It's Time

 

It's been an exciting day.   I had trouble going to sleep last night, for no reason that I know of.   I lay awake most of the night wondering what other people were doing.  What time was it in India right now?  At some point I fell asleep, and woke up predictably late, around 9:30 am.  What a wreck.  I got up quickly to check on Mrs. B.  She was dozing in bed still.  OK.  I fixed her protein drink and brought it out.  She noticed me putting it nearby.  After she drinks her drink, she is supposed to wait about 25 minutes to absorb the protein goodness before eating.  So I decided to go lie down for a few minutes.   The next thing I knew it was about 12:30 pm, Wednesday afternoon.   I had fallen back asleep till afternoon.  Cheesh.  I zoomed out to check on Mrs. Billingsley.  It was definitely coffee time, and I was infinitely relieved that I had gotten the coffee ready at around 9:30 am.  So I poured the coffee and doctored it up.   What was that I heard?  There were noises in the driveway.  ???  Oh dear.  A vehicle had pulled up.  Not now.  Please!!  I delivered Mrs. B her cup, and me my cup.  Finally it dawned on me that the noise had been the trash collectors picking up the trash.  A frightening thought occurred to me.  Yesterday I had taken out the trash, around three bags.  I had almost convinced myself to take it out this morning, which wouldn't have happened.  A cold chill ran down my back,  thinking of how close I came to missing trash day for the week.  My poor head was reeling from the weird sleep and just waking up and not able to function yet.  Mrs. B asked where breakfast was.  I told her she was having coffee soup for breakfast.  This was going over like a lead balloon.   I debated with myself the wisdom of trying to make breakfast before having coffee.  Mrs. B was convinced that she had already had coffee, but she thought that because logically coffee would have happened about three hours ago.  "How would you like sardines for breakfast?" I asked.  She made a less than enthusiastic remark, but I managed to put sardines in a bowl and bring that out for breakfast.  So that's how squirrelly things are today.  It's nearly 3:00 pm.  I'm almost ready to start the day.  I don't get it.  What happened?