Tuesday Routinely

It felt more like an early summer day yesterday than a winter day in February, and especially with all the cold weather plaguing Texas last week, we would have to feel especially lucky here in SoCal. And today turned out to be more of the same. So much so that when I took the dog out to do her pee-and-poop thing first thing in the morning as I got up, I went out and didn't even have to put on a jacket. I just let her do her thing with me just in my pajamas. The new normal moving forward I suppose. Anyway, just look at me grilling some nice salmon on a plank for my lunch in the barbecue area like it really WAS summer. I don't even know why I didn't wear shorts it was so warm. By then Johnnie was in the middle of his noon class and these days I could actually leave him alone doing that and focus on other things... as in, lunch. The morning was pretty routine too and I noted that this was the only day this week I didn't really have a meeting booked up and I really couldn't count the IS Team Meeting either. There weren't really any pressing issues except one notable one. My boss/CEO is having computer issues. I don't know for the life of me why anyone would have computer issues with their stuff shutting down. Even when the DELL would do that to me, it wasn't because I had some unusually large stuff  I was working on. How do you really address that... except to tell the user stop opening large-ass stuff. But of course I can't really say that, and certainly not in that way either can't I? Anyway even with that, and even while I focused on swatting away all those past Data Analytics help tickets like I was whacking tennis balls coming my way,  I was sort of in cruise control mode for most of the day really. Maybe it truly is kicking in that I am in control of my reality and that everything is me pushed out, particularly the negative stuff. Just a mirror of something goofy going on in my head and my emotions is all. And I realize that if I really wanted to experience a chill day today, I can have EXACTLY that. Starting with that grilled salmon on a plank I had for lunch LOL LOL.  

I did notice that I was a bit sore from all those steps I did yesterday, but that I was back to normal today. In the meantime, even without work, the focus remained on either Johnnie, or the dog, or both. I fully realized that I had to take the dog out every couple of hours or so, at least if I didn't want her peeing inside the apartment. Already she had learned to pee on the puppy pad. But that was already an indication that she WAS inclined to peeing inside. In the meantime, Johnnie too was bugging for attention. I may have been in front of my computer for most of the day working on a report here, or a report there, some data here, some data there but every couple of hours Johnnie would go into the room and tell me some sort of trivia from whatever he was watching (do you know that water bugs are the most painful bites?), most likely Coyote Peterson? or just bug me to get me to give him a knuckle sandwich or to "brain him", my term for corkscrewing his temples. Look at the picture of him trying to do the same to me LOL LOL. By late afternoon, I had him doing the review week for the DojoGo taekwondo/ karate class I have him taking. The one thing I am so glad it is teaching him is the concept of respect. He has to say YES SIR even while addressing the teacher online. That stuff I can have him carryover to everything else in terms of dealing with adults. Or even his classmates. Anyway, this particular review session had him more tired than usual. And that was good too. He wolfed down his Panda Express dinner the same time the dog was wolfing down hers. And I couldn't help but survey the dinner scene... Johnnie had started taking out all his dinosaurs and building his museum in front of the TV. The puppy's mat that had traces of her peeing on it. Chocolate chip cookie crumbs from the batch I made last night that Johnnie had by his toys.  Already a far cry from the neat and tidy I had labored to make the apartment from Thursday night on. I wouldn't have it any other way though. It's just another Tuesday night after all :)