25 hours a day!

I am absolutely reveling in the extra hour that I now have in my life five days a week. We now live 2 miles from my office. I don't even have to get onto a freeway to get to work. This morning, the drive took less than 15 minutes, and that included a stop to drop shirts at the dry cleaners and another stop to pick up breakfast tacos! My former commute was taking a minimum of 45 minutes each way to cover the 14 miles of which 13 were on a freeway. Oh, newfound freedom, how I love thee!

2009 Continues...

My last post explained some of the automobile-related losses suffered in the family during 2009. Well, since then: Late on June 18th, my son, Derek, while returning home from some evening work, hit a deer with his Acura. Not totaled, but quite a bit of damage. That's three. Then, in early July, driving home from work, my daughter, Jenn, was involved in a three-car pileup when a driver on the freeway stopped, just over the crest of a hill, apparently to read a map. That car was not hit--it was the panic avoidances that brought my daughter's car and two others into the same physical space. Her car was totaled. That's four. Again and still, no injuries. So we count our blessings while digging deep to pay our deductibles. Modern life is not so EZ.