the space between

so I woke up this morning
promptly went back to sleep
then woke up again
30mins before davening
mumbled my brachot
while whirling around the house
like a drunken robot
blindly following the furrow
dug by years of repetition

I got all of the way through the amidah
when someone said:
check your shel rosh
I left the batim on!
FOOL!
a quick halacha check with R. Bz.
and I reapplied my totafos
the mistakes of a newbie
or the errors of not having kavanah

on a positive note
got an aliyah this morning
still get so nervous
that I forget my name
but they had the brachot
transliterated
so I didn't mess up