Thursday April 16 list

I intend to have plenty of patience with Johnnie today, particularly with his lessons.  CHECK
I intend to appreciate Johnnie's many gifts today. CHECK
I intend to receive a large sum of unexpected money today. <IT's COMING>
I intend to be gentle with myself today. CHECK
I intend to practice my mental diet today. <WORK TO DO>

So this morning I focused on Johnnie's lessons just like Tuesday, not only because I didn't have any meetings this morning but because I wanted to make sure Johnnie had finished all of his lessons BEFORE the class zoom meeting at 11 AM. He did so much that when I gave him a chance for a break, sort of timing it with what would have been recess had he still been at school, he just basically knocked off on the couch playing with his Fuzzy. Anyway it was pretty cool that the kids actually still get to interact with each other even if for just once a week and over videoconference. The first 5 minutes actually has to be spent as each kid says hello to all the other kids that pop in and out of the speaker view screen. Hi Dylan! Hi Johnne! Hi Cora! Hi Brooklyn! And then this time around there were actually a couple of shares. The kids got to share their counting collections and then their animal riddle. This was the one Lisa felt very strongly about Johnnie sharing his dog riddle. He did just fine really, even if everyone got his riddle in the first few seconds. The idea is simply to let the kids get creative and just use what they know. There is no right or wrong answer, just getting the kids to explore is everything this exercise was about. I'm a bit perplexed that all the kids seemed to be guessing CHEETAH to most of the animal riddles though LOL. Anyway after the phone call, that was pretty much it for me for the week in terms of Johnnie's lessons. Lisa gets to do tomorrow's lesson. I sort of rushed making lunch for Johnnie and making lunch for me because I had the HIT Roundtable meeting right at noon. It's funny that the Thursday HIT meeting right after my Tech Council Meeting would usually be symbolic of a pretty chill day. As in it usually ends up with me focusing on just the HIT Roundtable Meeting for the day, walking over to the CCALAC location and then stopping by at 7th and Fig Macy's right after. And then as soon as I walked back to the office I would already be thinking about going home. Just a month ago I would be going to KFC on Thursdays to pick up some popcorn chicken for Johnnie's dinner. And at least give him a nice meal before Johnnie got picked up by his mom on hand-off night. Today I made him udon for lunch mainly because it was something fast I could do and I was actually fixing it WHILE I was doing the HIT meeting. I mean I was trying to facilitate a discussion on Office 365 and here I am making Johnnie lunch and finding some leftovers for me to eat as well. I got through the meeting just fine and then I braced for the last meeting... the Daily Huddle at 4 PM. At least it got done before 5 PM this time and when I suggested to Johnnie that we go pick up some more Panda Express for dinner tonight he did not object. In fact he wolfed down his meal, ate most of his chicken. The result was that by the time I drove to Lisa's house to drop him off, it was 6:30 PM like we agreed. But alas when we got there Lisa wasn't there. I let myself in with the keys in the backdoor and I realized the dog wasn't there either. When I called her I could hear her phone was still in her car. SMH SMH. Lisa must have forgotten yet again. She simply does not keep track of time. I didn't want to stay there and didn't want to leave Johnnie there so I took off for my apartment. And Johnnie fell asleep in the backseat. I let him sleep of course, only slightly waking him up when Lisa finally called around 7:30. Apparently she had gone on a bike ride with Zucco the dog. Why she couldn't do that an hour earlier than she did so she'd be home by 6:30 I don't know and I no longer wish to know. It would just piss me off more than I already was. The important thing was that I was very much irritated and remembering that EVERYTHING IS WHAT I PUSH OUT then the work is to figure out where I allowed the imbalance of focus to happen. Yet again it was centered around expectation of other people and patience. Still. I remind myself that people do the best they can with their resources and whatever it was I was irritated with Lisa is something I'm irritated about myself. Most definitely something to contemplate. More mental diet stuff I need to do. I noted this when I reviewed today's list. Mostly all good. But also work to be done.