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Day 3,348: Happy New Year!

We Grand Designed it into the new year.

Pretty sure we were watching the show this time last year. We were rolling up our sleeves and prepping the house for the move, to be honest. Painting. Cleaning. Boxing. Updating fixtures. It was…so much work.

This year we got to kinda just enjoy our house, which is amazing. Like, truly amazing. We sat on our couch with the heat on (set low, since we kinda both like it cool, even in the winter time…but not THAT cool), snuggled up with snacks and the p...

Day 3,347: Organized

I’m getting organized, y’all. Whew. FINALLY.

My desk is clean. It’s been…a long, loooonnngggggg time since that was last true. It’s been a YEAR, man. Busy, busy, busy. I’m still recovering from the move. But, I am recovering. Finally. Shit is getting ticked off the list, and I haven’t piled the plate high with replacement stuff yet. YET. I’m sure I will, particularly once I start outlining this next book in earnest.

You know what? I’m fighting resistance in terms of writing the next book, ...

Day 3,346: Mister Grand Designs

Coco be FIGHTING taking her meds lately. Ugh. She’s so smart. She figures out that we’re putting pills inside her meatballs and she doesn’t want to eat them. Or, rather, she eats the meatball parts, and spits out the pills. Then we have to shove them down her throat.

She’s actually doing great. Very sweet. Very happy. Very silly. She’s such a good dog.

Nugget came to visit me while I was closing down my office tonight. Wanted a snack. Wanted to watch me from just outside my door. She comes...

Day 3,345: Grand Designs Cal

A momentous day. For a couple reasons.

Gonna keep it to that, I think. More later.

Right now…snuggling in bed with my kindle, gonna read for a bit, and then wake up tomorrow and smash through our finances. Night!

Day 3,344: Justice

Solid low key day today.

We did our Costco run. Picked up some letters delivered to our old address. Walked the pups around the old neighborhood. Watched the rest of the Warriors game that I missed on Christmas, and then watched them beat the Hornets tonight. Did client work.

Now…sleep.

Night night!

Day 3,343: Onion

We watched Glass Onion tonight as a fam. I’d actually seen it for work, but not really; pulling clips, watching most of it at double speed for efficiency’s sake. I haven’t added any of the material I watch for work onto my movie list for the year, so it was cool to just sit and watch it from beginning to end and put it on the list.

I love that the “master detective” genre is having a little moment. It’s such an old school genre. Very charming.

Movie itself isn’t great. It’s solid, but not ...

Day 3,342: Puzzin It Up

It’s laaaate so I’m making this entry a quick one tonight, but Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays to all the rest.

I got up early and took care of the animals—NUGGET LET ME PET HER THIS MORNING—then we went and hung out with the Kings for the rest of the morning till around 1pm. Came home. Had an EPIC nap. And then we walked the pups and went over to the Clements’ house to eat dinner and hang out. We ended up finishing a 1000 piece Die Hard mondo puzzle. Excellent w...

Day 3,341: Christmas Eve

I remember Christmas Eve…must have been 2014, I think? I finished the first draft of my first novel. Might have been the day before, but either way, we were up in the Bay Area (San Francisco) visiting family. We’d just gotten married a couple months earlier. I was reading and writing up SciFi classics that I’d always wanted to read but hadn’t gotten around to.

I want to bring that back, by the way, in 2023: read more books. Not all of them classics, maybe. Need some room for other stuff, both...

Day 3,340: Almost

It’s almost Christmas.

I got some shopping done this afternoon. A few hours I have to make up for work because of it, but it was worth it to not be out there trying to do it tomorrow.

Holidays crept up on me like for real tho. It’s literally Christmas in two days. WTF?! The holidays usually creep up on me, or at least they have because we haven’t traveled the past couple years, but this year for REAL it’s like I blinked and here we are. I wonder how much of it was not going to the writers ...

Day 3,339: Doo Doo

A very productive day! Work was solid. I didn’t get quiiiiite as much done as I wanted to, but close enough. I can make up the gap tomorrow or over the break very easily.

Got my haircut! Whew. Just in time for Christmas. Feels soooo gooood.

Hung out with Panda in the evening and watched an episode of Grand Designs that we haven’t seen yet. Goddamn love that show. For reals, I want to buy the entire series, all seasons, starting all the way back in 2001, I think. Watch them all. That’s the ...