I Sang The Whole Way Home

My mom and dad occasionally tell the story about when I was young (5? 6?) and we went to Grandma and Grandpa Kemmer's house for Christmas eve (as we did every year.)  I was so excited, so worked up, so wired for sound.....that as soon as I got out of the car, right before we walked up to the house.....I just had to scream.

So I did.

I still do that, when I get super excited about something.

Today I got great news, really excited, lots of energy, full of YES YES YES!!  The details aren't important (and nope I won't tell you) but the way I felt?   So excited....I could have screamed.

Except I was at work and one doesn't scream at work. Especially not when there's a loud student in the office right across from you, and a co-worker on the phone, and....oh lord I just realized I read that email when I was on the phone with someone ELSE!  Heavens!  But I stomped my feet, and I balled up my fists and made muscles in my arms, and my eyebrows leapt to the top of my forehead.

I had to hold it together for a couple of hours before I could leave work and really let it out.  After lunch I'd stopped for a coffee on the way back to the office...and then as a celebratory (and sweet as pie) gesture when she couldn't get through to me on the phone, Steph brought me a coffee too (not knowing I'd just finished one.)   I'm not a fidgety person, but my legs were bouncing...and I was just building up for that awesome Christmas Eve Scream.

I left work late and had to be somewhere at 6, so I had to move quickly....I thought I'd explode as soon as I left the building, but leaving the building with me was a veryprofessionalcolleague who was parked in the same lot as me....so we chatted cordially.  I couldn't even skip sideways....I had to walk normally.

So I got onto my scooter, I pulled out....and I SANG THE ENTIRE WAY HOME.  I laughed into the wind on the straight-aways....I yelled and yipped....and I SANG.  For six minutes (I don't live far from work) I spent 2 hours worth of excitement.

When I got home I was as energetic as a Little Richard song (woooo!) and I came into the house with a huge smile on my face.  Steph met me at the door, "Are you really that excited or is it the 2 big coffees you've had in the last 3 hours?"

"YESSSS!"