July 4th maddness

Here's the story:
Morning starts off just fine. Good breakfast. A quick visit with Sarah. Get some hpathy motion sickness remedy from Eliots. Head out; on my way to the Bay! Sailing here we come!.....
Traffic starts to slow down. I, like a good driver, slow down with it. The girl behind me, however, had different plans. *wry look* I heard the SCREEEEEECH, and then my car leaped forward with a terrible crunch sound. A quick side note here: Many times I have pictured myself in scenarios and then thought it through...reenacting, if you will. This is actually one of them. And the first thing to do is to STOP THE CAR from hitting the car in front you. And that's exactly what I did. It was the very first thing that went flying through my head as I was flying through the air. As soon as my feet where back on the floor and hands on the wheel, I slammed on my breaks and missed hitting the truck in front of me by a foot. PHEW! *forehead wipe* I felt okay.. but you know how wrecks go.. You don't really know if you're okay till the next day.
-Skipping the boring waiting around, info exchange-
My friends are amazing, and waited for me for sailing (two of them picked me up off the side of the freeway), and my super awesome dad waited with my dying car for the tow truck.
So now I'm back on track for my fun Fourth of July.... an interesting beginning, to say the least. I started getting a headache once we got back on the road, and of COURSE I'm thinking: PLATELETS! Everything happened so fast, it was hard to say how hard I whacked my head on the rebound. Luckily, I had a veggie tray with me, and I started scarfing the celery in it (thinking I didn't have any Arnica on me). When we stopped for gas, I went hunting through my backpack, and as it turns out, past Kate was on top of things, and had her Arnica in there! Whoo! So I took some, to be on the safe side (as it turns out, I got three minor bruises.... they undoubtedly would have been worse had I not taking it). In the end, I'm totally okay.. just a stiff neck that's healing with each day

The rest of the day went smashingly! Sailing was fantastic and we watched the Berkeley fireworks from the water (we could see the entire Bay area fireworks, actually.. but we were directly under Berkeley's.) I only got a few pics before my phone died, unfortunately (most of it's juice was used up making phone calls after the accident). The remedy I got for motion sickness worked like a charm! (It was a mix of Nux Vomica, Tubacum, and two others I can't remember). I started feeling a tad sick, so I popped that in my mouth along with a bit of ginger and BAM, good to go for the rest of the day. (Ginger is also amazing, and I purposely brought a bunch for anyone else who might feel sick (from Trader Joe's... dried and lightly sugared. STRONG stuff!))
To get home, one of my good friends let me use her car (since she would be gone for a few weeks). There you have it! Craziest 4th of July to date, bar none.

And on a totally different note, I'll be getting a CBC soon. Hopefully Friday! WHOO! Can't wait! I'm reeeaaaaally hoping for 40's. My goodness that would be amazing... I honestly might scream if that happens. But we'll see! No breath holding allowed.