What a week!

Well, for those of you that hadn't already heard, Hannah and I were in a car accident on Tuesday, 5/12. While no one was injured, the car wasn't quite so lucky, and I totaled my 2003 Hyundai Elantra hatchback. It was quite unfortunate because the car was running great, just had two new tires put on it, and everything...
I was driving home from work on Tuesday, and was coming up to an intersection with a stoplight. I noted that the light was green, and figured that the line of traffic would be moving by the time I got there. I set down a container of animal crackers that I had been giving Hannah on the passengers seat. The faux pas was that I also happened to look at the container as I set it down, and when I looked back up, the traffic was not moving, and I hit the car in front of me while driving about 35-40 miles per hour. I slammed on the breaks, but to no avail. I hit him, and he careened into the car in front of him, which, fortunately for me, was an SUV, so there wasn't a ton of damage there.
The car that I hit was also totaled, which makes me feel terrible. The SUV was relatively unscathed, just some bumper damage. Fortunately, there were no injuries, just some bumps and bruises. Also fortunately, my insurance covers most of the cost of a rental car, so I was able to drive one of those until we found a new vehicle, which we did on Sunday.
After lots of test driving and looking, we settled on a used 2008 Chevrolet Malibu LT V6. We went back and forth between an '06 and an '08, but ultimately decided we would get more years out of the newer car, despite them having just about the same number of miles.







Those are the photos of the car we bought off the dealers website. It rides great and is very comfortable inside. The trunk is very, very roomy, so it will serve as a good trip car when we need to take it on long rides.

That's about all the news from here, and that's about all the news I want from here right now! Hoping things go back to normal now!