Mission Accomplished

I felt a great sense of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED with finishing the content of my presentation last night albeit in the wee hours of the morning. So much so I woke up tired this morning. And I wasn't 100% done though all I needed to do was pretty stuff up, like getting the right fonts consistent through the whole thing and stuff. Still I was able to send it by lunchtime and I got a good acknowledgement from Aisha and Candice too after doing so. All good. And so I could have easily tanked the rest of the day. And really it felt like I did actually although I still did an IS Team Meeting with my crew because they pissed me off yesterday about not having discussed processes and procedures when Noriel is out on vacation all of next week.  I made them put together a plan of action for me for specific downtime scenarios and this morning I made them articulate it to me. Such a Nazi I am sometimes huh?! LOL. Hey they needed it. And so by the time Lisa dropped off Johnnie it was almost 10:30 AM and it was just a few more episodes of Winnie the Pooh before we headed out to Panda Express to get him lunch. Do I feel guilty that we've eaten there every single day this week? Not in the least. In fact, when Lisa came to pick him up, it was barely noon and he had already started with his lunch! And so what to do left except to invite Lisa to have lunch with us in the patio area where the barbecues where, same as what we did on Saturday after her work was done. This time I made her lunch. I still had almost a pound of shaved beef from trader Joe's and a lot of onions and cabbage. I was actually going to make some noodles to bind all of that. Except for Lisa, I didn't need to put in noodles. I just made her a stir fry dish and  voila: lunch was had by all on a beautiful fRiday mid-day. Of course if you look at the pic I posted, that would be Johnnie eating, me chilling (I would eat later when they had gone) and Lisa on the phone while eating my stir-fry dish. She gave me the thumbs up sign of approval. Lisa being Lisa. All I cared about was that Johnnie was eating a decent lunch after all. I'm invited to come over later to watch him yet again while Lisa practiced the piano. At least I won't care what he eats because he has already wolfed down a decent meal this time. 

Anyway after a nice lunch they took off and then I made myself the rest of the beef and veggies. They really WERE good actually! And then I knocked off for about 40 minutes to catch up on the sleep I missed last night. And watched some of the "Irregulars" series on Netflix, the new show about a different take on the Sherlock Holmes/Dr Watson relationship. This one portrayed Holmes as pretty broken and the mantle being taken not by Watson but by some raggedy adolescents in Victorian England, one of which turned out to be his daughter. Interesting twists eh? Anyway I basically just tanked the rest of the day and by 5:30 PM I went on over to Lisa's... to find mom and son on the floor in the piano room doing nothing. Apparently, Lisa had taken medication (I won't say she's an addict to medication, I will let facts speak for themselves). No surprise that the medication has left her pretty listless and really not able to do much except chill in bed. Do I dare say some form of mild depression has set in too? The point was that it was pretty clear she was in no position or mood to eat anything and that was ok. I felt that she was in no mood or position to take care of Johnnie either. And so we cleaned up the piano room from their "picnic" and then I took Johnnie to my apartment so I could make him a decent dinner. He even picked what he was going to eat, which was macaroni and cheese! Shocking. He hadn't eaten that at my house in a really long time. And I know he wasn't starving. Lunch took care of that. So maybe it was still good that he wolfed down an entire bowl of the mac-and-cheese which was most of the box. And I bought myself some pre-roasted chicken doused with the remnants of the marsala sauce from earlier in the week. Some peas, some rice and voila: I had myself a good dinner too. I drove Johnnie back around 8:30 at least assured that someone had watched him properly tonight. Lisa was still complaining about the medication she took and at this point it just goes in one ear and out the other for me. I have to do that. I'm back in the morning to pick up Johnnie again. You can only listen to the same thing over and over again for so long. Besides I needed to catch up on sleep. Still it was a pretty good, chill Friday despite Lisa's prominence in it. Johnnie and I managed to do just fine.