Uneventful Friday

I was up at 5:55 this morning, like I am most Fridays trying to lock in a tee time at one of the Big 3 (Harbor/Roosevelt/Penmar) for NEXT Sunday. It had been difficult getting a reservation any more since golf is one of those activities that had been allowed all along since the early days of the pandemic. So I continue the ritual this morning, drag myself in front of the computer half-asleep and look for a tee time. Oooh, there's one at Penmar, but I was too slow to get that one. Oh well, I guess we're playing at Roosevelt next week. And that's ok, even though we just played there LAST WEEK. I'm milking these golf games as much as I can since Greg is off to retirement in Arizona this summer. I guess we have to find a replacement for him huh? Or else it's mostly myself and Scott. And how much fun is that LOL. I prided myself in the fact that I got to play most Sundays during this entire pandemic. And that's because I did drag myself in front of the computer for the better part of a year and counting.  I tried to go right back to sleep just as soon as I got the tee time but I couldn't, not really. So I just got up and watched the latest episode, EPISODE 5 of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the latest offering from the Marvel Universe. It only has 6 episodes and I'm not really buying that a young Eastern European girl could rally the bulk of the world's population and against whom I'm not really sure. But the whole new Captain America bit with John Lewis is very VERY compelling, as he turned into a murderous maniac last week after turning himself into a Super Soldier too. And now he's up against the Falcon and Winter Soldier.  Anyway that and I printed a Daily Pass for Lisa this morning. I toyed with the idea of riding over there to make sure she got through the check-in ok. But then again she wasn't all that concerned last night. So this is one of those things were I need to let her experience what she is going to experience and leave it at that. I didn't hear from her by 8:30 AM and so I assumed everything was ok. Didn't hear from her at 11 AM either so I assumed the pick-up went well too. She did call me around lunchtime waving off the drop-off of Johnnie at my apartment today. She still has a doctor appointment, but her mom is coming to drop off groceries and so her mom gets to watch Johnnie for the afternoon. I'm ok with that. I'm sure Johnnie is used to the Friday afternoon routine by now anyway. 

And so it was I actually got some ME TIME all day today which was unexpected. I did get a pic of Johnnie in class from Johnnie's teacher and that was ok in terms of replacing seeing him today. I get him tomorrow morning anyway so it was cool. I was happy to see him smiling in class with his classmates in the background. And so immediately I tried to take a nap after lunch and I had so many leftovers from the week I didn't have to go out and buy anything. Not to mention I had the Cuban Chicken bowl from Trader Joe's I had yet to open. THAT became lunch. And I got to do my parts of my grocery shopping run a little early today. I thought about the week that was since it was already mid-afternoon by the time I got done.  Hey I got a lot accomplished for the week didn't I? I got my taxes done. AND I'm getting a refund. Johnnie started school on my watch and the whole thing was pretty uneventful. Uneventful is GOOD. I did get a ping from work. The schedules survey didn't come yesterday, it came today. And so i updated the COVID vaccine schedules for the 3rd time this week. Might as well do the damn thing everyday don't I?! I didn't really feel like doing anything on this Friday night. Netflix night would have been just fine. But I didn't feel like watching anything new either. I did watch this YouTube clip about New Thought gurus from this guy James Jani who seems to want to expose these manifestation gurus as mostly scammers making money from courses rather than actually teaching people. It's an old paradox and an old argument. Should I pay Tony Robbins for giving me skillsets about mindset I wouldn't have had before? And yet this guy talks of money and the creation of value. In the end I think it is yet another distraction technique my ego has pulled to my attention. My gut says I'm on the right track, but not putting in as much energy into learning and 'sharpening the ax' before attempting to chop the tree down. And I'll go with that. And although there is also a lot of truth with the things he does talk about and there is no doubt there are scammers out there. I also can't doubt how I manifested specific things in my life already, even right down to a par on a hole in golf. That I visualized. Or a job offer from UCLA when I got laid off from USC. The trick is to document the examples on a daily basis. That way I don't doubt.  And to keep my focus on the things I want to experience in my reality.  What he talks about is his reality I'm sure. But it isn't mine. And if it isn't my reality, it's just distraction. Anyway I'm glad Friday is here and I can look forward to the weekend again.  It is all good...