My Best Game In A While

I will cut to the chase right away... I hadn't played a good game of golf like I did today in a really long time. More than a year at least. It wasn't truly TRULY exceptional. I shot bogey golf. But I SHOT BOGEY GOLF! I had 3 pars: on Hole 2, Hole 4 and Hole 8. Heck I started the first hole with a bogey. And all my tee shots were hit well.. except for one notable exception. I yanked my tee shot on Hole 6 way left over the fence and onto the street, fortunately not hitting anything of consequence. I made that one a mulligan. But other than that, I had some nice tee shots going boy. My fairway shots may have been a bit off, but I putted much better than usual today. I was playing so well, Chris-who we hadn't played with in more than a month-said that we had that Freaky-Friday switcheroo thing going on with Greg and myself. He was the one that was maddeningly inconsistent today. I played more like he would and Greg played like ... my inconsistent self. Needless to say playing like I did today made me feel very VERY satisfied. I didn't have any blowup holes either. Now how did it come about that I played so much better today? I always thought that last week when I hit a par on the first tee, I was able to channel enough positive energy to have a good game. But I lost that energy because the foursome in front of us was taking their sweet time and I gave in to an old negative energy: impatience. Today I focused on trying to sustain that positive energy throughout the game and for the most part, I think I was successful doing that, at least for today. And then there were other positive things too. This was the first time our regular foursome had played in a while, and the first time at Penmar too. It was there at Penmar where we all met each other after all. And of course it was a very nice day out. It was my best golf day in a while and I'll take that any time.    

I tried to savor the golf game for as long as I could, and also knowing now what I needed to do mentally and emotionally if I were to apply the golf lessons towards manifestation. And I ended up grilling myself some salmon for lunch, kind of because I still had lots of rice and that cucumber salad from last night's fish fry dinner. I figured today I'd save $20 and eat in instead of going to Crimson to buy lunch. I should have taken a nap after lunch but for some reason I got caught up into watching some more of the FRINGE series which is the binge series of choice for the week.  Something about a few of the dynamics in that show keep my attention: the father-son dynamic, the idea of traveling through time and space yet again, and how little things grow bonds between people. It's like the mundane things, the everyday choices that lead to the biggest events that turn out to be life markers. I mean did anything Lisa and I were doing 15 years ago in 2006 would have given either of us pause to look forward to where we are today? Sometimes I have it in my mind that Lisa still wants us to spend more time together as a family. That thought is based on yesterday afternoon's movie event of course. But in the end I think we both know we are really better off the way things turned out now. I, for one, am totally focused on simply being the best dad that I can be. After golf this morning I almost stopped by Lisa's house just to say hi to Johnnie again. But I have seen him both Friday and yesterday and I just thought it best to just get some ME time and replenish for when I get Johnnie back for the week tomorrow night. After all there was no need to do any more steps after golf. I was already at 79000 for the week. I  just walked around a little bit to enjoy the warmth of the last day of February (see pic). Pretty soon we're going back to Daylight Savings again and it's going to start getting lighter much later again. I spent my Sunday night enjoying Thai food <pad see iw> and then watching the Season premiere of the Walking Dead. Maggie's back! Oh well, at least there's something to watch again on Sunday nights. Tonight it was time to say goodbye to February. Kind of uneventful... but kind of not. Hmmm...