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Day 3,233: Le Quick

Super late because my bro is in town, but…

I didn’t get nearly as much done today as I wanted…but it was enough. Getting up eeaaarrrlllyyyy tomorrow to make sure I can get enough done before it gets hot. Gotta build some SHIT.

Night night.

Day 3,232: First Husband

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BEAR!

Today is Liz and my eight anniversary. We’ve been together for eightEEN years as of three days ago. That’s…wild. In a few years, we will have been together as long as we were alive before we met each other, which is also WILD. We were 21 when we first started dating. We went steady and serious right around my 22nd birthday. Children!

Anyway…not a super duper productive day for me. Had some Netflix work, did some weeding in the morning…had to run some errands like go...

Day 3,231: Humbled

Got a bit humbled today by burnout.

It really is so so crucial for me to get my writing done early, like first thing. This working in the yard because of the weather has really messed with that. And because I was so exhausted today, it really knocked me flat.

Sigh.

Not the end of the world, for sure. I’m back tomorrow, getting my words done. I am close to finishing this book. Just need to keep moving forward. The finish line is in sight. As it is for all the stuff I’ve been working on. ...

Day 3,230: Perspective

I wrote 15 pages today kinda like it was nothing. That was pretty cool. Granted, the story is really moving at this point. Lots of action. Life and death and whatnot. But, still. Not long ago, fifteen pages in a day was a stretch. It was difficult. But, because I’ve recently figured out that 20 pages a day is more of the stretch goal that’s hard for me to hit…15 today felt easy. All about perspective…

Made more progress on the shed foundation today. I’m…wiped. I’m ready to be done with it. An...

Day 3,229: That’s Technically True

It was…so goddamn hot today.

And I worked outside. Like a BOSS. For a couple hours. Woke up early and shoveled gravel to clear the space where we’re putting our shed, and then I went to home depot, rented a truck, bought the lumber we needed to make a frame for the gravel base we’re putting this shed on, drove that home and dropped it off, returned the truck (thirty minutes early!), got the rest of the supplies that I needed in order to put the frame together…

Took a shower. Went with Bear...

Day 3,228: YOU ARE UP

K. It’s absolutely miserable outside. Hundred degrees today…and it just RAINED. It’s muggy as fuck. Hate it. Not a fan.

Wrists and whatnot were still a little sore today, so I didn’t push it. I wrote a little bit, I did my Netflix work, and then I went over to J’s and we podcasted.

Day went by so fast. Forearms feel great tonight. Left wrist is still sore where it sits on my lap desk. Sigh. Need to try my other lap desk that has a soft wrist-guard-spot-thing. See if that’s better.

Tomor...

Day 3,227: The Furnace

Well, I’ve officially made my forearms sore from writing so much. And weeding. Sigh.

I cut my writing short just to make sure I didn’t make it worse. It’s fine right now, it’s tolerable, but I have no desire to make it actually bad. Just realizing it’s not quite carpal tunnel; it’s just my forearms. I guess my wrists are a LITTLE sore on the top of them, but really it’s my forearms.

I did some stretches, took ibuprofen, and I rested them this evening rather than pushing through and getting...

Day 3,226: Striking Distance

Everything hurts…but it was a good day.

I recovered very nicely with the writing today. I wrote like a madman. A crazy amount of pages (for me). My wrists literally hurt from all the typing, which I don’t like, but I’m pretty sure it’s exacerbated by the weed pulling I’ve been doing.

It was…SO hot today. 110º. And that shit really just takes it out of you. Zaps everything. Body and brain shutdown. That’s the mode I’m in right now. I wanted to try and finish like the last page and a half of...

Day 3,225: PA

Sigh.

Not the writing day I need today. But…we’re letting it go. I had too much other stuff to do. And I’m glad I did it.

We’re doing an outdoor movie night for my birthday, and last time we used literally my crappy computer speakers, and it was fine. It worked. Not great, but it worked. Well…not this time. I didn’t want to use that. We have like three times the number of people. We live right in an airport flight path. We need a decent set of speakers.

Right as I was sitting down to do...

Day 3,224: Weedz

The weeds in the front of the house are done.

Well…almost. I ran out of daylight and my headlamp just wasn’t cutting it. But, what’s left is almost literally just cleanup. I’ve already pulled everything that needs to be pulled, the rest is scraping it all up with a shovel.

It looks SO MUCH BETTER out there. Holy shit. It looks transformed, actually. Already. And we haven’t even done anything with it yet, really. Oh, it’s so satisfying. I can’t wait to get it all actually finished. Irrigati...