Johnnie Day For A Bit

So today is another Lisa workday Saturday, which means that I am watching Johnnie at least through mid-afternoon. It also means that I am at her house before 7:45 and she has to leave for work. And so in very short order we do our Saturday-routine-when-Lisa-is-working which we've done for years now. But today we start with a shower for Johnnie since apparently he didn't take one last night. I was happy to give him one at my apartment, and from there we go on to getting my car washed right down the street and then we're at Elysee having the same breakfast we would have every other Saturday pre-pandemic. Yes I'm still clinging to this routine, and I will continue to do so for as long as I can, appreciating that these routines can be cut off as quickly as that <finger snap> as the pandemic has proven to be true. And therefore I will appreciated them for however long I can, as Johnnie and I sit there and share a croissant in front of Elysee. And I appreciate this father-son ritual that had started when he was just a few months old. I know there will come a time when he will perhaps no longer want to do this. But today is not that day. And today in fact we go right on to Target after breakfast because Johnnie made a list of things for us to get at the store. Making lists... is there any doubt at all where that came from? Anyway, he wanted to get some facial tissues for when he sneezes, a real bed for the dog, AND most important of all, the bite-proof jacket. THAT was important. Of course we bought other things too, but it was mission accomplished for Johnnie that we got these 3 things. And I admit that by the time we got home, I too felt like we had already accomplished the stuff we needed to do for the day. The reward for Johnnie was that he got to watch more videos of course, although today I went back to another old habit, which was that he had to do a lesson before he could go on to watch anything. And I got him a Grade 1 Learner book to supplement what he was already doing at school. That and I had him do a "project". He was disappointed because I wouldn't buy him these pre-packaged art stuff from Target. And I told him I'd show him how to make his own art stuff. And so I took a pic of him making cut-out pictures Matisse-style and I even did some of the colored paper for him. Who needs to buy this stuff. The cool thing was that he really got into it and so he didn't even NEED to watch a video. Not while he was engaged making some more artwork for his mom. Anyway, it seemed like time flew by this morning and before long it was already lunchtime and time to do another routine... lunch at Panda Express. I remember back in the day I would try to at least vary lunch a bit by going to Ramen-Ya or Mitsuwa. But not these days. I'm happy to do Panda Express for him, also because today I wanted to get some orange chicken for myself.  We had noticed when we ventured out that the winds had picked up significantly. As in palm tree branches were falling down all over the place. It was still warm, but most definitely windy. But it's the kind of windy that I like, in that it wasn't biting cold. Not for February anyway. Finally when we finished lunch, I let him watch a video. And selfishly, it was because I wanted to take a nap. And so nap I did while Johnnie watched Tumble Leaf. And I was able to get 25 minutes in actually. Not too bad. By 3:15 Lisa had already called. She had made plans for Johnnie to go bike riding with Simon from down the street and I was actually happy to let him go early . Again this goes back to the narrative that no one pick up is the same as another as far as Lisa is concerned. The last time she worked, I dropped Johnnie off late that night and had already given him a shower. As big of a routine freak am I, Lisa is the total opposite and it's almost like she is completely random.  Which I've learned to get used to. And we did discuss today already a couple of days ago. And so off went mom and son and I got the rest of Saturday to myself. What did I do with the rest of today? First thing was to get myself a haircut. And I headed off to Supercuts. I will say though that although this was the first supposedly pro haircut I had gotten in a couple of months, it wasn't that much better. I think the stylist left too much on the top. But that's ok, it was decent. The thing i didn't do was attend the online Bengston Healing weekend session which was going on today and tomorrow. This tells me that I do have some kind of block in my other-than-conscious set up to distract me from learning what I need to learn, in this case, about energy healing. Or procrastinating on actions I need to do. That is the work I need to do this week I think. In the meantime the concurrent message is that I need to continue to work on my subconscious or other-than-conscious programming. Likely that there are still blocks to all the outcomes I intend to experience. Nothing better than golf tomorrow to practice this stuff eh?