How Bad Do You Want To Play

Sometimes the Universe will test you to see how badly you want to do something. In the case of this morning, it seemed like the Universe was testing me to see how badly I wanted to play golf.  Testing my patience to boot. Most days I head out on a Sunday without a care in the world, other than having a decent golf game. That was me this morning until I got to the Vermont off ramp on the 10 Freeway. I had plenty of time then I thought, 40 minutes before tee time. Until I ran headlong into traffic. On Vermont. I mean heavy traffic that wasn't moving. Uh-oh was my first thought. Immediately I turned around and looked for a detoured route. Normandie? Nope. Roads were blocked. Seemed like there was some kind of cycling thing going on west-to-east. Western? Nope. Still blocked. I kept trying. Arlington? Nope. Uh-oh. It was already almost 8:30 by now. 10 minutes before tee time. I called Scott and told him the situation. He was understanding but I felt bad. And I was going to keep trying. Hell, I was out here already anyway. After trying by going west, I backtracked and tried eastward to downtown. I ended up almost getting to the FRB before finally making it to the 110N AND then finally getting on Vermont to go to the golf course. By this time it was already 9 AM. And Scott was already booked with another foursome and about to tee off. I would get to the starter Charles 5 minutes later but I did get there before Scott's foursome teed off and so I was able to join them anyway. Huffing and puffing and out of breath and very much on adrenaline, I managed to hit my first shot straight and on the fairway. How I did that I don't exactly know. And I did manage to calm down by the 2nd hole although I still didn't shoot any lower than a 7 on that hole. I was very inconsistent today, gee what else is new?! I would hit a great tee shot but then hit an awful shot from the fairway. Gee what else is new. It's like it's a program and I have GOT to figure my way out of killing that program and replacing it with a better one! Even on Hole 6 after a great first shot, it was almost a duplicate of 2 other instances where I almost hit a guy standing to my right just a few yards away with an errant shot! I did that to Daniel already... TWICE! What is it about this hole. It's like I should just walk up and hit the ball... I'm sure I would do no worse. Anyway I did manage a par on the difficult Hole 8. Before wiping out the good feelings of it with a bad shot off the tee on 9. Oh well. At least the win today was that I actually DID make it to the course. And I got to play. So it turned out that I probably wanted to play badly after all. Was it worth it? I think it was really. I think it was.

After golf I stopped at the Mediterranean cafe on Vermont near our Hollywood clinic that was almost a clone of Crimson. And I had the salmon kabobs just like I would have at Crimson. And it was good. I stopped because I was hungry AND I wanted to look for rain boots for Johnnie. It's 100% chance of rain tomorrow and I wasn't sure Johnnie hadn't outgrown his rain boots already. And so I stopped at WSS in Hollywood and got him those rain boots that was apparently not easy to come by right now for whatever reason except online. The restof the afternoon I ended up watching the RAMS but what I really wanted to do was take a nap and maybe kink out some of the stiffness in my body. What better way to do that than to get into the hot tub right? Why not use my own apartment's hot spa? And so after the Rams game I just lost myself in the warm waters of the spa. Ahhh that felt much better. I was so relaxed I didn't actually want to do anything the rest of the time. I knew I still had stuff to do. After all, I had been tied up all weekend. I still had laundry to do. I hadn't done grocery shopping yet. And then what do do for dinner. I decided I would get them all done bam-bam-bam. So I dried up, headed out and then in short order, got me some KFC for dinner, made a stop at Smart and Final, and then at Ralphs to get groceries and then went on home. There would be no cooking tonight. I simply didn't feel like it. I did want to watch the Lakers game. it was only the 3rd game of the season but they had already started 0-2. Am I going to get another sports disappointment tonight? Turned out NO. The Lakers won their first game of the season. And it turned out I was so relaxed I couldn't keep my eyes open after 10:30 PM. Weekend is over. Time to reload for the upcoming week...