It's May Already

It's the first work Monday in May and this morning I woke up super early to make sure I could be in the area of Mar Vista Elementary. I will admit that I'm not at all 100% confident that she would get Johnnie's Beyond-the-Bell paperwork in properly this morning. And so by 7:45 AM I started walking towards the school. Ahh, I needed to get steps in first thing anyway don't I? I called her before showing my face and she at least responded that she had the paperwork with her. Ok then, maybe we could just turn it in to the office together. This would make it the first time dad and mom are both with Johnnie in line to bring him in. Didn't happen all of TK. There would be times when we would both pick him up from STAR together but even those were few and far between. So to show up this morning and Lisa and Johnnie were already in line was I'm sure pretty new. No one had seen she and I together either. As it was, the whole thing with the dropping off the paperwork thing took all of 5 seconds. That was because the Daily Pass system had seemingly crashed and everyone was in line to get their entry pass in where we were turning in our paperwork. The principal just took it and put it to one side and that was that. Simple as pie as Johnnie would say. And I hadn't even made it home on my walk back before the school called already. I guess Lisa forgot to put on the emergency contact names LOL.  Still, paperwork is in and like it or not Johnnie is enrolled in Beyond the Bell. MY problem with picking him up on Wednesday at 11 AM and moving forward until school closes in June is no more and that's all good. All that stuff I got off my chest with that text with Eloisa? Moot now. Now to talk to Johnnie about how things are going to be different. And now we need to work in a new routine again. It's going to feel a little more like last year pre-pandemic when I would make Johnnie lunch and all, just that I won't have to wait until the very end of the day to pick him up. By the time I walked back in the house it was almost 9 AM and I was nearly at 5500 steps already. A good start to the day is what I'd call it. The Monday morning was pretty uneventful but still I had this cloud hanging over me. That's because I wanted to get my FCC application done by today and I hadn't even started it yet. I kept telling Oneida I'm almost done, I'm almost done... and truly I had every bit of confidence I'd be done in plenty of time but really I was just telling her anything so she would stop bugging me. In the meantime, I still have all my Monday morning reports to do don't I?! And I had to work on those BEFORE I did my FCC grant app. After all, the HRSA report is due tomorrow and I wanted to get it out of my hair TODAY. I took turns working on all this stuff and taking a break and taking a walk outside. After all, it was such a beautiful day today. I wandered to Sepulveda at lunchtime so I could get money out of the bank. And when I got done, I walked to Subway across the street to get lunch. Man, I hadn't had Subway in a really long time. Last time was when I picked some up at Harbor the first time we played at 11 AM way back in November. But before that, I hadn't had any Subway since before the pandemic sent us all home. Used to be I'd at least make it to the one at the old AT&T building where I used to work and get my meatball sandwich and tuna sandwich. What a combo huh? Which is exactly what I had today. Ate it at the barbecue area at home. I think despite what I think about work, it is still something to be grateful about that I get to eat lunch at home. And so with that, I finished my work, never really got to my FCC app, but strangely I knew I'd get it finished by tomorrow 100% guaranteed. I was almost late getting to Lisa's to pick up Johnnie I was working so hard. And I found mom and son putting clothes away. Not sure why that is such a huge task for Lisa. I used to do laundry pretty routinely twice a week back in the day. Hand-off was uneventful at least, and so was dinner. The cool thing was Johnnie wanted to watch Dinosaur Train again. I have pictures of him watching it TWO years ago at this apartment. Glad to see he still likes it. I knocked off at 9 AM. I did it again, the whole staying up late last night doing nothing really and only getting barely 4 hours of sleep. Why do I do that? At least I get to catch up tonight...