My mom was in a car accident this afternoon. I don't know where exactly she was, but it must have been close to her work. The woman says she was feeling dizzy, so she never stopped at the red light. She slammed into my mom's van, causing it to spin, and crushing to front to a degree that surprised my mom. She should have been injured or died, but as she says, "I guess it just wasn't my time to go." My mom's fine, but she's still scared and shaken up. Right after the accident, she called me, asking me to call my dad for her. Hearing her voice cracking and quiet brought back old feelings. Earlier, when she told me the rest of the story, she had to whisper to get the words out. It reminded me so much of my own accident back in May. I was glad I hadn't hurt myself or anyone else, but still terrified. She isn't hurt and the accident wasn't her fault, but she's still on edge. I feel so sorry for her. I know what it's like. Our experiences weren't exactly the same, but on some level, I know how she feels.
Greg will be busy all weekend, so we got together last night. He finally conned me into watching
Little Nicky, but then he re-watched
13 Going on 30, so I suppose we're even. For someone who was only alive for about three years of the 80's, I do love them.
I Love the 80's was so cool. I had much fun bouncing around singing and dancing to
Jesse's Girl and
Love Is a Battlefield. I liked that movie, though it's a bit weird no one ever noticed how young she was acting.
I've tried to write this part of my entry twice so far, so I'll just forget about it. In a nutshell, I may have lost my job helping Mrs. Maus, but I won't really know until Monday. I'm not even quite sure if I should go back Monday. We didn't end on the best terms today. I don't even know if I'll get paid for these last two weeks. I wish things would stop going wrong. It depresses me, and
no one likes Depressed!Lindsay.
The
Friday Five.
1. If you were an alien visiting Earth where would you come from? Saturn. I used to watch this Nickelodeon series when I lived in Japan,
Space Cases. My favorite character was Catalina, and she was from one of Saturn's moons. But now that I think about it, I'd probably be from Vulcan. (For non-Trekkies, that's the name of the planets the Vulcans are from. Very logical, of course.)
2. How would you get here and how long would it take? I would take a wormhole from Saturn, or I'd just take a regular ship from Vulcan. It wouldn't take long, because tv space travel rarely does, and that's all I have to go on here.
3. What would you do or say when you got here? I'd probably discover chocolate and spend much of my time in Hershey, PA, and Belgium, the capitals of the chocolate universe.
4. What would be your best judgment about Earth and what would be your worst judgment about Earth? Best: That for people confined to such a deteriorating planet, we've come along nicely. Worst: That we haven't overcome war yet. It's such a petty concept. Why do we spend our lives killing each other so that no one will tell us we're not in charge?
5. What would you look like? Again, I'd want to look like Catalina. She had this awesome purple hair. All the other aliens on
Space Cases looked too weird.
