Easter Week Begins

So it's Easter week this week and I'm thinking it sure snuck up quickly. That means Sunday is Easter Sunday. Before that though there is still this week. I woke up thinking I had a couple of things to knock out this week. But I also need to figure out a way to keep Johnnie occupied all week without sticking him in front of the TV all day. This being Monday and all I prepped myself for (a) downloading all those Covid Vaccination data (b) getting a full day of steps in. And for Mondays, that is usually AT LEAST 14,000 steps. The key to getting that done is to get started early. I didn't do that this morning. I just lollygagged in bed too long. But I did get myself up and out of the house by 8:30 AM and then I walked to McDonald's to pick up a couple of sausage-egg-McMuffins for breakfast. It gave me a chance to get an early start with walking. And it was already warm enough first thing where I didn't have to wear a jacket. Spring is sure here alright. By mid-day I was already up to 8500 steps, well over half of last week's 15,000 steps total. And that meant I would at least get 14,000 done pretty easily. And I thought I'd just chill out today and not do so much... I took a pic of me walking around the neighborhood even, remembering the way it was a year ago when I started doing this walk-around-the-neighborhood thing. Who knew a year later I'd be doing the same thing still. Today, there would be no looking after Johnnie at least... Lisa seems to have cooled off just for today and seeing every doctor she can bug and in fact she let me know she was going to be in Sierra Madre hanging out at her dad's house with Johnnie. And she'll be dropping Johnnie off around 6 PM. Works for me. Gives me the green light to pretty much do all I can for the afternoon.  As it was, there was mostly work stuff. There was the meeting about where to put in data for community events, the same discussion where Emma and I are in 2 different and opposite corners. Then of course I have all those reports I need to run. Just another busy Monday. Oh and I have to think about what to do about Friday for the Staff Birthday party. 

By the time the meeting got done, we really hadn't decided anything. It was like a no-win scenario unfolding. Can't keep the patient and non-patient data segregated, yet they want to use the system to collect admin fees for all these people we will be vaccinating. In the big scheme of things, just another one of those situations where my ego is trying to push me for significance and acknowledgement and my Higher Self is reminding me it's one of those things that end up being inconsequential in the long run. Unless I make it a big deal. Today I chose not to let it be any kind of a deal at all. Other people can decide to do whatever, I just soldier on and do my job. It's also a reminder that these are the kinds of distractions that keep me from moving forward with the things that do matter. And when Lisa came by, that was the reminder of exactly what that was. It was Johnnie and Claire time again. And back to a Monday night routine. I made him penne pasta in the broth that Lisa brought and let me use.  Johnnie ended up eating 3 bowls of penne pasta! That is something I never see him do at Lisa's house! In the meantime, it's another night of my fabuloso meatball stew/albondigas soup Arnel style. And as Johnnie chose to watch Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood which was definitely a surprise, I decided to sit and watch with him for a bit. Kind of took me back to when we lived at Maplewood and I would have him watch it before Lisa came home, hiding the fact that I was letting him watch TV LOL. Now here I am trying to figure out what activity I can give him so he wouldn't have to watch TV all week! Last year we were definitely homebound on Easter week AND Spring Break. And it was raining most of the week too. Johnnie has this idea he wants to look for tadpoles tomorrow? Huh? That has gotta be because of some activity he did with Lisa and/or Courtney. Tadpoles? In Mar Vista? Now I have to look for some kind of standing water where frogs are? Hey it IS something. You gotta admire Lisa, she must have been having cabin fever and needing to get Johnnie out and about herself. Now it's my turn. But not tonight. Tonight I catch up on the sleep I didn't get the last 3 days. Aaahhhh...