Lisa's Piano Day = Me With Johnnie Morning
Johnnie himself called me at 8 AM this morning reminding me that I'm supposed to be picking him up to go to breakfast. Is that the new routine now? It used to be Lisa would make breakfast but last week it was Johnnie that asked to go to Elysee. Which means we would be going to Elysee every Saturday morning now LOL. I didn't mind actually. I always prefer me and Johnnie alone time to Lisa-me-and-Johnnie time anyway. And so off to Elysee we went. At first I hesitated because they aren't letting people eat in <as they should> but that meant there were very limited seats outside that were actually in the shade. And today was a hot one already even by 8 AM. I did manage to get a couple of seats that were blocked by the lightpole and that piece of shade, slim as it were, was enough. And so it was that Johnnie and i got our usual Elysee breakfast. And then afterwards we went to Ralphs Westwood go pick up groceries for Lisa. I know I didn't have to. I was just trying to be nice. It would give her a reason not to cut off on the $250 monthly contribution she gives me. Alimony payment LOL LOL LOL!!! She's still bugging these days about not having enough money although she is clearly not even anywhere near any kind of financial trouble at all. Anyway back to the Westwood Ralphs. I went simply for the trip down memory lane I think. How many times did I go to this Ralphs when we lived here?! Later on this reminiscing would end up costing me a parking ticket because I didn't put money in the meter. Ahh Westwood. I thought I'd get away with it I guess. Bad guess. Anyway Johnnie had been dying to get to the apartment since all he wanted to do was watch his beloved Octonauts for a few hours. I figured since this is actually the last weekend he has before he goes back to school next week that it was going to ok to let him. It is shaping up to be a weird school year but we do have we must. I posted another pic of Johnnie at lunch. That would be chicken strips from Carl's Jr, with some fettuccini noodles. I got myself a hankering for a Beyond Meat Western Bacon cheeseburger and so there we were. In the end it turned into a pretty uneventful Saturday with Johnnie and really that is all I wanted. It had turned into a pretty hot day out there so I didn't really wanted to do anything outside anyway. By the time I returned Johnnie to Lisa, he had fallen asleep in the backseat. These weekends that Lisa isn't working usually turns into some kind of go-go-go weekend and last night it already started with Lisa hosting Mel and Jacob and Joyanna, and so I was pretty sure mommy and son had stayed up until late. That's ok. If it's Johnnie's last weekend of vacation, that works out pretty well. And so I put Johnnie in Lisa's guest bedroom and dropped off Lisa's groceries. She was in the middle of putting her finances for her quarterly meeting with her accountant. I chuckled because I used to be the one that did all that stuff. And I always approached showing her her numbers with caution because it all seemed to be a surprise to her. These days, no surprise since she's the one managing it all. Of course she had to mention that she would have never survived without the PPE loan. Join the small business club. Even QueensCare can make that claim. She also talked about buying a washer/dryer for her practice. Does she realize that if she can afford that she is well beyond financial caution?! On the way home I thought about how all those thoughts somehow are just a bunch of echoes from the past. And I reminded myself that as of this month, I have actually lived at Sawtelle longer than I had lived at Maplewood.
And so I went home and actually felt a sense of gratitude walking through the door. Be it ever so humble feeling kind of thing. Since Lisa told me she is spending tomorrow at Feifei's house in Ontario this would be it as far as seeing Johnnie for the weekend. And so I shifted into ME mode. First I went to KFC and picked up some fried chicken to do my quick-and-simple chicken rice dish. And then I did my haircut. I had been looking pretty unkempt the last week and I couldn't stand it anymore. I know I had just cleaned the bathroom but I figured what's some hair to clean up right? I know i don't exactly cut my own hair even. How can I? I can't see the back of my head. But it grows back fast anyway so... After the haircut I realized that I was still barely at 3000 steps today. And so I did my own aerobics class. Within 45 minutes I had already gotten to 10000 steps. And so finally I could eat dinner without thinking about anything else. And I could take a shower too since I had gotten too sticky from a hot day and had all this hair on me from my own haircut. And so by the time I had settled down from all this, it was 9 PM. Pretty good job doing all this ME stuff I thought. I had a clean apartment, I had cleaned up myself, I had even done all the laundry too. I had de-cluttered! At least to the degree I liked. How about that! Best yet... I forced myself not to binge watch anything and go to bed before midnight. It's golf Sunday tomorrow and I'm not going to cheat myself by being too tired to play. I had myself a quietly good day.
Johnnie himself called me at 8 AM this morning reminding me that I'm supposed to be picking him up to go to breakfast. Is that the new routine now? It used to be Lisa would make breakfast but last week it was Johnnie that asked to go to Elysee. Which means we would be going to Elysee every Saturday morning now LOL. I didn't mind actually. I always prefer me and Johnnie alone time to Lisa-me-and-Johnnie time anyway. And so off to Elysee we went. At first I hesitated because they aren't letting people eat in <as they should> but that meant there were very limited seats outside that were actually in the shade. And today was a hot one already even by 8 AM. I did manage to get a couple of seats that were blocked by the lightpole and that piece of shade, slim as it were, was enough. And so it was that Johnnie and i got our usual Elysee breakfast. And then afterwards we went to Ralphs Westwood go pick up groceries for Lisa. I know I didn't have to. I was just trying to be nice. It would give her a reason not to cut off on the $250 monthly contribution she gives me. Alimony payment LOL LOL LOL!!! She's still bugging these days about not having enough money although she is clearly not even anywhere near any kind of financial trouble at all. Anyway back to the Westwood Ralphs. I went simply for the trip down memory lane I think. How many times did I go to this Ralphs when we lived here?! Later on this reminiscing would end up costing me a parking ticket because I didn't put money in the meter. Ahh Westwood. I thought I'd get away with it I guess. Bad guess. Anyway Johnnie had been dying to get to the apartment since all he wanted to do was watch his beloved Octonauts for a few hours. I figured since this is actually the last weekend he has before he goes back to school next week that it was going to ok to let him. It is shaping up to be a weird school year but we do have we must. I posted another pic of Johnnie at lunch. That would be chicken strips from Carl's Jr, with some fettuccini noodles. I got myself a hankering for a Beyond Meat Western Bacon cheeseburger and so there we were. In the end it turned into a pretty uneventful Saturday with Johnnie and really that is all I wanted. It had turned into a pretty hot day out there so I didn't really wanted to do anything outside anyway. By the time I returned Johnnie to Lisa, he had fallen asleep in the backseat. These weekends that Lisa isn't working usually turns into some kind of go-go-go weekend and last night it already started with Lisa hosting Mel and Jacob and Joyanna, and so I was pretty sure mommy and son had stayed up until late. That's ok. If it's Johnnie's last weekend of vacation, that works out pretty well. And so I put Johnnie in Lisa's guest bedroom and dropped off Lisa's groceries. She was in the middle of putting her finances for her quarterly meeting with her accountant. I chuckled because I used to be the one that did all that stuff. And I always approached showing her her numbers with caution because it all seemed to be a surprise to her. These days, no surprise since she's the one managing it all. Of course she had to mention that she would have never survived without the PPE loan. Join the small business club. Even QueensCare can make that claim. She also talked about buying a washer/dryer for her practice. Does she realize that if she can afford that she is well beyond financial caution?! On the way home I thought about how all those thoughts somehow are just a bunch of echoes from the past. And I reminded myself that as of this month, I have actually lived at Sawtelle longer than I had lived at Maplewood.
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