Bustin It At Work Tuesday

I woke up with some anxiety this morning and I knew it had something to do with work. Not on the IS Infrastructure side either. I had at least 3 outstanding tasks that were due this week on  the lap of Data Analytics, which is to say James and he did not respond to my pings yesterday. At least this morning we had our usual IS Team Meeting and I was thinking he had better show up for that one because we really need to know what was going on with a whole bunch of stuff. Already I got a ping from my boss, our newly appointed new CEO Eloisa who mentioned that it was embarassing that some data was missing from the dashboards that she presented at the Board Meeting yesterday. Damn. And of course that brought out feelings of inadequacy from me. I mean I don't mess up much, not like that. And James is not making me look good for sure. But I figured I simply needed to make a mental adjustment as far as I was concerned. It was all about my own insecurities all the way back to the Dental School and even General Dynamics before that. I simply didn't know how to control my outcomes way back then. Or at least realize that I was not victim to such circumstances. I mentally pictured and thought about the outcome that I wanted... interspersed that with the general thoughtform that I create MASSIVE value, either here at my job or any other project I chose to pursue. And focusing on that already almost instantly dissolved those insecure feelings. Besides, how can I feel insecure when I have Johnnie there interrupting my phone calls with presents he wrapped himself?! OK maybe he was simply way too bored. Still, HE gave me a present. Can't feel anything but gratitude about that! I mean look at that FACE.

In the meantime the day after the rains is always really really nice. Warm and breezy and still kind of wet in spots all over the place but still plenty warm. I took a picture of the beautiful day it turned into by mid-day. So much I decided to cook the Italian sausage I bought last weekend right outside in the barbecue area. Hey, it gave me a chance to catch up on steps too. And enjoy the beautiful day outside. In the meantime, I kept Johnnie busy by making him some udon and turning on DinoTrux so he could have something to watch. And told him to take his time eating. That gave me plenty of time to make my own lunch. That Italian sausage with some of the chicken fried rice from Trader Joe's? Perfect! And I ramped up my steps to almost 4000 too. Today Lisa had plans to go hiking with Ines Garcia (she of Ines and Tony who we used to hang out with a few years ago pre-Johnnie). We sort of lost touch with them as friends when Johnnie was born. In fact, the last time I remember seeing them was when I was taking Johnnie in his baby carriage to Ralphs Westwood and they stopped at the stop sign. That was before Johnnie turned 1 so it was more than 5 years ago. They have remained Lisa's patients of course so they've sort of kept in touch with her. Anyway she called right after lunch when she got done with her hike and wanted to go on a bike ride and invited me to go with she and Johnnie. I nixed that of course since I had plenty to do work-wise. I actually made headway with all of the Data Analytics stuff almost magically since I shifted my mindset. James actually started getting stuff done. And so I told Lisa I was happy to drop Johnnie off for the afternoon so THEY could go on said bike ride. And I'd come back for dinner later. I felt bad that Johnnie was getting bored as I left him alone anyway so I could work.

Lisa told me to come by around 5 PM for an early dinner. When I got there, they had just gotten home presumably from their bike ride. Actually I did know that Johnnie had a list of stuff he wanted to procure... all ingredients for a smores making contest, which he saw in one of Coyote Peterson's episodes. Yep, I take the blame for that one... he did watch those episodes on my watch. It's funny to me only because when we left early in the afternoon, this is what my living room looked like: Jurassic Park movie playing on TV, Johnnie making up a posse of dinosaurs in one of his re-enaction scenes in front of the movie. And I'm leaving it just the way it is because it is one of Johnnie's SAVED WORK. Besides, if someone is going to clean it up, it WILL be Johnnie. I didn't think of what Lisa was going to cook up for dinner. I was sure it was some leftover stuff in her fridge, which I'm not exactly keen on because you know how I am with leftovers. And we know how she is with eating EVERYTHING in her fridge rather than throwing anything away. We are complete and total opposites in that regard, but I'm playing nice tonight and I could hold on until later when we leave if worse comes to worse and I don't like any of the food. Tonight it is actually poor Johnnie who got the raw deal and short end of the stick because Lisa decides to cook this multigrain pasta that actually tasted like crap (to me). And here she is forcing him to eat it. I know she has diet restrictions but c'mon! He does NOT have to eat what she eats does he? No wonder he eats a heck of a lot more when he's with me. He ate 20 -yep, twenty- pieces of pasta before Lisa let him off the hook. We had leftover turkey bolognese over the same pasta and at least I tried to eat as much as I could. I'll supplement that later when I get home as I said. Fortunately for Johnnie, they DID get all the ingredients for smores and so he was excited to at least eat THAT for dessert! Best part of the meal hands down. And I made myself a real doozy the first time too, that's how good it was. Johnnie ate 2 smores himself, which at least filled his stomach some tonight. I'll supplement him with the milk later on when we got home. And so despite the crappy dinner let's face it, the smores saved it all. And then we retired to Lisa's room to play another game of SORRY tonight. I wanted a rematch. I got creamed last night and it did not feel good. Unfortunately the results weren't any different this evening. In fact, Lisa won tonight and Johnnie won 2nd. I placed last again. We played a game of UNO afterwards and I won that one. See  what happens when I play something I'm familiar with? And then JOhnnie and I went home and immediately I gave him milk, and I had a snack. We went to bed early still and now I'm counting down to the end of the work week. Counting down to the end of the YEAR!