Goodness, looks like I have not blogged in a while! So, the update in a nutshell:
• I closed down my design business of 6 years and returned to full time employment. I am proud to announce myself as a User Interface Designer for Citrix Online, maker of fine products such as Go To My PC and Go To Meeting, among other things. I design the software and research how to make it easier to use. It's a whole new direction for me career-wise and it's a lot of fun!
• Love life = well nothing really to report. Prior post didn't completely pan out, or is still a big question mark, so I've decided against posting on dating again until something like my 1 year anniversary with Mr or Ms Right...whattya think?
• Bad news = I had a car accident 2 days before Thanksgiving. I totalled my car and hit 2 other cars. I came out of it pretty lucky, as Sophia was not with me and my injuries, while pretty darn hard to deal with, were minor and recoverable. Injuries include heavy duty whiplash, bruised ribs, some bulging discs in my lumbar area, and some ligament & soft tissue damage which all adds up to a lot of pain and missed time on my new job, but it's getting better. The crappy part is that my used car obviously was in an accident prior to my purchasing it and the damage was covered up by the slimeball who sold it. There was no airbag, and the insurance adjuster found that the airbag light had been jimmy-rigged to be turned off, so that no one would know that the airbag was missing. Apparently they are very expensive to replace so some people don't. Losers. Anyway, this prior accident also comprised the seat belts, so mine flew off of me at impact. Which means at the time of the crash, I was unrestrained. I bounced around the front of the car, that's why my injuries are so tough. Likewise, the other seat belt which was engaged at the time, the one holding Sophia's empty car seat, also popped out on impact, and her carseat went plummeting upside down thru the car. So so so lucky she was not in it.
Someone said to me that I was really lucky to have found out about the unsafe state of my car in a relatively minor accident. I mean it totalled my car and caused about $4000 damage to the other cars, but what if I had been in a head on collision with a car without proper belts and airbag? Whew...I don't even want to think about it. I bought this car before the day of Carfax and the extensive information available online about used cars. Please take my experience to heart next time you're shopping for a used car and do the research!
• This has all got me thinking about durable power of attorney for healthcare decisions, a will, who I'd want to raise Sophia if anything happened to me, and all that jazz. More to post when I get to that stuff...as I am sure I will want to record what I find and how I make my decisions.
So that's the state of things here. I am slowly recuperating and getting some mobility back but am in constant pain. I just started physical therapy which is helping a great deal and I found a really amazing young new doctor, a mom of 2 kids under age 3, who is refreshing my few on medical professionals. That's cool. And I have a swank holiday party to go to next Friday, without a date. But I'm gonna dress up to the nines anyway just for the hell of it! Something tells me I'm past my days of caring about things like that and happy to just have fun. Probably will meet more of my new co-workers without a date anyway!
