Back To Work

So it's supposed to be the Monday after I had a long weekend. Only it didn't feel like I actually had a long weekend. More like more of the same but I thought a little less about work and I guess that's ok since that was the objective anyway. And so I can be forgiven if I was a little slow getting off my dime this morning. I didn't manage to get my start routine until it was already after 8 AM. And it was almost 9 AM before I got out of the shower, gotten shaved, and gotten breakfast. And I didn't even get to make my breakfast this morning because I thought it was simply faster and more convenient to just get a sausage McMuffin from McDonald's next door. After all, they already see me everyday from Tuesday to Thursday. What's one more day LOL. And then it was off to getting caught up on emails, getting timecards approved, blah blah blah and then it was already time for the Monday Morning Business Continuity meeting at 10:30. I got all the way through to 11:30 before there was a knock on my door. To my surprise, it was Johnnie! I mean I knew at some point they would be coming over because Lisa told her furniture maker I'm in the market to get a custom table made for me. I mean I have a table but it is so dinky tiny it's ridiculous. I could continue to work like this, but c'mon this is actually my livelihood. I SHOULD get a decent table. And I had gotten no luck digging up a table on the internet. The measurements I wanted was simply extremely rare. Hence a custom furniture maker is needed here. Lisa brought him to my apartment and here they were. I cut out of my meeting early and then got my measurements done. Lisa was supposed to drop off Johnnie anyway since she had piano lessons in a couple of hours anyway.

And so it was that Johnnie and I had lunch together a full day earlier than usual and then I took him to the pool afterwards. It was supposed to be hot this week again. And actually it was his idea. After all, there was no school today lucky him. Lucky Lisa too, how come she gets all the school off days? And then at the pool, just the two of us, Johnnie actually got really comfortable. So much so he was able to swim from one end of the pool to the other! I posted a video as proof. The short end, but still. He's SWIMMING! This completes the trifecta. The summer of 5 years old Johnnie learned to scooter, learned to bike without training wheels, and learned to swim. I'd say he had a breakthrough summer. I took him home right after even though I was supposed to pick him right back up a couple of hours later. I figured Lisa would want to spend just a couple of more hours with him the last day she has him <not that she would ever think the same for me>. In fact she would once again pull that stunt she does where she goes somewhere with Johnnie and forgets to tell me and here I am at her house and no one is there. Perplexing that she forgets. It's just a text. And when I called her, it turned out they were at her office. She did not once mention that. Sigh. And so I had to drive all the way to her office to get Johnnie. Oh well... at least Panda Express is down the block...

The absolute BEST thing about today was that when I dropped off Johnnie earlier, he started making something in the kitchen. It turned out that it was a salad, almost like Lisa makes actually. So no question where he picked it up from. The big surprise was that I thought he was making it for his mom. It turned out that he was making it... for ME. He brought it with him when I picked him up and proudly gave it to me and told me I didn't have to cook anything for my dinner tonight. I LOVE love l-o-v-e this kid. Hard feelings forgotten. We went to get dinner at Panda Express a day early and then we went home and at his request, we watched Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous. Again. I even had some extra steak to eat for dinner. And I ate it with Johnnie's salad. And then we enjoyed some caramel corn while dad and son watched dinosaurs. Hey, no sports tonight. And it did actually turn into a pretty good day today even though it felt like just an extension of the weekend, at least with Lisa. At least now it's back to the norm which works out just fine with me. And although I didn't really get a whole lot of stuff done work-wise, I didn't really need to. It was all good. And we went to bed a little later than usual, at least for Johnnie. I still got to go to sleep earlier than usual. No 4 hour sleep tonight. I need the rest. After all, I looked at my Fitbit and I managed to get 13,000+ steps tonight. Now how did i do that with everything going on? One thing was for sure THIS WAS NOT AN ORDINARY MONDAY. And it was pretty good anyway.