Avalanche

When things go wrong, they all seem to go wrong at once. That's a weird fact of life that I've noticed. It's like you spend a few months climbing to the top of the mountain, only to be suddenly cast down by a violent avalanche. You can't just go a few feet down -- you have to go all the way down. But that's life. You fall and get back up and start climbing again, even though you know you're going to fall.

Oh well. Seems like after all this time climbing my family has finally been caught in the avalanche again. Within this past seven days, my great-grandfather died AND my mom and brother got in a wreck and Obamacare got passed if you wanna count that.

I'm fine personally, I guess. Nothing particularly good or bad ever happens to me for now at least. I'm gonna be doing a few more audition videos if I can focus long enough. I was gonna spend Saturday on it, but my great-grandpa's funeral is that day. I haven't been to a funeral in five years, I think... since my grandpa died, anyway. I really, really don't want anyone to get the wrong idea when I say this because I don't mean it cruelly, but I'm kind of looking forward to the funeral... Death was kind to my GGpa; he had been in a lot of pain before dying of a sudden, massive heart attack. So we're all thankful he didn't suffer. And... I get to go to a funeral. I'm fond of cemeteries. I start thinking about sleeping spirits and the Second Coming... and getting all excited. I'm such a weird mix of the morbid and the hopeful.

I could have lost my mom and brother today, though. If my mom had been a second slower on the uptake and not stomped the break when she did, they would have been squashed between two other cars. What had happened was that a car had just stopped on the freeway for no conceivable reason and the car in front of mom slammed on its breaks to keep from hitting it, which forced mom to slam on her breaks to avoid hitting them. Meanwhile, an inexperienced driver couldn't stop in time and slammed into my mother from behind. He hit her so hard, his van actually went up under her trailblazer. She said the van was totaled and he was taken to the hospital, but our car barely has a dent Chevy makes insanely tough vehicles. She's really freaked out about it still, but my brother has already moved on. He said his first thought was "I can't wait to tell Steph!" and the second was "Huh... Now I know how Burnout feels..." then he was chill. It made me laugh... Which ticked off Mom, but I agree with my brother -- why freak yourself out thinking about things that might have happened when they didn't?

Oh and the car that started the whole thing? It drove off like it didn't know anything had happened. Mom thinks it was an elderly person who really didn't know what had happened. :|

That's the life of me for now, I guess.

Sumimasen!