My most embarrassing moment

Last night I had a horribly embarrassing moment that I should probably keep to myself, but for some reason, am compelled to share.

I was driving home from a shoot with some other photographers. I was going down this small hill--about 45 mph which was the speed limit. My mind was thinking about the group I just left, what I was going to do today, and still mulling over incidents from the weekend--yeah, still thinking about them!

Anyway, I approach the bottom of the hill which is a light and the light is yellow. Now, normally I would just go right on through the light, but my eye spots a cop sitting at the other side of the light getting ready to turn in front of me. Now, a series of thoughts flashed through my head in an instant: 1. Bean just got a ticket for running a yellow/red light 2. I probably shouldn't run a yellow light in front of a cop in case it turns red while I'm under it--can't afford a ticket 3. I'm going fast enough to make it, but should I try?

So, what do I do? I slam on my brakes, screeching to a halt and the above picture is kinda what I looked like. There literally was smoke and a horrible smell of burning rubber. As soon as I "land", I look over at the cop and give him the a-okay sign with my fingers. He kinda smiles, waves and proceeds to turn. Meanwhile, all of the other people sitting at the light who got to witness my Jeff Gordon moves, begin to turn, look at me and laugh/smile/shake their heads, whatever. I'm sitting there mortified/laughing/cringing/shaking, any combination of these. The stupidity of what I did is still making me laugh today, thinking about what I must've looked like. Let's not even mention the fact that I never even looked in my rearview mirror to see if anyone was behind me and the disaster that would've resulted if there had been. <>

Anyhow, that was my night last night. I'm thinking in another 6 months I might have to have my license taken from me.

It's hard to decide

Most of the time it's hard for me to decide what to talk about in the post for the day, especially if there are several things I want to share. Today I think I'll tell you a few things that are completely unrelated, but thoughts on my mind.

--Yesterday we finally connected with the boy child via Skype. In total, we were on with him for 4 hours. The cool part is it's free so it doesn't matter how long you're on. The even cooler part is we get to see him, his apartment, his Italian cutie. Technology rocks!


--Mr drove my car over to the office last night to get spare keys for some bozo who lost his. When he did, he skidded my car into a boulder in the driveway at the office wrecking the crap out of the passenger side of my front bumper.









The pink color you're seeing in the last 2 pictures has nothing to do with the wreck--that's my robe reflecting off the bumper! Who knew a plastic bumper could be so reflective.

I'm so glad Mr wasn't hurt and didn't hit another car or a tree going at breakneck speed. He just couldn't stop going down the incline. Now begins the repair process...which sucks. But, like I said, it could've always been worse and thankfully, it wasn't.

--Today is Martin Luther King, Jr day. They are broadcasting his entire "I Have a Dream" speech on CNN at noon today. I'm really looking forward to watching it because, like most of us, I've only heard bits and pieces of it. What little I know of MLK, I think he was a wonderful person whose only interest was to try to make sure that all human beings are treated with respect and dignity. When I think of the civil rights movement and what so many people went through, it makes me sick how heartless and cruel human beings can be toward one another. It was indeed a horrible time in our history and thankfully one that is indeed, in our past.

--Mr and I had dinner at 4:30 on Saturday. I think we are indeed acting like senior citizens. In our defense, we had an excuse. We were downtown at the boat show and had gift certificates that he's had for quite a while for a downtown restaurant. They had a special that was only available between 4 and 6 pm. Since we went through the show pretty fast, 4:30 was a good time for us to eat. Furthermore in our defense, there were several other tables of people there who were younger than us who actually got there at 4, so there! Besides which, we were hungry.

--Mr makes awesome chili. Yesterday he made a big potful and the kids came over to watch the UK game. We all pigged out on the chili. Yum, yum.

I guess that's all the topics I'm thinking about right now, at least all the ones I want to share because I'm tired of typing.