Braterscained!

I like this color.  OK-I'm braterscained.  Well, scatterbrained.  But first I have to explain about my son and the car.  I'm not as stupid as I look! (this is a joke!  I don't think I look stupid, and I'm not.....well.....later!)  OK.  My son and the car:  The man came to the door..... yada yada yada.......all went to the hospital.  The end.  For where this is starting, go to 9-11.....Life Has Been Exciting the Last Couple of Days!  greatmartin had left a comment about ebay and also asked if my 9 year old son was driving a car, or had he missed something, which is what brings me to the between of the story......We had thought a car hit my son but my son hit the car.  He is 9 years old and was riding his bicycle.  There, that's the between, but he also knew he wasn't supposed to go that far, either.  He has ADHD, conduct disorder and bipolar-psychotic type.  He really is quite intelligent, though.  (I had an appointment once and he was given an alphabet board to play with while waiting for me and wanted to spell a word with 2 d's in it.  He didn't even think about it.  He took the p, turned it upside down and there ya go!  Instant D, d.)  So, he ran his bike into the car as the car was passing the street he was on.  If he had been 1 second faster, the car would have hit him and he'd probably have been killed.  Truly, Thank God!  He said he was trying to stop the bike but it wouldn't stop.  I haven't heard the version from people who watched it unfold, though, which may be entirely different than his version!  Anyway, he had only a few scrapes.  He took tylenol, I think, 2 days later and that was it.  Insurance is weird.  I was first told that my son's injuries would be covered by my car insurance, which I thought was strange as my car had a dead motor at the time, so.......  Anyway, my insurance covers him, but, we thought,not the damage to the other person's car.  (I was in an accident 11-13-98, a Friday.  My car was totaled.  My insurance paid my car and my medical, and I got a lawyer because I needed a new car and I was out of work for 3 months.  I worked for 3 years as an RN with a patient who did not have to be lifted, then pain from my injuries put me totally unable to work.  I haven't worked since June 2002 and I'm fighting for SS disability, but that's another story.)  OK.  the other person's car damages were not covered by her car insurance because the fault was my son's, which meant mine and I had been told my car insurance wouldn't cover the other person's car damages, but truthfully it does, which I only learned today.  We had thought we were going to have to pay out of our pockets and the woman was really very understanding and was going to see what she could do to make it as financially painless as possible.  I have no problem with being responsible for her car damages at all, but without me working......hard to pay those damages.  That brings me to 'not as stupid'.  I'd been told by a few people that my car insurance wouldn't pay those damages, but after my accident in 98 I increased my insurance to include comprehensive and collision, just in case!  And there ya go......because I had done that, my insurance will pay for the damages to her car. 

About being scatterbrained, if you made it past that story, you understand what I mean.  LOL.  My car accident left me with some brain damage.  I'm almost as smart as I was, which is pretty good, but my memory is shot completely,  well, short term memory anyway.  I forget about checks I've written and that sort of thing, bouncing stuff all over the place.  My bank pays it, then I have a $35 fee on top of the overdrawn amount that I have to pay.  So I forget things and although my vocab is pretty good, I sometimes forget a word in a sentence and it takes awhile to complete what I'm saying.  I talk a lot, so when missing words make it longer.........My older son gets mad at me because he's waiting for the sentence to end and sometimes it just doesn't.  Sometimes I forget, mid-sentence, what we were talking about to begin with.  I think that is enough about being braterscained, er-scatterbrained.

On to tatting! LOL  I have been doing a lot of tatting.  I've got 2 necklaces listed now on ebay.  I'm working now on necklaces for Christmas.  I use largish gold plated glass beads, tiny little jingle bells and Christmas craft buttons.  That camera I bought to take pictures of my tatting just wasn't giving me the quality of pictures I wanted.  I changed the resolution, the 'quality', the amount of light.....and I also tried just turning it on and taking pictures at default settings.  It wasn't sufficient for what I want.  So, I brought it back to Wal Mart.  I didn't save the receipt so they gave me a Wal Mart money card and I used that to, mostly, buy food.  I had picked up a 35 mm, real film camera that even is pre-loaded with film.  All you do is take the pictures and bring it back to CVS for 1-hour development.  They even give you film when you pick up your photos, which is cool!  That's about as easy as it can be, so.....unless taking pictures on the floor, and I'm only 5' 2", would give a lower quality of picture.  I guess I'll find out!  On to the tatting:  For right now, although I've taken pictures with the film camera, I have things I want people to be able to see.  I've scanned all of the doilies I've made and a lot of the necklaces, too.  I had to stop because the dang kitten decided it would be a good idea to play with the 'string'.  I just wait until he goes away and take some more.  This is a scanned picture of one of my Christmas necklaces.  I think it's as cute as a button, LOL.             The rest has to wait until I can get pictures from the film-camera developed.  I got the tree 'lights' from a craft store.  These are hard plastic with the metal-ish part a soft rubbery stuff.  I took them apart and then super glued them back together so they won't fall off later.

It's a good thing my scatterbrained-ness isn't total!