Tuesday Routine

The minute we came home to my apartment last night, I felt the settling in of routine and that was definitely not a complaint. It must have been all the steps too because by the time I was whisking Johnnie off to bed, I was knocking myself off as well.The great thing was that I had over 6 1/2 hrs of sleep for the first time in weeks. And I did wake up and felt the difference. And my RHR trended back down too. All good. AND I was able to do some meditation after I took Claire out to go to the bathroom at 6 AM like I always do. Just the morning routine. And this being Tuesday, I dropped Johnnie off at school too, noting that I was in absolutely no rush whatsoever like I was all of last week. Look at Johnnie hanging out in line with his classmate Ford. Those 2 were talking about their upcoming basketball session later, and also possibly taking a NOVA session of Minecraft when STAR comes back from Thanksgiving. And then when I got home, I immediately racked up nearly 4000 steps since I actually had a pretty clear morning this morning. All I had was the new Operations meeting. Although it simply felt like the old Business continuity meeting. Those that paid attention pitched their operational numbers and I couldn't help but think how the Data Team had their fingers all over this meeting. It might have been numbers pitched by the managers, but it was the Data Team that produced them in the first place. And then when I got done with that meeting I really DID have to put my head down and finish the HRSA survey that I usually get done with on Monday. Since I didn't yesterday, I had to do it today. I didn't finish until this afternoon really. But I still finished well ahead of the due time at 5 PM. And so I ended up working my tail off all day as it were. I would work, go do steps, then back to work, then do steps. That way I didn't feel like I was tied to my chair all day. Probably better physically that way anyway. It didn't take long before it was already 5 PM and time to pick up Johnnie from school... 

With the dinner with Lisa last night, that also threw off Johnnie's dinner routine and he too wanted to revert back to the usual rotation. Usually he would have penne in chicken broth for Monday night dinner but since he didn't have it last night, he requested it for tonight. Am I worried that he's getting too stuck on routine? No. At least not at this time. To me with the feeling of the familiar comes the feeling of safety and I am all for that. And so the pic of Johnnie tonight watching his Wild Kratts with the dog waiting and watching eagerly too to see what food scraps Johnnie would inadvertently deposit of the floor kind of captures the evening LOL. For me I did tweak the routine and get carne asada tacos for me for dinner. It is Tuesday after all. TACO TUESDAY!! AND I did give Claire a bath tonight... which was the tweak in the routine just because I realized he hadn't had a bath since last week. And I gave him a thorough brushing too just because I could hear Lisa asking about it when she sees her next. Still I'm letting Lisa influence some of my activities. smh smh. With her birthday out of the way we can now all focus on next activities. Now everyone is looking squarely at the holidays hoping it would be different than last year when we were all still locked down fighting another surge in covid infections. I looked back at the journals to see what I did last year, that's how forgettable it was. I do remember there was no dinner at the Elams, no dinner with my fam. I remember I had Johnnie for the morning and then dropped him off because they were having Thanksgiving dinner with Joah and fam. I think I did make myself turkey LOL LOL. This year, at least the good majority of us here in LA ARE vaccinated or have gotten immunity from getting the virus so I think we're all good this year. Oh and of course Silvia comes to town on Sunday. THAT too would be an event unto itself until Thanksgiving. I may have gotten hijacked from going to Disney World. I'll just look at that as the Universe somehow diverting my attention another direction is all. The point all along was to have daddy-Johnnie bonding time like he did with his mom for 3 weeks in Maui. THAT we can still do. THAT is still something I can control. We will figure something out. We're good like that.