A Very Quiet Saturday

Since I didn't get to bed until 1 AM last night and in fact I fell asleep on the couch, I think I could let myself sleep in this morning, not that sleeping until 8 AM even qualifies as sleeping in. But it does for me since it is already later than the latest I've woken up in quite some time. Usually I'd be having breakfast at Lisa's or at least picking up Johnnie so she could have time to do whatever it is that she does. But since I already did that yesterday, albeit as a good Samaritan gesture, I didn't push to spend time with them this morning. Better let Lisa rest I told myself.  Or even better to not be in her hair considering she didn't seem to have the best energy yesterday. That meant that 3 years ago when we were still married we were for sure going to have some kind of fight that night.  It's ok to let her spend time with Johnnie just the two of them I thought. After all, I did have him to myself for the last 4 full days almost. OK to give her the next 3, which is the entire weekend + Monday when I get him back. Besides I have so much stuff I need to get to it's almost ridiculous. I have all this material I want to learn, and I need to find a way to synthesize that learning to make it go quicker. AND to find a way to break the habit of procrastination and distraction which keeps me from being consistent with said learning anyway. Example: the Silva Ultramind system I got to download for free I STILL haven't gotten past Day 2. Why do we do that? Because it IS harder when you're doing it yourself. But I still have to try. Which is what I intended to do today.  

Of course what actually does happen becomes different from what I intend because I needed to focus my thought patterns first to minimize those distractions and start everything with clarity. And THAT I did not do today simply because I wanted to be lazy for the morning. Hey don't I deserve to simply BE and do nothing? I was actually doing just that not giving myself anything to "have" to do today. And wouldn't you know I would get a call out of the blue, from Dexter checking in and catching up. We talked for almost a half hour and it actually felt good to connect with him considering I barely connect with anyone other than Johnnie and Lisa. And so it would seem the Universe was making sure I was plugged today regardless of what I did or didn't do LOL. And then Karl texted too after Dexter's call.  By the time I sort of looked up, it was already well past lunchtime and I had accomplished the mission of not actually having done anything! I got lunch from Chipotle and then went to the couch to go back to doing nothing. Which actually consists of watching TV. I was fully aware that to minimize distraction meant that I would have to do a lot less of watching TV shows and movies. Just see what happened about Meatballs last night?! Today I did it again this time getting a clean download of the mini-series Ivanhoe from 1982! This series had pretty much an all-star cast actually. Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), James Mason (Heaven Can Wait, the Verdict), and John Rhys-Davies (Indiana Jones). But of course back in the day I watched it because of Olivia Hussey. Man she was so beautiful. Anyway just like last night I got nostalgic watching it again. And I ate it with several pieces of pepperoni, sausage, and pineapple pizza actually. I even posted the pic. I actually did end up with 2 LARGE pizzas to take home. That's because the first one they made for me didn't have the right toppings on it. It had jalapeno instead of pineapple and I didn't discover that mistake until I had gone to Trader Joe's to go shopping and then gone on home. At first I thought of just flicking the jalapeno off the pizza but then considering I had focused attention on the pattern of my order not being done right (e.g. Crimson 3 weeks ago when they missed my soup), I decided I had to draw a line with the Universe and actually do something about it and get them to get it right. So I went back to Pizza Hut and got the right pizza this time. They let me keep the old mistaken one too hence the 2 large boxes of pizza I'll never be able to eat. I should have given away the first one to the homeless... but I didn't and I am kicking myself for not doing that. Such a waste. And so it was that Saturday night turned into pizza and movie night, to follow a do-nothing day of a Saturday. Hey I did manage to get 10,000 steps done though. That would help make sure that pizza didn't totally do damage LOL. And then back to routine tomorrow. Early tee time at Altadena.