Labor Day

I stayed up late last night watching TV and I slept in this morning, not waking up until it was almost 8 AM. Hey it's my day off after all and I totally planned on using this day as my Rest-and-Recharge day. Which simply meant I was perfectly happy to cruise through the day with no plans whatsoever. But of course the Universe had another idea. I got a call first thing from Lisa. I guess she had it in her mind that today was a good day to head out to the beach and go swimming (for her) and it would be nice if I could go with she and Johnnie and watch him. This was totally all about Lisa, but the thought of actually spending just a little time at the beach if only for a couple of hours and before the crowd got there actually sounded pretty good to me! It IS Labor Day after all, the symbolic off-day marking the end of summer. I still have a memory of David Begil and I heading down to Laguna Beach to mark the end of yet another awesome beach summer. That was the 80s though LOL. For me in the here and now, it marks the end of Covid summer. And we simply survived it and although it was a pretty boring summer considering many summers in the past, it wasn't really all that much different from LAST summer for me. Hard to forget about summer just yet considering how stinking hot it had been all weekend. But today, Lisa Johnnie and I had breakfast together and then headed out to Venice, on a direct line from Palms Blvd. This part of Venice is actually pretty nice, although there were tons of people at the skate part and I was definitely concerned with how many of them were not wearing masks. Still, this was the first time I had gone to Venice and touched the water in a really long time, and certainly not with Lisa and Johnnie for a few years now. The last time we went together we were just walking around the bike path at night. But today, it was all about Lisa and off she went donning her wet suit and heading out to the open ocean. She went down 2 lifeguard stations before I lost sight of her and I just hoped she was safe enough out there. She was out for a good half hour before we saw her walking up. In the meantime, I was trying to acclimate Johnnie to the waves and he did not appreciate the waves slapping on his face with such force. Hey I didn't either. But at least we made it out to the water. And Lisa got her swim in for the first time and we were all unanimous that this was a good thing to do today. We headed home before 11 AM, before all the crowds came and then we spent the rest of the morning cleaning up at Lisa's back yard. Johnnie and I in particular had a water hose fight. It was actually nice that this would already be a memorable Labor Day off and it wasn't even lunch time yet. Johnnie still wanted a real shower so mommy and son headed in and I headed home to dry off completely. It had been a pretty good morning.

So we still had Johnnie's swim class to do. Unfortunately, i didn't read the email from the Management company that the pool would be closed today. DRAT. Totally my fault obviously. And I was sorry Stacy drove all the way up only to turn back. At least she and Lisa got to talk about Lisa's swim this morning and possibly doing it together next week. And so afterwards, I got to go home and take a half hour nap. I really needed it since I didn't get lots of sleep last night yet again. When I woke up I didn't do the Monday afternoon aerobics session where I usually load up on my Cardio minutes and my active minutes.  I figured I'm okay doing maintenance marks today, and as it was I still did 12,700 steps today! And 60 active minutes. And 37 cardio minutes. Maintenance marks alright.  By the time I picked up Johnnie at 5:30 I could tell Lisa was ready to hand him off, just like I am ready to hand him off come Thursday night.  This is why joint custody is working. Johnnie has gotten bigger and stronger and his rough housing antics are no longer benign. He's not such a little runt any longer which is a very good thing. By early evening, he's back to eating fettucini in chicken broth and chicken McNuggets, and watching Octonauts. I tried to get myself in the frame of mind of caring about what classes he's in tomorrow. Not quite used to all of them myself. But I'm sure I'll manage. Today I went to bed early. As in I knocked out before 10 PM myself. It had been a pretty eventful Labor Day. And I was glad :)