How Did It Get Busy All Of a Sudden

Today I had a couple of meetings on my schedule. And of course it's mid-week Wednesday and we're well into Johnnie's 9 AM daily Zoom calls with his kindergarten class. And routine has actually changed to a week-to-week thing. As in this week we have not showered in the evenings in favor of taking our shower in the morning. We'll see what happens when we continue it that way for the week. One thing for sure, Johnnie is up and at 'em the second he wakes up. I must say is one of my favorite sights is him bounding off and running the second we get to out of the elevator and he's trying to race me to the front door. Just my son laughing and precociously be-bopping along. I feel like he has grown quite a bit from just 6 months ago when we all got locked down at home from the pandemic. Anyway the Zoom class for him was pretty uneventful. Why wouldn't it be when I'm around making sure NOTHING goes wrong. They had a pretty fun class doing a little reading, a little writing so it felt like an abbreviated day from where I stood. Look at the picture of Johnnie I posted raising his hand and getting called on to participate. Hey as long as he's doing that, we're good to go.  In the meantime, when his class was over, it was my turn to lock in on my meetings. There was an hour meeting with Eloisa and Barbara going over what the latter wanted to do with the intranet. She definitely had her ideas, which sounded more like a visual representation of what the G Drive used to be or should have been and that's fine I guess. As long as it helps her find her stuff and it is organized and compartmentalized to her liking. And then when that meeting finished it was already time to go get lunch since I had another meeting at 1:30. We went to El Pollo Loco to get my chicken meal and then to McDonald's to get Johnnie's McNuggets (which I supplemented with some pasta in chicken broth). And we both got done in plenty of time before my meeting got started and so I could set Johnnie up with something to keep him occupied for at least an hour. He has been such a sport when I take my calls that I think he's used to it by now. As in he knows how to keep himself occupied. The 1:30 meeting was our Leadership Summit which I used to enjoy going to in person because it was one of the few times all the director and managers got to hang out in one place and do team bonding type of activities. No different this time, even though we were all on Zoom. Turned out you could do breakout sessions in Zoom. And wouldn't you know I'd be paired up with Barbara! The exercise was about uplifting the other person when they're communicating that they are dealing with negative stuff. In fact the entire session was actually focused on self-care. Very important during these current times. Although I'm coping ok, I can't deny that sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I just don't know that there is anxiety creeping in. Which is why I need to continue to focus on internal work. 

When the meeting was done technically my work day was done too. But actually I wasn't done working. First of all, my 24" monitor finally came in and of course I had to figure out where to get 4 screws to mount it to the VESA plate on my desk. Fortunately I was able to scrounge some up somewhere...exactly 4 screws too that fit. And so finally I was able to assemble my desk the way I wanted, even put the new Acer blazing fast laptop in. With the monitor it made for a pretty professional get-up, that I had to put up a picture. I mean I used barely a 32" desk and I'm actually able to work on it. This gonna be my new command center I suppose LOL. After putting this thing together I was not done. I got a text that I got a delivery from UPS and so I hauled Johnnie to the package room. I knew what came. It was for him anyway. It was his plastic desk and chair set. And of course he was so excited about it. And excited to help me put it together. No screws needed for this one. It's plastic so all you do is put the legs in the holes and VOILA! No more using the chairs for his desk. He gets a real desk to work on now. He was SO excited. I was tired after all this of course but one more thing I needed to finish. I was so busy all day that I barely had 7000 steps under my belt when it got dark. I'm used to finishing 11,000 by 9 PM. I stuck Johnnie with his Octonauts and basically walked my way to almost 2 miles just in that small area in my bedroom to the bathroom. And I did manage to finish 11,000 steps by 9 PM! Impressive that I got all of this done today that's what I think. How the heck did it get so busy??