How Did I Get Busy Thursday

I don't quite know what happened to today. This morning I woke up, got Johnnie ready, dropped him off at school like usual... and although I didn't have a sports team jersey to put on him for sports jersey day, I had him put on his Mar Vista school shirt. That is his real favorite team anyway. BTW I rectified that by quickly ordering a USA Mens National Soccer team jersey for the future. I went home with absolutely nothing on my schedule except for my IS Team Meeting. It was clear sailing ahead for a quiet Thursday. I should have known when my Team Meeting ran long that it would not turn out to be so chill. It was Kennedy's first day back from vacation so of course there was the banter that was missing for a week that I pointed out elongated my meeting for at least 15 minutes. And THEN I did the schedules lookahead for the vaccine. Breaking it out by manufacturer took an extraordinarily long time! As in it took all damn morning and then some! I was not expecting that. I got so tied up with it I looked up and it was lunch time already. I quickly ate up one of those frozen Trader Joe's lunches simply because I still had a lot of work to do. And then the next time I looked up it was already 2 PM! And I wasn't done just yet! Damn. And I looked at my Fitbit and I was barely at 1500 steps. Nearly time to pick up Johnnie and I had worked all day. In my own mind, I was creating a template that will take far less time for this stuff to do the next time I do it. That is my hope anyway. And so I picked up Johnnie at school and I was mostly done with my work and I sat him down with some mac-and-cheese and we were good to go. And then there was more back-and-forth with vaccination stock reporting as now I'm supposed to be doing that for HRSA. I don't know how I end up getting volunteered for these things other than maybe they trust me to get it done. And I will choose to look at it that way. That I am simply the most dependable.

So dependable am I that sometimes people take it for granted that they can do stuff that they should be doing simply because Arnel has it under control. Case in point Lisa calling for Johnnie hand-off. No earlier than usual, no later than usual either. Johnnie had just finished dinner and this time we ate right there at Panda Express with Claire with us and all. She was tied to my chair so as not to bother any other patrons but it turned out just fine. Johnnie was doing his usual Wild Kratts thing when she called <see pic about the question about silkworms...> She mentions right away that she has a head cold and she isn't feeling well. The conversation even veered towards whether I should keep Johnnie for the night so she could get some rest. For a head cold. Yep. I would have done it actually... since it IS one of those things that I do that gets taken for granted anymore. Except that it is funny hair day at school for Johnnie tomorrow and mom and son had been talking it up all last weekend. How she would now forget it is simply Lisa being Lisa. And so I reminded her and of course all previous talk is nullified. Of course she has to pick up Johnnie so they can do crazy hair day tomorrow. Unbelievable. When she came to pick up Johnnie she did not look like she was sick or tired or anything. She did mention that she needed me to pinch hit again tomorrow because she has patients. Not for school drop-off but for school pick-up. As long as I could do it at 3 PM I had no problem with that. And apparently swim lessons are still on, so that will take care of my late afternoon too LOL. Finally when mom and son drive off I could breathe out and get to some ME time. The day had turned much busier than I thought. And tonight although I know I SHOULD be cleaning up the house, I simply didn't feel like it. I spent the evening catching up to 11,000 steps since I was barely at half that when we had dinner this evening. And then all I could do was crash on the couch and numbly watch TV. All good. Short week is almost over.

One last thing: The Lakers were officially eliminated from the NBA Playoffs tonight, losing to the Suns and the series 2-4. I thought they were in total control a week ago when they were up 2-1. And then AD got hurt and LBJ looked like he was out of gas. I think this wasnt more about Phoenix as it was the Lakers simply didn't have it this year. It's what happens when you only have a couple of months before the season started again. The team simply did not have enough time together. And both AD and LBJ got hurt and they couldn't flip the switch like we were all expecting to I think. It's ok. I expected them to make it a fight at least but not with this group I think. We'll see about next year...