Tuesday Routine How I've Missed You

I almost welcomed waking up earlier than 7 AM, rushing to get myself showered and ready and then getting Johnnie up and ready and off to school. And we didn't even eat breakfast at McDonald's today! We ate at home per Johnnie's request. Fortunately I had sausage and eggs and some of those croissants Lisa gave me. Perfect. And we were out of the house at right about the same time we would leave McDonald's. And so the picture of Mar Vista school yard as I was walking Johnnie to his classroom was very much welcome. I mean the whole experience. I've missed it. Hadn't done it since before Christmas more than 3 weeks ago. And I was very happy I'm getting to do it again. Almost grateful even. I hadn't realized how much off-routine I had gotten in just a few weeks time. And so here I am back to rushing to work after dropping Johnnie off at school. I was thinking to myself if I made my money trading or something like that I'd just be going to work right there at the apartment anyway. Same thing. I just won't have to drive is all. Won't have to deal with the crankiness of impatient drivers. This as this guy almost screams at me as he cuts me off making a left on Sawtelle and National. It almost got a rise out of me. At least I remembered that was some of my own anger getting provoked out of me LOL. And still I made it to work just fine and pretty much on time. 

Today I knew I had to put my head down and work on my presentation for tomorrow's Tech Council Meeting. Yet there seemed to be something in the back of my head reassuring me that I had this and that I didn't need to push so hard. Which is why I went all the way to lunch before I actually even started THINKING about what I wanted to present. Yet one more time putting an agenda together out of my ass. Still I did want to address the good old G Drive didn't I? That conversation alone should take at least 15 minutes. Everybody seems to be at the point where if they're not getting badgered about it, they ain't doing much about it either. Still I did revel in the fact that there was less than 1 TB of data left in there. I mean think of it: I can fit G Drive data in a USB stick! And an even smaller one at that if we took Alan DeJong's data out! I think I've come a long way and I'm patting myself on the back for that one. By day's end I at least had a coherent presentation together and even got to the point where I only had one data topic left to get a few slides together on, which was the Data Retention piece. Once again it looks like I have come through! And so by the time I went home and picked up Johnnie from school, no need to think about work anymore. We were free and clear to go do Tuesday routine. Which was to barbecue up some pork sausages, get Johnnie some penne chicken noodle soup and get him to eat it outdoors right there where the barbecue was. That had the double advantage of allowing me to keep walking from there to my apartment if I needed something, each walk taking 100 steps each time! Yep, I made 11,000 steps pretty easily tonight just by doing that. And then of course when I got done with the barbecuing and eating my pasta, I made chocolate chip cookies. It wouldn't be Tuesday night if we didn't make cookies. And Johnnie happily dug into the batch just as soon as I had it made. He had already eaten a lot of pasta and dug into the sausage as well. He ate so much, he had to go to the bathroom a couple of times tonight. And then in lieu of doing a lesson and sightwords, we did one homework from his school list. Tonight it was to make music out of 5 things in the kitchen. Fresh off watching the Magic School Bus episode on sound and vibration, Johnnie knew full well he could at least find 5 things he could do rhythms on. A pot, a pan a wooden spoon and the tin used for cookies served just fine for his musical instruments. And I did make him put on a one minute concert! Homework done! Pic posted. Then and only then did he get to watch more videos. I actually thought about doing my presentation while he did that but I wasn't behind anyway. At least I didn't feel like I was. I sort of just allowed myself not to be in cram mode and decided to wait until tomorrow to finish a few more slides. Which meant I didn't have to stay up until 2 - 3 AM this morning working on them. Perfect. Instead I savored the time together with Johnnie, even participating with him on his dinosaur scenario with his play-doh. Like I said I was just glad that I have Tuesday night routine back, even being deliberate when it came to shower time. I let Johnnie linger and play in the tub longer than usual. And when he got done I sort of let myself get absorbed in the moment. Even though I had no time to focus on anything else really, I'm ok with that. I still got the majority of my stuff done. And the stuff I didn't do, I can easily do tomorrow. By the time Johnnie was in bed asking the Universe that it's ok if he didn't have any dreams tonight, I was also thanking the Universe that my little boy was snoozing and breathing softly next to me tonight. I know I talked to Lisa about leaving him alone in the bed. But then again you'd have to be awake in order to do that don't you. Like I said, without having to deal with my presentation for tomorrow, I simply allowed myself to go to bed and go to sleep. And for the 2nd night in a row, I logged 7+ hours of sleep in. THAT'S what I'm talking about...