Another cycle begins

Another Monday, another cycle starts, and these days really early. As in as soon as I'm awake and out of bed. I notice it's only 6:30 AM. I dragged myself to my computer and immediately log in to the LAUSD site to get Johnnie his Daily Pass for the day. It would be too much to ask for Lisa to learn how to do this herself. It's just easier if I do it. Does that make me an enabler I wonder? Half the time, maybe more, I don't care I just want to get it done and over with. I wondered what they did yesterday for Mother's Day. But then again do I really care? I had Johnnie for my Mother's Day celebration with my fam and that was all I could have asked for. Seeing comments on FB about how cute Johnnie was made my day. And so today I got Johnnie his Daily Pass emailed AND texted it to Lisa and then since I was already up, started my reporting routine for Monday. That would be all the COVID vaccination data of course. And also SINCE I was already up, I might as well put some shorts on and do my walk. It was barely 8:05 AM when I started. When I got back I had logged in 5000 steps and it wasn't even 9 AM yet. All good. Gave me time to have a nice breakfast and take a shower before the Monday Business Continuity Meeting. Except that when I got myself dressed and logged on, there was no meeting. It had been scheduled for this afternoon! Oh well, i guess I get to finish all my reports then. I thought about this week ahead and what my intentions were. I intend to have a drama-free work week this week especially in the aftermath of a fairly dramatic week last week. Or was that just me judging myself harshly? I reminded myself to focus on replacement income so I don't have to work for anyone. While still working on helping others. Or at least so that I can choose to stay working but ONLY if I want to. Right now I have enough of a stash to go on for a year without working... but then there's the following years after that. I also know that I have more than $750K put away in retirement accounts already which would leave me with more than $500K after taxes. Can I live off of passive income from that? What I wish is to have $940000 invest it in QYLD and get $6200 a month after taxes. That already gets me to where I am right now. So now to turn $500K into $940K... 

So I posted a pic of Lisa and Johnnie walking Claire in their neighborhood. It was near 5 PM by this time and my time for the Johnnie hand-off back to me. By then I had finished all my reports, I had gotten to nearly 14000 steps already which means I could take it easy for the rest of the evening AND I got to 130 Active Minutes. Another Monday, another hard physical day. But frankly I didn't really feel it. I did walk to Ralphs to get the grocery shopping that I simply didn't get to this weekend. But it was a bit chilly outside and so I didn't really feel tired at all. Besides, I really took it easy Saturday and Sunday didn't I. I told myself THAT is why I push on Monday. So the rest of the weekend is gravy. I posted a pic of what my apartment looks like once Johnnie is back in it. His lunch bag all over, treats from  Lisa's house. The dog napping in the corner. I can't figure out why Lisa keeps dumping stuff to me. Doesn't she realize I have 1/5 the living space that she does? The food I understand. And I have to find a better strategy than simply throwing all that away. Maybe give it to some of the homeless people around? And at least she did focus on his studies. Part of the guilt trip she places on herself that she doesn't spend enough time on it with Johnnie. I don't have that problem, nor do I have a guilt trip. We did well for the year. We've got all of summer to gear up for the next school year. I did it already. LAST summer. All is good. And so I let Johnnie simply watch the Magic School Bus all night. Hey he hadn't watched TV in 3 days I'm sure. He already did his homework, and although he wanted to eat a pizza, I already made him his chicken broth penne too. AND I cooked up some nice chicken thighs marinated in galbi and calamansi. It turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. And so it was that I got to start another Monday cycle with Johnnie. And Claire of course. She's doing much better with her poop so I think she has finally recovered from whatever was ailing her stomach. By the time 9 PM rolled around I was ready for bed. But oddly even though Johnnie was already deep asleep and so was Claire on my other side before 10 PM, my mind was still racing somewhat. I didn't effectively go to sleep until it was almost midnight. Probably because I had done that the last 3 days. But at least I know I will get more than 5 hours of sleep. I think I'm going to need it after I looked at my Fitbit and realized I had done 16000 steps today!!! Second most number of steps I've done that I can remember. Ever.  No wonder my legs felt a bit tired. I need rest now. I welcome that very very much.