Blech Lazy Energy

So today should have been more routine-like. Johnnie needed to get dropped off at camp, I get breakfast then I have my IS Team Meeting. But for some reason I woke up with yukky, lazy energy and I didn't feel like doing anything. I'm not sure what set that off really. Maybe it's because there wasn't anything urgent driving the work week unlike last week when I had to do the Town Hall every single morning. I had one more review to finish but I had put it off for almost a week now and I don't even know why other than the avoidance of potential conflict because the review was not going to be a good one. And then I was clearly still focused on the new school year for Johnnie coming up next week. Maybe it was doing an end-of-July count of my assets and account balances and found myself to be almost at $900K which means I already have enough to retire on. Barely, but still very much possible and still maintain my current lifestyle. Begs the question what the heck am I doing still working then? I go back to Scott's question from one of our golf conversations: Do you still enjoy what you do? The answer is generally yes. But there are pockets of annoyances that are brought on by a dare-I-say-it lack of patience with people in general. The kind of impatience that I still need to work on. Which makes it a better reason to learn from it than run away from it. Because whatever you run from, follows up that much I know for sure. And so it was that I distracted myself by hanging out on the couch for most of the morning, only getting up for lunch and reminding myself that a week ago I was already done with work at this time because I had traveled to the Echo Park facility. I felt more plugged in to my QueensCare job but only because of the social aspect of having dinner with my team later on that night. I guess Eloisa was right about that one... if you get people engaged and relating face to face, then that is the best way to create bonds. Also the best way to maintain them. 

By the time I picked up Johnnie from camp I had at least shook off most of the blech energy. That and moving around doing steps. I mean it was still a typically nice SoCal summer day out today and I did walk around the periphery of my neighborhood. The street in front of my garage was being worked on as well meaning I had to move my car and make sure I was parked on the Sawtelle side so I can drive out and about and that made sure I was getting steps in all day today. More steps to walk Claire, more steps to get to my car parked a couple of blocks away. It added up. And I finally got motivated enough to focus on stuff I needed to do for work. Never an end to people asking for reports, or asking for I.S. help. And Barbara was now asking for the stuff she sort of left the ball hanging on for the last month. That I could understand considering she had the worst health news of all regarding her husband. Never easy to care for someone dying. It is that which makes me appreciate having Johnnie around and even the dog too. I can't wait until tomorrow when I give her a bath she is starting to smell really earthy. Just look at the two of them in the house in the afternoon. Johnnie got to watching more Looney Tunes, more Roadrunner and Wil E. Coyote. Meep meep. I was back to making him lunch <he now has a newfound hankering for quesadillas! Those I can make in 5 minutes!> late and then heading out by 5:30 PM per our old routine to get Panda Express. We hadn't done that since before he left for Hawaii. He brought the dog with us but didn't take her out of the car. As for me, I still had bolognese leftovers but instead I cooked up the pork loins for my dinner. Gave me a chance to go do some exercises in the barbecue area too. And so I managed to make 11,000 steps and 60 active minutes pretty easily. I was just glad to have shaken off the stale energy from this morning. And then Johnnie watched Space Jam for the 2nd night in a row. Who KNEW he would get interested in LeBron James and basketball. Now I have to show him what a crossover stepback looks like. But that is cool that he even has heard of those moves. Gotta love media. And I didn't even get him to watch that movie! Lisa did that in Hawaii. It's all good.