Golf Sunday

Funny about the people you meet at the golf course. A good part about not having a regular fivesome anymore is that you do get to intersect with all these other people and believe me I KNOW there is no such thing as an accident in terms of the people that come into your life, even for the few hours you play golf. Today we had Keno, who played with before and who we remember because he was playing well until we started talking about divorce and then he completely fell apart, the subject apparently being a touchy item with him. When I reminded him today, he had a big laugh about it yet again. And then another woman that played with us, I didn't remember at first but it turned out she was with the foursome right in front of us the last time we played at Harbor. And I remember her entire foursome were actually 4 pretty damn good players who happened to be women. She turned out to be a commisioner  (judge) at the Children's Court in Monterey Park, the same court were Johnnie's formal and official adoption to us was held. Immediately when she told us about that, all kinds of happy thoughts came to me about that day and I had to express them, realizing of course that those kinds of those were the ones she officiated over. Anyway, about my golf game. I will just say i did not have a good golf game at all. And that's with some visualization last night that I would have a good game today. Instead, it was back to that old program about me whiffing on the fairway. I have GOT to get rid of that program once and for all! I mean it is truly getting annoying how I would hit this nice long shot off the tee, and then mishit the ball on the fairway as if I had never hit a ball ever. I have to get my mechanics down so I actually hit the ball, instead of barely hitting it as if I swung at something I didn't or couldn't see. I should have known what kind of game I was going to have on the very first hole. Good first shot, 2nd shot hits branches, yanked the 3rd shot way left, and knocked in a long putt for a 6. Nice shot off the tee on Hole 4 right on the green. But I didn't get a par. Long putt on 7 from way beyond the fringe and all the way in. I simply was way too inconsistent today. But I did manage to play on what turned out to be a beautiful Sunday. 

And so after golf, I promised Lisa I'd watch Claire for the rest of the afternoon while she and Johnnie went sailing with Joah so I went over to her house to pick up the dog. It wasn't even 11:30 yet, that's how convenient it is to play at Penmar on Sundays. I have the entire afternoon left and there's absolutely no dealing with traffic on the way home. I got the usual lunch from Crimson and spent the afternoon watching football and basically just chilling. I had a thought that I might clean up the house a little. But that thought got lost on the couch too. By 6 PM I pinged Lisa to see when they were coming by to get the dog back. Not that I care really, she is very chill when she's around me after all. But then came some Lisa drama. She said she didn't feel well and asked me if I could bring Claire. I laughed silently because to me doesn't feel well with Lisa sometimes can equal feeling lazy. But that's alright. At least I'll get to see Johnnie for a bit. Except that I got a whole lot more than that. It seems that Lisa really doesn't feel well, or at least she doesn't think she's well. I know when I give in to those anxious thoughts in my head, I always panic that I'm going to die or something. Johnnie was trying to stay out of her way trying to amuse himself. And when I asked if he had eaten yet, well of course he hadn't. And so I made him dinner. Cooked up some of that ramen we bought at Mitsuwa yesterday. Hey, that's a lot of ramen. And when Lisa brought up that maybe she needs help getting Johnnie to school tomorrow, I jumped at the chance and let her know he could simply spend the night at my apartment and I'll take him to school. She did not resist at all. And so I packed up Johnnie's school bag, packed up some clothes and just as soon as Johnnie finished dinner off we went before she could change her mind LOL. And so THAT is the big surprise for this Sunday. It felt like a Monday because Johnnie was at my house! I figured it evens out because next week I lose a day of taking care of Johnnie. Yeah, it's coming up... only I got an email telling me I better check in for tomorrow's flight. Wait... did i fuck up and book my flight to Vegas for tomorrow instead of the 18th?? I DID!!! Arghh... Now I have to go home to fix it. There goes my quiet Sunday night.... Unbelievable how I could make that mistake though. Distractions...