Back to Normal Saturday

So today with Johnnie spending the night, it felt a little closer to normal. At least I get to spend Saturday with him like I always do. At least half the day anyway usually. Today Lisa gave me the green light to keep him all day if I wanted to. I'd like to believe that she actually is considering that I have missed Johnnie these past 3 weeks and wanted us to spend time together and I'm happy to leave it at that. In the meantime, I realized that the normal routines that I follow went ka-bloowee last night. Example: I didn't do my usual 11,000 steps. Not even close actually. I logged in just 74400 and 22 active minutes. The whole thing just slipped my mind really.  Instead I was focused on simply enjoying movie and popcorn with my son. All that means is that I have to swap my light steps days from what would have been today to yesterday. Which means I have to go for at least 11,100 steps today. Not a problem really just something diufferent to focus on. I didn't really do much different. We didn't head out for breakfast and a car wash. That would come later. We did bring back McDonald's to the apartment, with Johnnie noting that they had Portuguese sausage in Hawaii instead of regular sausage. And then of course I was ok with him having his fill of more Wild Kratts. After all, I'm sure he didn't see any for 3 whole weeks.  He got so so dark that I had to put up a pic of his arm next to mine and note very little difference in coloration now. I remember when I would get REALLY dark hanging out at the beach, so much so my mom would just shake her head.  Anyway the morning went by in a snap and now Johnnie is fully exercising the eating routine. He told me he didn't feel like he ate much at all in Hawaii. And so now he's making up. I just hope he doesn't do it in one day. At lunchtime, he wanted us to get Domino's pizza. I was happy to oblige because they had a %5.99 special. And then on the way back I made a stop at Lisa's office to drop off her keys. Johnnie did NOT want to get out of the car at first. Somehow he didn't feel like saying hi to everyone there. Lisa was not having that. She made me get him AND the dog and made him say hi to everyone. It turned out we ended up eating the pizza we bought with the Saturday crew at Lisa's having pizza themselves. It was relatively uneventful even when Lisa nixed Johnnie getting one of her bottled water from the front because it cost 60 cents. Her office, her rules. Never mind that it's for her son really but hey that's her and that is fine.  <No wonder Johnnie feels some degree of discomfort. I did too> Anyway we went back to the apartment and we hung out the rest of the afternoon like usual.  

Actually the rest of the day felt like a weekday somehow. Johnnie did his Wild Kratts and I put my head down and got caught up. I had 3 days of journalling that I missed, caught up with emails too. AND I had to prep for Johnnie going back to camp next week and then back to school the week after that. I had to do laundry. AND of course I was focused on my steps today. Like it were a weekday. In the end I finished 12,400 steps today, more than making up for what I didn't do yesterday. And I caught up with the journal all in one afternoon. By the evening, I really did turn it into a normal weeknight. I took Johnnie to Panda Express to get dinner. Normally Lisa would pick him up late afternoon but not today. I'm sure she's trying to catch up with herself as well. Who knows how she's feeling but I figured a little alone time would be good for her too. After all, she took care of 4 kids for 3 weeks in Maui! Johnnie and I ended up watching 101 Dalmatians with some popcorn. Somehow I can't believe we had never done that. Do movie night with popcorn. He does it a lot at Lisa's I know.  But it felt good to do it tonight.  AND after watching the movie, we ended up watching a lot of music videos. How Johnnie ended up knowing a couple of Bruno Mars songs I have never heard him sing is beyond me! Also songs from Dua Lipa and the Weekend.  No problem being up on pop culture with my kid I guess. I noted to myself that I actually enjoyed tonight with Johnnie instead of me binge watching on the many sci-fi time travel stuff I binge on. I guess I don't binge on 12 Monkeys tonight. However, that didn't stop me from distracting myself even after Johnnie fell asleep. AND he as asleep by 9:30 PM. Instead for some reason my stomach was having issues. Probably with the chicken wings from Domino's. Couldn't have been the pizza. Couldn't have been Panda Express. Could it? Any way I made 3 trips to the bathroom tonight dumping whatever was in my stomach. Could it be another sympathetic tether to whatever was bothering Lisa? Anyway I played Candy Crush while I was taking trips to the throne. And ended up getting past Level 600! I remember starting Level 1 when Roe was still learning it. More than 6 years ago. I also noted that yesterday was an anniversary of us coming to the U.S. 47 years ago. Wow. What a timemarker. Anyway I finally did fall asleep around 12:30 AM. And I remind myself of the 8:50 golf tee time tomorrow. But looking at Johnnie fast asleep in bed, I admit makes my heart feel full. Everything is good in the world.