Wake Up!

Last night, I woke to my phone ringing at 2:30 AM. It brought me out of a dead slumber and all matter of emergencies went through my head as I ran for that phone. Could it be a friend in trouble? Could something have happened to my parents? My grandparents? Am I going to have to buy plane tickets first thing? What could it be?

I picked up the phone and heard the annoying beep of a fax machine on the other end.

*sigh*

Now my adrenaline is pumping, I am wide awake, and shaking like a leaf. Not to mention a bit sore as I kept banging into things in the house in my mad rush to get that important call! I also know that this is going to wake up my daughter, but not right away. You see, it takes her awhile to come out of a deep sleep, so I know she won't wake up until a half hour to 45 minutes later. I look out the window, SNOW!!! I even contemplated shoveling at 2:30AM but thought that might be dangerous. I got online as the caller ID registered a JCR distribution with a 214 area code. With the help of 2 night owl friends of mine I found that this company sells HVAC products on ebay. I emailed the information to my work address and decided to deal with it in the morning.

I crawl back in bed, turn up the heated mattress pad and try to sleep. I just drift up when what do I hear? My daughter coming out of her deep sleep. Upstairs I go to cover her back up and calm her down. It is now 3:15, she is right on schedule. Look out the window again and contemplate shovelling. Decide to attempt sleep again. The last time I looked at the clock it was 4:30.

Now, those of you who frequent my blog probably already know this but I never use an alarm clock. I don't like them and they are pointless as I always wake up before they go off anyhow. If they go off and I have to listen to that it makes me grumpy. So I have given up on alarm clocks trusting my internal clock instead. Which has never failed me. I woke up at 7, needing to be at work by 8:30 and needing to shovel the mass of snow I was worried about all night. Usually I allow myself about that amount of time to get us up and around but my internal clock did not factor in the snow shovelling. And I am anal enough that I insist it ALL be done, not just a pathway. I did manage to get it all done, get ready, and get to work still 15 minutes early and I even put on make up and jewelry, no ritual was sacrificed in the attempt to get to work on time. Even my lunch got made.

Now here I sit with a cup of coffee looking up information on JCR distributing. I have an ebay profile, I have an address and phone number, I even have a map. Not that I will be travelling to Dallas, TX anytime soon. I have also had a lot of time to think. Now why else would a company in the same time zone as myself, be faxing something at 2:30 AM unless it was spam fax? I will be getting to the bottom of this today. Stay tuned...