The Week Is Halfway Done

Johnnie got up earlier than usual this morning. As in 6:30 AM! I probably woke up him when I took Claire out to poop and pee. I was on the couch trying to meditate for my morning quiet time, hoping to get 10 minutes in. Not this morning I guess, not when Johnnie is finding me while half-asleep and laying down next to me on the couch. He was cold he said and cuddled up to me. Awww. An M&M moment: me and my little boy just half-asleep on the couch cozied next to each other. Nothing like a moment like that to get the feeling that the everything in the world is ok. It's going to be a good day. And why not? Today is Day 2 of Johnnie-goes-back-to-in-person-school week and today we're there as early as we were yesterday even while I parked us before Barrington and walked the rest of the way. Hey I get a little exercise and we get there early. Of course I wasn't counting on standing next to Jennifer and her dad again and this morning, he is hounding me about vaccines! He says he's going to take it, but if he is why is he asking all these questions?? <Just take the fucking thing will ya so we all turn the corner on this thing? It ain't that hard! I don't know why that interaction left a bad taste in my mouth but suffice it to say as soon as Johnnie got checked in I got out of there as fast as I could. This morning, same routine, ate a leisurely breakfast, lollygagged shower, and then did my other team meeting. And then just like that it was time to get Johnnie again. Today he was sent out with a bag of food. I mean a BIG BAG OF FOOD. No explanations. I think what it is is that the Grab-and-Go program is ending and they have a lot of extra food left. In any case, there really was a lot of food in that bag, including beef on rice and a chicken breast patty that I warmed up and put in between sliced bread and voila. A sandwich. And lunch for me. I took a pic of me eating it and then Johnnie eating a bag of popcorn that came in the food bag too. Free is always good. So today I had a meeting from at 1 PM and I had Johnnie watching Coyote Peterson while that went on but when it was over, so was my work day effectively. For once I didn't want to spend my afternoon going over Covid vaccine numbers, refreshing schedules so we can plan for capacity, and monitoring how many people we vaccinate on a daily basis. Today I even took a stab at fixing the vaccine inventory/allocation numbers that our Director of Nursing compiles every day. I was sick of looking at the numbers he reports and basically becoming confused as to how he figured out balance on hand. I figured a simple spreadsheet could do all that and wouldn't be that hard to create. And so I did it. And at least it would make sense to someone used to staring at numbers in cells. Maybe I am kind of good at doing that. Synthesizing data to tell a story. I'm not saying I'm an Excel spreadsheet expert by any means. But I can put up a basic dashboard. Which is what I did. By the time I got done, it was already almost 5 PM. Time to head out to get Johnnie dinner at Panda Express Westwood. Today he broke routine by asking for penne and chicken broth for lunch. But he still wanted chicken teriyaki for dinner.  Tonight I actually sat down and did my taxes for 2020. Normally, they would be due tomorrow. But with the pandemic and all, deadline is pushed back to May. I decided to do it tonight anyway as IF it was due tomorrow. A good thing too. I end up with more than $3000+ in refunds this year!  Getting money back is always a good thing. And then of course later on, the big event of Wednesday evening is Claire's bath. The goal today is to not get me wet, what with the dog shaking off water any chance she got. But that's also because we held her to the running faucet last week. Today I had a better idea. I took a big bowl with me and kept her bath gentle by pouring water a lot more gently this time. And so she fought less and I got wet less as a result. And the best result of course is that she smelled MUCH MUCH better afterwards. And she's much cleaner too so I could actually let her sleep on the bed. Tonight everyone went to bed at 9 PM as per usual. Except for me. i snuck out and watched an episode of Mayans MC. Watched TV until almost midnight I did. I wonder why I do that? It's because I got almost 8 hours of sleep last night that's why. Not used to it at all. Clearly won't happen again tonight either. But hey, the week is half over right?