The Unexpected

The River Tree
The Kern River flows by Hart Memorial Park just northeast of Bakersfield, California. The tree is on a small island in the river and someone has equipped it with a rope for swinging into the water. I am not sure how deep the water is, however, in the “swimming hole”. Copyright by WyoJones. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Even though I wake up in the morning feeling like I got pooped over a cliff, I still expect good things from my days (once I get past that painful wake-up period). This causes me to question my own sanity, because most day do not end up like I expected. Sometimes it’s an unexpected place (I’ll bet that tree didn’t expect to end up in a river) and sometimes it’s a situation.

I’m not saying it’s always something I didn’t want to happen, just that I didn’t see it coming. And I find myself wondering if it’s an age thing or just that I didn’t notice all the unexpected winging my way?

Because there is a LOT of unexpected winging in.

On my list of good things, for example, you’d likely find:

A picture of our grandchildren (twins, totally awesome).
Text or phone call from beloved family member (my brother the doctor would probably modify this one with “beloved family member w/o a medical question or problem)
Hubs bringing me McD breakfast as a surprise. Or just bringing it to me. I did mention I wake up slow. Some days that 10:30 deadline is tough to make.
Finding out someone reviewed one of my books AND they liked it.
Tasks melting away from my to-do list so that I can work on my books.

On my list of less welcome things you’d sadly find:

To-do list multiplying out of control and taking my day with it
Finding out I switched two bills last month, so now I must do math to fix them
Finding out I messed up something about a book upload and now must fix.
Finding out I messed up something about a book upload across multiple platforms, so will take most of day to fix.
Finding out someone a) didn’t like my book enough to write a review and/or b) returned it. Yes, that makes me sad, even though I understand it. I’ve never returned a book, but I have thought about it a few times.
Finding out something went wrong or broke that will require me to a) make phone calls and b) wait for repair person.
Realizing I’m almost out of or (actually happened!) totally out of Diet Dr. Pepper, requiring me to go grocery shopping. I love to eat. Hate shopping for it.

I realize that some of these aren’t actually “unexpected,” but when you have characters from TWO books jostling around inside your head, you get surprised a lot. Does your days (or nights) surprise you with the unexpected? Have you ever found yourself in the stream and not sure how you got there? I love comments (and advice, tips, etc) so much I enter them into my monthly drawing for an AnaBanana gift basket ($25 value). I announce a winner the first blog post of the new month. And that’s THIS post! [Insert cheers and applause here]