I’m attempting to force myself to write in my blog every day. I’ve gotten SO BAD at keeping up these past several years and someday I’ll be dead and then what?
I’ll be gone but hopefully not forgotten. (Feel free to use these prompts for your own writing).
Today’s prompt(s):
The most surprised you’ve ever been.
I don’t like surprises. At least when I’m the recipient. I like being the person surprising someone but don’t surprise me.
Ever.
I like control. I feel comfortable when I’m in control.
Though I know filling in for each other at work WILL happen, I work with nine doctors after all, I HATE it when I’m asked to fill in at the last minute. I absolutely don’t mind if I’m given a head’s up and I can prepare, but to walk in and someone say, “Oh hey, Karen, I need you to fill in for so-and-so” makes my butt cheeks clinch.
(How’s them visuals??)
So to surprise me and I receive it well, is rare.
It has happened before. When Kevin and I lived in our rental house, shortly after we got married, when Blake was a baby and I believe it was around Christmas time, I walked into the spare bedroom to get something and then came back out to talk to Kevin.
“Did you notice anything unusual?” Kevin asked.
“No.” Was my response.
“Really?” he asked. “That’s weird, follow me.”
So I followed Kevin back into the bedroom. “What do you see?”
I looked around and shrugged. “Nothing.”
He nodded toward a huge lump of something covered by a blanket.
I blinked and am embarrassed to say it really didn’t register for a few seconds. Then I gasped, lifted the blanket off and saw it.
It was a curio case to put all of my Previous Moment figurines in.
(Because back then, I collected them. I know. I KNOW)
I just have knick knacks in there now, no Previous Moments (though I still have most of them and I bet they’re worth some money today) but it’s the same case. I LOVE my case. It fits my personality, I think. Sleek and sexy.
(Why are you laughing??)
I had no idea Kevin was even THINKING about buying me a curio case. I had never mentioned wanting one and until he bought me one, I didn’t even know I WANTED one. But that is one time that will always stick out in my mind because because he truly took me by surprise.
Write From Karen 