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Day 3,289: My God Man

Short one because it is time for the sleeps, BUT…

I feel better.

Now, to go and finish a book, this time for real.

Night night!

Day 3,288: Sick Wow

Wow. You GUYS. In the madness that is my life right now, working so hard every gottdam day…I completely missed my ninth anniversary of writing this blog.

NINTH. ANNIVERSARY. I’ve been writing a blog every day for NINE YEARS.

It’s kind of wild. It’s a habit I started, and I just never stopped. I do most of these entries on autopilot now, I’m not going to lie. But, they help me enormously, still. They mark the time. They’re a place to just dump my brain before bed. They make use of my iPad.

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Day 3,287: SICK

I am sick. Boooooo. I’m sure I’m forgetting a time or two…but I can’t remember the last time I was sick except for right when the COVID lockdown first happened.

It’s all because our goddaughter is in town. She’s sick. Got me sick for sure. Le sigh. And I have so much freaking work to get done this week. It’s probably why I was susceptible in the first place. What can you do, though, except soldier on, which is what I did today. Had to take two naps and work well into the night, but I got some...

Day 3,286: Best Laid Plans

Finishing this second book is a milestone. It’ll be the first “second” book that I’ve completed. The last time I tried to write a second book, I crashed and burned. The demons got me. I got me.

Not this time.

I finished reading the manuscript today. I have about 17 pages of notes on things to fix, which I have to turn around in two days, probably…but that’s okay. It’s going to get done. It has to get done. It’s that simple.

I’m enjoying the perspective of having done it. Of having taken...

Day 3,285: Swifty Dad

We got to hang out with our friends Ali and Lizderfer tonight and it was SO NICE TO SEE THEM. They came over for my birthday, but we didn’t really get to hang one on one. Well, we did tonight and it was glorious. Talked about buying houses and moving, talked about spooky movies and good television. Just enjoyed each other’s company.

I’m about an hour of reading away from finishing my book and all the stuff I caught that needs fixing. Whew! It’s going to be a fucking DAY to get all that shit d...

Day 3,284: Two and a Half

Solid work day. Still didn’t get everything done I needed to, but I did enough, I think. I’m content. I need to work through the weekend, but I’m content.

I really don’t have much for you tonight. Glory 2 is coming back to me very, VERY soon. I need to be ready. I have the last 25% of it to read through and make notes on. I have a feeling it will need some of the most notes, lol. So…plan is to have it done tomorrow. And even if I fall short on that, having it done Sunday will work. And the sa...

Day 3,283: Deman

We watched Paranormal Activity for the podcast tonight. It was fun! Not great, but at the same time a classic. I can’t really tell you how that makes sense, but it does. It was great for the time for sure. And it still mostly plays. No question. Just wish it went a little more crazy in the end, brought a little more noise.

Work was solid today, too. Made good progress on my Netflix stuff. Need a better day tomorrow. Sigh. Story of my LIFE. And I need to be ready for this manuscript when it co...

Day 3,282: Working On It

Made progress today. Whew. It was solid work from 7am to 9pm—with a quick nap in the afternoon, which was CLUTCH—but I got some major shit done. Whew!

We have a cat colony in our backyard. It’s because I’m feeding them, so it’s alllll by design. BUT…one of the kittens is getting old enough that a male in the group started pursuing her today. He was very sweet about it, actually…but we don’t want more babies. Nor do we want fights. So, Liz just reached out to a rescue and we’re going to figure...

Day 3,281: Overstuffed

See, my issue right now is that I have too much going on. I was hella busy today. Worked from 7:30am to 9pm nonstop (save for a 30 minute nap in the afternoon that was CLUTCH), and I didn’t get nearly as much stuff done as I wanted to. But…I got as much done as I could. And that’s honestly good enough for me right now.

I need to buckle down and get shit done, and I can. I have three more work days to rock and roll. Gonna use them.

Night NIGHT!

Day 3,280: The Swing

Okay. So…today was solid. Not GREAT, but solid.

Tomorrow needs to be great. In fact, I need a few great days this week. Sigh. Need to knuckle down and just get some shit done. Le sigh.

For the majority of this year, I have been too busy. A lot of it is just life. Life is busy right now. But, some of it isn’t. Some of it I can pare back on, and I’m going to. Commitments that I can set aside. I’m really digging the focus and productivity I’m finding on the writing side of things, and I’m goi...