Laughter truly is my magic potion to feel better when life seems to hit you with a whole lot of Paw-Paws at once. So if you are feeling a bit overwhelmed I invite you to read.
You may have noticed that I don’t mind sharing the crazy funny things that happen to me.
With everything that has been going on lately toppled by extremely humid and warm days. My body is tired and feeling somewhat done. When sleep comes, it comes either quickly and deeply or on certain days I wake from my slumber at 2 am and sit, like now, writing this blog.
Couple nights ago, I had that overwhelming tiredness cover me like waves on the ocean. By 4pm in the afternoon, it was already a huge struggle to stay awake. I resisted the urge to have a cat nap as dinner was not going to cook itself and I counted the minutes to take a shower and curl up on my bed, hug my favorite pillow and let blissful sleep take over. Yes I do cuddle a pillow, I have been single for 11 yrs. I need my arms around something.
I cannot remember falling asleep on this particular night. I woke up in the early morning hours with mother nature sounding her call. I wanted to ignore the yakkity yak of my full bladder. I was in such a comfy spot and dreaming of something I can hardly remember. I just knew I would fight this urge as far as I could because getting up was not part of my plan. As the drama escalated I forced myself with one eye open to silence Mother Nature, feeling my way around the house in the dark, stumbling back to bed flopping down with a sigh hoping I can get that right spot of comfort again.
I checked my phone. Mistake! Because then I would see a message left by my sister, Tan-yah in the US, and of course I will answer and of course we will start chatting. But tonight I felt the waves of sleep take over and after a short reply I said to her, I can’t chat. I am just way too tired.
Mistake nr 2. My brain shut down and I fell asleep again. I went into theta brainwaves so quickly I can’t remember it happening. I just gave in to the waves of sleep and allowed it to take over.
Now, most of you have WhatsApp. Most of you know there is a voice recording button. Most of you also know that when a message is sent in WhatsApp you hear a little “ping!”
Well I was ripped out of dream number 2 with another ping. I opened one eye and saw I am still in the WhatsApp chat with my sister. I never logged out. I quickly realized I sent a voice recording in my sleep. My initial thought was that it must be one of those 1 sec recordings that have nothing but static in the background.
Then came that awkward feeling. I may have done something bad. I quickly gathered my senses when my sister’s message came through.
And this is what was said. Exactly. And I quote.
“LOL! Who is snoring like that?”
Lord have mercy. What did I do?
I lift my head in a vain attempt to focus my sleepy eyes on my phone. I remember looking at the time and the length of the message.
My heart sank. The length of the message read 16 minutes and 54 seconds.
In between all the effort of trying to wake up and see what I did I am getting laughing emoji’s from my sister who I can just hear is cracking up with laughter.
I played the message back to myself to hear exactly what I did. In my daze, instead of exiting WhatsApp my finger rested on the voice recording speaker and whilst I went into blissful la la land, I recorded a whole 16.54 seconds of myself snoring as if I was paid to do it. I must have moved my hand during my slumber and the minute my hand moved I sent the message.
Guys! I wish the world swallowed me whole just right there and then. I’m grateful for the fact that I sent this awful message to her alone. It could have been so much worse. Before I could delete it she already saved it. For a rainy day she said. Still cracking herself up at my slip.
Over 16 minutes guys! Lol. Imagine that!
How embarrassing.
I can laugh now. I am really laughing all over again at myself.
