Offf Balance Saturday
Didn't I just spend a couple of hours last night playing with Johnnie. Yes I did. And at 8:30 AM this morning he's on the phone calling me and inviting to come on over to pick him up. It's piano lesson morning for Lisa and that is the cue for me to keep Johnnie out of the house until later on this afternoon, which I was only all too happy to do. Johnnie immediately wanted to go to breakfast, which of course would lead us to Elysee in Westwood. Today it was not nearly as hot as usual, more than likely because the fires have still coated the Southern California sky with ash, which blocked out the full effect of what would have been another hot day. Which meant we could eat outside Elysee in relative comfort rather than trying to find shade. It would have been rather routine except for a phone call I got from Scott Carde while I was ordering our breakfast. He let me know he had suffered a stroke on Monday and they had just released him from the hospital. He was calling because he didn't want me to get a fine for him not showing up to golf tomorrow. That's Scott being Scott. I didn't care about the damn fine, I just wanted to know if he was ok. He told me he was actually planning on playing, which let me know he was fine. But now he had lost feeling in the right side of his face. Gee... something I was familiar with because it happened.. to me. And so we talked about that for a bit. I was glad he was ok but I was also thrown a bit off-balance because something had happened to someone i was close to. I mean Scott was the epitome of great health when you're in your 70s. Then again you never know do you. I just mentally sent him healing thoughts and reminded myself it is me that needs to self-nurture to make sure I'm not too off-balance. So after Elyse we had to make a stop at Target. But I made the stop just a little more productive for Johnnie. I got him a slime in a bottle toy which I'm sure I'm going to regret once he gets around to playing with the thing. But we also made it to the Kindergarten books section and I actually stopped there and made him read "Are you My Monster". By himself. He is doing SO well with his reading. We didn't get home until 10:30 AM and just playing with his new slime toy and his book and there wasn't even any need to turn on the TV actually. Of course I ended up being right: the second he opened up that slime toy bottle, I wish he hadn't. It took a lot to clean up that thing, even just to get all that goo rolled back into the bottle. Anyway the morning went by so fast, including lunch. Of course it was another Panda Express lunch and I had no desire to be more creative today and find him something different to eat some other place. I thought I had it all figured out though. Since I had not turned on the TV all morning, I could then have at least 2 hours I could have him watch which would be enough time for me to steal another afternoon nap. As it would turn out, Lisa had other ideas yet again. She called to let me know that her mom was coming over to hang out for the afternoon, early evening and that she was bringing groceries and food no doubt. Lisa even got in somewhat of an invite for me to hang out with them since her dad apparently was not coming with them. And he had apparently compared her yet again to 2 other Armenian women in their old circle in Sierra Madre. And boy was Lisa put out by the comparison. I guess she has yet to figure out that no comparison to anyone or anything matters as long as you are strong in your own belief of yourself. Which brings up Lisa's constant battle with believing in herself. Anyway all that was just what she talked about on the phone. Do I want to re-live it by going over there to her house yet again and listen to her tell her mom? I guess I actually have to since I do have to drop Johnnie off. I was okay that we had HAD the morning together. And so it was that I took Johnnie to Lisa's house and apparently her mom had lunch ready for all of us. Never mind that it was already 2 PM... and Johnnie had actually already eaten. I did eat too already actually but I agreed to hang out and let Lisa fix me something. That's her thing now I guess. All this time we were married and she barely made anything for me to eat. Now we're divorced and she's trying to fix me something all the time? Odd huh? And she actually put out the ingredients for her fajita made with Lavash bread. Complete with last night's leftover salmon. As I said I was fine trying to be sociable for at least an hour, especially since her mom Vicky always takes it personally when I don't hang with them. Like mother like daughter. And yes I did get to hear about Lisa being compared to a couple of other women, who her dad seems to think are successful because they had multiple children and are happily married. How quaint. Antiquated though it may be, it's not actually a surprise. Not to me and not to Lisa. It's just a surprise that Lisa keeps falling for it and lets her self worth tank. So we all sat down and had lunch, Johnnie included but he was so so bored. And then while being taken out for a walk, apparently John-John had another seizure and he ended up scratching up both knees. That was my cue to go home. Hey, I did wash the dishes didn't I? I never did get my nap in. Later on I would get a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut... pretty cheap dinner at under $8 huh?! And then I kept watching the last full sesaon of Person of Interest. The whole premise that something hugely more intelligent than us humans spy on everybody and everything and essentially has unfettered control over everything appeals to me in that... Isn't that what God is? Only the word isn't quite as extreme as spying. You can't spy on something when you're a part of that very thing in the first place. Any total control just like the inherent skill we all have was the appeal. And so i binge-watched until well into the wee hours of the morning. Why did i do that? Don't I remember I have to be somewhere early? Oh well. still a pretty good Saturday in the books.
