...and perhaps strain your 'start-of-a-good-day' bone!
Accck!
Don't you hate when that happens?
There's been a lot of stuff going on in the family lately...
...and the other morning I awoke to the sound of a text message alert.
"I can't look," I told Mr. Jenny. "It could be this, this or this..." and I proceeded to enumerate a whole bunch of bad things I imagined.
Mr. Jenny got out of bed, walked over to the dresser and picked up the cell phone.
"Don't tell me. Oh no. Oh geez. Oh, man! What's wrong now?" I took a deep breath preparing for something bad.
Mr. Jenny squinted a little bit and read the text out loud.
"Have a peaceful day, Jenny," he recited, as I flinched from imagined bad news.
"What? What did you say? What?"
"Have a peaceful day, Jenny," he read again. It was from a friend back east. Three hours farther into her day then I was.
"Wow...ummm...that was nice. Geez, I ...ummm...guessed I jumped to a bad conclusion there, didn't I?"
And then we went back to bed.
And I did, indeed...have a peaceful day...when I got up for real an hour later.
for this very reason, i don't keep my phone by my bed (or couch). glad to know it wasn't serious. cell phones = the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
ReplyDeleteI don't leave my cell in the bedroom, either, mainly because I don't want to be woken up by the beeping. I am, however, guilty of catastrophizing, which I'm trying to improve.
ReplyDelete1 more hour of sleep can do anyone a lot of good :)
ReplyDeletePeople waking you up too early really could cause you to have a catastrophic day. Glad yours was peaceful when you finally did get up. :D
ReplyDeletePeople waking you up too early really could cause you to have a catastrophic day. Glad yours was peaceful when you finally did get up. :D
ReplyDeleteI had a few years where every time one of my siblings called me, I answered "What now?"
ReplyDeletexxoo,
RMW
Have a peaceful day, Jenny!
I'm right there with you. I jump all the time!
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ReplyDeleteI've been working on curing my habit of imagining dozens of worst case scenarios before they may happen. Very little turns out to be anywhere near as bad as what I can make up in my head! Glad your message was so positive.
ReplyDeleteI think that is one reason I avoid phones when I can.
ReplyDeleteJenny, please put the phone in the kitchen or somewhere far from the bedroom. You need your sleep more than anyone needs to contact you!
ReplyDeleteJenny I know why you write brilliant stuff ....... You have an over active mind
ReplyDeleteAw.. a sweet friend! I was wide awake at 4 A.M. the other night and my friend in California was milling around answering a text I sent her earlier int he evening! HaHa!
ReplyDeleteTake care!