In the Meantime...

I was thinking to myself this morning that my desire for an uneventful week already is already down the tubes and this week is already more eventful than I would have thought, or that I would have preferred given last night's incident with the next-door-neighbor. I was thinking about what had caused that. So, if everything is me pushed out, what was I pushing out? She was expressing that she didn't feel safe maybe? That she was annoyed with me? Well, that plays into the program that comes up intermittently that I get annoyed with people in general. That they only think of themselves. After all, if my neighbor would have put herself in my shoes, how could a single dad, with his son and the dog in the house while he is on Spring Break and dealing with all the Covid vaccination stuff even have a thought about anything else?? And maybe I was also manifesting my own discomfort with her. She too got uncomfortable with me. Maybe she's an empath just like me. I thought about this in the shower and simply decided I was not going to let it bother me. I decided to make it a nothingburger, that is after I did all the Ho'onoponopono forgiveness stuff. I decided that my ego was yet again trying to distract me. I merely need to not give it any energy. Hard when I got basically pushed and not so gently. But that too is my ego getting annoyed isn't it? Why can't I just choose the experience of not seeing her anymore, as in not ever. Thank you for the reminder, now please don't bother me again. And with that I can move on to my usual Wednesday. Day 3 of Johnnie's Spring Break and he's still talking about looking for tadpoles. I gave him plenty of artwork ideas to kill the morning. After all, he himself said he was going to draw his mom at least one good picture a day as a present. Good.good. Go do that! In the meantime, it's as if I'm working on that damn Covid vaccination reporting every day now. A different report for each governing entity. And no shortage of other reports too as I reviewed the requests with the Data Team. Still, we're not underwater I don't think and Shilpa is actually learning. She is having a start similar to Kennedy's I think. So eager to make a mark, so eager to do stuff. But not very careful. Who KNEW I'd be the one to rein that type of enthusiasm in with attention-to-detail. Me! Anyway the big to-do this afternoon was that I wanted to make sure Johnnie spent some time outside and got some exercise. And so for dinner I needed to cook up the Italian sausage I had bought this past weekend. And so I brought us back to early last summer when I would barbecue that on a Tuesday night and Johnnie would hit the soccer ball against the wall. This time he brought the dog AND the soccer ball and boy and dog had a blast running around the grass for a while. So much so even Johnnie got tired after 20 minutes. He even had to sit down (see pic). And so mission accomplished with the Johnnie exercise, the dog exercise AND spending time outside! It is stuff like that that keeps one grounded and at least able to deal with the tugs of the outside world, and in my case the constant reporting requirements which seems to change on a daily basis of the Covid Vaccine project. The good thing is that all that effort seems to be paying off as the covid numbers are getting much better, and LA in particular seems to be ready to open a little bit more. A very very good thing indeed. Already we're allowed back in to order at Panda Express Westwood. Could it be long now before we're allowed to eat inside again? Can't do it with the dog obviously but still it would be great to know you can. And of course, this being Wednesday and all, the big task tonight is giving Claire a bath. She has visibly grown since last week practically and is not only heavier but sporting more hair. Which means she's going to take longer to fully dry. I tried to get the bath done earlier but we ended up not getting started until 8:30. And by 9 PM she was still a bit damp. But she sure did smell clean. No worries tonight about her wandering around the bed and getting anything dirty. Of course the shower made her want to sleep earlier, as it did Johnnie by him running around in the afternoon. On the other hand, while Johnnie and puppy went to sleep, I snuck out back to the living room and watched an episode of Mayans MC. I don't know what about a show about a Mexican motorcycle gang on the California-Mexico border attracts me but it pulled me in. Like the show Vikings did. Or the Last Kingdom I guess. Maybe it's the character Ezekiel (EZ). The Hero's Journey. It was nearly midnight when I went back to bed to go to sleep. It's ok. The end of the work week is around the corner.