just my luck...

So the luck of Emily strikes again...I was driving down the highway at slightly over the speed limit and I was just coming over a small hill when suddenly KERCLUNK....THUMP THUMP THUMP...ding, ding, ding. THUMP THUMP, swerve, screeching halt. Some very thoughtful person lost a nice size piece of fireword in the middle of the highway and I flew right over. Now for a normal person, they would just have had a flat tire, change it and be on their way only slightly behind schedule. But for me...not so much. So, I have roadside assistance but I decided that I was an independent woman who could definitely change a flat tire. I brace myself for the high winds that were rocking my car and jump out of the car. It only took me about 10 minutes to find and get to the spare tire and jack but I got it! Then I jacked my car up and then tried to loosed the things on the tire which I found out later was something you should do before you put the car up. Anyways, the car started to fall off the jack so I decided that being independent wasn't worth loosing my arm or car over so I then called roadside assistance and within 15 minutes they had changed my tire and I was on my way. It was sunday and I knew that I wouldn't have time this week to fix the tire this week so I decided instead of driving super slow for last hour of my trip I would just stop in Bloomington and get the tire fixed then. I went to Wal-mart to get the tire fixed and the guy asked me if I just needed a new tire or if the old one could be patched to which I replied that I had NO idea and he should just look at it. So we go out to my car and he pulls the tire out and kid you not this is exactly what he says (looking at the front) "Oh, this doesn't look too bad, we can definitely just fix this (turns it over), holy shit what did you do to this, you completely bent the entire rim and we don't sell those here. You would have to go to a junkyard (ha, yay right!) or a dealership to fix that." Cue Emily crying on the phone to her brother that she didn't know what to do. Ok, to make this story end I will skip to the end. I basically had to, scratch that, chose to drive on the interstate forever going 45 mph while every semi, car, truck, and bicycle pasted me...A 3 hour drive took me 5+hours. AND that was my Sunday!

Scared

You know the saying "he looked like he was going to kill you", well I experienced that "look" first hand today. Oh course, I can't tell you the specifics but what I can tell you is that I have never been more scared in my life. As I looked into the eyes of the person who would have undoubtedly punched me if I got close enough, I realized "man, my life must have been utterly and completely sheltered because I have never truly been scared of another human being until this point." In the end, everyone was fine but I really feel like I am truly a grown up now that I had a confrontation as such. Now, I know most of you will be thinking "Emily, stop exagerating. I'm sure it wasn't THAT bad". Well  to that, I would say that I have actually really been working on being 100% truthful and been trying to cut down on the exageration, I know close your mouths...Emily is capable of change!

I got my first massage last weekend! That was super duper amazing minus the construction noises in the background and the fact that I am apparently very ticklish. Me, my sister, and a friend went to the Ozarks for a relaxing spa weekend. It was lovely but judging from the silent, quiet ride home I would say we came home more tired than when we left! It was very exciting to go on my first trip as a working girl and not feeling guilty about going shopping and getting a pedicure. Hopefully more trips will be in the near future.

Well, believe it or not that is about all the excitement in my life. Oh wait, I would like to tell you all that I have found a great, new pasttime. Secondhanding! I love going to second hand stores and turning  my finds awsome pieces of decor for my little apartment. Right now I am really into old books and broaches...I think they are filled with SO much character and I LOVE the look of them. Here is a picture of what I have done with the latest book purchase. Well, actually I have no working camera so nevermind. Guess you'll just have to use your imagination.  I found this great broach at the consignmnet store that my Grandma works at and it looks like it broke at some point in it's history and then was glued back together. I thought it added to it's uniqueness but my Grandma was appalled that I would even spend 50 cents on it! Ha, well, I'll just chalk it up to generation gap. Ok that's it. See you later.