Distracted, Busy Tuesday

So I didn't really get as much done as I liked yesterday, so I knew today I would have to focus almost entirely on the Tech Council presentation. Not a slamdunk when you have Johnnie and the dog around. On the one hand, I start to feel for Lisa as they are quite a handful those two and when you're not feeling well, I agree it's a challenge. And today, I never did get to any of that presentation work in the morning. I DID get my IS Team Meeting done, and I did get to my emails but between shuttling Johnnie in and out of his Zoom classes, and taking the dog out to poop and pee, it was already lunchtime in the blink of an eye. Look at Johnnie trying to bite through some hot pizza. Only when he got done with that AND settled in to his last group class of the day did I get to do something. And it wasn't even work. I got a whole bulk of steps in simply walking around the perimeter outside my apartment still inside the complex. I got all the way to 4500 steps before I went back in the apartment. It's great that I can leave Johnnie alone and he has such a feel for his school routine now that I don't even need to help him anymore, other than logging him in. I do the logging in to Zoom class simply because it's faster for me to do it. But once in the portal, he can even do his homework on his own. He reads the instructions and does just fine submitting his stuff himself. I'm chuckling as I'm thinking of the many folks in my own office that would have some difficulty doing that?! Finally in the afternoon, I zoned in and worked exclusively on my presentation. It's not that I was looking for material actually. I knew what I was going to present. It was just a matter of blocking out the time to work on it. And even though Johnnie was already done with his classes after 1 PM, I at least could get him some more 1st grade level exercises to do, and some reading from the EPIC website. That kid can't get enough of Cat Ninja and the Bright Family actually. For me, that's just enough of a diversion for me to get through my work. By the time I looked up, it was nearly 5 PM and I was just happy at how light out it is. More importantly, I was almost done with my presentation. No urgency there.    

The only other potential drama that came up was that Johnnie once again forgot Fuzzy at Lisa's house last night. Although I did call her, I reminded Johnnie this was the 2nd time in a row while with me that he had forgotten her. Maybe it was letting him know that, but he actually agreed to go last night without his favorite stuffed toy. Instead he made do with Linty, the 2nd identical stuffed animal I keep at my apartment. So crisis averted, no need to go to Lisa's to retrieve Fuzzy, and last night he slept just fine. So much so I had to wake him up at 7:15 AM this morning from a deep deep sleep. Something tells me I need to get him used to waking up earlier again. That's because in the go-back-to-school survey I filled out I selected 8-11 AM as the preferred time slot to be at school. Which means we're back to the way it was when school was open and getting up by 7 AM. Yes, I thought about how the morning would have gone differently had Johnnie been at school, but then again, I did get the presentation done, AND the Meeting Minutes, AND the agenda all before 7 PM. That's with heading to Panda Express to do the usual dinner pickup and everything. I was done so early, or at least earlier than I expected that I could have had a really long sleep. But for some reason, maybe it was because I still had the energy of work work work in my system, I couldn't sleep at 9:30 AM. The dog and Johnnie were already out like a light when I slipped out of bed and back into the living room. And watched the TWO episode season premiere of Mayans MC. I don't know what it is about a Mexican biker gang near the Tijuana border that captures my attention. I had watched Season 1 AND Season 2. The first season I was watching when I was still living at Maplewood. I liked it better than Sons of Anarchy to be sure though I don't know the attraction with that series either. It isn't like the series I usually binge on. No sci-fi, no time-travel. Has to be the characters right? EZ <Ezekiel> is not hard to root for. Talk about a hero's journey. I think that's it. Am i in the middle of my OWN hero's journey I wonder? I'll mull that over in my dreams. I headed back to bed and back to sleep. It was midnight...