November Days

Another Day One Part 17

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       I woke up that morning thinking it was just another morning, like all the ones I had been having for the last couple of years. I had no idea at all that today would be the best day of my life!  Because today my time loop actually manifested! It became real and live, and I was living in it!! But I had not realized it yet... It actually took me until about 3 hours later that I began to suspect... because even though I had been dreaming of this time loop that I wanted to live in for the last several years, I had never expected that it would really happen. Never in a million years did I think it was ever to be real.

       I woke up that morning, like I had so many before. Sad that I was waking up. Sad to live in the life that had happened for me. All alone...never married...dead end job selling medical supplies that I truly hated. A crappy, run down house that I lived in and no money to try and get out of this complete mess I found myself in. So, I laid there a couple minutes and then checked the clock. I had about 10 minutes to get ready and began the drive to work. About my usual amount of time. So, I was in my usual big hurry...bathroom and getting dressed and grabbing a bagel as I rushed out the door. Not even paying attention to my house. You see I'd gone to bed last night and it was Sunday night.

So, I had woken up thinking it was Monday... like it should have been...but it was actually Sunday again... so there I am rushing to work and what do you think I find when I get there? Yep, an empty parking lot! And I had only minutes to spare to get clocked in on time. There should have been everyone else there already...but no one.... so, I sit there for a few minutes trying to figure it out and I look at my phone and there on the display it says Sunday, November17.  Wait a minute! That was yesterday, right?? Wow! Man, oh man did I mess up! I'm thinking, as I sit there a couple more minutes, feeling like a complete idiot and it never once hit me that my loop had started... I should have seen it...

     But again, I had never believed in a million years that I would actually find myself in the time loop that I had been dreaming about for so long. So, after fussing at myself for being such an idiot and getting the day wrong, I drove out of the parking lot and since I was out already I decided that I would go thru a drive thru and get a biscuit and a coffee and then head back home and enjoy my day off with a good book and maybe a couple movies...just a lazy day with nothing to do.

 I go thru the drive thru and get my steak biscuit and a tall mocha coffee and I even check the receipt just to make sure it is indeed Sunday, like my phone says it is...just in case it was busted somehow and yes, indeed the receipt does say it's November 17...Sunday...and so with that confirmation, I head back home.

     I was not in any hurry to get my breakfast and get back home, so I actually pull over at the park on the way and sitting under a tree still covered in fall leaves... all golden and beautiful... I people watch for a while as I eat my biscuit and drink my coffee and think about what book I wanted to get started reading today.... I am always reading a book and I had just finished up a great re read of one of my fav books last night.  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Such a fantastic book! Oh, man...that alien character...Rocky...was just  amazing! And the ending blew me away!! I so hope he writes a follow up sometime soon. So, since I just finished a re read, I was in the mood for a new book. One I'd had on my to read list for awhile, but had never read before. I thought about it and pulled up my Goodreads want to read list and thumbed through and finally settled on RedShirts by John Scalzi.