A Chill Kind of Tuesday

Another Tuesday, another start of my mid-week my turn with Johnnie routine, starting with dropping him off at Penmar Camp. By now he's pretty much settled into the camp and for sure he is nowhere near the child that used to call me from camp 2 years ago. Already he knows all the camp counselors by name and just like he does with his regular school classmates he has gotten together a mental dossier of the kids he plays with. Oh yes, that one has long hair and looks like a girl but he's a boy. Oh yes that one is good at basketball. Hey I'm even GLAD he's trying out basketball. Glad he's trying out anything! In the meantime, I suddenly got busy yet again tracking down some numbers for some report. In my mind I know I've thrown Shilpa off the deep end of the pool but she's more than held her own, and I have to remind myself it took the better part of almost a year before Lam got to where he was totally independent. I did my IS Team Meeting and then got busy  working. Yesterday, I basically laid out what I wanted to get done this week, which was mostly everything about department goals and individual goals. All of them Performance Evaluation related. It is that time of year after all. But by lunchtime, whatever motivation I had to do stuff shifted and pretty radically too.  I had it in my mind all of a sudden that this was a great time to get the haircut I didn't get this past weekend. And so early afternoon after lunchtime would find me at Supercuts on Sepulveda getting a haircut! Yep a haircut in the middle of the week!  I had no appointment, just walked in and got one.  After which, I went to La Salsa next door and had me a couple of tacos. It is Taco Tuesday after all, why not augment a pretty skimpy lunch. Besides, his morning, I had a nice power walk around Penmar Park to get me to 3000 steps first thing. So you see, this was already not like a  typical work day on a typical work week. I told myself that I had worked pretty hard yesterday. And I actually flashed to this morning's IS Team Meeting. A meeting where I basically yelled at my team because I felt like they were doing this cruise control mode thing. I wanted a little action, a little movement on the network stuff from Noriel, the phone stuff from Nelson, and that damn Larry was looking at me like he had never done a software update in his life. I totally blew up over that one! I did apologize afterwards for all the colorful language I used. I just needed them to UP THEIR ENERGY was all. 

By the time I got Johnnie I had already called it a day work-wise although I was still getting pings here and there on TEAMS chat. It had gotten so warm that Johnnie actually suggested we go on over to the pool. It was a notion that got squished only because I wanted to make sure he had his late late lunch and by the time he got done with his penne noodles in chicken broth, he didn't feel like going to the pool anymore. And why not? Why not just hang around the couch playing with Claire? Look at the pic... it's like he has a blanket over him. That dog is really growing some pretty thick fur. Besides I had ice cream and cookies on the ready for him. Why NOT just watch some more videos? And today actually he asked to watch Llama Llama videos. Now those are things he hadn't watched in a really long time. It gave me a chance to work on other stuff while he watched those videos and he naturally figures out stuff he wanted to put on paper, like a drawing or a design or something, which he will naturally gift to his mom on Thursday. Two weeks into the summer break and we're already way different from last year where I had to figure out stuff for him to do, stuff for him to learn, anything I could that would occupy his time. Not so hard this year. He always comes back with something he made at the Penmar camp. And then before long it was already time to head to Panda Express to pick up dinner. Of course I had my shrimp ready to cook and put over chow mein for MY dinner. It was a chill evening tonight, and that is absolutely not a bad thing. Hey, it's summer. It's supposed to be a lot more relaxed, loose, and carefree. And that applies to me too obviously. I remind myself that last year I was dealing with the Bells Palsy thing that came up out of nowhere. Glad not to have any such things going on this year. Very very glad.