Just Being Dad

Today is the last day of June and the fact that I am still working, doing my thing for QueensCare is something I really have to focus on. The idea has always been to retire. And now that is something I need to actually make a MUST in my life. It IS Thursday and this morning I was completely focused on making sure Johnnie was all set up for his camp field trip to the Pacific Aquarium in Long Beach. How FUN is that right? All I had to do was make sure he had a sack lunch ready and get him to camp by 8 AM. Not too tough right? I already bought him a bottled water, nacho chips and a croissant. That ought to do it for his lunch. And then I gave Lisa and i gave him $5 each for souvenirs and stuff, first talking to him about saving his money until next week. Not sure that talk is going to be all that effective since he knows he has more money in his 'piggy box' and his grandpa Koko apparently just gives him money for no reason. Far be it from me to criticize that. Not at all. Still we need to let him know about the value of money. He stands to inherit whatever Lisa and I have built for him and putting our assets together, he will already be taken care of for the rest of his life. Doesn't mean he won't learn about working and creating value and learning to use his gifts to benefit the Universe. That much I will make sure of. Of course if he ends up spending his days like the pic I posted of myself at the apartment pool in the middle of the day, that wouldn't be so bad either. Presumably, that what it looks like WHEN I have passive income to support my current lifestyle and I don't have to work anymore LOL. As far as work went, this morning I spent doing the DPI Learning Session with the Coleman Associates Group. They are ready to implement and there were plenty of strong opinions around boy. I was just an observer and I had to laugh at the CMO who said that the session was rough. That wasn't rough. Just gotta learn when to push back though. By the time that meeting was done, it had gone from 8:30 AM to almost 11:30! Wow. Wiped out the entire morning.

Still, considering all I had to do was sit and listen, it wasn't so bad for me. In fact, considering everything that happened at the end of last week, it looks like my teams are going to weather everything this week and nothing really particularly urgent or critical happened. Lots of THANKS for that one. It IS Thursday though and by mid-day I was already winding down anyway. I tried to catch up on the morphic fields, on my steps, but I felt lazy and just basically spent the afternoon on the couch. I also realized that it was the last day of the month of June and we're fast coming up on the halfway point of summer. Still, being able to walk around in the warmth of the day felt good. I thought to myself that had I been in the office, I'd be walking to Starbucks trying to wrangle up a snack or something. But not these days. For me that means either dates, or peanuts and some coconut water LOL. By 4:30 PM it was time to get Johnnie at camp and when I did he proudly showed off the souvenir he bought. It was a shark hand puppet made of plastic. And it cost $8.08. So much for keeping his spending at $5 or less. Can't wait for whatever Lisa has to say about this. In the meantime, we came home, I gave him spaghetti and Trader JOe's pizza for dinner. And made myself a bean vegetarian dish too. Seemed like a lot of food but since it was mostly vegetables, it didn't bloat me up at all. I'm talking bell peppers and onions and mushrooms and kidney and pinto beans. And those plant-based meatballs too, processed though those were. I realized that by 7 PM, I was barely at 8000 steps and still at 30 active minutes. Lisa did pick up Johnnie and Claire before 7:30 PM though which gave me time to catch up on my steps and I ended up with over 60 active minutes and 11,000+ steps an hour after Lisa came by. And I rested the rest of the evening on the couch watching Orvill New Horizons, and catching up on the saga of Captain Ed and Telaya. I fell asleep on the couch actually, dragging myself to the bed when I realized it was already past midnight. A quiet Thursday it was. A quiet last day of June. And that is perfectly ok.