Starting To Feel The Week

I could feel it starting as early as this morning. The sense that it's Thursday and I could already feel relief that I will be handing both Johnnie and the dog off to Lisa later on tonight. I love Johnnie to death don't get me wrong. But it IS a big deal to be working, especially on a busy week like this week when I'm short-handed, Johnnie dealing with school, and then having to care for the dog. It isn't easy sometimes. And today I felt my tolerance and patience level is REALLY stretched thin. And then I mess up. Like missing Johnnie's 10:15 class because I simply lost track of time being on the phone talking UDS and reports and stuff for work. By the time I got Johnnie back on for his class he was an a half hour late. And it was TOTALLY my fault. Fortunately, he did manage to get some work done and so it wasn't a total loss. And I did get him started making a Valentine for his "girlfriend" Brooklyn. Again, though really busy, it does give me perspective when I'm talking about designing a data repository for our COVID vaccine reports one minute, and then the next minute helping Johnnie think about the things he holds near and dear to his heart that he can make a drawing about. That would be his SeeSaw homework for the day and once we got past lunch I considered the day done... or so i thought. There would be one more phone call at the end of the day, and right after the Afternoon Huddle too. Kennedy and I had to do a Zoom call with Faith about her OSHPD report for the mobile vans. The ME that can't be bothered with little trivial stuff is a tad annoyed that we still have to pull numbers for those vans that were only out and about the community for the equivalent of 2 months last year. But I also know it's my job and Faith Lee is such a dog with a bone with her numbers that I had to painstakingly recreate the story behind the reports Kennedy pulled. Anyone can pull out data. But validating them is yet another skill altogether.   

It was past 5 PM by the time we got done with the last phone call and so we headed out to Panda Express a little bit later than usual. By then Johnnie had gotten so relaxed, I had to take a pic of him watching Coyote Peterson, eating cheetohs and just kicking back on the couch. We should all be so lucky. After dinner he started with the arduous task of cleaning up finally. I had put up with his saved work since Saturday after all. And even him putting all THAT stuff away gave me a sense of order and harmony again. Lisa actually called earlier than usual SURPRISE SURPRISE and came exactly at 7:30 to pick up Johnnie and the dog. All part of the routine by now but tonight especially there was no hole in my heart to fill, more a larger sense of the feeling of relief from this morning. I looked forward to cleaning up, even throwing out a whole bunch of dog stuff and cleaning up the clutter in the house that comes with a little boy and a dog. And half an hour later, it already felt better to be in my apartment again. The place was ME again. I sort of collapsed on the couch and started watching the seried FRINGE from a decade ago. An X-files type series about unexplainable "technology" and "science" that I could mindlessly drone away is exactly what I needed to get my mind to chill. And chill I did. Even made myself some guacamole from the avocado I didn't eat on Super Bowl Sunday and ate it all up with corn chips and hot tea. First class snack if I do say so myself. I started to feel the brunt of the week this morning, but I felt better then. And I reminded myself it's Friday tomorrow and there's a 3-day weekend coming up. All is still pretty good.