Didn't I just spend a couple of hours last night playing with Johnnie. Yes I did. And at 8:30 AM this morning he's on the phone calling me and inviting to come on over to pick him up. It's piano lesson morning for Lisa and that is the cue for me to keep Johnnie out of the house until later on this afternoon, which I was only all too happy to do. Johnnie immediately wanted to go to breakfast, which of course would lead us to Elysee in Westwood. Today it was not nearly as hot as usual, more than likely because the fires have still coated the Southern California sky with ash, which blocked out the full effect of what would have been another hot day. Which meant we could eat outside Elysee in relative comfort rather than trying to find shade. It would have been rather routine except for a phone call I got from Scott Carde while I was ordering our breakfast. He let me know he had suffered a stroke on Monday and they had just released him from the hospital. He was calling because he didn't want me to get a fine for him not showing up to golf tomorrow. That's Scott being Scott. I didn't care about the damn fine, I just wanted to know if he was ok. He told me he was actually planning on playing, which let me know he was fine. But now he had lost feeling in the right side of his face. Gee... something I was familiar with because it happened.. to me. And so we talked about that for a bit. I was glad he was ok but I was also thrown a bit off-balance because something had happened to someone i was close to. I mean Scott was the epitome of great health when you're in your 70s. Then again you never know do you. I just mentally sent him healing thoughts and reminded myself it is me that needs to self-nurture to make sure I'm not too off-balance. So after Elyse we had to make a stop at Target. But I made the stop just a little more productive for Johnnie. I got him a slime in a bottle toy which I'm sure I'm going to regret once he gets around to playing with the thing. But we also made it to the Kindergarten books section and I actually stopped there and made him read "Are you My Monster". By himself. He is doing SO well with his reading. We didn't get home until 10:30 AM and just playing with his new slime toy and his book and there wasn't even any need to turn on the TV actually. Of course I ended up being right: the second he opened up that slime toy bottle, I wish he hadn't. It took a lot to clean up that thing, even just to get all that goo rolled back into the bottle. Anyway the morning went by so fast, including lunch. Of course it was another Panda Express lunch and I had no desire to be more creative today and find him something different to eat some other place. I thought I had it all figured out though. Since I had not turned on the TV all morning, I could then have at least 2 hours I could have him watch which would be enough time for me to steal another afternoon nap. As it would turn out, Lisa had other ideas yet again. She called to let me know that her mom was coming over to hang out for the afternoon, early evening and that she was bringing groceries and food no doubt. Lisa even got in somewhat of an invite for me to hang out with them since her dad apparently was not coming with them. And he had apparently compared her yet again to 2 other Armenian women in their old circle in Sierra Madre. And boy was Lisa put out by the comparison. I guess she has yet to figure out that no comparison to anyone or anything matters as long as you are strong in your own belief of yourself. Which brings up Lisa's constant battle with believing in herself. Anyway all that was just what she talked about on the phone. Do I want to re-live it by going over there to her house yet again and listen to her tell her mom? I guess I actually have to since I do have to drop Johnnie off. I was okay that we had HAD the morning together. And so it was that I took Johnnie to Lisa's house and apparently her mom had lunch ready for all of us. Never mind that it was already 2 PM... and Johnnie had actually already eaten. I did eat too already actually but I agreed to hang out and let Lisa fix me something. That's her thing now I guess. All this time we were married and she barely made anything for me to eat. Now we're divorced and she's trying to fix me something all the time? Odd huh? And she actually put out the ingredients for her fajita made with Lavash bread. Complete with last night's leftover salmon. As I said I was fine trying to be sociable for at least an hour, especially since her mom Vicky always takes it personally when I don't hang with them. Like mother like daughter. And yes I did get to hear about Lisa being compared to a couple of other women, who her dad seems to think are successful because they had multiple children and are happily married. How quaint. Antiquated though it may be, it's not actually a surprise. Not to me and not to Lisa. It's just a surprise that Lisa keeps falling for it and lets her self worth tank. So we all sat down and had lunch, Johnnie included but he was so so bored. And then while being taken out for a walk, apparently John-John had another seizure and he ended up scratching up both knees. That was my cue to go home. Hey, I did wash the dishes didn't I? I never did get my nap in. Later on I would get a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut... pretty cheap dinner at under $8 huh?! And then I kept watching the last full sesaon of Person of Interest. The whole premise that something hugely more intelligent than us humans spy on everybody and everything and essentially has unfettered control over everything appeals to me in that... Isn't that what God is? Only the word isn't quite as extreme as spying. You can't spy on something when you're a part of that very thing in the first place. Any total control just like the inherent skill we all have was the appeal. And so i binge-watched until well into the wee hours of the morning. Why did i do that? Don't I remember I have to be somewhere early? Oh well. still a pretty good Saturday in the books.
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