x-post. Ughh, I hope for everyone's sakes there's no more drama.

So I've got SAD kicking in and PMS piling on, just as yet another semi-promising guy from OKC turns out to have no chemistry for me (or vice versa). What a terrible alphabet soup it's making. Wish I had one of my Bitches here to pet my hair and snuggle me. I'd make popcorn and we could watch Ginger Snaps Back.

So very much feel your pain. Have been on several chemistry-less okcupid dates lately. Ugh. Thinking I should get my glow light thing out, too. I like the grey here but it's hard sometimes.

Meara, I read your post too fast and was trying to get connect okcupid dates with a glow light and got really lost. Maybe I'm not getting dates cause I don't have a glow light. Then I reread. Ok, back to getting no dates cause I put no effort in.

I'm glad CJ is safe. Hopefully the drama will resolve itself. Even better, hopefully, D will go on to learn a bit better driving skills.

smonster and meara, do please take care of yourselves. The glows will help you.

I say you upgrade that glow light to a glow cloud (all hail) t /Nightvale

You know, I never thought I'd say this, but I am so fucking tired of beer.

Looks like no broken limbs, one broken nose, and one bruised lung. There were five of them in a huge extended cab truck. The kind that has the half doors that open once you open the front doors. Well, the truck is "beyond totaled". All five boys were pulled out through one of the rear windows (by CJ). The lead vehicle was an Ambulance once (it is now their communications vehicle), which stopped at the start of a yellow instead of trying to get through (we have LONG yellow lights in CO). The second vehicle, the truck, swerved to the side, tips a bit at the shoulder, and hit a telephone pole at about 30 mph - deploying the airbags. Three more team cars were behind that. All pulled over, the team jumped out and got to work getting them out of the truck, handling vitals and providing first aid until the ambulances showed up.

Everyone is rattled. One of the girls in the last car feels it is her fault cause she lost CJ's gloves so they spent time looking for them, delaying the start back to HQ. A, who was driving the ex-ambulance, feels at blame because he maybe could have pushed through the yellow light. I'm sure others have their woulda-coulda thoughts too.

Poor kids! I'm glad the injuries weren't too severe. But good on CJ for being so awesome in the crisis and getting the boys out of the ex-ambulance. You done good there, Suzi.

I'm sorry I'm obsessing here.

I just got the following note from the mom of one of the kids in the accident

Hello! I just wanted to tell you that the boys, at the hospital, were talking about how quick CJ made it to their vehicle and helped them out of the back window of D's truck. They were such a wonderful team, of course, but that's the first person they each seemed to recall after the accident. That's pretty cool, and I thought worth mentioning to you. He did good, and so did they all today.

This is what kicked the tears. Her kid just spent a few hours in ER getting tested for internal injuries and she thinks of my kid.

Aw, Suzi, CJ's a good kid. He deserves some recognition.

And you know what, that's a mom who is stopping to see the good that is around her as she is thankful for her child's life and health.