First Day of December

I still almost can't believe it's December already. I will admit that I am still sort of recovering from Thanksgiving week. By that I mean I don't feel caught up with work, caught up with off-work stuff I need to be doing. And I can even see myself peeking at the stock market wonder how my assets are doing while fears of the new omicron Covid variant seems to be shaking up said markets. Hey, I don't think I'm going to remind myself that a week ago while we were taking Silvia out for lunch on her last day here in LA this go-round, I had a head cold and cough and I was myself wondering if I didn't pick up something really bad. By today though, all that cold stuff seems to have gone away so I'm thankful for that at least. I'm thinking to myself I should be busier than I feel at work and maybe that's just because I have not really done stuff until it was urgently needed. And so wouldn't you know that the Universe handed me something sort of urgent. At the HIT Roundtable Chairs call today Aisha and Candice asked me if I could pinch-hit for one of their speakers at next week's HIT summit. I didn't even blink when I agreed to do it. Hey I am just going to use the same presentation that I did at NACHC successfully. I mean I can still remember taking the cab to the airport and feeling really really good at how I did.  Maybe I simply want to relive how good that felt?! And so I also thought maybe the Universe is also testing me a little. "Do you want to walk away from all that/" All what? It's just a talk, and as it turns out, the third one I will have done this year. Who would have thought THAT at the beginning of the year? And then there was the "You thought you wouldn't have anything to do next week did you?" LOL. In the meantime I did have an early day today. As in 8:15 AM early, due to the FRB TownHall. Seems to me like these Town Halls happen way too often than necessary. And it ends up telling different sets of people the same stuff over and over. But then again knowing my organization, perhaps that IS necessary. I talked about cybersecurity of course and stuff coming up in the coming months in terms of projects. It felt like I dropped Johnnie off at school then immediately pivoted to the Town Hall, just stuffing my face with Johnnie's leftover breakfast and then it was over by 9:30.  

So here is how motivated I was... Immediately after the Town Hall I retired to my couch. And watched TV LOL. I decided I'd try to get caught up with some of the shows I didn't watch last week. Like the new Marvel Hawkeye series. Hey you know how I'm down with anything Marvel and anything Star Wars. No new Mandalorian yet. Boba Fett series not out until later on this month. So Hawkeye it was and the premiere had 2 episodes. And I spent the rest of the morning watching. And then it was back to the regular routine after lunch. What IS regular routine anyway? Walk the dog, do my steps, answer emails, try to be as productive as possible LOL. Did my HIT Roundtable and that ran all the way up to 5 PM when it was time to pick up Johnnie. I saw him in the trailer playing by himself with something he was trying to build. I think Johnnie is a great balance of independent play and playing with others. Look at the pics I posted of him, one playing with Claire and noticeably far less rough than he had been probably owing to a talk with his mom. And then the next pic of him putting together the circuit stuff he got from Uncle Karl for his birthday.  Anyway when he got called to go home, he bounds up with lots of energy runs out gets his bag and yells Dad Dad what are we having for dinner? that's my kid LOL Tonight being WEdnesday night, we went to Panda Express and brought our food home. I was happy to shut down work stuff and even sat to watch some Wild Kratts with Johnnie even though he has started to recycle too and is watching the same episodes about wild dogs in Africa and the tasmanian devil in Australia probably for the 10th time in a week. I don't care actually. This is how his regurgitation mechanism works. This is how he ingests information and why his teachers wonder how he holds all that information. THAT is his superpower. The same way he can remember a song he hears just once on the radio. Anyway I sat with him because I am done with Season 8 of the Blacklist. Liz Keen had been killed and now out of the show but there is still a Season 9 coming. Actually started in late October this year! So I'm caught up. And when Johnnie again declared he was ready for bed around 8:45 PM, so was I. Funny how I actually catch up on sleep when he's with me. And get that deficit back when I'm alone LOL LOL.  I kissed him on the forehead and said I LOVE YOU as his eyes were fluttering shut. And I heard him say. I LOVE YOU MORE as I walked away. Best moment all day.