Getting Busy Tuesday

Man is this month halfway over already? Johnnie back in my house means it's MY start for the school week even though I feel like I got started yesterday already. And this morning, Johnnie was up and at 'em and ready to go right from the get go.  Look at the pic of him on our way out to pick up his usual Deluxe breakfast at McDonald's. Mask on, Fuzzy by his side, ready to go. I'm starting to get used to his class routine actually. This morning, it's Library first thing, and then Social Studies. And in the middle of all that, I tried to get going with my own workload. I still have a presentation to pull out of my ass after all. I had it in my mind that I'm going to get EVERYTHING done by tonight, although that may mean I may not have a good night's sleep tonight. And by everything, I mean Johnnie has a swim lesson later, I obviously have my exercise routine and the ever-present need to keep Johnnie occupied when he's in the house and not necessarily by giving him some more screen time. Lisa got that all figured out by buying him a gecko. I bought him that cardboard dog house last week LOL. But that thing only caught his attention for all of ONE DAY. Hopefully the attention with the gecko lasts. But last week it was that pet crab too. Sigh. Today I buried him in books on the EPIC school platform, so much so I zipped him through 4 reading levels. Obviously, all that IS self-serving because if I didn't occupy him, there would be no way I could focus on all MY work. Anyway, I worked on putting my material together but as I said before, it is much more difficult trying to pull something out of my ass. I'd be lucky to get 45 minutes of material right about now... and that's ok actually. And so by the time 2 PM rolled around and it was already time for Johnnie's swim lesson, I was actually not all that worried and I was fully present at poolside. I figured I still had the remainder of the day and then tonight to finish it up anyway.

So on to the swimming lesson. I actually felt like Johnnie had regressed last week, especially since he did so well when it was just the two of us. I felt like he finally started to get comfortable in the water. Today Stacy, who is a great instructor BTW, put him through his paces, and it started out really well. But about half hour in, he started reverting back to his fear-of-the-water mindset. By then I started to threaten to throw him in before he would go in the water. And then when Stacy would move, meaning that his lifeline moved, Johnnie turned really whiny and was almost crying. What the heck happened to the confidence I had built last week?? Sigh. At least he did learn that floating on his back was safe and that it was a way to catch his breath so he could keep on swimming with his head underwater. It's taking time, but we have lots of that. And we left today with me already thinking we're coming back at the end of the week. And so with that, I parked Johnnie in front of his Octonauts while I started to work again. It took a while for Johnnie to settle back down to his playful self and by then it was already time for dinner. And time to pick up Panda Express. I still had a lot of leftovers obviously and that was what I ate. And then Johnnie and I actually spent time reading more books on the EPIC website. At this point I don't care about screen time. It is now a necessity and as long as he's learning something, hey it's the new normal. In the middle of all that, I did manage to get in some kind of groove with my work, and also managed to get my steps in too. I still felt like I was juggling a whole bunch of things... especially because I wasn't just working on the Tech Council stuff. I was actually also working my job. I think that as long as I had an idea what I really did want to present, which I did, I was ok. I always feel like I can pull something out of my ass at the last second. Besides, this is actually the first time my presentation didn't have as much material as the last few months at least. It has been since Justin was still working with us which is coming up on a couple of years now that I really did routinely pull presentations out of my ass every month. As it was I had to fight the urge to go to sleep when Johnnie did after 9:30. I got up finished my presentation and when I looked up, it was 1 AM in the morning. But I got it all done. And I didn't go to sleep right then either. That's because I gave in to the distraction that the L.A. Clippers pulled off a MASSIVE CHOKE job yet again and lost to the Nuggets in Game 7 of their series. And so the Clippers-Lakers heavyweight fight isn't going to happen. The Clippers did the Clippers thing. Wow. I had to watch videos about it didn't I? It was as if the Lakers had a big win. Double wow.