A Very Busy Monday

This being a Monday, and the Monday of Tech Council Meeting week yet, the routine would have been to put my head down and work on my presentation. Unfortunately, over the last 4 weeks, Monday has also evolved into Covid Vaccine Reporting day. So much so I actually thought of running my reports yesterday so I could buy a lot of time today. But alas, I never got to that and then got too tired to do anything in the evening. And so I'm up first thing this morning... first to generate Lisa Johnnie's Daily Pass for the day, and then to start running my reports. And this was at 6:30 AM in the morning. I still had Johnnie in the back of my mind as I went outside to take a brisk walk first thing. After all, it's been a known fact for me that in order to get to 15,000+ steps for today, as I have the previous 4 Mondays, I have to get started early and get to 4000 steps before the Business Continuity Meeting even starts at 10:30. My walk this morning took me in the direct path of the moms and dads on their way back from dropping off their kids at school. I wonder if some of them recognize me? As it was, as hot as it was yesterday, it seemed like more of the same today at least judging from how warm it already was at 7:30 AM. I got to 4000 steps and THEN SOME by the time my first meeting started. I was all the way up to 5000 steps already. I reminded myself that yesterday, i was already close to 10,000 by the time I came home from golf. And so just as soon as my meeting got done, I walked myself to  9000 steps too. And then I did some more while cooking up some teriyaki chicken thighs. That would turn out to be lunch. They didn't exactly turn out like Panda Express chicken, which I admit I was trying to replicate so I could give them to Johnnie at some point. It just didn't turn out right it seemed. Still pretty good though. With that, barbecued beans, and macaroni salad, I had myself a pretty good lunch indeed. With all that done I wish I could say I went right to doing my Tech Council presentation, but alas I still had all those reports to do. After all, I'm submitting the HRSA survey tomorrow for Emma. I can at least do the data manipulations so all I have to do is enter numbers in the survey. Before I knew it, the afternoon went by. And it was already time to head to Lisa's to pick up Johnnie... 

Monday pick up is now 5 PM instead of 5:30 PM because she has Pilates class now. Pretty soon her soccer league is going to start too. I did not mind at all picking up Johnnie earlier than before. I prefer it in fact. But what is going on with Johnnie's hair?? Look at the pic. I like his hair long-ish, but not this long. Pretty soon I'm going to need to do a man-bun for him! Ok not really but this is the longest Johnnie's hair has been in months. What is Lisa waiting on? Is her stylist still on IR (injured reserve)? Anyway picking Johnnie up no matter what the time shifts me into Monday mode. That means I better have penne pasta ready because Johnnie is going to ask for chicken noodle soup for dinner. That would be penne pasta in chicken broth.  That means I better have cookies for dessert ready too. I was ok on both counts and all I had to do for my dinner was warm up last night's leftover ground lamb. I admit, it's strange not to have a container of stew in the fridge. But hey, it's getting warmer now isn't it? For whatever reason I managed to nudge Johnnie into watching episodes of Puffin Rock, something brand brand new for him. All I wanted to do was buy time so I could work on work stuff. I got all my reports done but then again there's always something new. Today, it's a survey for the state <yes, another one> that I was about to butt heads with our CMO on. He was so pushy about getting it out today and the EHR team produced his numbers for him. Because my team could not. No pushing from him or anybody could have changed that. As it was i learned that the EHR Team put the numbers together manually. My team was NOT going to do that. Still despite my ego trying to prove that it was right <which it was actually> I tried to realize that being right doesn't actually solve the problem. I will meet my team on Wednesday and figure stuff out. In the meantime, it's not an emergency to me. It's that lack of urgency that allows me to sleep well at night. And tonight is no different, especially considering I only slept 4 1/2 hours last night. Probably why I was tired today, probably because I still DID my 15000 steps. We're all good...