Saturday, December 24, 2005

   Ugh...
STILL kinda sick today. I better be better by the time i have to go to my Uncle's. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

Um...yeah. i just made the desserts today...not much else...watched The Last Samurai again. That movie always makes me cry. What an awesome film.

Well here's another story for you guys, and the last I have on me. And don't say things like that don't truely happen, Lyss....cause they do. They don't happen to everyone, and I admit I have never gotten such a "miracle", and I admit that I think it's stupid that great things like that happen to some people and not others but...they do indeed happen, and these are all true stories, not just made up to make people believe there's still kindess in an unforgiving world. (well, let's hope that's not the case...)

"It was December 21st last year in rural Ohio. Dark, clear and cold. Mary Obringer and her 13 year old daughter, Hannah, were driving home in their Dodge Caravan after shopping. Obringer was in the cell phone with her husband, Mike, telling him about all the money she and Hannah had spent at the mall, when she came up behind a car sitting directly across a railroad crossing-its front tires were stuck in the train tracks.

An elderly woman was standing next to th car, holding an infant in her arms, paralyzed with shock or fear. Warning lights were flashing and the gates were coming down.

Mary Obringer looked up into the light of the oncoming train. "I screamed for her to get out of the way. The whistle was blowing, the light getting brighter," Obringer explained. "But I don't think she knew what was happening."

Obringer jumped out and ran to the woman. That's when she realized: there was another child in the car. "The little guy looked right at me," she says, "and my heart about stopped." Frantically, she tried to pull the car seat out of the car to safety.

"I turned my head and the train's headlight was right there," Obringer said. She just wasn't able to move fast enough. The train smashed through the car, dragging it down the tracks.

Steel against screeching steel, the train finally came to a halt and the conductor ran back along the dark stretch of tracks with a flashlight.

Back at her van, Mary Obringer called 911. Then, dreading what she would find, she began walking back down the tracks. The conductor's small arc of light swept the ground as he came toward her. The old woman's car had been slashed into a jagged metal wreck. No way that anyone could have lived through that collision.

But in a season of miracles, the rules of logic and physics are sometimes suspended.

Obringer heard a baby cry. The conductor's light fell upon a battered car seat. It had flown out of the ravaged car, through a shattered window, bounced off the front of the train and landed 157 feet away. The toddler in it was alive.

Mary L. Kidd, 74, of Sandusky, Aaron Johnson, 4 months, and Aireus Johnson, 1, were taken by fire department personnel to area hospitals. All were released in time for Christmas."


well, not much else to say and REALLY tired. need to go to bed. Oyasumi min'na.
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"The perfect blossom is a rare and beautiful thing. You could spend your whole life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life."

-Katsumodo, The Last Samurai
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