Kind of A Tank Friday

Even after tech Council meeting I still had lots of stuff to do. After all, I have to speak at a symposium in a couple of weeks and my slides are due for review in a week. But I ain't going to get them done today. In fact, what I felt like doing this morning was actually to continue to clean the apartment. This morning, that was the bathroom and more specifically, the shower. After all, it had suffered through Johnnie and the dog for the last couple of weeks without being cleaned. And this morning, it was simply time. And so I got most of the apartment already cleaned up before I even stopped for breakfast. And after breakfast I read emails, double checked on my bank account... after all we did get paid today and I'm back over $30,000 AND I sent in my odometer reading for the Honda. Quietly, I paid off the rest of the lease meaning I bought the Honda outright and Honda Financial is trying to transfer the title to me. But really with all of this stuff what I really did most of the rest of the morning is kick back and chill the way I posted myself doing in the pic. I did binaural beats videos, a meditation session,  read articles. In other words, stuff I usually WOULD do if I were doing a TANK DAY at the office, hanging out in MY office. And at lunch time, when I would usually sneak out to catch a movie at the Regal LA theater at LA Live, I instead parked myself in front of the TV and watched the series premiere of the latest Marvel creation: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. I mean Captain America is gone and Iron Man is dead and yet the Marvel Universe continues. And I'm going to be watching to be sure... at least until the Mandalorian series resumes again. I would have taken a nap too but I chose to do some steps instead. After all, it was a nice day out and it was good to enjoy the day that had gotten warm. Besides, Lisa had requested that I watch Johnnie for a couple of hours this afternoon from 4-6 PM while she practiced piano. And then we were supposed to all have dinner together. So whatever I did this afternoon would be my ME TIME for the day. 

As it was Lisa called me by 3:30 PM, right as I was headed out to do grocery shopping. 2nd attempt at depositing her check. And then she was going to drop off Johnnie at my house for a couple of hours. However, this ended up being totally unnecessary. By the time she got to the bank Johnnie had fallen asleep in the back seat. Which actually makes it even more convenient in that she no longer had to leave him with me. She could just let him sleep for the next couple of hours and she could practice for that long. I got to go on to my grocery shopping spree. Lisa still wanted me to come over to have dinner with them. After all, Friday night routine is still Friday night routine and I was down for whatever extraneous food Lisa still had left to cook. I did know that whatever she had us eating tonight, I'm sure it wasn't going to be enough protein for me so I ate a Chinese pork bun before heading out there. When I got there, Lisa was still playing, Johnnie was still sleeping, and the dog was being the dog. She was glad to see me though, or at least she totally knew who I was. Lisa wanted to cook the strip of salmon and although it was a sizeable piece it WAS enough for both Lisa and I. In the meantime, I brought some udon for Johnnie and that would be his dinner. I had this idea that I was going to use Lisa's grill for both the salmon and the veggies she wants to cook, but something was wrong with that damn grill. It did not get hot for a while and when it did, the fire was too low. Why is it that everytime I cook something in this house, there's always something I notice that doesn't work as well as when I'm at the apartment? All this expense Lisa does and it's practically mud for a lot of the backyard, the aforementioned grill wasn't working properly... and now I realize I needed to stop the pattern. my pattern of thinking. I was in mis-match mode. Only led to an almost-argument after dinner about such a serious issue such as releasing some ladybugs outside in the garden. Smh. Anyway Lisa insisted that we play a game of SORRY. Lisa and Johnnie love this game and I am not a fan only because I had yet to win against either mom or son! Heck Johnnie won tonight's game! Oh well, at least I got some time in with Johnnie and I'm back first thing tomorrow morning since it is a Lisa work day. And as Lisa said, she's gotten somewhat fond (though she will never use that word so I'll paraphrase) of Friday night "family nite".  AND I'll take today's tank day. I'll take it any time.