Rainstorm Monday

So last night it was raining hard when I went to sleep and this morning it's still raining hard. I wanted to get to work early today, mainly because it's Monday but also because I knew Lisa would be dropping Johnnie off around 11 AM and I wanted to at least get a headstart on my steps today since I usually average 13,000 steps on a Monday for the last 4 Mondays anyway. Not to mention it's raining. I wanted to keep busy. I had lots of Data Analytics stuff to do. Or rather for James to do but since he's being his usual unresponsive self, I have to try to pick up the slack. Still I managed to get showered up, got my tea ready in my new drip tea glass, got breakfast in and got a big chunk of exercise done, all before 10 AM. I already had 2200 steps and a mile under my belt when Lisa called mid-morning. It turned out that her appointment got cancelled due to someone testing positive for COVID. Sign of the times. And so all of a sudden there was a change in plans. She invited me to come over for lunch instead of dropping Johnnie off. She had the entire week off and was patching together plans here and there and now she lined up errands on her all of a sudden pretty wide open afternoon. In the meantime, this would make it 2 days in a row that I'm having lunch with them and today it was a ham and cheese sandwich on a brioche. It turned out to be a perfectly fine lunch. And then I took Johnnie back with me for the afternoon, and promised to return for dinner early. Since Lisa had the week off, she just wanted to milk whatever time she could with Johnnie too, and at the same time respect my  turn to have him. I was ok shuttling back and forth between my apartment and her house if it becomes a win-win-win for Lisa and I both. And Johnnie gets to see mom and dad as much as he could. A win for him too. Look at the picture I took of him the second I got to there for lunch. Happy as a clam. And he had a list of stuff he wanted to get from the store too. Some ingredients to make smores right off the episode of Coyote Peterson. I'm not EVEN going to tell Lisa I got him started on those. It rained pretty hard for the remainder of the day, only letting up when it started to get dark. I was all too happy to stay in and let Johnnie watch Cat-In-the-Hat videos for the rest of the day. And when it came time, to pack him up to go back to Lisa's house for dinner. 

I ordered Vietnamese food Lisa and I. And picked up Panda Express for Johnnie. By the time we got to Lisa's, our food had already beaten us there. It was barely 6 PM. And so it was that we had a nice Vietnamese dinner, Lisa with her pho and me with my rice noodles and Johnnie with his Panda Express teriyaki chicken. Mmmm's all around. The best part was that there was nothing to wash afterwards. Sometimes it feels great not to have to wash any dishes, particularly when I'm eating at Lisa's house where I'm mostly on the hook to do the dishes and clean the kitchen afterwards. I noted that when I was cleaning my own kitchen. I think I put more effort into her kitchen than mine LOL LOL. I would have been happy to do anything after dinner since it was clear Lisa expected us to stay for a bit and that was ok. Usually I'd have picked up Johnnie by now on a Monday and we're off to my house. I appreciate that Lisa did not get to spend the afternoon with him so I was ok to hang out. I was hoping Lisa would avail herself of the YEAR subscription I got her for Disney+. But she had other ideas for entertainment. She wanted to do a board game. She wanted to do SORRY. I've never played it before mind you. But Johnnie did and that was the most important thing. He delighted in trying to beat dad and mom. Mostly dad really. And as it was, he ended up WINNING! Yep, I lost to my 6 year old at this board game. And it wasn't like I was letting him get the good moves either. He won legit. And then Lisa beat me for 2nd place. The thing to note was this sort of became Lisa's much preferred version of family night and I was ok with that. I even brought in her garbage receptacles, what with the rain and all. And we STILL got home by 8 PM. And I don't know how I did it, but I actually maintained the Monday regimen of over 13,000 steps. In fact, I got all the way to 14,000 steps... the most I've done in a long time. And I had 2 full sets of the Nitric oxide dump too. And my calves really did feel sore. And so I let Johnnie watch his Jurassic episodes but it was going to be an early night for us anyway. I knocked off before 10 PM. Short work week this week. Check.