Dental Day and Johnnie's Socks

So it's a Lisa workday today and so I am at her door dutifully at 7:30 AM to pick up Johnnie. I always have every intention of defaulting to routine, which is breakfast at Elysee if it were a Lisa workday. But yesterday, Nikki locked me in for an appointment at Lisa's office this morning for a cleaning. At 9:30 AM. And so that pretty much means I have to give Johnnie breakfast at home. Especially since he bounded down the stairs to greet me and it was clear he hadn't even showered this morning. Or last night. And so a quick goodbye to Mom and off we went to my house to get him cleaned up. I didn't really want to get him McDonald's breakfast today. But it was the quickest way to get his shower in AND get him breakfast AND get us out the door before 9:30 this morning. As it was we barely made it on time for my appointment.  And I got Kristin Wong this morning too. She hadn't cleaned my teeth in at least a year and so it was welcome to have her expert hands getting the barnacles off my teeth this morning.  We of course caught up on our kids, Johnnie and Logan who is a year behind Johnnie. Who can believe how fast time flies. Speaking of which, Johnnie actually did well drawing stuff at the front desk while I got my cleaning done and after an hour had passed, we were done and out of there. No chit-chatting, no lollygagging, very business-like this morning. Lisa didn't even examine me. Which was fine by me too.  After my appointment the #1 mission this morning was to get Johnnie socks. He hadn't worn any in over a year and so he had outgrown the socks I had for him which was already small as of last year. Lisa's socks for him were even smaller than that. So this was actually very high priority today. We first went to Carter's Kids next to Target, but I was NOT going to get not even a dozen socks for $30. And so we went on to Target. This was more like it. Cat and Jack socks for $7. AND to top it all off, there was a Panda Express inside Vons next to Target. AND a Burger King around the corner. We could pick up our lunches and be on our way home! Teriyaki chicken for Johnnie, Impossible Whopper for me. By the time we got home from running around all morning it was already 12:15. Finally, Johnnie got to have his lunch AND watch the Octonauts RING OF FIRE for the umpteenth time...

We did get a chance to just chill and hang out on the couch. That is, in fact, my most favorite thing to do on a Saturday with Johnnie. No homework to catch up on, no class, no nothing. Just doing a whole lot of nothing. The favorite activity of every man LOL. Lisa did pick Johnnie up at 3:30 since she obviously made plans with Simon to play with Johnnie this afternoon. Usually they go biking. Today who knows? And with this hand-off that was it for Johnnie this weekend. I actually had a date lined up for tomorrow... with this woman I met online named Sil in San Pedro. We had been exchanging emails and texts all week. And she had just told me where we were going to have lunch, before she had to take back everything because she had made plans she forgot to put in her calendar. No harm no foul you know. It would have been a hoot to go out right after tomorrow's golf game at Harbor. Still I knew I wasn't going to see Johnnie until Monday. Tonight I wanted to use up the $25 gift cert I got for Doordash for speaking at the CCALAC symposium. Free is free right? I couldn't make up my mind what to eat tonight. Finally I settled on Thai food and I got pad see iw and wonton soup from BKK 101 on Venice. For a Thai restaurant so close to me, I had never eaten at this place. I'm trying it now.  When I went there to pick up my food, the lady in the front recognized me and said hello. Even while I had my mask on. I recognized her too. But I couldn't place which Thai restaurant I knew her from. Probably one of a few Lisa and I used to frequent back in the day. It wasn't Siam Chan.  There was a Thai restaurant in Westwood we went to a lot. And we would order the same thing all the time. Until it closed sometime around 2014-2015. Before we made the move to Mar Vista. I think I remember we would come on Friday nights LOL. Lisa used to hate me having these routine restaurants.  But not in the early days when we were first married. She liked going to this restaurant too. I thanked the lady mentally for helping me remember happier times. Those are the Lisa memories I prefer to keep. The ones I'm fond of. Not to mention I did enjoy the Pad Se Iw and soup too. I didn't really do much of anything of note tonight after Johnnie left. And I kept telling myself I needed to hit the sack early even though our tee time is not until 10 AM tomorrow morning. It wasn't that early when I fell asleep on the couch. I was distracting myself with something on TV. But then I also got to daydream about having a nice golf game tomorrow...