Focused on Work Work Work

It's the 2nd to the last day of the year! And 2nd to the last day of the work week too. Only significant in my mind because a year ago at this time, in a different time in a hugely different environment, I was at the office pretty much tanking the entire week and merely counting down the last few days of the year. Today, I am actually hard at work. So hard that I pretty much kept in front of the computer all day long. I was working on so many things too. Legit working on so many things. A meeting with Kennedy and James about Data Analytics tasks and projects. I think I ended up with a solution that makes me feel better about the department and how it operates actually. And then by the end of the day, I had the LA Care stuff for Oneida pretty much validated and verified which was due tomorrow. And same for a project for Marina. Due tomorrow. But now she has all the data she needs. And then a dashboard she needs to be updated by tomorrow. And Kennedy figured out how to update it too. So for now, at least by the end of today, this day, I think we're under control. This was much better than how I felt about all these tasks at the beginning of the week! The thing was that at no time did I feel I wasn't going to get it done. And I think that's the difference. It was just a matter of time. Just a matter of putting my head down. And today I did just that. 

Of course when I'm focused on work, that takes away from the attention on Johnnie. Today I was just hoping he had enough dinosaur stuff and videos to keep him occupied until I got done with all the work this afternoon. Normally of course he would have schoolwork. But not this week and next week. And so I'm left with Coyote Peterson and his many videos on wildlife. It's always funny to me how he does retain what he watches and then regurgitates it back to Lisa and she's wondering when and where he learns these things. How the heck do you think he learned all the dinosaurs? Certainly not from any one of those books she made him "read" back in the day. It was from all those episodes of Dinosaur Train. Even I learned about those dinosaurs that way. The question is what he does with it later on life LOL. But later on in life can come... later on in life. To me it's just about here and now and specifically today. By mid-morning he had created yet another dinosaur book and he has progressed from writing mini stories on small pieces of paper to actually drawing pages and pages with descriptions on them... like they were really books! He had done a dozen pages before lunch time. This plus his martial arts exercises in the afternoon took up just about the right chunk of time to get me over the hump with my own work. And let's not forget about the steps. I'm still doing 11,000+ steps. At the end of the day I got all these things done, which gave me a huge feeling of accomplishment. And we still made some cookies too. And did the routine stuff. Made it out to Westwood for Panda Express night. And tonight for a change, I ordered a full meal for myself. AND we even headed out to Target after dinner. That's because I wanted to get a pair of sweatpants for him to wear tomorrow. Until I realized when I washed the new pair that I could have easily just washed what he had on last Monday. Oh well, at least we got out and got some groceries done too. I wasn't sure if Ralphs would be closed on New Years Day like it was on Christmas. Need to make sure I could exist not going out...just like I didn't on Christmas Day. I was so busy I didn't really take any pictures of Johnnie like I usually do. But I did take one of him when he knocked off to sleep... and before I did. It was a busy work day and I was tired. But it was a good day and I still got to be with my Little Bug.