01/05/2024
Day 5 of in 2024 has been extremely emotional for me. Going into this year, I knew that I was carrying over baggage from 2023, but also from the past 3 years as a whole. On October 4th of 2023, I was hit 300 feet from my house in Elphie, a car I have had for 8 years, that's been paid off for 2. If you know anything about my story, I nearly lost Elphie as the pandemic set in in 2020. I got her back by a miracle, but she was having some problems this past year with an oil leakage. Nonetheless, when I was involved in the accident, I was grateful I wasn't hurt, but also sad because of how much we have been through together.
Since October, my husband and I have been sharing his car, and Elphie has been sitting in our carport. She even saved me from having to get a new work ID in November when my security card fell off my person, and someone found it lying on the ground in downtown Nashville and put it on a car that looked exactly like mine thinking it was, and the angel owner turned it into the security shack at my employer.
It's been really hard and heavy, and today, I have been to court for the second time on account of my accident, because when I was hit, all my airbags deployed on the sides and I was in shock. I couldn't see anything and I thought I was involved in a hit and run. In my scared state, I somehow drove my car the 300 feet to my carport, and the metro cops in Bellevue cited me with a misdemeanor for leaving the scene of the accident. I showed up to court 10 min late today because I was in the wrong building, but my lateness caused me to get an attorney that I could actually afford, and I have been finally set to a trial on March 28th, 2024.
Even though it is still not over, I feel relief. My karmic dues are overpaid at this point, because I am now sitting at the DMV waiting on my step-son to get his driver's permit.
Take it from the Chicken- you don't want to ever go to court and the DMV in the same day. But if you do, make it as adventurous as possible and lean into the lessons you receive no matter what the situation. Cried alot today- more than all of last year. To be continued... Grateful.
