MORE Time with Johnnie and Mom

ROCKENWAGNER AT 7:30 AM  So my sleep got interrupted at 7:30 with a phone call form the Lisa household of course.  It was Johnnie. He wanted to make an "order". Half-asleep I realize that he did have an idea about what to do for breakfast and Lisa is just playing along. Turned out he wanted some croissants. Lisa just supplied the "hey Rockenwagner has the BEST croissants" thing, otherwise I would have just gone to the donut shop down the street. Their croissants are good too. OK, so maybe not quite as terrific as Rockenwagner. Which is why I found myself jumping into some shorts and driving down Washington Blvd still not quite awake so I could get croissants for all for breakfast. I got some ham-and-cheese for Lisa and i, some plain ones, and one chocolate one for Johnnie. My reward was that Johnnie gave me a back massate (see picture). And then off we went back to my apartment. Turned out I didn't actually have him all day even though Lisa is seeing Morris Aynechi's kids for dental cleaning. Actually, BECAUSE it's Dr Aynechi's kids, naturally Johnnie's presence is required. After all, we all used to go to Palm Springs for at least the weekend... right around this time of year in fact. Dr Morris and Lisa would volunteer at the Coachella fairgrounds, then we would all hang out afterwards. After they stopped volunteering, we would just hang out in Palm Springs anyway. Yeah, I do miss that time with them. I haven't seen them since June 2018 when we last did that.  And so what that meant was that Lisa was going to pick up Johnnie at my apartment around 11 AM. Ok. I have him for a couple of hours. It's good enough for me, at least for today. I gave him a shower then let him watch Wild Kratts, which is his NEW favorite TV show to watch.  

FRENCH DIP MMMM... Lisa did pick him up but closer to 11:30 and then I decided I wanted to have something different for lunch. No more Asian food, no more noodles, no more chicken. And so I decided to pick up a French dip sandwich at Marie Callenders across the street. I hadn't eaten at MC in a really long time. Used to be I'd go there after Sunday golf. But I haven't done that in more than a year and a half at least. And  I hadn't had French dip in longer than that. Used to be I'd have the one at Champagne after golf as well, with tomato soup too. That was so good. I miss it. And so you can imagine how nice it was to bite into this one. Yes it was takeout, but French dip au jus is still French dip au jus not matter how one enjoys it. And I enjoyed this one very very much thank you. That would be the 2nd food treat I enjoyed today already. How can it not be a memorable day at this point?  I didn't have anything planned for the rest of the day.  DIY HAIRCUT  I needed/wanted to get a haircut later on this afternoon. But for some reason I had it in my mind that it was ok to do it myself. I mean when I tried early in the pandemic, I didn't think I did so bad really, just cut it shorter than usual. Heck, it's going to start getting warmer real soon anyway. And so that's exactly what I did was to cut my hair. I will say I didn't do better than a Supercuts haircut. But I didn't do any worse either so there's that. Besides, being at home I cleaned myself up with a shower afterwards. Saved me $30 I think LOL. What I did not want to do was to binge watch something on Netflix. There weren't any new shows this weekend, but there's always something to watch. And when I'm not doing anything, that would be the default thing to do. And so I started watching TRAVELERS again and got through about 4 episodes before I realized I was hungry and needed to think about dinner.  For some reason I ended up in Marina del Rey Pavilions. That's because I was trying to get some Hansen's Lemon lime and they ran out at Whole Foods. And since I was out there anyway, the fastest thing to eat was to stop at El Pollo Loco drive through on Beethoven and Washington, right down the block from Lisa's. Second time I'm in this exact part of town today. 

ANOTHER MEAL WITH JOHNNIE AND LISA  Which was why it was astoundingly coincidental that Johnnie would call me right as I'm pulling away with my food. He missed Fuzzy he said. And wouldn't you know in another fit of synchronicity, Fuzzy was already in the back seat of my car? I was actually wondering earlier when Johnnie would miss his favorite bunny. And I was not going to bring him over unless he specifically asked. Well, he specifically asked. And so me being right down the block already, it was no problem to just drive over and have my El Pollo Loco meal with mom and son.  That would be the 2nd meal I'd be having with them today and this one was definitely unplanned. Still it was nice to eat together again and afterwards, Lisa cranked out Johnnie's latest toy. That would be a putting green, complete with a regulation putter and Titleist ProV1 balls. W-h-a-t? What in heck is she doing buying the most expensive golf balls? The cool thing was that Johnnie has a pretty nice putting swing already. This is ONE instance where I wanted him to learn from his mom's precision swing rather than my do-it-yourself, make-it-up-as-I go  putting swing. And he did knock in a few from 4 - 6 feet out. Hey I can't even say I'm automatic even at that distance.  It is definitely my Achilles heel in fact. And so it was that I went home around 9 PM. Heck dinner was actually pretty late even for me. And i found myself crashing on the couch and reverting back to default. Yep, I'm watching TRAVELERS again to end the evening.  I justified the binge watching with the fact that our tee time tomorrow was not until after 10 AM. I could sleep in. Have breakfast! It's all good. It turned out to be a pretty memorable day...