Thinking About Pleasant Things In The Middle Of Confusion

Yesterday was very stressful and yet I had a nice time through it all.  To explain, on my way to work, my car decided to throw a coil spring that blew out my tire.  Of course nobody likes to call work and tell them that a car breakdown occurred, especially me I always feel terribly uncomfortable explaining what happened.  I didn't even know how long it would take to fix the problem.  To my surprise, they asked me if I was ok? 

  I was lucky because I was starting to back out of my driveway when it happened.  Also to my advantage, I had worked over the day before and was only scheduled to work for four hours yesterday.

    My dad and mom were the only ones available to help me out , it turned out to be less frustrating because we were all together.   Dad went with me to talk to the mechanics and I felt so proud that he was my dad.  He talked to them while they looked at the wheel and the damage the spring had caused.  For a moment the years had melted away from us both.  I also watched my father as he sat down waiting for me to settle the bill and how it dawned on me how very tired he was.  This man had poured out better than sixty years, fifty some supporting his family by being a mechanic.   Yesterday he walked me through all of it, as I towed and talked to the garages getting the best estimate.

    Like I said, during all this, we had a few chuckles, I had told them about how at my job they played Christmas music and how they played "Snow" from "White Christmas" as one of the selections.

   I always start to laugh to myself whenever this song comes on because I think of my sister and how she hates driving in the stuff, well dealing with it in general.  She grumbles about it and tells me how she'd love to go to Hawaii and look at those well tanned and toned beach dudes. 

  I told mom and dad that I should dedicate that song to her because she loves snow sooooo much.

Its nice to have few pleasant moments during and unpleasant thing.  I admit that having a coil spring replaced as a Christmas gift wasn't top of my list.   My Christmas wish is still whimsy,  a warm fire as the snow falling having a handsome loving man holding me, my kids there.   My daughter is getting better and I am very happy and pleased with that.

I hope everyone gets to have their Christmas wishes full-filled!

This is for my sister,