Errands Errands Errands on A Busy Day

I already mentioned I had to do a lot of errands today. That's because I wanted to finish that CTF applications stuff once and for all and what's more let my CEO know it got done. They had been pretty aggressive letting us know repeatedly that our application had lapsed and so at least this way I can respond that the ball is now back in their court. And so just as soon as Johnnie finished breakfast and gotten some NumberBlocks videos in, we headed out. Back to Staples to get our huge print job done. At least I know how to work the thing so it shouldn't take all that long... except that once I got all done and gotten home I realized I had printed double one facility by mistake, which meant I left one facility application out! Drat Drat Drat. Gotta make another return trip. It took me most of the morning to get all that done as it was. And of course you know how Johnnie gets when he gets bored. It was all I could do to print stuff and hold him off from doing his jokester stuff on me! Just look at him in the video I posted giving an academic-sounding lecture on some nautical animal he wanted me to learn about. All mythical of course... or so I think at least.  When he gets in that mode I am tickled and more than just mildly amused actually. But when he gets out of my attention mode all of a sudden he gets really mischievous. Besides by the time we got out of Staples he was already clamoring for food because he was hungry. And so of course the fastest food I knew to get was some McDonald's chicken McNuggets. And of course I got me a cheeseburger too since I was using the $6 menu. All good. I would have liked to reprised yesterday and gotten a nap after lunch but it was not to be. I just got way too busy. I wanted to get everything done before the 3 PM Huddle. 

As it turned out I didn't make it out of the house again until way later, until aFTER the 3 PM Huddle. And I had to go back to Staples to fix that mistake I discovered earlier. And fortunately I got that done in just a few minutes. And then I had to go to the post office to mail the whole lot. And fortunately I got there j-u-s-t as the facility was closing. I guess they close at 5 PM sharp these days. I did everything via the self-service kiosk and then I was done! Boy I can't tell you how much relief I felt getting all that done today. It seemed like it had taken the entire damn day.  But now it's all done, the work day is over, and it's time to do the Wednesday night thing and get dinner from Panda Express. Johnnie was so good all day... not exactly behaved at his best all day but at least he put up with all I made him go through the entire day and that was good enough. He wolfed down his teriyaki chicken in no time at all actually and I wolfed down my chicken and green beans myself.  And finally with my attention on him once again, he got back to his play stuff, playing with the straw kit, doing his Octonaut drawings, and watching his videos. He decided he needed to draw the whole complement of Gup vehicles and he dubbed them all with a letter of the alphabet... which means he made 26 Gup drawings. Yep, 26. But look at that smile in the pic I posted though.  As oddly busy this day turned out to be, I still felt like I maintained a semblance of balance all day. This evening I could be found playing with Johnnie, doing my aerobics in the bedroom until I went well beyond 11,000 steps and by the time we had gotten to Johnnie's bedtime I decided to give Johnnie the choice of taking his shower tomorrow morning. I was way too tired and I didn't think I had the energy to take a shower of my own.  And so it was that by the time Johnnie had gotten to his 2nd Bert and Ernie episode, my eyes had already closed and it was Johnnie that sort of woke me up to put the iPad away to go to bed. Last night I put on Alpha frequencies to help me get to sleep. Tonight I put on Delta. Did it help? I don't know but I was too tired to figure it out. I was already out like a light.