Friday Down Time

It's Friday and how do you think I spent the first day I have had alone (without the dog at least) for the first time in 3+ weeks? By getting up at 5:55 AM simply to get a tee time for the next next Sunday golf. It is so hard to get one for Harbor Golf Course anymore! I did get one but not until 10:40 AM. Oh well, at least we get a freebie game right? Scott would be very pleased LOL. Anyway today I wanted to clean the house some, especially considering I had not done so in 3+ weeks. I didn't have the energy for it last night, especially since I spent almost a half hour with Lisa and Johnnie outside with the new truck. But this morning I had it in my mind that I was even going to do the bathroom first. And at least get a shower in to boot. And so I did. Even before breakfast. Even before I did anything else I had already cleaned the shower and the bathroom floors and the toilet. How's THAT for getting something done today huh? I was on track to lollygag all day today too except for a couple of things. I actually had a lot of clarity while doing meditation this morning and really got in to what I had to do with transitioning to working for myself-slash-retired if I want kind of life. You know the same stuff I had been working on for years now. But I still need to work on minimizing distractions and maximizing focus and repetition. And this morning I actually got into a live trading day via YouTube. Got an idea of what to look forward to probably on a daily basis. And then later on a series of texts from Karl got me focused on what else I needed to clean and clear. What other memories and programs I was stuck on that was holding me back. There was the real estate stuff with Brooktree Circle which we could have bought, and the tools we spent money on that were pretty much useless. Lots of money on. Sigh. These days everything is on Reddit or TikTok or YouTube. For free! Anyway all that happened in the morning and so a lollygag day turned into a feeling of accomplishment at least.

It would have been more of the same in the afternoon actually. I cleaned up the bedroom too which was already half the apartment and I felt really good about my Friday already. After the meeting with my EHR team I had already packed in the work day and looked forward to a quiet Friday evening. Until... I got a call from Penmar Park. It was 4:40 and I was getting ready to finish off my steps for the day. Johnnie was still there and needing to be picked up because they were ready to close up for the summer. It's the last day of summer camp after all. Where was Lisa? I decided I wasn't going to ask. I jetted down there and picked up Johnnie. And THEN I called Lisa. Turned out she went to her office to see patients. And was planning on picking up Johnnie at 5 PM. Only the camp regularly closed at 4:30 PM. Johnnie in the meantime asked if I could hang around for dinner as a surprise. My son is now seemingly wanting to spend lots of time with me. And I would have been happy too, except that Lisa was bringing her dad back with her. That takes care of that. I waited until she got to her house and then I took off. Just another event I need to shake off as an irregular blip I guess. I got myself some Thai food ag BKK101 tonight. Because my body ejected the beef strips quesadilla I made myself for lunch. What happened there? Maybe that meat was bad? Anyway I replenished with Pad See Ew and ate most of it this evening. I got back on to my quiet Friday and got on to watching more of 12 Monkeys. Something about the whole going back in time thing that just attracts me. Or is it a tug that it is something I have to do for myself to undo certain things? Certainly lines up with all the change-past-history I've been doing about all the limiting beliefs that I got programmed with about making a whole ton of money and how to get that. You get raised by an entrepreneur and a business owner and Lisa ended up that way. I got raised by accountants working 9-5 and I ended up that way too. Somehow I still have to break that mode of thinking in order to retire comfortably with even more income coming in than when I get a paycheck currently. That paycheck has to come from somewhere. But it never had to come from having a job. I'm still working on creating that. That would STILL be something.