It's Monday Again

It's Monday again and we're coming up on 2 months to the day we all got sent to work from home in March. By now it's not a new routine anymore. And for me, I was actually thinking about "work" already this past weekend. Did I not do payroll approvals last night? On the one hand, you're in work mode ON DEMAND. But that also means you can disengage on demand too. Case in point, I can kick my feet up and enjoy the nice sunshine any time I want. And I can dedicate pockets of time too so I can do exercise, as was the half hour i did a run/walk in the middle of the afternoon. Not that I wouldn't have done it if I were still at the FRB. I walked to Starbucks and back dozens of times in the middle of the afternoon. But OF COURSE doing it at home is far more preferable. And now almost TWO months into doing this thing, I don't know if I ever want to work at the office anymore. This "experiment" into being able to work from home not only worked out to my advantage but it allowed me to see that however way I'd get income coming in, via my present job or another job, it appears that the level of effort would turn out to be roughly the same. With the difference being I have potential for a much higher level of income doing my own thing. If I can ever get myself to build whatever my "own thing" is. That would be the rub wouldn't it. And something I need to put my attention on most definitely. In the meantime, I did my IS Team Meeting and then the 10:30 Business Continuity Meeting right after that and I actually had stuff to contribute today. And then I was actually hungry enough to make lunch: more of my beef chow mein which has become a staple at lunch. Eating at the time I did precluded any exercise during lunchtime though and I thought it best to get a quick cat nap in actually. And then my schedule was pretty clear the rest of the day. All I had to do was check up on all the directives I had already issued my team LOL. 

Even without the 4 PM Huddle which is now only on Wednesdays and Fridays I actually worked until 5 PM. I had stuff to do dontcha know. Invoices to approve. Administrative stuff to complete. I actually had a to-do list in front of me. And right at 5 PM I get a call from Lisa. It's hand-off time and she had Johnnie in her office all day it seemed. She was bringing him over. Of course by now, he would have been bugging her about seeing dad, the same way he bugs me about seeing his mom on Thursdays for THAT hand-off. In fact the very first thing he asked me when we walked in my building was "how come he was at his mom's for so long?". No, it only seems that way my son. It only seems that way LOL. But you're here now and we're good to go!!! And that means dinner. Although Lisa handed me a container full of pasta and red sauce. NO doubt she made it for him for lunch and they neither forgot about the time or she got to pre-occupied with something else and left him to feed off goldfish or something. smh smh. I know he didn't have a good lunch because he sure wolfed down all that pasta.  And then on we moved to his lessons. I posted a pic from his art lesson. Drawing an apple with shadow effects. Pretty cool actually. For once Lisa did most of the lesson plan although as usual she focused on the writing lesson that he has to share on the THursday Zoom meeting. She always gets to that one first... as if that is the one thing that she feels she could get accomplished that she can have some credit for. Always about taking credit you know?! As for me I didn't care... except that the card he made and wrote seemed a little too personal. He wrote to Brooklyn and told her he loved her. THough this is a 5-yr old talking, I didn't want it to bring any discomfort to anyone, adults or otherwise and so I planned to talking to him about it tomorrow and maybe changing the wording some. It's like when I had to tell him at the beginning of the school year to ask permission first to hug someone.  Too bad we have to teach our kids these things huh?! As it was, I had some relationship stuff I had to put to bed myself. That would be Jodi who had texted me earlier that she felt we weren't a good match and that I must have felt the same because I hadn't called her. I'm glad ONE of us has balls to talk to the other instead of ghosting, which is what I did. Oh well. No my heart wasn't in this and I think we're both better off. On to other possibilities eh? Anyway we did his lesson and then we watched videos and we had an early night. As in I had him in the shower by 8:15. And we were in bed by 9 PM. I could use the sleep. Johnnie could too. And we're all good for a Monday :)