Approximately 3 a.m. New Years Day, 2012.
I went upstairs for tea. While the water boiled, I washed some dishes.
Then I spent the next hour reorganizing my family’s dry pantry. I wonder what my family will think when they awake in four hours to see all the canned goods grouped collectively in the back, with the rice packets nestled together at the front left of the top shelf. When they read my explanatory index card and realize that yes, I did group all the spreads and condiments together (but, inexplicably put the extra salad dressing in the back) front and center.
Will they realize it was me who put all the canned goods on the top shelf and all of the boxed goods on the bottom? Who rounded up all of the stray fruit cups and stacked them dutifully next to the chocolate pudding cups? Who created a miscellaneous pile that consists, oddly enough, of only unpopped corn kernels and miniature marshmallows?
If they can’t draw the conclusion that this was my doing on their own, the index card taped to the doors that simply says, “Prepare Yourself!” will surely give it away.
Tonight, I used my insomnia; it did not use me.
I did get the tea, in case you’re wondering.
Happy New Year.
Then I spent the next hour reorganizing my family’s dry pantry. I wonder what my family will think when they awake in four hours to see all the canned goods grouped collectively in the back, with the rice packets nestled together at the front left of the top shelf. When they read my explanatory index card and realize that yes, I did group all the spreads and condiments together (but, inexplicably put the extra salad dressing in the back) front and center.
Will they realize it was me who put all the canned goods on the top shelf and all of the boxed goods on the bottom? Who rounded up all of the stray fruit cups and stacked them dutifully next to the chocolate pudding cups? Who created a miscellaneous pile that consists, oddly enough, of only unpopped corn kernels and miniature marshmallows?
If they can’t draw the conclusion that this was my doing on their own, the index card taped to the doors that simply says, “Prepare Yourself!” will surely give it away.
Tonight, I used my insomnia; it did not use me.
I did get the tea, in case you’re wondering.
Happy New Year.