I have a wild tale to tell you.
I want to start by saying I ..
🕑 Added 2024-01-26 20:44:01 +0000 UTC
I have a wild tale to tell you.
I want to start by saying I am ok, my dog is ok, and we made it to our new home with 85-90% of all of our belongings.
So, as you know, I have been soooo excited about moving out of my home state. I left on the 7th, and drove about 12 hours the first day, got a hotel, woke up and started back on the road the next morning.
While driving through the top part of Texas I ran into blizzard like conditions that I had not seen on my radar previously that morning. Unfortunately, I was on a single lane stretch of highway with a drop off on either side and couldn't find a safe place to pull off.
So, while I found myself in an area where one lane opened up into two for a passing area, I took the opportunity to go around an 18-wheeler I had been following for about 15 mins at only 3mph. Only he decided to stay in the left most lane, leaving me to pass on the right. I made the pass safely and a little down the road I found myself coming up on 3 cars in-line that had just stopped and parked in the lane on the highway.
I had preordered chains for my car further into my drive, not expecting to experience this kind of weather so soon and was fatefully unprepared. I ended up hitting my brakes over some ice and couldn't turn quick enough to avoid colliding with the stopped transit van in front of me. The front left drivers' side of my car ended up lodged under the back right passenger corner of the.
I was incredibly grateful to have the car I had in this situation because of the amount of extra safety features built in for collisions just like this. I was able to walk away with a bruise on my forehead, a couple minor burns from the airbag and fractured left hand. I couldn't be more grateful for the fact that my dog was surrounded by all of our blankets, and pillows leaving him nothing more than a little shaken up about the whole thing.
There are many details that follow the rest of this story, and you can comment on this post if you want to hear the rest of it, but this post is more or less just to kind of explain my absence lately.
Between finding a way to get through the rest of the journey, settling in, healing up, and planning next steps as far as getting established with work and looking for another car, life has been more than overwhelming.
Now, having some time to myself I do want to announce I am back and available for customs! I will be making some content over the next week or so to help raise money for my current situation, but you can always make special requests!
If you just want to help, you can tip on this post and I will make you a personal exclusive custom! (=/> the value of the tip)
Kind words are also appreciated in this trying time <3
P.S. updated content will be released today and throughout this week!
