Yes, I'm still here. I figured with all the nudging I should log in and update this thing. You'll usually find me skulking around facebook these days, but I'm still alive & busy as usual. How's everyone in livejournal land?

Where to start? I have an unbelievable story from yesterday and a bit of random updatey stuff, but I'll keep it short since I have a ton of stuff to do and a terrible headache. I'm still running both of my etsy shops onine, though now they're mainly in the background of my life and back to being more or less of a hobby. That'll temporarily change this week since I suddenly have a bunch of orders to fill, you know how it goes... when it rains it pours. In other news, I've agreed to be the publicity chair for the Manitoba Astrology Association. I'd provide a link but there is no website... yet, one of the things I plan to rectify very soon! So far I've got a facebook group up, and the website will likely be up in the Fall. As you can see, this'll keep me pretty well occupied for a while :)

With all this work keeping me on my ass, literally, it's good that I've found a way to keep active too. How? *laughs* playing video games. We bought a Wii in September, and shortly after I picked up Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party. I look hilarious playing it even though I'm pretty good at it, sorry, not posting the video, but I've actually dropped 4 sizes since I started playing almost every day during the week.

Which brings me to the craziness of yesterday. I was helping a friend with her brother's website when I got a call from my mom who was in shock, sitting in the car she just rolled into a ditch. She was coming back from a work trip to Peguis in a rental car and hit a patch of ice on the perimeter just coming in to the city, it managed to roll all the way over thankfully, so at least she wasn't upside down while she waited for help. She declined the ambulance and had a friend drive her over here, so I took her to the hospital. While we were waiting I stepped outside to call my sister with an update, but I got my niece.

I should mention, my sister had my mom's car since she was out of town, and I knew my sister had stepped out to take her friend, who, like my sister, is 8 months pregnant, to the doctors, but I figured she'd be back by then.

My niece told me her mom wasn't home yet, and asked if I'd talked to her. I told her I hadn't heard anything since I'm at the hospital with my mom and I actually turn OFF my cell phone in there *unlike 60% of the people in there* anyway, she tells me her mom was in an accident! I really didn't believe her though, I was pretty convinced she was confused, so when she finally handed the phone off (to someone who knows) I was quite sure she was giving the phone to my sister... but it was the neighbor! Sure enough, my very pregnant sister & her very pregnant friend along with my 8 year old niece were in a 3 car accident on Main Street and they were all at the hospital (obviously not the same one we were at).

Everyone is okay! Shaken and bruised but thankfully no one was seriously injured. Well, except the cars of course. My mom's car? Totaled. She took it pretty well actually, she was much more concerned about my sister and the girls and grateful they're alright. Probably a little baffled by the irony, as am I. I told her that today, the fates were just out to get her... and her little car too. She laughed.

And now the autopac nightmare begins...


Given that it's been months since I updated, this IS pretty short :p