I would like to imagine at this point that I heard the shrill craaawk of a crow and a shadow passed over me but no, nothing helpful like that happened.

Unless you were so very tanked you passed out somewhere outside I would have actually been more concerned about how the poor bird had gotten into your house and be trying to figure out some way to safely get it back outside than thinking about foreshadowing XD

And now with that start of the year the rest of it should be smooth sailing XD Glad you didn't break anything (next time you fall down the stairs try to collapse towards a kneeling or half kneeling position so you drop mostly straight downwards which will then hopefully give you time to grab the bannister as well as reducing your forward momentum so ideally you'll end up either where you missed or a couple of steps lower rather than at the very bottom, if worse comes to worse chin down and protect your head, and phone I guess seeing as you dropped everything but that). Were you able to salvage the cd?

How are you feeling now? I hope you've gone to get checked out if pain/swelling/etc is persisting, soft tissue damage is apparently as bad as if not worse than broken bones, or so I've been told :)