The good thing about this week is that I have Thursday and Friday off and so I get myself mentally ready for work this morning thinking I only have 3 days to push this week. And how does mentally ready look like? Me trying to figure out when and how to get to the Honda dealer so I can bring in my car for maintenance. I had put off the 20K maintenance for a good 3 weeks now and now I've let the mileage get to almost 22000. That's ok. I'm handing the car back to the dealer in a few weeks. You see the trick was that Business Continuity Meeting at 10:30. Do I drop off the car before then and scooter back home in time for the meeting? Or wait until the meeting is done and then head over for my 11:30 appointment? I knew I'd be late but do they really care? Are they that busy these days in the time of covid? I elected to do my meeting and then head on over there. It will be done in 2 hours the guy says. Here I am in the middle of Culver City's Business and restaurant district so I didn't mind hanging out... even though most of the restaurants did not allow dine-in. No matter. I scootered over to IN-N-Out a half mile away. And got myself a nice double double for my Monday morning lunch. There was exactly one seat left on the outdoor seating area so I could still eat there. And then when I got done, right across the street was a park and then Trader Joe's across from that. Not to mention I passed a Starbucks that was probably the only one I had encountered of late that still had outdoor seating and therefore outdoor eating. And so it was that after I had my lunch, I scootered across the street to the park, hung out there for a bit. And then got the idea that I should do my steps right then and there. Which is exactly what I did. Never mind that there were a few people that seemed like they were homeless hanging around. And a couple that was clearly trying to be alone but in public if that makes sense at all... I still did my steps, oblivious to them and them oblivious to me. And I got to about 5000 before I decided to pull up stakes and go elsewhere. It was clear my wait was going to go more than a couple of hours so I went to that Starbucks. Got myself an iced tea drink and just chilled in the outdoor eating area. Yep, this was sure different for a Monday, at least for me. Finally around 2:45 I got the text that my car was ready to get picked up and so I hopped on the scooter, went back to the dealer and picked up my car. Ok so maybe if i were in the office I couldn't have hung out here in Culver City the way I just did. But maybe that wasn't so bad considering it was something different. And I didn't have to be cooped up in the house again today. By the time I went home I did some work. Returned emails, made a couple of calls. But let's face it, really I was just killing time until i had to pick up Johnnie around 5:30 PM today. I even started my aerobics at 3 PM, and got to 9000 before it was even 4 PM. I had been doing 12000+ steps for the last few Mondays. And it looks like I'm getting there today again too.
When I picked up Johnnie, I found mom and son futzing around in the front yard. It appeared as if Lisa was in the middle of one of her "fix stuff around the house" or "clean up something" modes. When I lived here that meant to stay away LOL. Today, I'm just picking up Johnnie so I didn't care one bit. Today Johnnie had his usual present for me. A collection of milkweed bugs that I'm sure he collected while he was in Santa Clarita the other day. Why Lisa insists that I take these things home... TO MY ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT ... is beyond me. But I push off the perplexed feelings and just go with it. If my son wants to take it with him then so be it. For now. We went off and shifted to ... Now that you're with dad mode. That means chicken mcnuggets tonight for him, and leftover ground beef and lamb from last night for me. And I had already prepped some fettuccini in chicken broth for him as well. He had a fine meal and he wolfed all of it down. I mean all of it. Wow. He must not have had a lunch. No comments there. after all, he gets iffy with lunch with me too. He did do all of his homework which was really great and was even ahead with his decodables. Good job mom! And he was even ahead with his EPIC book reading. REally way to go MOM! And so it was that we had a pretty quiet cruise through Monday evening. And I even got to sleep early. That's before 10 PM! I am FINALLY FINALLY catching up on sleep. And I realized something too, it's the official last day of summer. BYE SUMMER 2020. BYE SUMMER OF COVID...
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