J.T. BrooksDecember 2022
A Weird Christmas
Waking up to something burning is never good. Especially when you live alone. This is how my day started. So here we go....
Ahhh....sleep....the dancing cookies are very entertaining....wait are they starting to smoke....uhhh....oh no! the dancing cookies are catching on fire....but they are still dancing....odd....
OK, now I'm fully awake and I realize that the smoke I smelled was not from the dream cookies. I smell it in my house. What in the world! Guess it's time to investigate before my house burns down around me. So....I go out to the kitchen and there it is....an elf is burning something on the stove and there are flames.(saucer eyes, casue really!?!)
So I turn off thee burner and get the lid for the pan and place it on....crisis averted...or so I think. I notice smoke coming out of the oven now as well....really don't want to open that up....but here goes....joy....burnt cookies. (eye roll)
I turn to ask the elf what is going on, and he's no where to be seen. Just poof, vanished. I sigh and start to clean up the mess and open a window to let the smoke clear out. (just how I want to spend my morning).
Finally I get everything cleaned up and washed and put away. Then I notice that my tea kettle is missing. (Now where did that get to?) I search everywhere and cannot find it...guess it's going to be a no tea morning. Since I can't make my tea I go and get a shower and dressed and ready for the day. (guess where I find the kettle....yep...in my sock drawer) Not sure how that got there, but at least I can have tea now. Things are looking up. (until I walk out of my room)
It's like some sort of twisted time warp happening....my house now looks like its a log cabin in the woods with snow everywhere....I live in Hawaii....there should be no snow outside my windows....but there is....weird. I think I really need some tea...I must not be fully awake yet....yeah, that's it....I'm still dreaming. That's the only explanation.
I walk into the kitchen with the kettle and there are elves everywhere! I'm baffled....so I walk out of the kitchen, kettle still in my hand, and sit on the sofa, and look at the snow.(I've gone round the bend, thats the only explanation)
"Well, good morning," says a voice from the front door. I turn to look and in walks a couple dressed in all red and looking happy and awake as anyone could be. (who are these people?)
"H-hi," I say hesitantly...casue now I think I've been abducted by a cult or something. "Who are you?"
"We are the owners of this house...you just showed up last night on our door step and we bundled you into bed to let you sleep and warm up." Said the lady.
"Where am I? Last I know I went to bed late after making some pies...and when I woke up I was in my house, but now I'm here...where is here again? "
The man smiles and says cheerily, "Why, the North Pole of course." (Like that doesn't sound crazy....not at all)
Just then, all the elves come running out of the kitchen yelling about dinner. (It's like having a classroom full of kids hopped up on sugar and sucking helium) They say that dinner is done and we should eat it before it gets hot (whatever that means) Everyone proceeds to the dining room where the table is set and there are so many desserts on it there's almost no room for the plates and forks. (did not know people actually make dessert for dinner like this, but hey, when in Rome)
So we all sit down and serve ourselves yummy desserts and eat. (still like having a classroom full of hyper kids with high squeaky voices, kinda hurts your ears) But, we all have a nice conversation, and then when dinner is done, everything on the table disappears. (POOF! Gone) Then a pot of tea appears (I think I might die of shock soon, but hey, I will not pass up some tea)
As we enjoy our tea, I ask how I can get back home to Hawaii. No one knows. So, I guess I'm stuck here for now. (ugh) The tea makes me sleepy (that's unusual)and I ask if I can go lay down. So I go back to the room I was in earlier and lay down to nap.
When I wake up again, I am sitting in the kitchen on the floor with a pie in my hands. (weird) There is a card on the floor next to me, so I set the pie down and open the card. It's a Christmas card....signed by like a billion people....it reads:
"Hope you enjoyed your stay in the North Pole. Have a happy Christmas and you forgot your tea kettle, so we left you a new one. ~~the Clauses"
"P.S. the elves ate your other pie, sorry"
There was a new kettle with a bow under my small tree in the living room. So, I washed it and made some tea and thought about everything that happened. I decided I was off my rocker and I would not tell anyone about it. (guess that didn't work, since I'm telling you, but shhh...don't tell anyone)
With the knock on the door I knew my family had arrived for the Holiday and we were short one pie. (eye roll) Guess we'll have to make due with one this year.
The end
Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday and stay safe...you never know when the elves will burn something.
