Last Sunday of the Last Weekend of the Year

I was up really early for golf this morning, excited because I get to play at Penmar. I really liked playing there the first time I had gotten to play it in many many months way back in November. Far nicer now that it isn't so crowded and they aren't sending out fivesomes anymore. With that said, it is just Scott and i this morning, and Scott is still recovering from a procedure to close a hole in his heart. If it sounds serious, I consider it to be so but since he did say the doctor gave him the green light to play then I'm happy to play with him. Today we got paired off with this English guy who had just moved to Santa Monica from Paris. A European guy who actually played really really well. As in he hit his tee shots over 250 yards and straight. And Scott and i both started out cold too. I mean when do I ever shank a tee shot so badly I barely graze it to go right. Fortunately for me I would end up warming up after the first couple of holes. By Hole 5, I was actually getting on in 2. Even the long Hole 6 I had gotten on in 3. Too bad my putting sucked. Still. As I missed par opportunity after par opportunity. Even on hole 8 when I landed my tee shot 145 yards right on the green, I still 3-putted. Arghh! Still it felt good to at least hit the ball pretty well after warming up. As for the guy we played with, he seemed far more interested in having a conversation with Scott than anything. Did I feel ignored? A bit. Did I care? Not really. I wouldn't let myself feel badly about some snobbish Englishman from Paris. I mean he talked himself as some tech guy and I'm sure he would have rather talk to the architect than some Asian dude who let him know he was in the same field (tech). I'm sure he worked with Fortune 100 companies. I still didn't care. I did try to strike up a conversation but more from the standpoint of you should take your kids here or see this places there. Hey I was trying to make conversation. I WAS mostly interested on what life was like in Paris during the pandemic. I mean he spoke up having to have "papers" which let authorities know how much time you've been out and about as if you're some vehicle in a parking lot. And the fines were supposedly stiff. And we Americans complain that we have it tough! smh. 

We got done with the golf by 11 AM. Early enough that I headed on over to Century City mall to pick up the new See Kai Run waterproof shoes I just bought for Johnnie. Look at how empty the mall was?! It's a few days after Christmas and this mall would usually be pretty busy. But I got the shoes quickly and was in and out of Nordstrom's in 10 minutes. And was headed to Lisa's house by 11:40. I figured I might as well drop it off right then and there. Give me an excuse to see Johnnie yet one more time this weekend considering I didn't see him at all yesterday. Lisa obliged by inviting me to have lunch with them before they took off to go on a hike with Sharon and Varsha. Lisa spent a great deal of time skewering Balwan for basically getting his brother out here behind Sharon's back, completely destroying all of their holiday plans. That Balwan can be a bit of a dunce sometimes. She's doing all the work and everything making sure they're afloat and here he is basically just being his social self. Anyway it seemed to have affected Lisa and she is pissed off at him. Still we managed to eat a lot of the leftovers she brought home from Christmas dinner at Joah's. And so I had some rice pilaf and chicken and some salmon for lunch! It saved me $20 for the meal I would have bought at Crimson LOL. And I ended up with some time with both Johnnie and Lisa on a Sunday which is rare. And when I went home I took my Sunday afternoon nap, kicked around until late afternoon and got so caught up with downloading some more movies that when I looked up it was well past 6:30 PM and well past time for dinner. I realized I hadn't even did my grocery shopping yet either even though I had the entire weekend to do that. Oh well, I went late, I made myself some ground beef casserole with garbanzo beans raisins and tumeric. Sort of a modified tagine dish over rice. And it hit the spot too. And it was a good thing I went grocery shopping when I did because not even an hour after I got back, it started to rain. And then I heard lightning. And then thunder. So we're now in the middle of a rainstorm. Symbolic for the last weekend of the year 2020 isn't it?