Thursday, June 22, 2006

A VOICE FROM OUTER SPACE

At least that's how I feel.  Lost in space perhaps.  A friend just emailed me that this journal was gone, no longer available.  And I found that broke my heart... so I came to see if it was true.  Is it?  Is there anyone anywhere who can still access it?  Besides me?

Re the previous entry about putting my books on halfbooks.com, it happened and then it was over.  I only sold five or six books that way, then we had a book sale, as part of the six yard sales we had before moving.  The books that didn't sell that way were donated to the Lewes Library, and they were very happy to have them.   So, that felt good.

We've made the move, the hellacious drive across the country in two vehicles, me driving a twenty-six foot Penske truck, Gail in the Toyota Matrix with all three animals.  I'm just glad we didn't decide to move to California!  New Mexico was quite far enough.  Maybe a little too far.  The last day's driving was done on sheer willpower.  We've been here almost three weeks now, unpacking, looking at replacement furniture for that which we sold pre leaving Delaware, having work done on the house in order to make it our house, just trying to adjust to such a new altitude and climate.

To add Scylla to Charibdis, yesterday I had the first serious car accident of my long life.  A woman ran her stop sign and broadsided me on my side of the car, the driver's side.  I was fortunate to emerge with only shock, cracked ribs and chest contusions, as well as wildly elevated blood pressure and fury.  But it adds another layer of crap to deal with, insurance and car rental, collision people dragging the car away - and in all probability, looking for and buying a new car.  The poor little Matrix looks like it's totalled to me, thought we'll have to wait for the official opinion.

I don't have the time for much researched posting on The Blue Voice right now, so perhaps I'll be back here, just writing from my life, for a while.  If anyone reads, that's good.  If not, it's still an outlet. 

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I haven't done mine for a long time, but I still get alerts from you, and I was able to get to it just fine!  

Anonymous said...

Hi. I, myself was MIA for a while. My AOL software was rendered inoperable by a pesky virus so I threw the towel and just got back in (after hours od manually extracting the pesky stuff out of my registry).  We've moved too and there's just too much to do. Trying to infuse the home with our personality. Sorry about your accident and glad you're alright. Nothing seems to be wrong with your blog. I got the alert and able to comment.

Anonymous said...

Hi Mari,
Glad that you and Gail made it safely and that you are alright from the accident. Good luck to you on your move, new home and settling the accident and settling in.

Anonymous said...

It's so good to "see" you here again.  I am so sorry about the car accident.  Please treat yourself gently during your recuperation.  Cracked ribs are not pleasant, and lifting and moving boxes, the general ugh of moving can make them worse.  Despite the difficulties, y'all are there! Yay!  Take care my friend, and let me know how you're doing.
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Anonymous said...

No problem "seeing" you and the Bloglines robot crawler snapped it up along with the other AOL journals that had new entries. Must have been a temporary outage for your friend.

Anonymous said...

Come November/December/January I expect you will really appreciate your new home.  By then you will be all settled and able to enjoy it.  Be careful with those ribs.  Amber

Anonymous said...

I was so happy to find this post this evening - and ashamed of myself for not checking in more regularly.  I"m glad that the two of you made the move successfully and that you are getting settled into your new digs.  For us we are just now approaching our "one  year" anniversary here in the Sacramento area.  I find myself still amazed that we are here and wonder how in the heck it happened.  I hope that everything has been settled from the car accident by now and that your ribs and all else have healed completely.  Paulette

Anonymous said...

Just found this and realized I had never respodned.  Hope you are healing well and that your move is otherwise a Good Thing.  Come back!
Robin
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