A Forward Step At Least

So waking up today without making Johnnie breakfast and taking him to school did have its advantages. I went through stock market "stuff". I know everything is about doing your homework. Figure out what to trade and when. Look for patterns. All that should be right in my wheelhouse. Stuff I really like doing. But I still have to learn - or relearn such as it were - how to do it. And so it was no small feat I thought that I actually did a watchlist today! Also read up on some more strategies. Even found a Youtube video of Steven Dux a Tim Sykes student doing a penny stock conference at MIT. AT MIT! I'd LOVE to be doing that! And so with that I felt some satisfaction that I finally took a forward step and I got some momentum going for the rest of the day too. I actually got into somewhat of a "flow" state. It's that state where I actually felt like I accomplished a ton in a very short period of time because my mind was just clicking very efficiently. I was moving from task to task and actually was feeling very productive. Maybe it was because I was simply focusing on the stuff I'm supposed to be meeting with Eloisa with in almost 2 weeks. Hey I can do A WHOLE LOT in 2 weeks! Anyway, even the brief interruption that was the February Birthday celebration in the early afternoon didn't actually feel like an interruption. It was actually welcomed and provided some levity for the day. What I did NOT do, however, was leave my desk much which meant that by the time I looked up at the end of the day I was barely at 2000 steps. Guess I know what I'm going to do this evening LOL. It was like I looked up after the birthday thing and it was already time to go home. I didn't think I'd see Johnnie this evening. I'm already going to spend most of the day with him tomorrow so I didn't care so much. But I did get a call from Lisa right at 5 PM which was exactly when I got home that he was just picking up him up from school and that they might be heading to Target Westwood tonight. Something about picking up some toy he had his eye on? Anyway Lisa alluded to maybe getting together and I was perfectly fine with that too. She's been the one that has been real good about getting us together "family-style" and I do appreciate that. I'm the one that has been mostly focused on just Johnnie and I stuff. But that's because I felt like he spends more time with Lisa already than he does with me, so I feel like simply catching up. But as I said, I'm already going to see him tomorrow so when Lisa called back and said after all that they were simply going to go on home it was ok with me. Part of me thought it would have been nice to still have "family-time" but my defense mechanism kept me from reaching out. THAT was about Lisa and I and right now I'm perfectly fine to start over as friends and more importantly, co-parents. I'm ok to simply keep doing the things we like to do together with Johnnie. And tonight, I thought it was ok to let them have their mommy-son alone time too. Besides, I thought I could build on this morning's momentum with the stocks stuff. I even brought my laptop home from work thinking I might also keep moving on the momentum of today. But tonight, I watched S01E03 episode of Star Trek: Picard, very happy to have found something to replace the Mandalorian while that preps for its new season later on in the year. I did my 11,000 steps walking around the neighborhood. And then actually made myself a pizza. One of those frozen ones from Ralphs that I topped with more sausage leftovers that I had and pineapple too. Was it as good as something I could have bought from Pizza Hut or Domino's? I don't know. I don't think so. But for tonight's dinner it was. And it was good to finally chill at the end of another work week.