Funny How a Day Can Get Away From You

Ahh Friday at last and there is nothing on the docket except that FRB monthly birthday thing at 2 PM.  Oh and Lisa mentioned something about Johnnie resuming his swimming lessons... at my apartment pool of course. Might be a pretty good day for a tank day right? Especially how exhausted I had felt mid-week and how much worse my sleep was all week than last. You'd think so wouldn't you? I actually did have a nice start today with some meditation. Made myself breakfast. But I know when I'm not feeling motivated for the day when i don't take a shower. And so that would be twice this week that I skipped the shower. Hmm... Am I in the middle of burning out? Should I just aim to chill the entire weekend? Starting today? The funny thing is you once you put yourself on autopilot and you allow your own mind to wander you never know which direction you're going to go. This morning for example I had it in my mind that I was going to get Johnnie some replacement long pants for the couple he has already ripped at the knees... on some reinforcement knees no less. I was going to go to Target. But decided to look for it online since you never know if they carry Johnnie's size anymore. Turned out the exact pair that was a duplicate of the ones he ripped were available at Target Sawtelle... which is on Santa Monica. And so I thought I'd save time by buying them online and picking them up later. I decided that instead of waiting until the weekend I'd just pick them up today. Like right then and there today at 11 AM. And so then I thought, ahhh I'll just pick up lunch on the way home since it was nearly noon anyway.  Since I was already there anyway I thought to myself > "is there any place on Santa Monica Blvd I had a hankering for?> The answer didn't come quick enough. I was already on my way home. When I got to Pico I decided to stop at Marukai. Why NOT get some lunch from there? Japanese food will work! There were so many choices I literally blew time just trying to make up my mind! I settled on pork katsu which I hadn't had in a while and then a Japanese pancake with that thick sweet sauce on top. Mmmm. The pork might not have been the freshest in the world, but the pancake was savory enough. As it was Johnnie had his swim class at 1 PM but of course Lisa would come right after picking up Johnnie early from Beyond the Bell. Like at 12:30. And so they were already at the swimming pool building by 12:45. Oh well, I headed on over there, let them in and just chilled and enjoyed the sun. Turned out to be a nice warm day after all. Johnnie went through a spell in the beginning as if he didn't know how to swim and how he hated this activity. That was to be expected after the long lay-off I suppose. It HAS been nearly 6 months since his last lesson. Today the difference was that Lisa was there and the dog was there.  Look at the picture of the dog trying to "save" Johnnie I guess, that's how loudly he was whining about being in the water in the beginning. Lisa and I remarked at how we both hated when Johnnie was being this dramatic though I would have to wonder where he would pick that up? Not ME! In the end he decided that he knew how to swim after all. I want to get him to the point where he's thinking about it because that is what sources his fear. When he just does staff, he's just fine. And after the hour when I was there he was swimming just fine. I had to leave early today... since I wanted to make the FRB Birthday thing. I didn't know who was hosting or what was on tap, we (IS) have done our part last month. This month the Q Management Team hosted and they played a Zoom version of what's different on my screen, which was almost the same game that Johnnie plays in HIS kindergarten class. Still as entertainment purposes went, it was fine.  And at the end of the session, thought not even 3 PM, I deemed myself done with the work week officially. I wanted to close my eyes and take a nap on the couch and I started to... but then I had something on TV... the show Outlander about a time travelling woman who goes back from 1948 to 1769 Scotland. What is it about time travelling shows that fascinates me so much?! A couple of episodes later it was already almost 5:30 PM and I basically had the lazies. I didn't want to go anywhere or do anything. Heck getting my usual 10,000 steps today was work. And for dinner all I did was heat up the chicken piccata dish I got from Trader Joe's. I at least got to Trader Joe's and Whole Foods today. That was the accomplishment of the day. Where did today go? It went by so fast...