A Little of This and A Little of That

I want to tell you about my most awesome holiday decoration of all time.

It's a port-a-pot!

The gas company has been replacing a high powered gas line that just happens to run right in front of my house.  They notified us in the mail some months ago, and we have been watching them slowly work towards our house from both directions for over a month.  The segment of line they are replacing stretches from Lehi to Pleasant Grove and crosses through the heart of American Fork.  We are right in the middle and they seemed to decide to save us for last for some fun reason.  So we are under heavy construction for the holidays.  And to make it even more perfect?  The workers planted their Honey Bucket in our front yard!  Nothing says Merry Christmas quite like a portable toilet.  It is very National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, I must say, and I am itching to hang a wreath on the door and maybe even string some lights on that bad boy.

They should hopefully be done and gone before Christmas actually hits.  But in the meantime, we've had to park our cars at the rec. center lower parking lot and walk in to our house during the day, because there is a huge trench cutting off our driveway.  The construction crews place steel plates over the trench in the evenings before they leave for the day, so we can bring our cars home, and they wait til we leave in the morning before lifting the plates back off again.

That brings me to item no. 2 of 'This and That'.

My car wouldn't start yesterday morning.

Gah!

Everyone else had already left for work/school.  I really needed to get to work, but the car battery was dead.

Now, I had a momentary thought about asking the construction workers for help.  But, of course, I just had to be independent about it.  I texted Helena, instructing her to come back home with the Expedition so I could use it to get to work.  Helena was on her way home, when a construction worker knocked on my door.  They had noticed I was having car troubles and could they help?  I should have just asked them for help in the first place!

So, Helena was extremely late to first period, and I was 20 minutes late to work... which for most people's jobs would be no big deal.  I had students waiting for me.  Double Gah!

I was SO STRESSED OUT!  I was feeling very picked on that morning.

And then Bill sent a text.

He was working in the area and wanted to have lunch together.  He brought Rubio's to the school, we ate it in my classroom and had a little mini lunch date.  He had no idea I'd had such a rough morning (I hadn't told him about the car, yet).

That just turned my whole day around!  I don't know if it was coincidence, luck, or providence that prompted Bill to set up that lunch date on that particular day, but I sure was grateful!