If you are, read on and feel much better! I'm going to try and write this in a positive note or funny one (if I can manage to) so when i think things are going wrong in the futre it will either be an inspiration for writing or to appreciate how good of a day I'm actually having at the time.
I do want to preface today with yesterday which was a great night with friends... BBQ, hot tub, photoshoot in the afternoon for my portfolio... My photographer T. is amazing and I felt pretty pumped afterwards and went for a 9K jog - so pretty good.
This morning, in the still pumped mode, decide to get up at 5:30 and go for a run but hit snooze b/c it was still way too dark so get out the door by 6AM and jog 6K and do a pilates work-out as well. Jump in the shower, get ready for work - feeling sexy and full of energy and b/c I'm running a few minutes late, forget my day-book at home with my LIFE in it.
Stop in at Starbucks to grab my Americano and cash a $20 so I have change for the train and head on down MacLeod Trail. It's at this point that I see the flashing lights and not sure Why the officer is pulling me over, I pull over and park and a bit bewildered wait for him to approach my window.
So standard procedure; license and registration speal to which I realize that both my registration and insurance paperwork is in my day-book at home. At this point, the officer informs me that he pulled me over b/c my car registration is expired as of July 31st and I'm totally dumbfounded that I possibly could have forgotten to do this but never got the renewal form so didn't think of it. Why the address wasn't updated is beyond me, but considering my year, it's not suprising that I've forgotten to do it.
So. Driving around with No Registration & No Insurance.
The officer goes back to his truck with my license (he's actually really nice, so this is a plus) to check it, and meanwhile I call in late to work and after this, receive phone call stating that my Uncle died yesterday of a massive heart attack.
So the officer comes back to my car requesting a phone number so that he can phone my insurance company to verify I do have insurance (which truth be told was really nice b/c they usually are dinks and don't care...) and trying to keep my composure (I Hate crying especially in front of people) I've found an old temporary card with the phone number and an address that doesn't match either my license or the registration on the plate... ackward explaining my moving around to avoid my ex-husband over the past year and a half... & why I haven't switched my license over to my new address yet; goes back to truck as i sit in my car in tears...
long and short, he gives me one ticket for $230.00 out of a possible four totalling over $950, plus car tow and court date. I'm relived at this point but now have a mess of make-up as he tells me that I need to get this taken care of today and if I get pulled over today (again) that the possibility is for the whole same senario all over and more tickets.
So my uncle is dead and now my family is on their way into town. Again.
Work goes okay once I actually get there (nearly hour and half late) - don't have too much to do, so working on my MT vocabulary. Get phone call from friend cancelling going to a concert on Thursday which I've been looking forward to for months that I actually forgot to pick-up my tickets from ticket-master... So now realizing I've got extra tickets and may not be able to go i'm a bit choked, but... hey - it's a funeral right?
Work is over, so I'm off home to get my insurance and registration to renew, (you know how they say things happen in 3's???) find out i have an $80 ticket issued on June 2nd. First I hear of it - they don't take any credit cards... diving a bit deeper in to my Europe money. Okay, so car is registered again. (add in re-registration fee - ching ching)...
Get phone call from ex-husband and he's got my paperwork for registration (how wonderfully convenient...), a bill for $115 from an MRI that got sent to him instead of me back in JANUARY that's now painfully over due (really~) and to see about going to dinner to work things out with our marriage. Of course this makes Complete sense because WE'RE DIVORCED!
It's been an incredibly emotional day to which I'm happy to say i kept my composure through the majority of (with the exception of the 'death call' this morning) but about to lose it.
And I don't.
i just feel done - like life beat the crap out of me today. I am grateful that I never have to repeat today & I can chalk it up to another bit of life-lessons but it still sucks.
I figure it can only go up from here, and off to meet a bunch of girl-friends for a 'send-off' for my friend K. who's moving to Austraila next week.
Girls night otta pick me up - I hope!
Anyways, tomorrow's a new day - looking forward to it: single, beautiful and full of Hope.
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