Work Work Work

So today I was fully aware that I needed to hunker down and get a lot of work done. As in get my Tech Council presentation. In the meantime, Johnnie's class is in full holiday celebration mode even while being remote. Today for example is WARM SOCKS DAY and to her credit, Lisa handed Johnnie off yesterday fully equipped for the week's festivities. Look at the pic of him with mommy's socks on. Can't get any more warm and comfy than that. And he and his classmates laughed it up sharing their get-ups with one another in their class. That's all you can ask for during this time of remote interactions, is just to have some semblance of social interaction. Particularly important for Johnnie I think. As for me, I wanted the opposite. I needed time to work and think and it was enough to simply have a little attention to whatever Johnnie was doing in the living room while I worked in the bedroom. How could you miss listening to Cosmic Pizza Party being read out loud to him? Anyway they seemed to have a fun time. In this last week of class before the winter break mode, there is no homework, no SeeSaw for Johnnie, but at least I found some things online to keep him busy. Some more math stuff, some more reading, just to keep him edge-sharp since he won't have school for the next 3 weeks. THAT would even be more of a challenge I think, but since it IS the holidays, I'm not all that worried about it. And oddly enough, despite not being close to finishing my presentation by mid-afternoon, I wasn't all that worried about that either. That's because I had content locked in my mind already and it was just a matter of organizing pages in Powerpoint. I thought I had barely an hour's worth of material to cover. It wasn't like I was pulling stuff out of my ass like many previous Tech Council Meetings, but it wasn't like I had anything meaningful to cover anyway. Except of course the big cybersecurity news that a few US federal agencies just got hacked. Or at least they found out they had been hacked and they had been spied on for many months. Someone is going to get egg on their face. I don't know how in the real world, some IT exec would have been skewered over that but in Trump's administration, it's like they don't even care. They're too busy still peddling that BS about how Trump won the election big. It's actually sad to watch now. Some goofy old man trying to keep to an alternate reality so badly out of whack with what actually did happen. It's a lesson in how you can alter the fact with a false narrative if enough people believe it. My question is how so many people have chosen to believe... 

Anyway by late afternoon, I had actually gotten caught up with material for tomorrow's presentation and so I didn't feel all that much pressure at all. Look at the picture I posted of Johnnie goofing around with me and horseplaying like he usually does. Does it LOOK like i'm stressed or anxious in any way? Probably more so that Johnnie could actually hurt me now. He did last week already almost busting my front tooth. Today being Tuesday, it made for a side trip to Panda Express for his dinner. And I actually had a lot more leftovers from last night. My unstuffed cabbage just needed some rice to go over and I had myself a pretty nice, decently healthy meal. I got Johnnie to keep on watching different videos... this time it was back to the Octonauts, while I sat down and finished my presentation. I remember when I would procrastinate so much I would be working on it until the wee hours of the morning many a time. Not tonight. I fully expected to get back to work on it once Johnnie fell asleep. But he fell asleep so fast I didn't need to lay there waiting for him to knock off. I just kept on working on it. And I was done with everything by 11 PM, including the agenda. Mission accomplished. Of course I never doubted it for a sec. And in the time that I took to wind down while laying there in bed I actually drifted to a state that was perhaps close to Alpha. And I was actually able to sort of meditate deeply while I knew I was still awake. I did my image cycling exercise and then it was like I took an elevator ride from that state right on to sleep. I felt like I worked my butt off today. And that's ok. I still felt like I spent enough quality time with Johnnie.