Mornings

There are those days that you wonder why you got out of bed. You think when you wake up "its going to be hot out, I don't want to sweat, and I love the A/C." But, against your better judgement, you get up, and whatever your ritual for the mornings may, be you start it.

Maybe, when you wake up you stumble to the bathroom and start the shower.  You stand there and stare at it as the water warms, still rubbing your eyes. You're trying to get the sandman to leave you alone so you can make sure you're not putting your wife's cream rinse in your hair instead of shampoo.  (There's many foreign articles in my shower)

So, now we have succeeded in starting our morning, and out the door we run. We jump into our car, throw it in gear, and then remember... you didn't even grab your belt. You jump out of your car and forgetting that you have put it into gear, it starts to roll without you. You jump back in and slam it into park. The whole time mumbling under your breath that your so-and-so wife just had to have the yard mowed last night at 9pm not allowing you to have your required 10 hours of sleep you need for your brain to function.

You make it back in the door, after numerous attempts, because your dog thinks you got back out of your car just to play with him! He's jumping and bouncing, and of course, putting paw prints on your freshly laundered pants. There's your belt on the arm of the chair where you left it last night.

So, you have successfully made it to your car fully dressed and out the drive. You pull on to the road to start your day. It all gets fuzzy and becomes a fog in your brain. What's that noise? That buzzing in your head. You can't see, and now someone is kicking you!

OH NO! That was all a dream, that's the alarm you're hearing.  That's your wife kicking you trying to get you to turn it off. You roll over and turn your alarm off.  Then, you stumble to the bathroom thinking its going to be hot out today, and you stand there waiting for the shower water to get warm. Rubbing your eyes trying to chase the sandman away from.... WAIT! This is just what you dreamed, you stand there for a split second thinking.

You shut the water off, mumble under your breath the words to an old Johnny Paycheck song you know. Stumbling back out the bathroom door heading to the bedroom, you lay back down in bed and think this is the sick day I have been needing! You just hope the flexible spending arrangement that you started is good. Good night!