Johnnie Spring Break and a WTF moment

So for this week's Tuesday edition, I never did figure out what to do to keep Johnnie occupied for most of the day, that is, without schoolwork. With LA now feeling more safe and moving out of the danger zone with COVID, and starting to re-open more widely there lots of news about Disneyland finally opening up in May and more importantly to Johnnie, Universal Studios opening up in a few weeks! That means Jurassic World obviously. But that is not for a few weeks and I still have the here and now and today to deal with. I quickly lined up some educational videos for him to watch this morning. I know I know, I need to not rely so much on him watching videos. But I'm stuck doing work. Yesterday was dedicated mostly to Covid vaccination reporting in the afternoon and today was more of the same. I did want to dedicate time to make sure my team is ready to go for Friday's FRB birthday deal online that we're supposed to be hosting... because we screwed it up the last time we were supposed to be hosts last month. And so I gave Kennedy the green light to line something up and show us later on this week. That actually made me feel better in that I don't have to do the bulk of the planning. That was what worried me yesterday. I reminded myself I wanted to experience UCLA winning to make the Final Four. DONE!! I wanted to experience our meeting yesterday so that we decide to use MyTurn for community events instead of EPIC. That didn't get done but a follow-up meeting is scheduled for Thursday. And I wanted to have a really good FRB birthday party this Friday. And so handing the planning of that to Kennedy at least leaves me with the feeling that he WANTS to do it and LOVES to do stuff like that. That's his personality. I hope we'll be good to go. And so in the meantime, as soon as I got my IS Team Meeting done, I already reached into my pocket of essential stuff to do that I was actually holding off on doing until at least tomorrow. I let him watch Raya and the Last Dragon yet again, knowing full well it would knock out almost 2 hours of the morning and give me time to work. Look at the pic of him on the couch eating chee-tohs. Hey, that's a good vacay picture right? That would at least buy me time to do a more regular Tuesday afternoon. He kept going on and on about looking for tadpoles in whatever still water we can find. That's because he did that activity with his mom on Monday and evidently enjoyed it. No still water around unless we go to Marina del Rey of course. Which is an option. But perhaps not today. Anyway the afternoon went by pretty quickly, especially when I made him do a karate class. At least he is getting his exercise in, that's for sure. And he's actually getting more precise with his karate strikes. Who knew...

WHAT IN THE FUCK??? It would have been an otherwise uneventful day until my next door neighbor Monica knocked on the door and started talking about seeing me supposedly hanging around and telling me to stop doing that. Did I just get accused of stalking? What. the. fuck?? I did go out of the apartment just as she was walking her bike out and I remember looking away when she looked back. And hearing her say "I see you". I looked away because I did not want to make eye contact with her. Never have since that day she sort of nagged me about not having my mask on. At the time I remember thinking I'm coming from the opposite direction and we're at least 30 feet away as we're walking in to our apartments, AND I covered my mouth. Did she have to nag me? I got embarassed. Since then I have felt awkward whenever I see her. Which is not that often but if I never run into her again, that would be just fine. And now she's accusing me of stalking her? Came up to my door and told me about it as Johnnie was coming up to me? She did that in front of my son? I was so astounded I really had no intelligent response. And I didn't want to say what-the-fuck woman? What on earth would make her think I was following her around? It's not like I even see her that often. Maybe once or twice a week if that. Is she just targetting me? Anyway I was so confused all I could say was that I didn't know what she was talking about and if she sees me it was nothing but coincidence. And now I REALLY REALLY don't ever want to see her around. I recovered from the shock of that incident when Johnnie spontaneously made me a note. It simply said I love you daddy and thanks for doing good things. What a way to wash away the reek of that incident. Thank you Johnnie. I love you too.