President's Day Off

So I have the day off today but on the Monday of Tech Council Meeting week it's not going to be a no-work day. Still without Johnnie or the dog in the house I can at least do my work without interruption. At least I acknowledge I'm the only one that can interrupt myself LOL. And so what I wanted most to accomplish this morning, the thing I intended to do the most was to get some good meditation in. And I got a nice half hour worth. See the mantra I kept repeating to alpha binaural beats. I thought about how I was actually manifesting lots of stuff in the most recent past. What about $14,000+ check with my name on it. Of course it had Lisa's name too and so I need to make a slight mental adjustment LOL. I probably have something I need to work on about getting approval. HER approval. Not too good huh? I also acknowledge that if there is any urgency in my thinking with regards to my job or the job I'm doing, that is 100% self-inflicted and that I can simply choose to be acknowledged for that job instead of worrying how things might go wrong. After all, per my mantra... MY SUCCESS IS INEVITABLE. I also went back to the stuff I dug up yesterday from Valentine's Days of years past. In my 2005 journals, not being in a relationship like I am currently, it would seem that I am in the same state that I am today... that is, on the verge of breaking through. But I was not consistent enough in my practice. Not focused enough with my intention. Easily distracted. That is the adjustment I need to make don't I? Just like golf. And that was a good 16 years ago. At least I can pick up where I left off and make the adjustments now. TODAY. Which is why the meditation exercise was so important. I need to keep doing that every day. What I did do this morning was get right back to the routine of Mondays as my long "run" days, although these days, they are merely lots-more-steps days. It is not insignificant that I did 15000+ steps the last 2 Mondays. And 14,000+ steps the 2 Mondays before that. I merely need to continue that today, especially when I don't have to check in at work. I did get started with work stuff. But I also started my steps early and kept switching between working in front of my computer, AND doing steps outside. Happy President's Day Off! LOL.   

I do recall a couple of President's Days off that we would play golf. Ah but that was when Lisa would still play golf with me. Up until a couple of years ago we would even spend at least the morning for breakfast (Rockenwagner) and then the year before that we were at Laguna Beach on a cold brisk windy day on the way to Tax Prep meeting in Santa Ana. Seems like such a distant memory now. Why is it that Monday days off the last couple of months would fall on Tech Council week Mondays?? And today I had the extra task of cleaning up Data reporting for COVID vaccinations. I worked on that like it was due today. It actually wasn't due until tomorrow, but by early afternoon, I had my spreadsheets ready to go. By then I was already at 10000 steps too and by 3 PM, I actually walked to the store to get ingredients for lamb stew. And that is what I did late afternoon. Clean up the apartment, ready it up for Johnnie and the dog, and make my lamb stew, now easily a go-to for colder days. Of course Lisa would call around 5:30 PM and inform me that they're just headed for home from a day in Pasadena. Apparently the dog got her shots today. I hope Lisa isn't bugging about money again... not when she has a $14K check sitting there uncashed. I decided to go to Lisa's house anyway to pick up Johnnie's stuff so all she had to do was to drop Johnnie and the dog off. I was already half a block from my apartment when she called because she realized that they didn't have Fuzzy. My heart sank. Sigh. Of course I had to go bock to get Fuzzy. Johnnie would have a cow otherwise. And by the time I got there, so did they. And so I did NOT escape putting away Johnnie's saved work, all the dinosaurs he had laid out from the last couple of days. At least we got home by 6:30, I got to eat my hot lamb stew over rice, Johnnie had his usual chicken noodle soup, and even the dog seemed happy. Heck she pooped and pee'd almost the instant I took her to the mulch area in front of my aparment. AND  I made chocolate chip cookies too. And so it turned out that I actually got lots accomplished today. And I'm left with a short work week. But first there's the Tech Council Meeting to plan for...