Is it August Already?

I woke up this morning thinking ahh Monday as if I was going to hop in the shower and get ready and drive in to work. The hop-in-the-shower part is true enough. And I actually feel like I'm one of these people that need some kind of regimen or it would be more like last Friday everyday. That would be when I basically spent almost the entire morning meditating, centering, and getting myself motivated for the day. The fact that I have to motivate myself means I'm starting to slip back into other-than-positive thoughtforms and that I need to pivot from that thinking in a hurry. It didn't help that I got one of those :memories: photo pings from Google photos showing me at my old USC Stevens office at the Transamerica building exactly 8 years ago. Man that's a long time isn't it? I don't even remember that olive green T-shirt I was wearing. All I know was that I was geeking out that day LOL. I also did some reflection this  morning on the weekend that passed. A couple of distinctions came to mind. I was basically trying to figure out why I started to tune Lisa out Saturday afternoon when she was simply trying to connect. In her own way of course, which was to dominate attention. And my attention simply couldn't be gotten. I think that was the EMPATH part of me realizing that my energy was getting depleted. And so I ended up bugging out shortly after that. I needed to plug back in by myself and that was NOT her fault. I'm glad I am self-aware enough now to realize that and I need to do a better job of making sure I don't hurt people's feelings when I withdraw like that. The other distinction was about golf which would extend to...Life Lessons. I was still running old programs and I simply did not clear them. I must remember that to get my outcomes, I need to let go of those old programs first, otherwise they still tend to take over. Good to know and it is something I must practice.
So those distinctions I did manage to get to first thing before I started to switch to QueensCare work mode. This week I am focusing on the FRB Meeting on Friday when the announcement will be made that we will be working remotely through April 2021. Looking like Friday is going to be a big day, what with Johnnie's meet-n-greet and screening with his kinder teachers going on in the morning. Still that is a few days away and so Eloisa my boss already alerted myself and our HR Director that the focus will be squarely on us at that meeting. And so I spent a total of a half hour putting together a quick survey on the internet speeds our remote workers are working with. I got the survey out right in the middle of the Business Continuity Meeting. So much so I was getting questions about it on the private chat. Still it was cool to get something done literally in a half hour that basically takes care of the minimum requisite work to be done today. And after the meeting I could already move on with the rest of the day...

I made myself some shrimp noodles for lunch. Mmmm. And then tried to take a nap but my mind was simply going to fast at least this afternoon. I distracted myself by doing some aerobics mid-afternoon. And I got to 6000 steps pretty much before 4 PM. This ensures I make my 11,000 today pretty easily. I was already at 40 active minutes and 36 cardio minutes then too. Minimum necessary for today all done. Why am I focused on minimum necessary I wonder? I tried to make reservations for golf for the weekend. And found out my golf card had expired. And so the only way to renew was in person at any one of the starters offices. And so I decided to renew mine today and went to Penmar to do it. And so it was that I would find myself at Penmar Golf Course at 4:30 PM in the afternoon renewing my golf card. I figured I'd do some more steps too since I don't have to pick up Johnnie until 5:30 PM. Except that Lisa called me right at 4:30. She might have picked up on an old psychic connection perhaps? She told me they were watching Winnie the Pooh. She invited me to come on over and watch since I told her I was already right down the block. And so I did some more steps... getting to 8000 and then went over to Lisa's. True enough, they were watching Winnie the Pooh. I stuck around for about 45 minutes to watch with them. And then Lisa drifted off to sleep towards the end and that was my queue to grab Johnnie and head on. Hey I did a good deed before I did. I took in her garbage bins and watered her veggies. She had already knocked off again. Johnnie got his McNuggets for dinner augmented by penne pasta with chicken broth. And I just had me some pasta as well. I thought my ego mind was discombobulated because I had actually kept myself on even keel for the most part of the day today. And got to bed early as well since Johnnie was with me. Is it August already? Yes it is. But with no urgency manufactured or otherwise, it was a quietly good day.