Happy Father's Day!

Today is Father's Day and since I'm one of those people that don't live off other people's compliments, I'm ok just acknowledging myself.  As a father I think I give myself a B+ at least for the last 3 months of coronavirus. I think I'm doing a pretty good job juggling taking care of Johnnie and working from home. But I also know I'm not perfect and there are things about me that I need to continue to work on, things I most definitely do not want Johnnie to pick up. He already has a bit of his mom's perfectionist streak already. Which is also mine by the way. But enough of that... I'm supposed to be being celebrated today. And ME time most definitely includes golf. And so I head out to Altadena Golf Course first thing to make an 8:10 AM tee time. Today I'm playing with Scott and Chris, but no Greg. And that's ok. Last week it took at least 2 holes for me to warm up and after my first 2 horrible swats on the first hole tee, I knew I needed the warmup time. Like last week, it took 2 holes for me to finally have a good tee shot on Hole 3. And I actually hit a par on the longest hole on 4. Won the hole outright. And it would be the only hole I would win outright, and the only hole Chris would not tie or win. Yep, it was pretty much a blowout with him winning 8 holes. I won 3 holes so I played decent. After the first 2 holes, I hit quite a few nice drives actually. And towards the end, the last 3 holes, I was actually chipping from 100 yards in right on the green. I finally learned to do that! The best part was simply that I got to go out and play and I didn't stink it up LOL. And that we got done by 10:30 AM and I was home pretty much by 11 AM. I was so looking forward to taking a nice, long, afternoon nap. After all, I wasn't even sure Lisa would call so we could all have dinner. I made myself some of that chicken piccata from Trader Joe's and the leftover chicken rice from Friday for lunch and just hunkered down on the couch. I didn't plan on leaving there for a while. Until I got a call around 1 PM. It was Lisa...

It would appear that they didn't go to her dad's house after all. In fact they were home all morning. And she asked me to come over to do the car wash thing like we did on Mother's Day. I told her yesterday that maybe I would come over to wash my car since they weren't going to be home and she said it was ok. But I was only 50-50 on that. More like 30-70 now. But I guess I could come over. She promised dinner too after all. And I remind myself that I hadn't done that in the last 3 weeks. How bad could it be?  The car wash itself was not nearly as bad as a month ago during Mother's Day. That was because both of our cars had the dirt of more than 2 months of lockdown, not to mention dog hair from Zucco in Lisa's car. So the interior clean was done in minutes. And the car wash, at least for Lisa's car, should have been done and uneventfully dried in minutes as well. Except when she drove it into the garage and she noticed it was dripping. Uhhh… the car was just washed Lisa. She went agro over water marks it was causing. On a garage floor. I mean how did she deal with it during rainy days?? And then I remembered she blew up also a month ago during the last car wash for the very same reason. Perhaps we shouldn't be washing the car?? LOL. Anyway she managed to calm down and I managed at least to wash my car. It's nice to see it clean again. And then we all sort of took an impromptu 15-minute power nap, Lisa in the garage and me in the backyard chair lounge. The last time I laid down there was the Sunday before I left this house. It was like my body was reminding me. Anyway Lisa made pilaf and already had some really good home-made tabbouleh. To go along with the baked swai actually made for a really good dinner. A nice Father's Day dinner and I appreciated it a lot. We even ate out in the back porch. And then Lisa had it in her mind that she was going to make banana bread. I went along because Johnnie loves creating stuff in the kitchen with his mom. And of course he had to be involved in every step of a make-from-scratch banana bread. Which meant it took a lot longer to do than my supposed cheat from the Trader Joe's mix. The bottom line was that when it was done it wasn't done. As in it was soft in the middle. I was hoping Lisa wouldn't blame me because I had to leave so she had to take the banana bread out too early. Hey, by this time it was already 8 PM after all.  I had to prep for my week. Finish my laundry you know? She gave me half the banana bread and off I went on home. I really didn't have a lot to do, I just wanted to chill to end my weekend. After all I did play golf and washed 2 cars today didn't I? I'm actually watching Snowpiercer on Sundays and so I watched it again tonight. And followed that up with NOS4A2, that creepy series about a serial killer who kidnaps kids and sends them to Christmas lands as monsters. Creepy premise I know. But it hooked me last summer and I'm probably going to be hooked on it again LOL. In the absence of Walking Dead, what else am I to do?! Anyway at least I got to bed at a decent time today. I'm ready for the week.