Rainy Saturday

So it actually started raining late last night. And the raindrops on the windowsill outside actually lulled me to sleep. Not that it made an iota of difference actually other than Johnnie gets to wear rain gear that he hadn't worn in quite some time. Just last week it was almost 80 degrees for crying out loud. We could use a little rain. As long as it stops by tomorrow morning so I could have my usual golf round. This morning I was still half asleep when I dragged myself to Lisa's house, mildly surprised that Johnnie was already dressed and ready to go. Of course he's excited to go to my house today. I told him he could watch the new Season 2 of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous which just came out yesterday. But before ANY of that, breakfast this morning is from McDonald's just like a usual week day, and I'm hoping restaurants get opened again soon so we could start doing Elysee once again. It just isn't the same going over there for pick-up. Might as well stick with McDonald's if that's the case. And so it was that Johnnie had his usual eggs and sausage and pancakes and I took a really nice, hot and longer-than-usual shower. It's already rare that I shower on a  Saturday when I have Johnnie, but today I deemed it necessary since I didn't do it yesterday. We are not going to replay last week when I did not shower for the entire 3-day weekend. And then as soon as I got done and ready and got my own breakfast in, we did a round of grocery shopping. Not the usual round though. This morning it was at Mitsuwa so I could pick up Japanese food. I'm readying myself to hunker down all next week since it's supposed to rain a lot. And then at Whole Foods so I could replenish my peach iced tea. And finally by lunchtime of course we had to go to Panda Express to pick up Johnnie's lunch. And the pictures I posted here are from our venture out: first at the line entering Mitsuwa (which I hadn't gone into for months) and then waiting for our food at Panda. It wasn't really raining all that hard, barely a soft drizzle.  I just wanted to add something wintery to Johnnie's pics collection. And of course he got to watch Camp Cretaceous after we got to the house. 8 NEW episodes of Darius, Kenji, Sammy Guttierez, Jasmina, and Brooklyn. I must say this set was a tad scarier than the first season, so much so Johnnie had to hide behind my back or close his eyes in certain stretches. They didn't show anyone being eaten of course, not like Jurassic World... but a couple DID get eaten by the T-Rex and there was definitely a couple of bad guys towards the end. Still on this rainy Saturday, it was nice to just chill and hunker down indoors. And it was nice to actually have Johnnie and I just bunker down on the couch and watch Camp Cretaceous together for the afternoon. That was after I tried to take a nap and it was clear it wasn't going to happen with Johnnie around. And so it was that we got to hang out all day until Lisa called around 4 PM. I thought it was going to be a simple hand-off. No such thing with Lisa really, or at least it is fairly rare. And today she had big news. Apparently she has an opportunity to get a puppy for free courtesy of some info from Mel who was picking up one herself. And so Lisa was making a quick decision and decided to go for it. Yes she decided today all of a sudden that they're going to have a dog. Of course she had to let me know... because I end up backing her up and who knows what she has in her mind in terms of the dog being with Johnnie. And so she had to pick up the dog tonight. And I told her that she should just bring Johnnie with her and they can pick it up together. I would tell him that mom has a surprise. I can't believe he responded with "I hate surprises!". Must be me talking LOL. Lisa invited me to come over later when they got back from picking up the dog so she could have some "help", maybe to figure stuff out. Does this remind me of the Friday we decided to pick up Johnnie and we hadn't even rigged the house up yet? No crib no nothing.  We did that over that weekend. She'll have to go at it again now isn't she? Anyway to cut right down to the chase, she called back around 6 PM. By then I had gone to Ralphs and had it in my mind that I was going to make stew tonight. Even though Lisa had already let me know she had plenty of food from Panini Grill and I was welcome to have some. Somehow you just know you have to go with your plans and let Lisa's plans be the alternate just in case. And so I had lamb from this morning's Whole Foods trip and bought the veggies and I was cutting all of those up when the call from Lisa came back. They were on their way home but she sounded very much going in many different directions. Surprise. She asked Johnnie to invite me over and Johnnie did... for tomorrow night. It was fine, I don't have to meet the puppy tonight. Wasn't I glad I made lamb stew. And without sauce and using my own seasonings it actually turned out really, really well! I was actually quite surprised at how well it turned out! Wow. Lamb stew for a rainy Saturday evening. Perfect.