A Relaxed Saturday

I started the day with breakfast over at Lisa's and as I got there here's Johnnie already setting up picnic on the floor and Lisa and Courtney in the kitchen. Great! All I gotta do is play with Johnnie until food is ready and then eat! Which is essentially what happened. I didn't do too much meditating this morning, choosing to still focus mainly on keeping my vibration as high as possible and becoming more aware of my own emotions. One A-HA distinction I did get was that I need to ACCEPT that other people are not perfect, that they have agendas, and that those agendas do not necessarily mesh with mine [but partly because I need to consciously and constantly choose my interactions and emotional intersections with people], and that MOST people are not at the same level of self-awareness and spiritual awareness as I am. And that last part is not a reason for separateness but more an even bigger to be compassionate. If I am to help people, and I mean A LOT of people, then how could I possibly do that if walk around looking down on them? And how could I do that anyway and claim to be self-aware. THAT is simply my ego needing to be right. AND that part of me too I need to accept. All that is internal work. And what better forces to help me learn these lessons than Lisa and Courtney together LOL LOL. For her part Lisa admitted that Courtney somehow stabilizes her emotionally and for that alone she may be worth all the flakiness and quirks, at least for Lisa. And it may be that Lisa does the same for Courtney. Either way it's good for both of them, at least for pockets of time. Then again, that would be Lisa's tolerance level anyway right? Even hanging with Johnnie by herself will push her to her limits. Which is why I'm here. And so after breakfast you could find me playing with Johnnie (see pic) while Courtney off to some flower garden to look for plants. Lisa played piano and actually got about a half hour before her usual parade of phone calls started. I left a little past noon. I had spent a couple of hours with Johnnie and I'm coming back tonight for dinner anyway. Best to chill for the afternoon. AND take a nap. I'm posting pics of the rest of the morning here.

I would come back later on in the evening for dinner. And Lisa had requested that we eat steaks tonight. W-h-a-t? Steaks? OK then. I went to Ralphs and picked up some of their best New York cuts, picked up Panda Express for Johnnie and got to Lisa's with the barbecue already on. Funny how I remembered putting this thing together. I didn't even know she had gotten the gas connection working. She had to make a comment about me not putting it together correctly but then again I remind myself that is the work isn't it? Not to take comments like that personally. Instead I put on the steaks and we had a perfectly fine dinner.

And we capped the evening off watching the movie Tangled which Johnnie and I had already seen but it was awesome to find a Frozen 2 replacement movie! Lisa had been drinking wine and by this time she was almost looped. But that's ok. We had a prefectly good dinner-and-a-movie night and I was home by 9 PM. A nice Saturday it turned out to be.