Day Off Friday

So I get another day off Friday today so I can not lose my vacation hours which now stands at 400+ hours. And so what did I do first thing today? Get up and get ready and head out to the Big O Tire Shop by Lisa's office. Gotta get the exploded tire fixed or replaced so I'm not driving around on my spare tire. I checked it in, gulped at the estimate.. I mean I was NOT expecting to spend $180 on ONE tire!!... and then set off to walk around the neighborhood while they got around to getting the tired installed. I would like to think it was going to be a 15 minute job max, but then again there were TWO cars ahead of me in the bay and so I just thought this would be a good opportunity to get ahead of my STEPS and get it over and done with early in the day. After all, Lisa invited me to come over tonight to have dinner, which was to say to watch Johnnie while she practiced piano. I was totally OK with that. After all, my schedule after the tire thing was to watch the Mandalorian which started it's Season 2 today! And I was excited to watch it. But before that I had to wait for my car. Remember, I checked it in by 8:45 AM and started walking around the neighborhood. It was the 90064 neighborhood but it still resembled mine less than a couple of miles away. While walking I thought about the event of the flat tire in the context of manifestation and that nothing is an accident and that everything happens for a reason. I am perfectly willing to accept that there was yet another blip in my own thinking and that something needed to be expunged. Maybe it was some negative energy, maybe it was the feeling of lack and limitation. All I know is that whatever was happening, it served as no more than a blip in my consciousness. A reminder of something. Because it really was no more of an inconvenience than anything. And so I then shifted to what did I need to change in my thinking in order to make sure this does not happen again? With this one I asked for Divine Guidance because the answer was not immediately clear. I was focused on the nail that was stuck in the tire for a pretty long while now and that it needed to be fixed once and for all. Hmmm. So something needs to be addressed once and for all... with me. With some buried thoughts and emotions. By the time my car got done it was already almost 10 AM. I did notice a hefty helping of impatience while I waited. Impatience with the manager, impatience with the process, impatience with myself. Perhaps, this too is more important to address. When I got home I finally turned on the Mandalorian. Season 2 Episode 1. I downloaded it first for good measure. And then enjoyed the episode. I did notice that throughout the afternoon I kept getting pings from work. Emma asking about a notification from the FBI about an Ransomware Alert. Faith bugging about a quote on the security system at the new place. Even Eloisa asking about Lam quitting. Don't these people know I have the day off? I shrug it all off, got to my 11,000 steps <before 5 PM mind you> and then headed over to Lisa's. She and Johnnie was at her office celebrating Sandy's birthday. Which meant she was headed home with food from Panini Grill. Awesome! I get chicken kabobs tonight even though I bought some rockfish to cook. Hey I prefer the chicken kabob for sure. So that's a picture of me at Lisa's backyard waiting for mom and son to come home. And then a picture of Johnnie creating a traffic scenario with all of his dinosaur toys. I brought his iPad tonight so he could play the computer games from class last week that he didn't get to. And so as it was we ended up having a pretty good dinner without having to cook much. Just Johnnie's chicken noodle soup actually. And then after dinner, about the time Lisa should have been practicing piano, she declared that she was tired and needed to take a nap. Hey I didn't care. Piano, nap, I knew I was going to do the dishes <which I did> and I knew that I was going to watch Johnnie <which I did>. Either way, I kept Johnnie occupied for almost 2 hours. Made him his hot chocolate before bed. And then when Lisa woke up, it was time for her to go right back to sleep LOL. Again, I didn't really care. I had had a quiet day and I didn't have to work much. Last week when I didn't have the day off I played golf. This week when I had the day off, I didn't do anything and I worked a little. That's how work-from-home works right? Besides I was out of gas yesterday and today was the day to get R&R.  In any case, I was supposed to be back first thing in the morning at Lisa's. Tomorrow is Halloween...