The day after Tech Council Meeting is usually un-busy as I am breathing out from the day before. Today was no different even though I had back-to-back meetings first thing, with the IS Team and with my new boss, as I now report to Dennis Benton the VP of Finance. He actually seems just as hands-off as Eloisa has been, and ok with simply leaving me alone to do my job. That IS what I prefer anyway so we'll be good there still. Anyway even with the early slate I still was able to pay attention to Johnnie's music class this morning. And I was happy to see his pitch is getting better. I remember he didn't really have much pitch when he was starting pre-kinder music classes at Cornerstone. He is already improving very much and that is cool to see. After that 2nd meeting with Dennis I considered the day pretty much done even though I still had things to do here and there. They were mostly annoyances more than anything and the lesson for me was to make sure I didn't just thumb my nose at anyone or anything and to make sure I gave things the proper attention. By lunchtime I was in BREATHE OUT mode.
By lunchtime I was making penne pasta for Johnnie AND making making myself some ground pork bolognese over the leftover penne pasta. And that turned out pretty good too. Especially when I ate it outside in the warm sun enjoying some time to myself while Johnnie was in the middle of his last class. And when Johnnie did his online playdate, that was when I caught up with my steps. See, the key is to use the little slivers of time when they become available to do the stuff you gotta do. Still, as I said the afternoon the focus shifted and for Johnnie, that meant starting to clean up his SAVED WORK by early afternoon. I had very high hopes that Lisa would pick up Johnnie and the dog early although the variable there is the time. It could be 6:30, it could be 7:30, and I was hoping it would be more the former. And so you could imagine my COMPLETE SHOCK when she called at 5 PM letting me know she was already done. It probably meant that she didn't plan on sticking around to write her notes. I'm sure she missed Johnnie and the dog. Anyway she suggested that maybe we could cash her IRS check today. She got another one of those refund checks last week and this one was almost $14,000. I mean she got a couple of checks in the past month totalling $27K. I don't want to hear anything from her about being short of money or anything. I mean I'm not even getting a dime from that! Tonight though we weren't able to deposit the check even though we made it to the bank by 5:10 PM. Seems like they had changed their hours since the pandemic and now they close at 6 PM. Oh well. I surprised even myself when I suggested we get something to eat since Johnnie and I were on the way to Panda Express actually when she called. Even more surprising was that Lisa agreed. And that she would PAY! W-h-a-t?! And so we ended up sitting down at all-u-can-eat Korean BBQ which was right next to the bank. We ate outside although really most LA restaurants were cleared to open indoor dining just this past Monday. I ended up eating most of the meat since Lisa was still recovering from whatever it was she was suffering from the past weekend...which by the way seems to be a case of kidney stones! And Johnnie didn't eat anything at all. And so Lisa asked if I could keep Johnnie for just a couple of more hours. That was perfectly fine... we ended up getting him food from Panda Express anyway. And then he hung around with me and I gave him his shower too before dropping him off at Lisa's, already in his pajamas, and ready to go to bed. So Lisa picked up Johnnie early, but didn't actually and I still had plenty of time to clean up the apartment, doing the living room and the kitchen and washing a load of the dog's towels. Everything is good.
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