Working Hard On a Monday

Maybe it's because I have established a pattern of getting the hardest physical exercise done on Mondays for the past couple of months now. And with the possibility that I would be meeting up with Lisa at 5 PM so she could finally deposit that $14K check that has been burning a hole in her drawer <LOL> and also get Johnnie and the dog early today I figured I'd better get the bulk of my steps done before then, particularly if I'm targetting for 14,000+ steps today. And so I'm up bright and early and even after having gotten a pretty good meditation session done, I'm already enjoying the sunshine early... as in 7:30 AM early.  And I could tell it was already going to be a warm day. I love walking around my neighborhood. I'm intending to get a 2 BR condo somewhere here, which limits the number of places of course but I don't care. I like it here. And as I did my walk, I pictured myself doing so while not having to come back to worry about the 9:30 AM meeting I scheduled with James and Kennedy to talk about the sTARs report, or even think about the 10:30 Business Continuity Meeting after that. I will more likely think about some content I want to post in my influencer blog. Or clear my mind after having done a trade or two online. Today in the here and now, I got 3300 steps done before breakfast and I actually HAD to take a shower to clean up. And THEN I finally had my breakfast and I was back to today's reality. The meeting with Data Analytics was merely to solve a problem, that was James took too long to update a budget number and it was clear he wasn't going to be able to finish anything today if I had to make him do all the other Health Centers. Solution? Just hide ALL budget numbers. Took him all of 5 minutes. Problem solved. And then it was on to the Business Continuity Meeting where I didn't really have much of an update. That's because it's Monday reporting day for Covid vaccines and I was, by then, starting to extract data. That will be the new normal until Kennedy finishes the dashboard. Still, I did another walking session and by lunchtime, I was at 8000 steps. And I got done with the COVID numbers so early I almost had time to take a nap.   

Instead I decided to do food prep. I knew it was barely 2 PM, but I figured might as well get done early. I did chicken stew, which continues the stew series for a 5th straight week. I must say I'm getting pretty good at making stew in my Instant Pot. That wasn't all I made either. I cooked up the bacon for this week's batch in the oven, did a batch of penne pasta for Johnnie's chicken noodle stoup, and made some rice too. All that AND I still kept up with the walking regimen. I had gotten so far ahead that by 3 PM, I was already at 13000+ steps! I'm pretty much all done already and I had done 2 reps of the Nitric Oxide Dump too. And I had barely felt it. Of course I knew I'd feel it later but that's ok. AND I finished my COVID numbers submission well ahead of time. I was a BEAST all morning. By 4:45 I finally heard from Lisa and they were already down the street since Johnnie had yet another playdate, this time with Max right down the street from me. That's 4 play dates all weekend. I'm all for it of course since it helps him with the socializing. As far as getting the check deposited, that was another 5 minute exercise and then Lisa dropped me and Johnnie and the dog off. Hand-off all done. The dog's gear came out, as did his food and Johnnie almost ate up the entire batch of penne pasta I had just cooked up this afternoon. Man, did he even eat lunch or what? Lisa was talking about having yet another urinary tract infection and I had it in my mind that I was going to send her a remote healing later on. At least we all ate hearty tonight. Johnnie with his penne pasta, me with my chicken stew, and even the dog ate a lot. Hard to believe we were having problems not even 3 Mondays ago. I had so much time I decided I'd knock off some more reporting requests. Seems like I had not paid attention to a whole bunch of them. No time like the present to start on the pile. I got to a couple tonight, and I'm sure with Kennedy's help we'll knock off more tomorrow. Hey, I was a rock star today. I provided MASSIVE VALUE. Acknowledged or not. It was all good.