Monday Short Week Last Days of August

This week shouldn't be all that bad at work. After all, it's a short week for me. In fact, the next TWO weeks are short weeks since I'm bookending Labor Day weekend with my birthday day off on Friday. Still I remind myself to be aware... after all, I was sort of blindsided with the whole chickenpox thing from Johnnie and then the Lisa blow-up. It's not at all impossible that one was related to the other. I think the Universe is still testing me actually. This morning I try to put all that aside and remind myself that it is STILL my birthday week this week, falling right in the middle of the week in fact and I should not let anything bug me. With Lisa deciding to hold Johnnie back from school pretty much for the rest of the week that does mean she gets to tote him around all day today whatever she is doing. She was talking about Pilates, about piano lessons in Pasadena and then having Johnnie hang out with her mom. Yep, Lisa just doing her Lisa things. At least I didn't have to think about Johnnie for the day. I reprised last week's walk around the Sawtelle/Sepulveda corridor and took a pic of the 405 Freeway while I was on the last leg of the walk back to the apartment. Eezy-peezy 5000 steps and almost 50 minutes already before I even took my morning shower. And then I tried to put my head down to finish the HRSA reports due tomorrow. Yep they're due tomorrow. But tomorrow is also that almost-all-day Leadership thing with a partner who's supposed to help facilitate operational efficiency efforts. Yep, I'm rolling my eyes. We'll see how this one goes.  I don't even know why I'm involved other than I am providing resources they need. Data. IS Support. EHR support. Ok I guess I have to participate to understand what it is that's going to go on. As it was I barely got my reports done by mid-afternoon. I had a French dip sandwich from Marie Callenders for lunch and it did not sit well with my stomach this time. Anyway I did get a call from Lisa around 5 PM. She's heading back to her mom's house to pick up Johnnie and they're going to be back around 7-ish. She also mentioned she had a soccer game tonight and it was actually a pretty meaningful game. Her team made the Finals I guess and so I agreed to come watch. Since Johnnie isn't going to school tomorrow, then it's ok to have him stay up until late as well. I hurriedly did my steps so I'd at least be at or close to 15000 by the time Lisa dropped Johnnie off. Wouldn't you know the next time I hear from her, they're already at her house and she's doing god knows what. Lisa being Lisa again. She keeps having it in her mind that I'm there. That's the only way I can explain why she makes choices that somehow circumvents me being in my apartment. She didn't drop Johnnie off. She told me she could leave Claire while we watched the game. Huh what? I had no intention of coming back to her house after. And so I took the dog and dropped her off at my apartment, and then drove back with Johnnie to the soccer field. I didn't mention that it was almost exactly 4 years ago that Lisa's team DDStrykers won the championship at this same field. The last time they did I think. Felt like there had been a lot of unraveling since then. There were some usual faces of course. Paul and Jennifer and the other Jennifer. And Chris her brother. People are starting to look older and less athletic. Chris I could remember would run around all day. He wasn't doing that tonight LOL. Paul I could remember was a rock in the back line. He wasn't doing that tonight. And Lisa... well Lisa is just Lisa. She gets a goal here and there and generally just tries not to mess up. Which is perfectly ok. She's still living sort of the dream of being able to play right? Johnnie and I stuck around to watch for most of the game. Look at him hanging around the fence. This is not the little boy that ran around way back when he was not even 3 years old. Kind of like old times. I even got a hug from Paul and Jen. But this time I did not feel like part of the group and that was ok. I'm just here to watch. Paul and Jen know Lisa and I are no longer together. But I think they're the only ones that know. The game was actually close throughout the first half with the other team clinging to a 1-0 lead. Some familiar faces on the other side too. Hard to believe this used to be MY life on Monday nights back in the day. But that was a long time ago now. And tonight, when the other team got another couple of goals, I packed us up and headed on home. Back to the apartment. Back to Monday night. Johnnie might not be going to school tomorrow. But I have a long day at work and so he needs to be kept busy with schoolwork of his own. I asked Ms Hwang his teacher to give him some worksheets that his class is working on to keep him occupied. Thank God  I've got something...