Continuing the Variation of Routine

So the most recent off-work Saturday routine called for me to come to Lisa's to pick up Johnnie today and watch him at least through lunch time or when she finished her piano lesson. I showed up at Lisa's at 8:45 AM armed with donuts and a ham-and-cheese croissant from Primo's donuts. I figured I'd bring something different. When I got there the door was wide open and clearly something was up. Lisa would tell me that Johnnie had thrown up a couple of times last night but didn't have a fever. What? He was perfectly fine when I left at 9 PM. What could have happened, what could he have eaten between then and first thing this morning? Lisa didn't really know herself, but we knew Johnnie was getting rid of something. Maybe like the dog did that night we almost brought her to the Vet ER. I peeked in and Johnnie was asleep in the guest room. And Lisa was cleaning up and washing stuff Johnnie had thrown up on. Personally, I think Johnnie is merely reacting to LISA's emotional state and was trying to get rid of it.  The clear solution to me was that I needed to get Johnnie's emotional reserves replenished and so his physical condition would get back to balance. We let him sleep while Lisa and I had breakfast. Aren't I glad I brought the ham-and-cheese croissant NOW! Made myself some Earl Grey and voila: a perfectly decent breakfast. And so it was that Johnnie and I headed out to give Lisa her piano time. We went to Ralphs to pick up groceries, then we went to Mar Vista Park. Johnnie had it in his mind that he wanted to feed the birds. And so feed the birds we did. I thought it was a good idea to have him play outside and he seemed much better from where I saw him first this morning. So much so he asked for a snack. And I shifted right back to Saturday mode. And we went to Panda Express to get him his usual lunch. He wanted to eat it at my house too. And I was sure to get asked if he could watch Tigger and Pooh. But all of a sudden it seemed he got seemed to get nauseous again. And so I headed right back to Lisa's house. Lisa was still in the middle of her piano lesson. By now I was hungry too though. Aren't I glad I brought all the leftover spaghetti turkey bolognese I had in my house. And I proceeded to have lunch. Who knows when Lisa gets done with her lesson anyway. By 1:30 she finally emerged from the piano room and she announces that Vatche had an assignment for her. She's supposed to watch a classic Disney movie with Johnnie at least once a week. Gee, I wonder why I bought her that annual  subscription to Disney Plus!!?! Why is it she listens to other people at the snap of their fingers and  I had made the suggestion many moons previously?! Oh well, at least she now has an incentive to use the subscription. Johnnie finally ate his Panda Express and Lisa wolfed down the rest of my spaghetti. And then I tried to log in to Disney Plus so she would at least learn how to turn the damn thing on. In the process of doing so, I showed her she also could watch any movie on Amazon Prime which she has her own subscription to already.  And this is how we ended up watching Peanut Butter Falcon this afternoon. Yep, Peanut Butter Falcon.  If you'd tell me any time that I would be watching a movie in the middle of my Saturday afternoon with Lisa and JOhnnie and the movie would be Peanut Butter Falcon, I wouldn't have believed you. Don't get me wrong I've always liked the movie and I think Lisa liked it too actually.  Just that the chances of that happening was something that i  thought would be almost close to nil. But hey it happened, continuing the pattern of days being slightly different and off-routine all week long.  Anyway both mom and son needed to get some rest today I thought. And so I left them them watching Johnnie's Winnie the Pooh movie and I went on to MY Saturday ME time.  I went back to Ralphs and had them fry me some fish. And so I made some rice, and cucumber and tomato salad and I had myself a fish fry dinner. That too is something different and something I hadn't eaten in a long while. AND something I enjoyed. I didn't feel like doing much more of anything else this Saturday night. It had already been a really long day and like i said, it was already different than most Saturdays. But the pic I posted of Johnnie and I hanging out on Lisa's couch like we do most Saturdays? That would be plenty good enough for me.