Event #1 - My beautiful taurus station wagon is no longer beautiful thanks to one of the Laurels in our ward. Tuesday night at the end of the YW activity night, she backed her truck out of the parking stall and her hitch put a pretty good dent into the right back of my car. She lucked out that it didn't hit the rear light or the bumper. It is just between the two. She happens to be the daughter of my visiting teaching companion. She kept saying over and over again how sorry she was about it. How could I get mad in the face of such contrition? She will be paying for repairs though. Lucky for her, Dave can probably do it much cheaper than most repair shops.
Event #2 - Friday morning on my way to work I got a call from Spencer telling me he has had an accident at his job at Subway, he is going to have to go get stitches in his finger but that I shouldn't worry, it was no big deal. Here is what he had done (warning: it is quite graphic!)
He was doing the morning prep work which involves cutting up the vegetables. He was cutting a cucumber and apparently mistook his finger for one. He was sent to work med and they stitched him up, 12 stitches total and he has to wear a splint. Apparently, he just barely missed cutting the tendon. Lucky for him. One of these days, I hope Spencer will learn how to safely handle knives. Here is the finished work.
Event #3 - Saturday night for our date night, Dave took me to see a play up at the U of U campus, Kingsbury Hall. It was the Screwtape Letters, a two character show. It was quite good. At the end of the play, the couple that was sitting just to the right of me stood up to go, but before they did, they asked me if I had ever taught at Provo High. I said yes. It ended up that both of them had been my students that last year I taught 92-93. Sara Reece and Scott Thompson who are now married to each other. Scott said he went to Argentina on his mission. What a blast from the past! As if that wasn't enough, we were getting off the shuttle that the U provided that took us to our parked car and as we got off a lady asked me if my name was Cindy. I said yes. She asked if I had taught Spanish at Provo High...dodododo, dodododo (twilight zone music). It was ANOTHER of my former students. This one actually had lived across the street from me when we lived in Provo and had been in my ward. Her mother had been a great support to me as I went through my divorce from Mike. I gave her a big hug and visited with her for awhile. Diana Nielsen (can't remember her married name now). She and her husband live up near Hill Air Force base and have one child. That was so crazy. I haven't run into a former high school student in forever and then in one night I run into 3 former students!
Event #4 - Our downstairs tenants finally moved out this week. They bought their first home, but since it was a short sale it was taking forever for everything to be finalized. They initially thought they would be out by the end of November. She is due to have a baby next month so it's great that they could get moved now. Brandon & Jessica Waite moved in about a year ago after our first renters, Dan & Rachel Elder bought THEIR first house. We are now looking for new tenants that hopefully will stay longer than a year since we will be hopefully leaving on a mission and it would be great to not have tenant turnover while we are gone.
Other miscellaneous news...we have had one big snowstorm, finally. But we continue to have a rather mild winter. Work has been full of drama, but the end result may turn out positive. I'm hoping that a raise may be in the works soon. Dave and I have gone to two ballroom dancing classes this month, both times we have been learning the waltz. It would be great if we could go consistently for awhile and actually become proficient dancers. Another couple in our ward invited us to join them as they have been going as well.
Alyssa is less than two weeks away from her due date. Jenni continues to look for work with no success yet.
