Golf and Hanging out at DTLA

There's something about that damn Penmar Golf Course. We can't figure out why we don't play well on that course. I have hit more pars in all the other courses, including Roosevelt than Penmar for sure! After today I still don't understand. We got paired up with 2 other guys today, one a pretty good scratch golfer. I hit my tee shots well today, that much I think I can say. And the one time I didn't on the long Hole 6 I followed it up with 2 booming strikes off the fairway with my 3 Hybrid good to be near the pin after 3 shots. But for sure my putting game was nonexistent today. As in I can only remember one time where I didn't 3-putt the hole and that one time I had to sink a long one on Hole 7 to get to 2 putts and a bogey. The good thing was that neither Greg nor Scott was playing well either. Scott kept hitting tee shots in the trees. Greg's fairway chips left him totally as well. It was like we had channelled our worst golfer selves! About the only consolation today was that it had turned into a nice, warm day right from the get-go. But then they had started the aeration process on the greens too which should have slowed them down some but it didn't. In fact, the greens were unusually fast we all thought. I wish I could attribute my atrocious putting to that. But I can't. I just sucked today is all. And other than the 5 on 7 and another 5 on the last hole where I hit a bomb from the fairway 200+ yards to the fringe of the green, all the other holes were 6s and 7s. I could not string 2 good shots together. That's a loser combination when combined with bad putting. The other good thing was that we got started earlier than our tee time schedule and so we got done by 10:45! I had plenty of time to get home get some food to cook from Trader JOe's and actually cook myself some fettuccini bolognese. Lisa had asked me to come by at noon. But I was 99.9% sure they hadn't eaten lunch yet, didn't make any plans for lunch and was taking her time to get ready. I was right on all counts. But by the time I drove to Lisa's I had already eaten a bowl of my fettuccini and packed some for Johnnie for later. She and Courtney can do whatever they wanted. Johnnie and i would be just fine.

As it was we all met up at Sharon's parking garage around 1:30. Even Courtney got there by that time. And then they walked across the street to the concert hall and Johnnie and i went up to Sharon's so Johnnie could play with Varsha. I'm ok with that for my Sunday afternoon. The Lakers and Celtics were playing a matinee at noon but I was just fine checking on the scores on my iPhone. [P.S. the Lakers ended up winning a close, exciting game with LeBron hitting the winning shot!] I had given my Pixel for Lisa to use because she had put hers in the wash and now it needed to dry out. Ay Lisa. Just some more manufactured drama. Anyway I didn't care about any of that. I didn't even care that she made me drive downtown. As long as I could be with Johnnie I was just fine. And so for the next couple of hours I caught up with Sharon and talked about Balwan. He was in India but had just had a terrible bout with stress that it affected him physically. I want to help him too. He was feeling immense financial pressure. I made a mental note that this was no accident that this is coming into my awareness, both yesterday with my sister and my mom's mortgate and today with Balwan's financial pressures. In the meantime, I was grateful that I was under no such pressure and I'm going to keep it that way. And I am GRATEFUL that I have much more money than I need.  Sharon made chicken nuggets and fish sticks for Johnnie and like yesterday he was his finicky food self. But that's ok. So Johnnie and Varsha played for a couple of hours. And then before we knew it, Lisa and Courtney were already back from the concert. I'm glad Lisa got to go. It's something new and different and appeals to her sense of variety. I was glad to have caught up with Sharon. And in the end, Courtney went off to meet up with an elementary school friend, and Lisa and Johnnie and i went home. To Lisa's house anyway. There, Lisa asked me to stay and eat some fish she made if I wanted. I wanted to be polite and so I did stick around for dinner. Johnnie made a comment that having this feast was his dream come true and he thanked me for making it come true! Hmmm. So the 3 of us had a "family" dinner and then I took out her trash bins as if I still lived there. And then off i went on home. I watched the Season premiere of Walking Dead. Boy this weekend turned out to be a long, eventful one didn't it?