Last Day Before Spring Break

If it's Thursday, I must be doing  my IS Team Meeting first thing while Johnnie was already in the middle of his second class today. I remembered that it was the last day of school before Spring Break for him. I don't even remember what we did last year for his Spring Break. Probably a whole bunch of nothing since we were smack dab in the middle of LA's Stay At Home order. We weren't even able to play golf on Sundays for at least a couple of Sundays I remember. That's when we picked up on playing the Pasadena courses mostly. And so I posted that pic of Johnnie posing the question to me since he really wanted to go to the Billabong Wildlife Observatory in Northern Australia. Maybe when the pandemic dies down Johnnie, maybe when the pandemic dies down. Of course, it IS doing just that otherwise we wouldn't be talking about Johnnie going back to school any time soon. And now we already have a date even. The week after Spring Break. And so even while acknowledging that last year around this time was hardly a memorable one, I mentally put myself on notice that we have to do at least ONE THING that would be memorable for next week. And me KNOWING that intention is the start of CREATION, then I have to believe that this should be *Fun* :) PS. I did mean memorable in the best and the most positive way possible. I did look back in my journal and saw that we even stopped playing golf for a few Sundays because of the closure, remembering that we drove all the way to Altadena only to find out it was closed that first Sunday we were all sent home. At least we won't have to deal with that this year.

And so by mid-afternoon this Thursday, I still hadn't really picked up where I left off with my presentation from yesterday. As in I was really distracted with Johnnie stuff and the dog stuff. By this time I thought that maybe, just maybe Lisa would pick up Johnnie before 7:30 again. And so I had him start cleaning up everything pretty early. And in fact, we headed to Panda Express to pick up his dinner right at 5 PM. And true enough, Lisa called around 6:45 PM. It was still light out and she was already on her way. YAY! She promptly tells me that I have to watch Johnnie yet again tomorrow because she has yet again made an appointment with whatever it was that was ailing her. All she knows is that it wasn't kidney stones. In my mind I had already explained to her everything. It was no different than the anxiety attacks I was having in the late 90s. No different than feeling like I was having a cardiac event before I would even go on a run, always thinking that something was wrong. Man, more than 20 years later and I think I've already disproved that. I told her I was glad to watch Johnnie tomorrow if just for the couple of hours that she was going to spend at the doctor's office. I was pretty sure they weren't going to find anything different or remarkable. Anyway, off they went on home and I went back to cleaning my apartment. Except that the dog was going to be here again so I didn't really do a full cleanup like I did last week. I'll have to do it some time this weekend. What I did do was FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY bear down and finish my presentation! I was finally able to concentrate. And it only took a few hours. Too bad it was between 10 PM and 2 AM. Yep, I stayed up until almost 2 AM and I wasn't even tired. I felt energized. I felt the buzz of great ideas. I think I created GREAT content. And where I was supposed to do 20-25 slides, I did 45! I'm done, done, and done! THAT felt good.