car accident and days off work ...
*december 7, 2005*
let's see. today i had to take another day off work again cause i didn't have a car. =/. bleh. anyways, woke up around 9ish and called work to tell them that i couldn't come in. then went back to sleep a bit more. woke up around 11ish. waited for sam (family mechanic) to take me to the rental car place but i guess he didn't show up until later. =/. so instead, i just stayed home. watched some deuce bigalow spec feat and more popular episodes. i seriously love that show! went online, ate, blah blah. eventually my dad came home and i asked if he could take me to the rental car place. showered and got ready and then we left and i showed them my id and all that stuff. now i can drive the rental car. afterwards, we went to the chiropractor for my 2nd therapy session. didn't last long (probably around 20 minutes). just some basic massages and cracking my neck and all that stuff. after that, we went home. chilled and whatever. watched more popular. then watched my usual wednesday night shows. top model was cool. for whatever reason, i wanted bre to win but then she got eliminated. liked her look but didn't like her personality. after that, i wanted nik to win but eventually it went to nicole. either way, it was cool with me. hooray top model. veronica mars was cool too. it was expected that meg would die anyway if you saw the alternate ending to last weeks episode. nonetheless, it was a cool episode. instead of watching south park and drawn together, i watched made instead. it was about an asian girl trying to overcome her shyness and sing in a talent show. i liked her voice but i don't really know about her song choice (lady marmalade). didn't suit her as much plus they didn't even show much of her performance anyways. but yeah, good job for her though. her bf's cute too. dangget asian guys. hehe. i liked this one outfit he wore. maybe i'll try something similar. =). still pretty new with all this layering stuff. after that, chilled a bit. watched more tv, online, talked to my babe a bit. eventually went to sleep ...
*december 6, 2005*
hmm. the day after the accident. after some soreness on my neck and back, i woke up pretty early. ate some food and then got ready. went with my mom to the chiropractor. doctor seems cool. filled out some papers and then had a massage. didn't take that long which is good. =). after that, left and then went to the bank to deposit my paycheck. it sucked cause i needed like $500 to pay for some car stuff so i didn't even get to deposit a lot of money. oh wells. after that, went home. chilled and stuff. slept a bit too. woke up, showered and then got ready. i wanted to hang out with my babe today. it's good seeing him so i don't have to be fixated on this whole ordeal. so yeah, he picked me up and then we headed off to various places. first off, we went to circuit city so i could buy the final fantasy game that was advertised. hooray $16. did that and then went to the bread store. nothing really there i wanted. oh wells. after that, went to l&l cause i was craving some bbq chicken and rice for whatever reason. bought food and headed off to my house again. before going back though, we went to blockbuster and returned my dvds. rented deuce bigalow 2 and league of xtraordinary gentlemen. after that, went to albertsons to buy various food (bread, milk, etc). then went back home. chilled and watched deuce bigalow 2. it was alright. not really as funny as i hoped it would be but oh wells. after that, babe had to go home so i said bye. then watched commander in chief. it was a rerun but i think it was the pilot episode so it's cool how i got to see it. i guess i started watching the show about 3 or 4 episodes in. hehe. let's see, after that, a whole lot of nothing. watched various tv, went online, talked to my babe, and then eventually slept ...
*december 5, 2005*
so yeah, today totally sucked. started off normally though. woke up around 4:30 for work. chilled, ate breakfast, and got ready for work. drove and when i was at the 125 N, i saw the cars in front of me braking and so i braked myself. came to an almost complete stop when BOOOM!!! someone hits me from behind. i got disoriented and i was somewhat panicking cause my glasses flew off and i couldn't see shit. turned on my hazard lights and stayed in the middle lane for a while. called my mom but there wasn't much she could do anyways. eventually a policeman came and after finally finding my glasses, drove over to the shoulder. i didn't really see much of what happened behind me cause i got disoriented from the impact. but apparently, there were like 4 or 5 other cars involved. i guess it became a sort of chain reaction behind me. thank goodness i only got hit once (from what i remember). and luckily, i wasn't really injured. bruised my leg a bit and my neck and back started becoming sore and hurt (later i found out that i did have whiplash). stayed in the car. i honestly didn't know what to do and there were so many things going on (highway patrol, tow trucks, other cars). eventually the officer got down my information and my story. after a while, i had the 'ok' to go back home. my car was still somewhat driveable at the time and so i went home. met up with my mom. saw the damage on my car. =/. just wanted to get some rest. chilled for a bit in my room and then took a small nap.
woke up eventually and ate a granola bar and then went with my mom and sam to the allstate insurance person in rancho penasquitos. talked about what happened and also signed some papers dealing with life insurance and all that stuff. took a while but we finished. after that, we went to downtown to talk with my lawyer. told him the story of what happened again and i filled something out and signed stuff. finally got finished with all the legal stuff. left and then got some food from kfc. ate my potato wedges while watching a popular episode. got in touch with my babe and told him what happened. he came over and we chilled. i really wanted him around because i didn't want to deal with all this shit by myself. so yeah, we chilled and stuff but eventually he had to go back to school. said bye and then just chilled some more. watched a whole lot of popular episodes and just rested in my bed. didn't do a whole lot of anything else. thankfully i'm not really traumatized about the experience. that would have sucked so much if i was. just tried to make use of what happened and act as normally as possible. but yea, it's additional stress because i'm going to have to miss more days of work, have to deal with all the legal stuff, chiropractor physical therapy, transportation, condition of my car, etc etc. honestly, everything was going ok until what happened today. i felt pretty good with my life. job was ok. babe was ok. nothing really stressing me out. but yeah, shit happens and i guess it's another firsthand experience at that. hopefully things will turn out okay. it'll be a bit of a struggle for the next month or so but i'll take it day by day ...