Cleaning Up After Johnnie and the Dog

I must say I don't look forward to the Lisa-Johnnie pickup more enthusiastically than tonight. Usually I'm near out of gas with Johnnie anyway. But this week with the dog, I am totally on EMPTY. And last night's sleep reflected that. I was out for at least 9 hours. Hadn't slept that long in any one stretch in a while. Anyway I was glad to be focusing on Johnnie's schoolwork again instead of the dog. On the one hand, I'm glad there's one other thing in the house that requires care and attention other than Johnnie so that he learns to do the same, on the other hand you KNOW how I am with routine and I was glad to simply sit Johnnie in front of his computer class and his music class while I had my IS Team Meeting. By then I had already downloaded a whole boatload of OSHPD reporting due in about 10 days. I am well ahead and early just like I planned. I wanted this to be a non-event and it pretty much is going down that way. Except of course I had to explain Open Dental stuff to Kennedy. That and I was also being pressured to make a decision between 2 candidates about the open Sr Analyst position. I shouldn't have to be pressured actually, I really did need to make a decision. I already knew who I was going to choose based strictly on muscle testing. YEP, that's how I decided. But I had to involve James somehow so that he does not feel ignored and left out and so I make him part of the decision. After all if I can say he actually helped on the choice, the easier he should justify getting along and working with this person right? And so it was that we had back to back meetings with both candidates so I could observe the interaction with James on both directions. And it sort of affirmed my choice. 5 minutes after the last interview, I emailed my decision to HR. We're good to go.  

And so there's one less thing to worry about this week. And by the 3 PM Huddle meeting, all the work for the week seemed concluded. The heavy lifting anyway. Cool, might there be a tank day tomorrow? We shall see... And so Johnnie and I could focus on the dog this afternoon. Right after his play date actually where it was about showing off pets. Naturally Johnnie had the dog to show off. I was on my phone interviews so I really didn't know what went down but by Johnnie's account, it was fun. I'm sure some of his classmates thought the dog was so cute. And so we fast forward to later on at the end of the day and after the Thursday afternoon huddle, which took all of 25 minutes BTW. Everyone is pretty much done for the day I thought. And so was I. We took one last trip to Panda Express for the week for tonight, got Johnnie's dinner. I went home and made myself some spaghetti bolognese and pretty much just waited for Lisa for hand-off. To my surprise, she was not only there on time, she was actually early.  Of course she would be, she has the dog to think about now too. She invited me to come over tomorrow night so I could watch Johnnie while she practiced piano. Nothing going on for me obviously so I was good to come. As soon as they left I faced my apartment, obviously very much disheveled, not from just Johnnie but also the dog. I had it back to straightened-out state inside of an hour. And then I collapsed into the couch and pretty much let the rhythm of an Alpha state binaural beat just calm down. It didn't take long before I was starting to get just a little bit drowsy and I let myself fall asleep. It had been a pretty long week...