Catching up

It felt like a day of catching up today. Johnnie catching up on sleep, and possibly needing another catch-up day with nothing out of the ordinary. That's what I'm good at. Keeping the routine. Still, a morning text from Lisa asking about how Johnnie was, and presumably thinking he needed to stay home from school, got a late reply simply because, well, we had already shifted back into OUR routine. And that meant getting up at 7 like usual on a school day and going to school. He was sniffly when he woke up and he was coughing some, but I decided he was not nearly sick enough to stay home. And he was not contagious either if he had his mask on. I mean look at the pic I took later on in the day. Does this kid look sick to you? Without saying it out loud, the simple act of transiting Johnnie to and from in the car with some sense of urgency simply got him yesterday I thought. And God knows what they fed him. But today he seemed very much ok. He ate his usual McDonald's eggs and sausage AND pancakes with no fanfare, which was the telltale sign to me that he was just fine. In the meantime, after the Johnnie drop-off I realized full well that I still had to finish my content for tomorrow's Communications Meeting AND Technology Council Meeting. And I was confident I had plenty of other-than-usual material to discuss. I just had to make sure they made it to my presentation is all. And since MY routine included walking in the morning though not quite to 5000 steps like I would on a Monday, I was still able to rack up 3000 steps pretty easily. And after that I did some catching up on my own. And I needed to not only do my presentation but also wipe out a backlog of almost 600 emails I neglected to read and take action on from the last 3 weeks! How did I let it get to that big of a backlog? Did last round of TownHalls really take that much out of me? Yes it did take a lot of energy to to those things to be sure. But then again I just simply went back into procrastinate mode didn't I? And now hear I am reading email after email, the majority of which were easily delete-able, but then again some that needed attention. Most notably I had gotten behind on my invoice approval stuff and I will get no help there from the Finance Department who are still intent on doing things from the 90s. Anyway, getting my email backlog down to less than 60 by mid-afternoon was a big accomplishment I felt. And by the time I was going to pick up Johnnie I had pronounced myself done with my presentation content as well. See? I got stuff accomplished after all. It did cross my mind that eventually I should make contact with Silvia knowing full well that leaving her alone with Lisa just the two of them is a recipe for unhappiness for both parties LOL LOL. But not tonight. Apparently Lisa had scored a couple of tickets to the Clippers game and the seats were in the Tom Gordon range too so we're not making contact tonight. Tonight it would simply be getting Johnnie back to full strength and getting me some rest for tomorrow. I mean look at the pic of Johnnie and the dog at each other, Claire doing her fake angry bark but no bite and Johnnie unable to restrain himself from attacking back full out. Still picking him up meant hearing about his day with basketball and I'm yet again glad he gets to play with the other kids in that venue since they are not allowed to play in the play structure again for what reason I have no idea. Tonight Johnnie simply wanted some of the Trader Joe's pizza that he spotted was already in my freezer. Hey that works for me... I could easily make myself some spaghetti bolognese. And so tonight became stay-at-home night. Complete with a bath for Claire and everything. Considering Johnnie's state when they dropped him off last night, that was just fine for me. I laugh... it's like they bring him to me damaged and I nurse him back to full strength with just a few hours of sleep. Hey it' s not magic. Feed him because he gets hungry a lot. Let him sleep when he gets tired. Pretty simple. And that would work for me as well. I felt I got caught up today. I know how it is when Lisa gets wiggy about not getting her notes done. I did the same for my work today. And at the end of the day, I'm all good again.