I'm back. While I was gone I learned that airbags make it snow in your car, bone doctors are the devil, and you know that your kids really love you when they snap your bra for you because you're broken and can't do it yourself.

Two weeks ago a tipsy woman in a giant van ran into me and then threw my car into a light pole. I've never seen a Grand Marquis without a front end... it's a sight. I've been a little bit ooshey since then and haven't spent much time near the computer.

The accident happened right after Biggie, Marc and Chanda were too-close-for-comfort- to the Atlanta storms. I remember thinking after reading about it, "Yeah.. it's a mess out there, but God's still in charge of it." He really is. We'd just dropped Alayna and Jennifer off before the crash, and Carrie didn't move up to the front seat when Jen got out of the car. She and I were heading home when we were hit. The van hit so hard and was moving so fast that the impact (the first one, that is) unbolted the passenger side of the front seat and threw it toward the windshield. When we went to the tow yard a couple of days later to get things out of it, nobody could sit there because it was so scrunched. Talk about grace... when I think that one of my girls could have been in that seat it makes me cry.

Carrie and I are banged and bruised from seat belts and airbags, and I have a fracture in my leg and my elbow... the car is totaled, but we're feeling pretty lucky.

And meanwhile, I get to drive a brand new Charger until the tipsy lady's insurance settles. So yay!

Missed you all.. I'll be checking out your blogs soon.


And now for something completely different.
(Seems like a good day for some Monty Phython)

“Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!”

“-She turned me into a newt!

“It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?”

“There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not”

“First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!”

“I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am”

“Dinsdale, He was a nice boy...... He nailed my head to a coffee table.”

“This morning, shortly after 11 o’clock, comedy struck this little house in Dibbley road. Sudden, violent comedy.”