Town Hall Week Day 1

It is the first day of November, and also the first day of our week long Town Hall Roadshow at all the Health Centers. First up today was Echo Park. It wasn't a big deal since I don't have Johnnie this morning so showering and getting to Echo Park early didn't feel like it was such a big deal. I reminded myself that I did this already way back in August, though that was the time Johnnie and Lisa were in Maui all week long. I had these prizes I was going to give away to those that did well in the pop quizzes I gave all last week. I thought that was a pretty good idea if I do say so myself. I even spent time looking at the results of both quizzes and at least making sure I had someone picked out from both quizzes from Echo Park for today's Town Hall. And I combed through some data to pick out stuff that made the HC look good, thinking about Eloisa's directive that we should give them info about themselves, make it Health Center-centric. yeah I could do that. Anyway I got to Echo Park in plenty of time and that's because I didn't have breakfast. After all, we'll have Porto's right? I was actually a bit amped, after all this would be the 3rd consecutive week that I'm speaking in front of a group. OK, not that big of a group i'll give you that. But it's still public speaking. And as it was today's talk for me I was not exactly focusing on the group's energy. I just focused on giving away my gift cards. Overall, I thought the hour long Town Hall went pretty well for a start and I thought I did ok. I was actually home by shortly after 10 AM even with all the traffic westbound on the 10 Freeway. Plenty of time to shed those work clothes and take Claire out for her morning walk. I had one more meeting before lunch... that "staff burnout" meeting that really only served to push me further down the path of actual burn-out LOL LOL. Anyway, i made myself a couple of turkey quesadillas/burritos for my lunch and then started to pad some steps. I was determined to still do 15,000+ steps today. There's no excuse not to do so after all.

That was actually the focus of the afternoon, was to somehow get to 10,000 steps before I picked up Johnnie and I was actually surprised that I got there and actually passed my target for the afternoon. As in I almost got all the way to 13,000 steps before it was even 5 PM. I felt tired but it was a good tired. An exercise tired. I needed to blow off steam from all the adrenaline this morning anyway. At 6:30 PM I headed off to Lisa's to pick up Johnnie and Claire. Why would I NOT be surprised that Lisa is barely making dinner. And that she asked if Johnnie could have dinner and that maybe I could stick around too. How do I POLITELY tell her that there is nothing in her fridge that is remotely appetizing for me? I did this by telling her I understood about her stomach issues. And that whatever food she was making for herself, I had plenty of food at my house already. But I did let Johnnie stick around to eat the pizza she made, though that in itself wasn't all that appetizing either. I could tell Johnnie didn't really feel like eating it. And then Lisa dropped the biggest news of all. Sylvia is coming from France until Thanksgiving week. Yep, that would be the week I planned to take Johnnie and I to DisneyWorld Florida. THough on the surface it didn't look like it was her fault, it would appear that one more time, Lisa has hijacked my plans. Certainly for tonight, but she fucked up my Thanksgiving week plans too. I just focused on getting us out of there and back in the confines of my apartment. I'll think about Thanksgiving week soon enough. I MUST not react. Just to pivot towards something that will work for me is all.