Friday Before the Long Weekend

I was thinking that today would qualify as a "tank day". It is, after all, the Friday before the long weekend. My boss is out on vacation already, as was a couple of other Directors. All I needed to do was make it past lunch and then it would be fair game in terms of just simply going home. Except that it didn't work out that way. There were other things I could have done too. I had already lined up all these online classes I planned on getting to this weekend. The EFT class, the class to learn options and even, hopefully, penny stock trading once and for all. I was even hoping I would be able to get started today. But then i  got caught up editing a video. Yep, editing a video. And for work at that. Chad's staff meeting needed to be edited. Of course I had to do it. Who else would? And by the time I got done it was already lunch time. That IS what happens when you get absorbed doing something you actually like. Time flies. And so I actually DID spend the morning... working! And so I never did get to any of those online classes. But I didn't care I have all of the 3 day weekend to work out when to get them done. I actually did spend some time figuring out some kind of vacation schedule through summer that would align with Johnnie's school schedule. Lisa and I both figured we'd be much better prepared this year than last. Speaking of which, we never really did make any plans for me to pinch hit looking after Johnnie this weekend. Apparently Lisa still hadn't really "moved in" and all her stuff is still in boxes. She mentioned last night that she hoped to do a lot of that this weekend and that she would ask me to look after Johnnie at some point so she could. That works for me obviously but I also prepared myself mentally not to see Johnnie for the entire 3-day weekend if it did come to that. And so all that to say I just simply let the day go by and it sure did go by quickly. Before I knew it it was already time to approve timecards. I did leave work earlier than usual. As in by 4:20 PM. I figured I'd get away from the office just so I could get my stuff done. I got so caught up in work that I never really got up from my desk much. Which meant I was still at barely 3000 steps when I got home! That's the lowest I've had in a while. Usually I'd go out to Starbucks in the middle of the afternoon or something and get myself an easy 1200-1500 steps somehow. Not today. Still I did get to go home on time or earlier and I was treated to another glorious sunset on the drive home, which was almost identical to yesterday's sunset. Hey if that feels like I'm reaching for something to be grateful about, that's fine with me. I can be grateful for the sunset. I can be grateful that my week back from vacation turned out to be pretty uneventful. Uneventful is good LOL. I can be grateful that here it is already the middle of January and unlike many past Januaries when I was still living at Maplewood, there was absolutely no tension or negativity whatsoever between Lisa and I. I say this as I make note that this is the first January I'm spending as a divorced person. And even though I go home tonight spending my Friday night quietly by myself, I'm not so sure that isn't really what I want right now. In fact, I do acknowledge that being alone doesn't really bother me at all. It's even preferred - by myself of course. That's because I'm about as low-maintenance as it gets. And there would absolutely be no problem doing something that I want to do. What I really wanted to do tonight was to first get a haircut. And I didn't even go to the in DTLA which I would have walked to at some point this afternoon. I wanted to go to Supercuts West LA on Sepulveda. I'm thinking I'm getting a better haircut there tonight. Which is why I waited until after work. And wouldn't you know I ended up with the guy who always gives me a pretty good haircut. I don't even know his name really. But it was worth taking the chance. And so now I'm grateful for my fresh new haircut too LOL. After the haircut, I went home and then walked to Ralphs the long way around Butler. Last year at this time, walking on a Friday night was my therapy. It was the way I released anger and sadness. No need for it anymore this time, this year. And I think I'm going to log some gratitude for that as well. Tonight I ended up making bolognese the old way I used to do it. With Prego LOL. Hey the last couple of times it didn't work out trying to make it in the Instant pot. This way I could get dinner ready in 20 minutes. And so I posted a pic of me eating a heaping bowl of spaghetti. Pretty good bolognese sauce too. I'm grateful for that. Not to worry... I ended up finishing my 11,000 steps tonight even though I needed to put in a little conscious effort to get it done. And then I finally finished binge-watching Raising Dion on Netflix. A quiet Friday night before the long weekend. Sounds ok to me.