The wake-up call
I usually wake up at 6 AM when my TV "alarm" turns on. I'll physically get out of bed around 6:30, but I'm awake before then for the most part. (Fridays, after band...been kinda iffy lately, not gonna lie.) I get up, I'll Wii, at 7 I watch the news, and at 7:30 I go down for breakfast. Just before 8, I go up to take a shower.
Yesterday, as I'm coming up for my shower, my mother is coming from my end of the hall. Uh...what's up? She was concerned that I was still in bed. WGN tends to make us, dad and me, laugh in the morning, but yesterday we were fairly quiet downstairs, so my mom was legitimately concerned that I wasn't up yet despite it being nearly two hours later than when I'd normally wake up. Mom...is unaware of using ambient clues to determine a situation, so the fact that my TV was off, with no known power outages, should've been a sign that all was well. I don't leave my TV on after I go down for breakfast. But mom's usually still asleep at that point so, you know.
I guess I should be glad that, at nearly 44, my mother is still concerned about me? She didn't do this when I was a quarter that age, so perhaps that's why it's so perplexing now.
Yesterday, as I'm coming up for my shower, my mother is coming from my end of the hall. Uh...what's up? She was concerned that I was still in bed. WGN tends to make us, dad and me, laugh in the morning, but yesterday we were fairly quiet downstairs, so my mom was legitimately concerned that I wasn't up yet despite it being nearly two hours later than when I'd normally wake up. Mom...is unaware of using ambient clues to determine a situation, so the fact that my TV was off, with no known power outages, should've been a sign that all was well. I don't leave my TV on after I go down for breakfast. But mom's usually still asleep at that point so, you know.
I guess I should be glad that, at nearly 44, my mother is still concerned about me? She didn't do this when I was a quarter that age, so perhaps that's why it's so perplexing now.