BradleyTheGreat Habitica 01-22-2021

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FINISH THE Story- I had a conference call in five minutes. Marcy had my meeting papers laid out along with some fresh pens, Post-its, and a note pad all ready for me. At least until I walked in and spilled my Starbuck's down my white blouse and all over my desk, papers, and keyboard. Who would have thought that a grande covered so much horizontal space. This was my moment to shine and...

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I had a conference call in five minutes. Marcy had my meeting papers laid out along with some fresh pens, Post-its, and a note pad all ready for me. At least until I walked in and spilled my Starbuck's down my white blouse and all over my desk, papers, and keyboard. Who would have thought that a grande covered so much horizontal space. This was my moment to shine and I ruined it. I was so upset, that I started yelling and screaming. Everyone else who was at the office at the time was looking at me.

"I can tell you're upset," Marcy said. "What's wrong?" "I spilled coffee everywhere," I replied. "Everything is all ruined!" "I'm so sorry to hear that," Marcy said. "At least we can try to see about rescheduling the call, and I can print up new copies of the papers and we have a spare keyboard you can use." "OK, thanks," I said.

Just then, another one of my coworkers came up to me, carrying a spare keyboard and another copy of my meeting papers. However, when I plugged in the keyboard and turned on my computer, all text in the room became garbled. The letters and numbers on my keyboard were replaced with the symbol used when a character on the computer is not recognized. My papers had complete gibberish on them. The text on my computer was all weird as well. "This just HAS to be a bad dream," I said as I looked ad all of the garbled words.

I then put my head down on my desk and found myself back in my bedroom. My alarm went off, and I got up, took a shower, and got and dressed for work, while my husband went back to bed, once again sighing when being woken up even though he had to wake up two hours later, even though he was used to it by now from all of these years of this happening every day. I then went downstairs and made myself breakfast. It was then time to kiss my son goodbye and go to work. However, my son did not look human at all. He had three eyes and long horn-like protrusions coming out of his head. He was also much different than the nice boy I knew who limited his aggressive behaviors to video games; he charged at me and punched me in the face, causing me to fall down to the floor.

I found myself back in my bedroom again, with my husband snoring very loudly. I turned off my alarm clock as it was only five minutes before I was supposed to get up for work. I then showered and got dressed as usual. But my son than looked at me and said, "Hey Mom, you look different." "How so," I asked him. He then replied, "You look like a demonic creature from one of Dad's Minecraft YouTube videos." I then took out the mirror I use when applying makeup, only to see myself as a pixilated monster with red eyes and black skin, from a video me and my son helped my husband with last weekend despite not really understanding his career as a YouTube content creator and wondering why I am still working a boring office job despite the fact that my husband's channel was popular and made him a lot of money from YouTube ads as well as his merch and other ways of earning mo0ney. I screamed as loud as I could, and I then fainted at the sight of my horrible look.

I then hound myself in my bedroom once again, with light shining into the room. I pinched my arm and felt the pinch. I then went to work as my son went to school and my husband stayed in bed for a bit longer to be well-rested for his next YouTube video-making session.