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Day 3,317: Arfin’

Coco be next to me arfing right now for no reason. Just making noise.

It’s because we were gone tonight. Liz opened her show tonight. Chriskirkpatrickmas is in full effect! Playing this weekend, next week and next weekend. In fact, if you want to come and see it, use promo code CAST15 and get fifteen dollars off your ticket. It’s playing in West Hollywood at That Actors Company theater. I don’t have the address handy, but if you just google the theater (or Chriskirkpatrickmas), it should pop ...

Day 3,317: Bless You

A very solid work day today. Whew. I got my Netflix stuff done earlier than expected, which is a nice turnaround. I’ve been running behind the eight-ball on that lately, which means working extra hours just to catch up.

It’s really Coco. She’s fine, don’t get me wrong. She’s doing great, in fact. But, I’m not going to be whole again until she is. I won’t be healthy until she is, at least mentally. I think about her in the background all the time. It’s hard for me to concentrate. Most of the t...

Day 3,316: Bless You

A very solid work day today. Whew. I got my Netflix stuff done earlier than expected, which is a nice turnaround. I’ve been running behind the eight-ball on that lately, which means working extra hours just to catch up.

It’s really Coco. She’s fine, don’t get me wrong. She’s doing great, in fact. But, I’m not going to be whole again until she is. I won’t be healthy until she is, at least mentally. I think about her in the background all the time. It’s hard for me to concentrate. Most of the t...

Day 3,316: Better…

I had a pretty productive day today. I did not get everything done I wanted to, but I came pretty damn close. I can finish up what I missed tomorrow, and I’m in good shape for the rest of the week. Whew!

Coco continues to recover. She’s feeling so much better. She’s getting better at walking. She’s hungry, even without the steroid she was taking early on for inflammation. She’s getting able to kind of have a normal routine for the day. And when she barks, we kinda just leave her on her own, a...

Day 3,315: Head Down

I have so much to do. I have the time to do it, but it’s just a lot. Sigh.

I want to be better about this. I’ve gotten used to be overwhelmed, and I don’t like it. I used to have more space in my brain for things I enjoyed. Lately, I just feel guilty whenever I’m not being productive. I don’t know if I’ve really articulated that to myself quite so succinctly until just right now.

Part of it is that I’ve turned a corner on my writing. And I’ve wanted to seize that, and rightly so. But, it’s...

Day 3,314: Kowloon

Dinner with friends tonight at our house. Twas lovely. SO lovely. These are friends we’ve recently reconnected with. Not after a long absence or anything, it was a couple years, something like that, but so nice to reconnect all the same. We’re doing a hangout every month or two kind of thing, and really enjoying each other’s company.

Coco continues to improve. With the improvement certainly comes some sass in the form of barking. BUT…it is a good sign. So says the doc. It means she’s feeling ...

Day 3,914: Kowloon

Dinner with friends tonight at our house. Twas lovely. SO lovely. These are friends we’ve recently reconnected with. Not after a long absence or anything, it was a couple years, something like that, but so nice to reconnect all the same. We’re doing a hangout every month or two kind of thing, and really enjoying each other’s company.

Coco continues to improve. With the improvement certainly comes some sass in the form of barking. BUT…it is a good sign. So says the doc. It means she’s feeling ...

Day 3,913: Getting There

There were a few tasks stressing me out, and I got at least one of them done.

I need my rest. I do. But, damn, it stresses me out sometimes getting back to work. That limbo state between rest and when I should get back to working is really really hard for me. I do my best. It’s usually not bad. And it wasn’t today, or the past few days…but I can feel it in the background. There’s a panic. What if I never get started again? What if I delay too long and don’t finish on time? What if I go back t...

Day 3,312: Blues

I have a bit of the finished-book-blues.

It’s so hard to write a book y’all. It’s so much work. And it feels soooo gooood to be done with it. That high is pretty, preeettyyyy nice…and then, as with all highs, there’s a crash that follows.

I’m in the crash right now. Exhausted. Excited for the next one, absolutely, but also exhausted. And the longer I stay away from the page (for the next book), the more anxious I get about it. Sigh. Which always sucks, because I do need REST. It’s a catch-...

Day 3,912: Blues

I have a bit of the finished-book-blues.

It’s so hard to write a book y’all. It’s so much work. And it feels soooo gooood to be done with it. That high is pretty, preeettyyyy nice…and then, as with all highs, there’s a crash that follows.

I’m in the crash right now. Exhausted. Excited for the next one, absolutely, but also exhausted. And the longer I stay away from the page (for the next book), the more anxious I get about it. Sigh. Which always sucks, because I do need REST. It’s a catch-...