Blue Day

No better example than this morning for me to realize I am not a perfect parent either (note to Lisa). How I would get through Johnnie's breakfast and get him all ready to go to school before I realized I hadn't even packed up his lunch is beyond me. Hey, it HAPPENS. And then Johnnie reminded me that it's FAVORITE COLOR DAY at school, which meant I had to deck him out in blue. Already I'm a bit off-routine. I felt off really, but that wasn't going to let me be late taking him to school. There simply is no excuse as far as I'm concerned. And so even though we got to the line to get in 5 minutes later than usual so there was a lot more people in line than the usual time we get there, we still weren't all that far back really. Just a few kids. And I was still in and out of there by 8:01. And I was still able to get home to just sit and get my bearings again. Enjoy my Earl Grey hot tea and my breakfast in relative peace and quiet. It really does feel different when Johnnie isn't around. It's moments like these when I had just dropped him off that I can truly appreciate working from home. And then once I got showered, I put my head down, reminded myself that I still had my entire presentation for tomorrow's Tech Council meeting to do and went at it. Last month it felt like getting the entire thing done was pretty effortless. This month, it felt like I had a bunch of new graphs and visuals to do. Which meant I didn't get done in a couple of hours. Heck I still had the IS Team meeting to do and then of course people kept pestering me for stuff here and there. But I kept at it, only stopping for lunch. I still had the pizza from last night but today I decided to grill the Italian sausage. I had plenty of food in the fridge, why not eat them? I will say though that washing dishes gets really old and that would be the main reason for eating out for me. I made some pretty good progress with my presentation, as in I got the meat of it done early afternoon, but not all of it. It seemed like time went by so fast that it was 3 PM by the time I lifted my head from my computer and it was already time to pick up Johnnie. Today he had pizza bread in his food bag, which made for a snack or a second lunch for him when we got home. He brought home a nice dreamcatcher that he made in class too. I was pretty impressed because it looked cool. And then he asked if I could watch Dinosaur Train with him. Wow, I don't know where that came from. We hadn't watched dinosaur train in forever. I remember when that was his staple TV show but that was almost 2 years ago now. It had been so long, some seasons and episodes had opened up for us to watch, whereas before we would have had to pay for them. I was obviously happy to oblige him and though I still had work to do, I did sit with him for an episode or two. And then it was back to work for me. I know he doesn't like it when I leave him alone and get in front of the computer but we gotta do what we gotta do. And so I kept at it with my presentation. Between the dog needing to be walked, and then eventually heading out to Sawtelle to pick up Panda Express for Johnnie's dinner, and then making mine (3rd week in a row I'm frying up shrimp to go with Panda Express chow mein on a Tuesday night), I didn't get done with all my work. I knew by then that i was going to have to put in some work when Johnnie fell asleep, the trick though was not having to stay up all night. And so it was that Johnnie got to bed by 9:30 and just as soon as I heard him softly breathing, I went back to my work. I actually finished everything by 11 PM so it wasn't that bad, although it took another half hour to get my brain to calm down enough for me to get to sleep too. But it was mission accomplished and I was sure I was going to have a pretty good presentation tomorrow.  Thumbs up all around.