Distractions Galore

It is Tuesday and since Johnnie had gotten a really good night's sleep even while sleeping on a futon, he was at it at full speed starting the second he woke up. Look at him just on the way back from getting the usual breakfast at McDonald's first thing. Not even 8 AM yet and he's in full play mode. Which is why I'm perplexed as to how quickly I lost my patience at lunch today. Johnnie had asked for a pizza at lunch today and I was only all too glad to go to Pizza Hut to get him a nice steaming cheese pizza.  I set it out nice for him to eat before his 12 PM class. He had had a pretty good morning so far. And then I left him alone thinking he was eating lunch. When I came back he had barely eaten a bite! And THAT set me off. It had me so mad I whacked at the pizza on the table. Yep, ME the parent had a temper tantrum. So much so the pizza flew towards my guitar in the corner and got pizza sauce all over the floor and some on the wall. I got painfully reminded of that time when we were preparing to move and Lisa had pestered me about something so much that I flung the lunch I had just bought towards the wall and had gotten it all over. Sigh. A display of patience this was most definitely not. Instead I had to calm Johnnie down because of course he had started to cry. Which is probably what I wanted to see. Yes I wanted to see him cry. All this work and effort I took to get him this and he didn't even touch it. Which is what kids do sometimes. I have to simply remind myself that when that happens, it just happens. For no really good reason. He's just a kid. And I have to let him be one.  Finally I did come to my senses and I did get him back to his usual self right before his class started. But I was for sure disappointed. In ME. 

This being a Tuesday it was a full afternoon. Johnnie had swim class and then computer class after that. And even as he and I got to the pool, I had all this stuff that all of a sudden got delivered from Amazon. My Vessi shoes finally came. And then my watch straps, and my USB ports. and finally finally my NBA Championship T-shirt commemorating the Lakers! My official T-shirt. I remembered the 1980 shirt I got from what was then Broadway. Can you believe that was 40 years ago? Karl remembered that I had the 2010 shirt too. He and I went to Game 1 after all. That was Kobe's last championship. And so I was strutting all around with this shirt on. In the meantime, Johnnie was doing his lesson and was doing much much better than last week. So much so I watched him go all across the length of the pool the long way without stopping! Well, for sure he's swimming now even though he is still prone to getting panicky. He got way cold when the class was done. It isn't summer anymore that's for sure. Still we made it through the afternoon, through his computer lesson and I even managed to get a whole ton of steps in too, and then made it to Panda Express for his dinner. And I finally once and for all got around to working on my stuff while he watched more Jurassic World Lego videos. I got the intranet stuff all done earlier in the day actually and then I had one thing left to finish, which was my presentation. I figured I'd do it tonight while Johnnie was asleep. That's because I found yet one more distraction tonight.  It's Game 1 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Rays and of course I had to take a peek at the score every once in a while. Especially after hearing the neighbors yell. That's usually when the Dodgers scored.  As it turned out, they won 8-3. Clayton Kershaw threw a gem, which was not a guarantee considering he had a reputation of not pitching all that well in the playoffs. This is the World Series too. Still a win means the Dodgers are up 1-0. They lost the first 2 games to the Braves in the League Championship series before rallying to win so this is a much better start. 3 games to win left before a double-double championship happens. Johnnie fell asleep on my bed right around 10 PM and finally I went to work on my presentation. Last night I worked until 2:30 AM in the morning. And still managed to get almost 5 hours of sleep. I was hoping to do the same tonight. Except that i was way too distracted looking at Youtube videos of the Dodgers win. Sigh. I did manage to get to 98% done on my presentation. One slide left. I left it for tomorrow. It was 2:30 AM in the morning yet again...