Mothers Day at Lisa's

It is weird celebrating anything while in quarantine. That is to say, there is nowhere to go, nobody to see when you're locked in with the small circle of people you are quarantined with. In my case the circle is very VERY small. That would be Lisa and Johnnie obviously and with Lisa being sick and all pretty much all week long, I urged her and urged myself to exercise even more caution. Whatever she got, I didn't get as I have had absolutely zero symptoms of anything remotely resembling an illness. I even got out for a little bit of a run/walk this morning, just to get some cardio minutes in. I wasn't due at Lisa's until 1 PM to do her bididng...err to grant her her Mother's Day present request. That would be to wash her car. I agreed only with the stipulation that I could wash mine as well. I know she is a perfectionist nut when it comes to cleaning anything but I was pretty sure her car would be nowhere near as dirty as mine, even with dog Zucko hanging out that vehicle quite a bit. So anyway I got a chance to have breakfast at home, and then as I said I got to do some cardio. It was nice to see all these signs put up by some houses on McLaughlin. "We're in this together", one sign read. Yes we are aren't we? Never mind those fools protesting the stay-at-home order demanding that businesses open. Don't these fools get that businesses have just opened and that we're not going back to the way it was, at least not for a while. Anyway I got my exercise in and I even made myself some nice homemade chow mein for lunch. That shaved beef seems to have lasted well over a week. And so it was that I got some ME TIME in this morning. Of course it would have been my time to play golf and the only reason we didn't play today was that it WAS Mother's Day. But I'm looking forward to playing again as early as next Sunday.

As I drove to Lisa's house on what turned out to be a very nice mild Sunday, I thought about Mother's Days of recent past. Last year was the Pitfire Pizza debacle at Lisa's house with her brother Joah and his then fiancée. Also was the Series finale for the Game of Thrones. The year before that in 2018, Lisa and I had started to get used to doing things apart and we definitely did not do anything together. Gee, not exactly memorable times huh? Or at least memorable for the wrong reasons. Which is why I mentally focused my intention on merely getting her car washed and mine as well, and might as well enjoy myself while doing it and brush aside whatever comments and actions are sure to come from Lisa that could draw a negative reaction from me. I reminded myself that those negative reactions are nothing but programs. And that I would do well to hit the ALT-CTRL-DEL button, end the program and quarantine the malware and also insert in the program that "I AM LOVED" and that "EVERYTHING GOES MY WAY". And with that I arrived at Lisa's announcing to her that I was ready to get to work on her car. And get to work on her car I did, first vacuuming the inside and then surviving a mini-scream fest when Johnnie started getting her garage floor wet. Who knew it wasn't supposed to get wet? Why would anyone put in a garage floor that couldn't get wet? Why would you not expect Johnnie to play with water? That's what he does. All these questions I brushed aside nonchalantly and focused on my task at hand. Lisa, in her weakened state, maybe felt too guilty not to help. And so she did. She did the soap of the outside of her car, with Johnnie. Look at him in the pic getting to work LOL. And lo and behold she even gave me the supreme compliment of doing a nice job with the vacuuming. Wow. Coming from her, that is high praise! She even mentioned that knowing me for 15 years, who knew I was capable of that?! smh. With her car all done, I now threw my focus on my own car, which was far dirtier especially on the inside. It took a little longer to do, even though I had no intention of detailing it as closely as I did Lisa's. To me, simply getting the inside vacuumed was good enough. And vacuumed it was. Johnnie helped me soap and rinse the outside. I asked Lisa not to participate to ensure neither she nor I could possibly say anything resembling rudeness to the other. Hey she's done with her car right? She went in and got herself something to eat. And so it was that my car got washed for the first time in months. And got the insides cleaned out for the first time in longer than that! Getting her wish done Lisa retired to play the piano. I went and got us all dinner. Cheese pizza for Johnnie and Lisa, ham-and-pineapple pizza for me. When I got back from the pick-up Johnnie was asleep on the couch. Hey he had a full afternoon. Lisa and I at least got to eat our pizza even though Lisa made comments about how she didn't really like it. Of course not. Why would she? She hadn't liked anything all weekend LOL. Having fulfilled Lisa's request I headed on home. It was only 6 PM but I planned on winding down my Sunday evening right on my couch. I not only exercised this morning, but the mere act of washing 2 cars ratcheted up my activity level to more than an hour of cardio and over 100+ active minutes. I think I earned a chill Sunday evening. And I was glad to do something that Lisa approved of. At least this Mother's Day, we were just fine. The week started with Lisa's cry for help and me ending up "working" at her office because she was sick. She didn't get all that much better the rest of the week, and then Johnnie picked up a 24-hr bug but still it ended just fine.