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what a day!
I woke up at 4AM
when I rolled over
in my sleep
and something made
my right foot wet

in my bed

I says to myself
Self
this is wrong

so I sat up
turned on the light
put on my glasses
and flipped
the covers back
at the bottom
of the bed

some small black animal
who’d been off her feed
for a day er two
had yakked all over
the bottom of the bed

how one little 3.5lb dog
can yak up that much
is beyond me
but there I was
at 4 AM
stripping the bed
showering
remaking the bed

and trying
to get back
to sleep

went to work
had one of those
dog chasing my tail
days
couldn’t get a grip on
one solid thing
but got a myraid
of stuff
that I’d been
putting off
done
so it wasn’t
a complete
write off

I have to
go into the hospital
for tests
tomorrow morning
the kind
where they knock you out
and won’t let you
be an adult
and drive yourself
home

one of them
gut tests
where they knock you out
and tickle your tonsils
and then everything else
with a camera

so I figured
that after work
I should get the
groceries
I couldn’t
concentrate on
yesterday
after the
screaming and flailing
children

but because
I’m basically weak
I’d best
eat dinner
before shopping
so I don’t come home
with a case
of dark chocolate
and no vegetables

I went to Red Robin
and ordered
a huge
cob salad
and sat there
and read my book
and eat my pail
of greens

when I got up to
pay my bill
the server told me
that the bill
had been covered
by someone that
had been sitting by me
and Merry Christmas!

I was gob smacked
I love the concept
of Random Acts of Kindness
almost as much
as I love
Random Acts of Culture

I got to say
this tickled me
While I have
in the past
participated
in Random Acts
of various kinds
this is the first time
one was
perpetrated on me

I try really hard
to live my life
from a position
of kindness
sometimes I win
and sometimes I don’t
I remain but
a work in progress

these anonymous people
taught me
another lesson today

they taught me
to accept their kindness
with gratitude
and to pay it forward
you bet I will!

file this one
under
weird shit
continues to happen
to me

yesterday
while walking from
the building
I work in
across campus
to a building
I was attending
a meeting in

I lost an earring

not really a big deal
not expensive
not a gift
not really special
except that
I’ve had the damn things
since I was in my 20’s

and that’s more
than a while
don’t you know?

I asked a colleague
if I’d had it on
in the meeting
and she couldn’t remember

so I chalked it up
to lost items
and put the other one
in a paper clip
container
on my desk

I almost threw
it out
but providence
being what it is
I threw it in
with the clips

last night
when I decided to
go to bed
I stripped down
got into my
night dress
and wandered
around the house
turning lights off

got into bed
went to sleep
woke up at 3:45
thinking I
needed a
rest stop

but realized
it was cuz
something
was seriously poking
into my right breast

I thought it was
the dog’s nails
at first

but she was at my feet

so I sat up
turned on the light
to have a look
and low and behold
there’s the missing
earring

stamped into the
lower portion of my breast
like a staple

weird shit
continues to happen
to me.

or “the girls”
have started
collecting.