Getting To Work

I told myself I'm going to get my butt to work today. No more procrastination. No more excuses.  Even though I had Johnnie with me and technically it's his first day of school. Or at least it's the first day they have released material on line for him (and me) to read or watch. Sort of an orientation such as it were. Real learning doesn't start until the 31st which is a good thing because I really wasn't ready to get started today. You can't just flip the switch and so I was glad to have Johnnie do his summer Tuesday routine just one more time. Which means we're getting breakfast at McDonald's, I'm doing my team meeting at 9 AM, Johnnie is watching his Blippi videos and then NumberBlocks. At least they're educational, even though Johnnie has watched them a dozen times by now. Just look at the pic of him engrossed. Took it while I was on the phone with my team LOL. Anyway the outcome I wanted today was to get my Tech Council done for the meeting tomorrow. And at least I didn't have to pull something out of my ass like I had done many times before. I actually do have a coherent plan of what to talk about and present tomorrow. It was just that it would still take the bulk of the day to get all the material together. Today it was like I put my head down and worked on my work for once. I did get up all the time to check on Johnnie watching his videos. And I tried to give him work to do. And really the morning went by like a flash. Before long it was already lunch time and I was going back to my old routine of biking/scootering to Whole Foods so Johnnie can get a pizza and I could get some protein to eat. That protein turned out to be some barbecued tri-tip. Probably from yesterday. I didn't care. It looked pretty good. Especially when you have a nice salad with it. Imagine me, pairing that meat with a salad. But there it was. So proud of myself I was I even took a picture. After lunch I got Johnnie to keep watching Weldon Woods videos of online books. A whole hour's worth. It would have been nice to take a nap after such a nice lunch. But I didn't have any time. I went back to work and worked and worked. And so it was that by the end of the afternoon, I was already mostly done. And I had gotten started on all those Compliance policies too that I wanted to get done last week but kept putting off and putting off. And yesterday, Emma had already pinged me. I wasn't going to wait too much longer. After all, the Tech Council Meeting and the Compliance policies were 2 of the 3 things I wanted to get done this week so that I could feel good about it. It felt like going out to get dinner was just a little break, just like the pic of Johnnie stopping for water in the middle of our bike ride. Couldn't blame him. We're now in the middle of a full blown heat wave here in So Cal, and we hadn't had one all summer long. Well it's in the 90s today and it felt hotter than that actually when you go outside after being inside of an air-conditioned apartment. And we weren't going to bike to Panda Express to get dinner either. And so we had dinner and back to work I went. What I didn't do today was look at any of the required reading and video stuff from Johnnie's teacher. Hey I already spent time setting up his userID and access stuff. I figured I'll just ask his teacher when I meet her tomorrow. That would be the 3rd thing I wanted to accomplish this week. Get through Johnnie's first week of kindergarten. By early evening, I was done with my presentation... well except for maybe one slide that I was still thinking about but i was pretty much done. And after Johnnie's shower and an attempt at going to bed early, I found that I just couldn't. I went back on my computer and finished the Compliance policies. I touched about a dozen of them. No wonder I was procrastinating. But I finished. And I didn't have to stress about anything tomorrow morning. Today turned out to be one of those put-my-head-down-and-get-my-ass-to-work kind of Tuesdays. And I felt bad that I pretty much left Johnnie all day. But it worked out. He didn't actually complain. And it felt pretty good when the day was all said and done.