Breakfast in Bed

You wake up not knowing whether it is Saturday, Sunday or Monday. It seems like it is really early and the effects of your sleeping pills still haven’t worn off. When you realize where you are, you get up and decide to have breakfast in bed. It seems like something special because, after all, you have been sick all week; so, naturally breakfast in bed seems like a good way to celebrate the recovery.

 You get to the kitchen stumbling on the cats, make a small breakfast of toast and coffee and return to bed. You don’t take the tray because all you are carrying is a cup of coffee and milk and a plate with some toast.

You sit, make yourself comfortable, and put the plate on your lap and the coffee mug on the night stand beside your bed. But then again, you think of the cats that can jump and knock over the mug. Therefore, you place the coffee mug near your legs and leaning on them so as to keep it in place. All of a sudden you spill the hot cup of coffee and milk and try as fast as you can to clean it up. Two layers of bed sheets and a spread later you see the huge stain on the mattress. You run to get the cleaning products; wash; scrub; wash; scrub.

You do the best you can but then you have a brilliant idea- use the hairdryer to dry it. No, bad idea. Ten minutes later the dryer stops working.

Ok stop everything look out the window and be grateful you didn't burn your leg although now you have to do laundry and get the hairdryer fixed.

When you look out the window you see this beautiful sky (see picture below) and it all makes sense. It all happened for several reasons but one of them was for you to stop and look out the window. Many lessons can be learned from this episode, but I will just list three.

1.    A naturally born clumsy person should not eat breakfast in bed without using the tray to keep everything neat and safe.

2.    If you were bedridden all week, the best thing to do is go out for breakfast and not have breakfast in bed.

3.    Hairdryers are to dry hair and not mattresses.

Happy Saturday everyone!

Written: March 25, 2017 Todos os direitos reservados a Meire Marion

Photo taken by Meire Marion from  bedroom window on March 25, 2017