Busted...for speeding!

Sunday morning. Was tired when alarm went off, but excited about going to church and soaking in God's word. Hearing something that I was certain I'd need to hear (and that WAS the case). Everyone else in the house was tired too. Poor planning, these late night Saturday's. But we never learn, haha. So anyway, everyone up and frantically trying to get ready. Sitting in the driveway, all of us having skipped breakfast, me and Dave going on caffeine fumes, we decide to leave Colby behind since he is holding us up and we are already late. Good learning lesson this will be for him, we say, so we shut the garage and pull out of the driveway, me feeling guilty, but knowing this is the right thing to do this week. He needs to learn to get up and ready and not waste time, and not hold us up, as he so often does. Made it to church only about 8 minutes late, not bad considering. Go worship (singing and praising) in the sanctuary, try to focus. The music is a little on the slow side this morning, which is nice, but I'm still trying to wake up! Wonder if Dave is thinking the same? Ok, time for the message. We begin Colossians. Good book. I'm always eager to dig into the next book of the Bible. I enjoy the message this morning (well, I usually always do); I'm now focused and listening intently (that last song was great and got my spirit burning for the Lord). The part about we (Christians) speak a different language was quite funny. Noobs feel like "a fish out of water" and it takes time to assimilate into this new culture, this new way of line of thinking and way of living. True that. Anyway, I enjoy our service and am feeling uplifted, slightly giddy and very happy when I leave. Though I admit, my hunger hits hard on the drive home. I feel like I haven't eaten in days and I'm getting a little fuzzy-headed. Need fuel need fuel. But I'm still riding on happy fumes. We're all discussing Crosswild, the retreat the kids are going on tomorrow, among other things. I'm in a cheery mood, a little dreamy with some tunes on real low and my brain, blood and bones needing sustenance, but doing good none the less! All of sudden I hear a siren! What?! I look at my dash and I'm going 60 mph in a 45 zone!! Oh my, I'm so frikkin mad at myself, and embarrassed. My younger son is in the backseat and mommy is being pulled over by a sheriff! There's no getting out of this one, I'm going way to fast and I know it! So I humble myself and decide not be the smarty butt that I can be. Oh, but I just can't resist pulling to the left, the opposite side of the road into the local church, instead of pulling off to the side of the road like any other person would have done. Nope, that's not the way I do these things! I gotta be different and add my typical melody humor into it. It bugs Dave, but he also loves that about me;) I'm me and I'm not going to conform to something I'm not. That's what he loves. Ha, the irony in that, going ACROSS the street and near the church! So....anyway...sheriff proceeds to ask for all the garbage they need to see: registration, DL, proof of insurance. I haven't put my new tag on (my bday in July, today is Aug 1), so I neglect to give him that...yet. He has my dl and my insurance, and since he doesn't have the registration he tells me I need a new tag as mine has expired. OH, here it is officer. (Wala!) It's going on today. Ahhh, darn, he can't get me on that. Now sheriff is on to my window tint. He pulls out a ridiculous looking gadget and takes some kind of tint reading and says my tint is too dark. Was I aware of that? Ok, how the heck would I know? I really wasn't and never gave it any thought. It was a gift from Dave....so I look over at Dave and let it rest on him. Officer goes to his car as they do, to look up all my info, to see if I'm some kind of escaped convict, a lunatic, a child molester, murderer, bank robber, whatever they do when they pull up our info. Comes back a few mins later with my whopping $256 ticket!! But he lets me off on the tint. Awwwwe, how kind of him, no tint ticket. $256 for a speeding ticket! Is that not highway robbery or what!? So now I'm bummed. $256 that I can't afford. On top of all the other bills mounting up! My happy, giddy feeling is gone. Now I'm depressed and worried. School tuition, homeowners is due, mtg, cc bills, etc etc etc. Need to get the kids new school clothes, have a trip to Destin planned, just the bill from our Atlanta trip, and the list goes on. How are we ever going to catch up?! It's just one thing after another. And I'm aware the speeding ticket was completely my fault. I shouldn't drive so fast. In South Fl I could talk my way out of a ticket, here the officers just look like complete idiotic morons as they stare at you. They don't budge, those good ol' boys. Go by the book, meet your quota, break a girl's bank acct. Whatev. I'll at least be able to take the online traffic school to wipe out the 4 pts that would have gone on my driving record and been added to my insurance. So that is a good thing.
Something that can lift my mood: Music! I'll listen to some chill sounds...Wild Nothing and get lost in the harmonies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmvFGiutLeo