MIddle of the Week

Today's intention list:
I receive $100 from an unexpected source.
My DocuSign contract is approved by Alan and Risk Management
I keep my vibration high.
Toe pain goes away.
I continue to provide massive value and I am acknowledged for it.
I finish one learning program.

So yesterday I didn't get $100, although I did get an email from Fundrise that my dividend was going to be deposited in my account instead of being reinvested. That's about $125. I guess that can count. And Sr Ruth did give me and my team effusive praise. But I didn't get my contract through Alan and Risk Management, hence it ends up on the list today as well.  The toe pain went away first thing as I cleaned my toenails and whatever was causing irritation in the right toe. This morning I was up early because by agreement I dropped Johnnie off at Lisa's for the day. She's still doing CE classes, which makes me reluctant to leave him at all. The whole point was so that someone could watch and pay attention to him. She doing her CE class, especially with her assistant Julian practically assures that Johnnie gets LESS attention than he would had he stayed with me in the apartment. But then again I already agreed. So I bundled him up and dropped him off and went on with my day. And then went home and did my nail hygiene... one of the perks of working from home, especially today when my schedule was clear in the morning. I actually didn't have any meetings although I didn't feel any more or any less busy. Just a lot of stuff to do. Ironically, today would turn out to be the LEAST busy day of the week. Strange how that worked out didn't it? And I actually found myself scrambling to get a whole bunch of steps in before picking up Johnnie at 3:30 PM. I wanted to get to at least 5800 steps by then and so I was actually walking around the neighborhood. A lot. And I did get to 5800 steps by the time I picked him up. When I got to Lisa's house there was nobody there at first. And then I heard them coming through the garage. It would appear that they had to go out for a bike ride and just got back. OK then I packed up Johnnie and it even felt like Lisa was trying to whisk me out of her house as soon as possible so she could get on with her class... with Julian. Ok then. I refrained from thinking anything about that for the split second that it crossed my mind. Whatever it was, none of it was any of my business anyway. All I cared about was getting Johnnie and getting back before the 4 PM huddle. 

Mercifully the huddle got done by 5 PM and by the time it did I had already ordered Panda Express dinner for Johnnie and I. It was surreal going to Panda Express and going to yet another re-arrangement of how food was ordered and picked up. Now you couldn't even get inside the place. You had to pick it up OUTSIDE. Ok then. And then driving back I posted a pic of a very empty Westwood and Olympic. Who could have known it would be like this at 5:30 in the evening at any point in time?! Needless to say we were home in less than 10 minutes. A stark contrast to the traffic it used to take to get back. Used to be it took so long Johnnie would fall asleep in the back seat. Not anymore. As far as the rest of the evening, Johnnie had it in his mind that he wanted to celebrate something tomorrow. ANYTHING. That's how I know how bored he was. And so he picked Fuzzy having a birthday tomorrow. I'm sure Fuzzy has already had a couple of birthday celebrations all year. But then again, Johnnie would be missing out on Easter Sunday this weekend and so I was only all too willing to celebrate something. Johnnie went full out of course, wrapping up a present from both he and I with REAL wrapping paper. How he knew I had some in the highest reaches of the closet is beyond me. Just look at my little boy yucking it up with Fuzzy. That smile gets me every single time. Even when he rough-houses with me I have to just shrug it off. A couple of times today he kicked me right in the balls. Made me double over. I can only imagine what happens when he gets older and bigger. Today though he still loves for me to carry him on my back on his way to his nightly shower, prepping for bedtime. Tonight I even made...wait for it... banana bread! Of course I know this is Lisa's specialty. I have ZERO intention of competing with her baking skills. But I do know that the banana bread I can produce simply from the Trader Joe's product is not bad and more than acceptable. It took half an hour to bake in the oven and Johnnie even helped me whip up the dough. No it was NOT made from scratch. To me it was good enough. And when it got done, I knew for a fact it was good enough. And certainly for the next few days. And so another remote work day is done and it was a quiet one today. And a routine one for Johnnie and Dad. Especially when you look at the pile of drawings he had produced by the end of the day. And the banana bread sitting in the kitchen. Still when it was all quiet and Johnnie had fallen asleep, and his feet was resting on my leg there is no better indication to me that all was right in the world. Yes coronavirus is raging on, yes there is a pall of anxiety with almost everybody and with Lisa in particular, yes there is turbulence at QueensCare. But in our little world right here and right now, Johnnie and I are doing just fine. And I couldn't ask for more.