see our tree that used to be to the side of our driveway was now laying in the middle of our driveway.  The WHOLE tree!  He took it out at the roots.  And this is also when I noticed that Mark had moved his truck into the driveway.  Thank god for that!  The police got there, and I helped them pick up some car parts, and then we just went inside until they came to talk to us. 

 Once they took the car away, and arrested the guy, we went out to assess the damage further.

 He was within maybe an inch of hitting both of our vehicles that were parked in the driveway!

 And our poor tree that is no more.  I sure hope the city plants a new one!
After all that, I just have to say that I'm happy that everyone is OK and that other then our poor tree, nothing else got damaged.  And that the guy got what he deserved...a DUI!