No Rest For The Weary Today

So I was hoping to get a lot done yesterday but as it turned out I had more To-do's than usual BECAUSE of all this reporting I am now responsible for. Which means as of this morning I hadn't started my Tech Council presentation yet. But I wasn't worried. Somehow I knew I'd get it done at some point today, and I don't mean stay up all night to do it either. Funny that I do have a memory of doing that. How was it that it took me that long to put content together back during those times? I remember not even being done with the agenda until right before lunchtime the day of the meetings. LOL LOL. I would like to think I've come a long, long way from those days. And so even as I start Week 2 of Johnnie's return to school in person, and I still let him almost oversleep past 7 AM, I still had him all ready to go and out the door by 7:40 and that is with a full stomach with his usual McDonald's breakfast. In other words, we now are getting used to this new routine already. And new routine meant coming back home doing my meetings, and then watching in amazement at how quick the 3 hours Johnnie was in school went by. It was almost like I blinked and it was already time to pick him up! And then of course the Tuesday routine called for he and I to go to Grand View Elementary School to get his Covid testing done for next week. And still we were home before 11:30 AM. By noon, he had eaten his pizza and he was done with his SeeSaw homework and he was already playing with the dog. THEN and only THEN did I finally finally finally get started with my presentation. Of course by now, my base presentation is already 50% done, I just have to update my charts, update the Status report and so I actually got done before 5 PM! Yep, it only took me a couple of hours to do. And this WHILE I still had to do the HRSA report in Emma's place since she's out all week. I focused so much on work through the afternoon that Johnnie actually got bored and MADE me go out with him and the dog to hit some baseball in the grass area by the barbecue. And it actually made for a PERFECT break for me. Perfect mental break, I got my steps in to boot and Johnnie got to exercise too. As did Claire the dog. Look at the 2 of them hanging out while I pitched. I couldn't have asked for a better break in the afternoon! And it actually helped me finish my work before it was time to head out to get Johnnie's dinner. I actually couldn't believe I was done with all my work so soon! The power of focus? Or just merely me deciding to get it done when I did. Probably a combination of both actually. And so it was that when we got back with our food, and we got everyone fed, including me with my newfangled garlic shrimp in Panda Express chow mein (not bad at all actually), I was planning on working some more but now I didn't have to. Instead Johnnie and I watched the original Jurassic Park. It wasn't because he had gotten so bored cycling through the Octonauts, cycling through Tigger and Pooh, cycling through Cat-In-The-Hat that now I'm reduced to cycling through myself. But this time I'm cycling through movies he has already seen, hence the trip to Jurassic Park. I read my journal about this time last year and I had the same quandary, which was how to keep Johnnie occupied for the better part of the day. Of course a year ago last year we were still barbecuing Italian sausage on Tuesday nights while Johnnie practiced soccer. And I still had not bought myself a real face mask LOL, opting instead to make one out of a couple of my old T-shirts. A year later and I have several masks, as does Johnnie. And we won't be taking them off any time soon either even though some idiots still cry it is affront to their "Constitutional rights". Dumbshits. How about our right to be healthy and oh, I dunno, NOT DIE?! Anyway I went to bed the same time as Johnnie tonight, with no need to stay up and push stuff out. The rest I'll do in the morning, whatever is left to do for the Tech Council Meeting. We're all good.