Erin The Great

I love how everyone thinks I’m awake in the mornings. I realize that I am mobile and that by physically moving one might assume that I am in fact awake, but I must warn the masses now. If it’s before 10 AM I am basically sleepwalking through my routine. Seriously guys it’s been like this since high school and just about everything you try to teach me or tell me won’t actually compute until later that day.

Case in point… The other day I walked into my office, dropped my purse off in one of my filing cabinet drawers, and walked to my computer to pull up reports to get them out to the floor staff. I was going about my morning like every other morning until my friend Graham saw me walking by and shouted out to me ‘you didn’t see it did you!’

‘See what?’ I replied clearly confused at his statement.

‘Come here, I’ll show you’ he said as he guided me back to my office. ‘Look!’ he said. I was looking all around my office wondering what could possibly be different. Sadly I was still in auto pilot mode so it looked like the same big blur of colors and shapes. ‘Look to your left’, I did what I was told. ‘Now look down’ feeling like a helper monkey at this point I looked down.

To my wonderment I noticed that the IT department had put a mini fridge in my office and had packed it full of Dr. Pepper so I wouldn’t run out when the vending machines did. I had tears in my eyes as I gazed upon the glory that I beheld . It was the most glorious sight I have seen. My eyes started to un-gloss and the colors and shapes started making actual objects. Dr.Pepper! I opened the door and it was like heaven was singing a glorious chorus to me.

‘How did you not see it when you walked in? It’s right by where you put your keys and where you drop off your purse!’ I could tell Graham was confused.

I’ve been running on ‘morning auto-pilot’ mode for so long, that to the untrained eye you could in fact actually argue that I am indeed awake. If only they knew. Not only had I not noticed the mini fridge packed full of Dr. Pepper, but had totally bypassed the smiley face on my computer screen that was facing the smiley face on the mini fridge. Oh how grateful I was after I noticed it, but oh how stupid I felt that I was too out of it to notice such a beautiful showing of friendship. Thanks again guys! It has been a lifesaver every day since you brought it into my office. You guys are the best!