Friday List and a Not Very Quiet Friday

I intend to feel abundant today.  CHECK CHECK
I intend to receive extra money out of nowhere today. ON ITS WAY
I intend to practice more patience today. CHECK
I intend to feel appreciated today.  CHECK
I intend to provide great value today.  CHECK

This is supposed to be a Friday. Most Fridays I'd be thinking about having a TANK DAY. Especially the week of the TEch Council Meeting. But that isn't the new normal is it? Today I simply wanted to make sure I got a shower in this morning. No small thing to take for granted considering I had an 8 AM meeting TODAY. Not a typo. That damn Chad scheduled a meeting at 8 AM and you can't even say no because you can't get to work. Not if all you have to do is roll over from your bed to attend the meeting. Personally I don't think there's never a good reason to start a meeting that early but the new normal and always-connected environment I myself enabled my company to do also meant you could really meet anytime. And so I just bit my tongue and did the meeting. And wouldn't you know it would go an entire hour. Just another quick project we have to implement. If anything, we've become pretty agile. It would have been nice to take a shower right after the meeting... but I elected to do another meeting with my team and then go get me a quick breakfast sandwich at McDonald's. And then I had to do ANOTHER meeting at 10:30 AM. I tell ya I'm actually busier now by far than before I went remote. And then just like yesterday, I had to make myself a quick lunch before I had to jump on another meeting at 1 PM.  What in heck is going on?? Finally my last meeting was the Huddle Meeting at 3 PM and mercifully it ended by 4. I never did get around to taking a shower at all today. I did take a walk in the middle of the day and took a pic of a sign sitting at one of my neighbor's front yard. "Enjoy your walk" was what the sign simply said. At least we're all being nice to each other mostly. I posted a pic of the huddle too as sort of the symbol of this being Friday. It wasn't the chill day that most Fridays usually were in the past. But it was still the day before the weekend. And by 4 PM, I had actually "checked out". And started my Friday after-work routine. In the world of remote working, that meant lining up at Trader Joe's to get my week's groceries. And then to Ralphs right after that. The wait to get in to Trader Joe's is still averaging about a half hour just to get in the store. And then today there was a shortage of pasta and rice. People are probably still in hoard mode. At least there weren't any lines at Ralphs and I finished the shopping there. All in all my week's supplies totaled just under $100. But then again I'm mostly eating in anymore. I am probably saving a whole ton of money. Actually, my checking account reached $20K after today's paycheck, for which I am very grateful for. It means that no matter what happens, I have a 3-month cushion on expenses. Makes me feel very good financially. I made myself some shaved beef chow mein for dinner tonight. And then later on I had something different happen. I actually made contact with a potential romantic interest who reached out to me on Match.com. We talked for a good hour-and-a-half on the phone. And I actually enjoyed talking to her on the phone. Her name was Jodi and we'll see where this one goes. I am in no rush. Especially in a world where I still spend time with my ex-wife on weekends because we're all tied up indoors. But we'll see huh?