i almost died today!

well, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. what i should have said was "i almost crashed today", which i then would have been killed by my parental units. but let me just say that it was NOT my fault. i'll explain. i was coming home from my track meet (i will also tell you all about that, but in a minute), i was getting off the 605 at seventh street, where the ramp speed is 55mph. so i'm going 55 (the speed limit), following the car in front of me at a safe distance when all of the sudden a car about 6-7 cars in front of me decides that they don't know how to MERGE and decides to STOP! learn how to drive! merge does not mean stop!!! ugh! this of course caused a domino effect and me, being the last car, had to make the most sudden stop since i was last to come around the curve. so i pretty much had to come to a complete stop from 55mph in about 30-40 ft. scary? i think so. well, obviously i slammed on my brakes and was praying (no actually screaming) something along the lines of "God help me! i don't want to die!" lucky for me it was not in God's plan for me to die today and i have a good set of brakes. i managed to come to a halt just inches away from the car in front of me. it was terrifying! honestly...it doesn't sound that bad, but i was shaking afterwards. people make me soooo mad!
anyways...

moving on to my track meet. it was home against maranatha. i don't even know if we won or not (can you see how much i care about 'team unity' haha sad), but it was good. i had a nice little fan club going, consisting of my mom, katie (my sister), julie and ms. admiraal...haha thanks for coming! well, i don't know if we won or not, but i do know that i made 4'8"! yay! no 4'10", but seeing that 4'8" was my PR up until a couple of days ago, i'm not too disappointed. actually i'm pretty happy. hopefully that will keep mrs. hogan happy as well seeing that i don't think she will be too happy with me tomorrow once i tell her that i won't be going to a certain meet. talk about terrifying...i have had yet another near death experience this week (okay that is a major exaggeration, but it was creepy); i shall enlighten you all.

so the other day she gave us this whole speech about how she needs to know at least 2 weeks in advance if we are not going to be at a meet. well, i'm not going to be at the meets on the 10th of april or the 12th because i'm going on a ski trip with my family. so, i go to tell her this yesterday and here is what i learned: don't ever tell mrs. hogan anything she won't like hearing when she has a tennis ball (or any other throwable object for that matter) in her hand. i tell her i'm not going to be at those meets and she goes: "danielle you know that the meet on the 10th is a league meet right?"
"uhhh...yeah"
next thing i know she has a look of death on her face and makes a throwing motion with her hand, that is holding the tennis ball, towards my face (mind you i'm standing only about arms lengh away). i saw my life flash before my eyes. we all totally thought she was going to throw it! (we being me, hannah, caitlyn, amy and matt). the thing is when you and four other people aren't sure if a person would throw an object forcefully at another person's face, we have a problem. can you say trust issue or bipolarness? see if had been any other person i wouldn't have cared and probably thought it was funny, but when you aren't too sure...

so, this is my life story at the moment. i haven't been doing to much else. just catching up on my sleep in chemistry class. yeah...we had a sub monday, so we watched a movie. i took notes and then was out for a good 10-15 minutes...didn't even wake up till the sub turned on the light and the bell rang. no joke! that was the first time i have ever actually fallen asleep in a class before (school class that is :) quite sad.

well, i hope everyone is having a good week and managing to stay alive, since this proves difficult for me.
one more day and then spring break!!! so excited!