Johnnie On A Friday

I wish I could have just crashed right after my talk. It would have been nice just to get a burger and be done with the day. But I'm afraid I had to immediately put my bedroom back together and then head on over to Lisa's office to pick up Johnnie and Claire. I have to say that no matter how much I mentally prepare myself for drama now every single time I have any kind of an interaction with Lisa, she still manages to surprise me most of the time. And not a good surprise either. Case in point I get to Lisa's office and Johnnie is in the break room eating strawberries. It was 12:30 so I was wondering why he wasn't in front of the computer doing his last class of the day. Simple answer: Lisa forgot. She got too pre-occupied with her patients. It's a good enough excuse but really after 6 months of doing Friday online classes, you'd think she would have been mentally aware enough to stop for just THREE FUCKING MINUTES just to log Johnnie in to her computer and to his class. By the time I was getting him on it was 12:45 already and too late to catch the class. I told Lisa it didn't matter. But I'll be honest... this just reinforces the notion that she simply can't do much of anything else when she is focused on her office and her patients. I was waiting for her to blame ME in fact although to my surprise she didn't. She did mention that I forgot to pack the computer, which I did. But apparently he had done most of the morning classes on Lisa's computer so that wasn't really an excuse. I was thinking leave it to Lisa to CREATE DRAMA out of NOTHING. And that wouldn't be the end of it either, even after I packed up Johnnie and the dog and took them to my apartment. Of course Johnnie hadn't eaten yet. I stopped at Panda Express so he could have a decent lunch.  And then I let him eat and watch TV for as long as he wanted. I was too tired. I needed to crash and take a nap. As it was, Lisa at least picked them up at 5:30 like she said she would. And then I went back to my apartment and readied myself to watch a whole slew of new stuff on NEtflix and Amazon Prime. But that wouldn't be it for Lisa and her drama. She called me at 6:30 PM and I could hear Johnnie screaming in the background. smh smh smh. Oh fucking God! Apparently, Johnnie used the blast setting on the house to fire water at Claire. And Lisa lost it. I would have been mad too, and I think I would have blasted Johnnie with the water myself if I were there so he knew how it felt. Lisa responded by calling me and giving Johnnie the indication that she was going to drive Claire to spend the rest of the weekend with me. That was why Johnnie was screaming. I think he knew he screwed up. I'm just not ok with him screaming either. Not ok with Lisa disciplining him in that way.  He isn't going to learn anything if you torture him, emotionally or otherwise. He'll just learn that it's ok to do that.  I think I was projecting my own irritation with Lisa that made me just hang up after a bit. I didn't want to hear any more of that drama. I didn't like the way I started to react. If that's the way Lisa disciplines Johnnie, then I can't stop her. Johnnie will have to learn 2 sets of behavior as he already has. Hopefully either or both will lead to a positive result for him.  In any case, I knew my reaction was an emotional one and something that I was projecting from myself. After a while Lisa called to somewhat explain what they were doing.  I think she wanted some consensus on the way we were to discipline Johnnie. Or maybe to explain why he was screaming like that. For me I will need to trust that Lisa is doing what she thinks is best. And I will leave it at that for tonight. And come get Johnnie in the morning.