Everything Is You Pushed Out

After a fairly quiet weekend, I guess it would be too much to ask to think this would continue all through this week. But maybe just through today perhaps? It turned out that THAT was too much to ask. I titled today's post what I did because today's version of Monday version went sideways in a hurry. And that's because Lisa was involved. And that's because I almost "willed" it to be so. At least once a week she still does stuff that manages to irritate me and I acknowledge that THAT is me allowing myself to be irritated. That is ME allowing a negative part of me to get pushed out. Last week it was not letting me know she had gone biking with Johnnie making me wait at her house for a half hour. Today, it was about Johnnie's Zoom meeting. I even called much earlier than the start time and volunteered to come over to make sure everything turned out ok. Lisa thought she would be ok... until disaster struck. Zoom went down. It affected everyone. Including us at QueensCare and I even called ahead to Lisa that she would be experiencing problems. But it was like telling someone a tornado is coming and then watching them get swept away by it. And that's because for all her strengths, Lisa is not really computer savvy, not really technologically competent and she gets real impatient about it too. And so with Zoom being spotty and with a new computer to work with and the fact that she positioned Johnnie at a place where I would find out later would be the weakest internet reach in the entire house, the result was frustration for her, frustration for Johnnie and frustration for me. I mean I take these things personally because hey, I'm the MASTER IT guy. This is NOT supposed to happen in my own backyard. But there is also little I can do when I am not in control. And so Lisa was left with doing the best she could and I told her I'd come by after my morning meetings...

I wonder if these down times is simply me trying to make myself feel that important? LOL. No one wants to be THAT needed. Not only did Zoom go down, but now I'm getting a call from Nikki that Lisa's email subscription had lapsed and they're not getting emails anymore. I'm sure it's the GoDaddy DNS  subscription but it's been more than a couple of years since I had last checked it and I'm not even sure where to get the account number. One problem at a time though and first things first was to check on Lisa's internet. It turned out that the corner where Johnnie was WAS really slow compared to the rest of the house and I recommended to Lisa that she not work there. Hey I can only make recommendations right? I even restarted her internet. For her part, she did fix me lunch although I had already wolfed down a turkey sandwich on my way there. Here I am working from home and I hadn't been this busy on a Monday even BEFORE Covid. At least the internet thing was now under control and we move on to the next activity. Johnnie's swimming lesson was at 2 PM and I rushed back home because Stacy was already there and waiting. Wow. It's 2 PM already? I took my computer, a bag of chips and just laid out on one of the lounge chairs to work while Johnnie did his lesson. And today he did really REALLY well. I worked on Lisa's email issues <Seems like tody was all about Lisa's computer issues>. I looked up to see Johnnie actually dunk his head in the water and kick and windmill his arms and propel himself in the water a few feet. HEY.. he's SWIMMING! And not complaining about it. And not crying. And actually keeping on trying! YES. What a totally worth it spend. By the time I walked back to my apartment it was already 3:30 PM. I had just about enough time to answer emails and do my in-home aerobics class before I have to head over to pick up Johnnie again. I got to 8500 steps before I stopped. I did the equivalent of 2 1/2 miles in less than an hour. Sort of a jog such as it were. And feeling healthy, I made myself a shrimp noodle stir-fry dinner (see pic) after I picked up Johnnie. I did a review on Johnnie's website to make sure he had actually done all of his exercises that were due today and I was pleased to find that Lisa actually did try to get caught up after the Zoom fiasco. That is all I hoped for. And as for Johnnie? He was perfectly fine when I picked him up that he was back to eating chicken McNuggets for dinner and watching his beloved Octonauts. It was back to the familiar after a hair-on-fire like start of the day for him and for me. I even relaxed enough to watch the Lakers totally blow out the Blazers in Game 4 of their Round 1 series. THAT is the familiar. And something we Laker fans have not experienced in almost a decade. Gonna be fun being emotionally invested in the NBA playoffs again.  And i was glad that the day turned out just fine in the end.