Tanking Friday, and Johnnie's Swim Lesson

I got up bleary eyed at 5:55 AM this morning to lock up a tee time for next Sunday. For some reason I didn't get the one I wanted at 8:50 at Roosevelt. But I did get a 9:10 one and that was good enough. And then of course generating Johnnie's daily pass to send to Lisa. All by 6 AM mind you. I wished I could have gone back to sleep but once I got my brain turned on I couldn't turn it back off. I did do some nice meditation at least before I did get up once and for all to start my day. I did have one big thing on my schedule and that was about an hour meeting with OCHIN about the Risk analysis surveys that I had put off all the way from February. Finally 4 months later and I'm getting around to them.  I did do some indoor aerobics to my own playlist first thing to get my blood flowing and before I made myself some nice corned beef hash and eggs breakfast. THEN I finally took a shower. Hey, it's Friday! And by the time my morning meeting got done it was still just past 11 AM. I was already thinking I had done enough work for the day.  I was ready to take a nap and just couch potato it for the rest of the day until I get a call from Lisa around 2:30 PM letting me know they're 5 minutes away. I was confused until she reminded me Johnnie is still having swimming lessons today, just that it was going to be an hour or so later than before since she wanted Johnnie to get his prizes on Prize Day Friday for Beyond-the-Bell. Well of course Johnnie had to get his prizes doesn't he? And so I headed over there, brought over Johnnie's wetsuit since it had gotten a bit windy and I knew he was going to complain about being cold and then just chilled myself like I had planned... just that I'm going to do it at my own facility pool.  True enough, Johnnie is whining about not wanting to swim, and whining about the water being cold. But with goggles and a wetsuit? He was going swimming today. He's lucky he's not alone with me or I'd have just pushed him in the water! As it was he did get a really nice swim lesson in and I'm very confident he can now go across the long end of the pool... and maybe make it unconscious competence once he just gets comfortable being underwater. Lisa went in with him as well, prompting me to go back to my apartment to get HER a towel.  And of course it didn't stop there...

Lisa asked Johnnie if he'd like to warm up a bit in the jacuzzi. Of course the big jacuzzi wouldn't be working. But the small one in my building was warm enough. And so Johnnie dragged us both there. Which was ok until Lisa decided she had to go to the bathroom. And the public one by the pool isn't open of course. Sigh. And so I had to let her use my bathroom in my apartment. WITH ONE CAVEAT! I told her if she said one negative thing, she would never again be allowed in my facility. And so she wouldn't tease fate. She used my bathroom alright, but with her facemask blindfolding her and with Johnnie guiding her washing her hands LOL. It was as comical as it sounded. But hey, I'm DAMN serious about her not being allowed to see my place. Those are the rules. They were NOT negotiable. Still, she got it all done and then we all went to the little jacuzzi. And Johnnie all of a sudden showed how comfortable he was diving under the water. I knew he was. It was here that we played our look-for-the-rock game in the summer when he was still learning. Lisa was duly impressed. And then I heated up the pizza he got from Beyond the Bell and voila... He got his dinner in too. By the time they left it was already past 5 PM! Mom and son had spent the entire afternoon in my building. Quite spontaneously. When they left, I made myself some stuffing and cooked up the Chicken Piccata I had just bought from Trader Joe's earlier in the day. That was dinner. And finally finally I could just finally potato-couch it for the rest of the day like I had wanted to do. I will say that I did not expect to have the kind of time I spent with Lisa and Johnnie this afternoon, but it wasn't all that bad really. Most of it was pleasant really. Even Claire had a moment were she thought she was back home when I let her in my apartment. She immediately headed to her favorite pillow which I didn't put away. I resisted giving any more meaning to the afternoon's events. Just Johnnie's swim lesson is all. And then I ended up binge-watching TRAVELERS to conclude my Friday evening. Another weekend beckons. And I'm back picking up Johnnie first thing...