Blessings everywhere!

Yesterday was quite the day let me tell you! Started off with me going to work (which, if you know, a day of work has been a blessing in itself of late...) and as I was working, a spring broke on the machine that I was using, shooting a shard outward... Luckily, and thankfully, the only thing injured was my sense of peace... it scared me pretty good! It was LOUD! Well, I guess a couple of sweatshirts suffered while I made adjustments to the registration since it was no longer aligned... but anyway... all was well... but it was an ominous sign none-the-less...

Next I found myself thanking the Lord for tires and a low annual rainfall in the valley! I was driving home from work and coming to a "Y" in the road, the truck in front of me started to turn into the left of the "Y" and I put on my directional to turn right, just as I was getting to the "Y" the truck in front of me, which was well into the left of the "Y" swerved suddenly back into the right, braking the whole time. Luckily for for me, there wasn't fire where there was smoke this time because my tires sure were smoking as I locked up my brakes... they sure were screaming like they were on fire though! So as I calmly tried to decide which direction to skid, somehow, after only a few shimmies, I was able to stop my car, where it stayed for a a few moments. Remember that part that I said earlier about me being calm... well technically that was a lie... I was pretty much freaking out. The tuck pulled over and started backing up, and the driver was nice enough to give me a strange look as I drove past to get my car out of traffic. Maybe it was his first day on the job. Who knows. At any rate, I was a little shook up and decided to pull over for a moment to collect myself. A biker that had seen it go down pulled up along side of me to congratulate me on my "good reflexes". He seemed very proud of me but somehow he managed to keep himself from gushing too much. Looking back at his expression as he pedaled away, he must have felt pretty ridiculous that he forgot to ask for my autograph, but hey, at least he got a pretty cool story out of the whole thing.

So The rest of the ride home was far more adrenaline filled then normal as my body worked it through my system. I actually had to watch TV for a good 30-40 minutes before I was actually calm again. Good times. Luckily no one returned my texts yesterday so I didn't end up going anywhere. I am sure I am over it, I have been in far worse "encounters" before, but considering my car's recent past, and the fact that I am pretty far away from family, these things seem to hit me a little harder lately. Thank you God for sparing not only my health, but the health of my car, which in this culture/society is so tied into my health these days anyway...

And then, since I didn't feel like driving any more that day, I oddly found myself at home for the evening and met one of my roommates friends. Turns out he is in charge of some of the event planning at a local university and he asked me if I would be interested in playing a show on a Thursday afternoon in the next couple of months. Of course I said that I would be... and then he said he could pay me! Bonus! I am still trying to be cautiously optimistic about the whole thing, but it could be a great opportunity and I am pretty excited about it. One of my friends felt the consequences of my excitement last night as she was I am sure trying to get work done and I kept chatting away with her... hopefully she understands... ;-) (Did I mention that chats with this friend always seem to brighten my day? Yet another blessing just hearing from her!) So all in all, another good day.