Out of Gas

I'd like to be able to say that this was one of those usual Lisa workday Saturdays, which for the last couple of years since we got separated and divorced meant I got to watch Johnnie for the day. Except that I was up early to be at Lisa's house by 6:15 AM. Heck it was still dark outside for crying out loud.  That's because she let me know last night that she had to be at work by 6:30 AM. So I'm at her front door still yawning, but on time. And that's when she told me she didn't need to be there at 6:30 after all, but at 7 AM. It didn't matter to me. I just made a beeline for the couch and laid back down. I'll sleep until Johnnie wakes up I told myself. Only I could hear him upstairs. He was already up. He was watching his pet gecko. Great. So much for getting more sleep. And he bounded down, told me about he and his mom's plans for vacation night tonight (which was a trip to Santa Clarita with Lisa's friend also named Lisa that they had gone to once before) and wanted to read with me. I guess that's the same in this house as him watching Blippi at mine LOL. We all left before 7 AM and I went right back to my apartment. I needed to clean up. I was feeling sticky. And so I DID put Johnnie in front of Blippi while I took a shower and shaved and brushed my teeth. THEN we went to Elysee for our usual breakfast... Look at the picture of dad and son. No stops at any other grocery stores this morning. Ok, maybe Whole Foods but we went back home at 10 AM. And I was already feeling it. I didn't have much more than 4 hours of sleep last night either. Which capped an entire week of pretty terrible sleep, save for one day. I so wanted to sleep some more. And to keep his attention, I found a dinosaur series for him to watch on Netflix. It was Jurassic world - Camp Cretacious and it was animated. And it was pretty realistic enough to scare him sometimes. And so it was that I got 2 hours of video time with Johnnie while I nodded in and out of sleep. And when I looked up, it was already close to noon and lunchtime. I could have felt a little guilty that I am relinquishing parenting with Johnnie to Netflix videos when I said I wouldn't do that. But I was so-o-o tired today. And honestly, I am simply out of gas. Besides, we did so good with his classes all week that he deserved his vacation Saturday, which is what he called today already.

I still had the afternoon with Johnnie to go. Lisa got done early but since they were headed out for a sleepover tonight and tomorrow, she already told me she wouldn't be picking him up until 4:30. We did get the usual Panda Express lunch but I had no energy to think about stuff to do for the rest of the afternoon. And I went to Johnnie's default Octonauts. Nor did I have much left to do anyting else but to sit right there on the couch and watch TV with him. And catch up on this journal. Man am I so glad I have a couple of days off next week. By the time Lisa came by to collect Johnnie it was already 5 PM. We had already gone to McDonalds to get some chicken nuggets for him to eat. Johnnie explained that he didn't want to eat because he was saving himself for pizza tonight at their friends' house, cooked in their own stone fire oven.  You know if you tell Johnnie you're doing something and its something he's into, he goes all out. Of course that also means he's prone to dramatics like his mom. "It's a disaster", I would always here him lament when he's not quite so perfect with a homework assignment. Anyway, Lisa came by and off they went and she even gave me a chicken burrito from California Chicken Cafe. That worked out great because I did NOT feel like cooking anything tonight. All I wanted to do was watch some more TV although tonight I was NOT going to be watching until the wee hours of the morning. We have an early tee time tomorrow, as I locked in 8 AM at Woodley Lakes in the valley. Hopefully it won't be as stinking hot like it was at Hansen Dam. I did watch a few episodes of Cobra Kai... kind of picking up where things left off with Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence from the original Karate Kid movie in the 80s. Anyway I liked the storyline. But I went to bed before 11 PM tonight regardless. I'm tired...