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Day 2,713: Luxe

What a WEEKEND.

Fam is back out of town again and home. We’re quite spread up and down the coast, my family. I definitely don’t see them as much as I’d like to, and especially not this past year.

It’s been a long time, now, since I went up home to Humboldt, especially. I think it was fall of 2018? Maybe ‘19. For my Dad’s birthday. Too long. That’s gotta happen this year. I’ll find the time.

More of a low key day today, which was nice. Went and looked at a tree nursery, which was fun. At...

Day 2,712: Backyard Movie Night

We went to a backyard movie night tonight and it was AWESOME. Movie projected up on a big sheet screen hung on a fence, all of us in lawn chairs with blankets and pizza, drinks, and snacks…it was heaven.

Heaven.

I want to do it again.

We watched Godzilla vs. King Kong, which was a ridiculous movie, but the PERFECT movie to watch with friends and family and make jokes and laugh about. Omg it was such an amazing time. LA is perfect for stuff like that.

Went to the beach with the fam du...

Day 2,711: Fam

Family is in town. I haven’t seen them in literally a year. It’s so nice to be together again.

It’s really late. Gonna sleep now. Try to get eight hours. Night!

Day 2,710: Nonstop

Holy jesus. Today was non-stop.

I got…almost everything done. This weekend will be pretty damn non-stop as well. Bring it on.

Wrote. Worked. Client work. Dropped some stuff off. Took care of the pups. Podcasted. It was…a long day. A great day.

Night!

Day 2,709: 1 of 2

I got stuck today. Pfizer vaccine dose 1 of 2.

Honestly? Low key emotional about it. It’s one step, a huge one really, toward “normal.” Intellectually, I could imagine things going back to normal from the very beginning of this pandemic. I could see how that would work. But to be HERE? Finally? It’s…it’s emotional.

Solid, very busy day today. Up early to get writing done. Then, walked pups early to make sure their morning routine was finished before dropping them off at the doomers to get ...

Day 2,708: Painful Setup

Right now, setting up story is painful.

That’s where I am in the process of writing my current book: setting things up. There’s so much unknown, so much detail to fill in, so much *I* don’t know yet about my characters, and it’s so easy for me to write outside of the flow and just kind of force things that I then want to go back and change.

I was better about that with my first book. I just WROTE as opposed to falling to far on the side of either not caring or caring too much. I was able t...

Day 2,707: Nearly There

Man…I am nearly there. Two weeks straight of getting up at 7am.

I write that, and I definitely feel…proud, but also totally silly. Like, objectively speaking, it REALLY isn’t that hard to wake up on time for two weeks. But, goddamnit, it was for me! I tried to get up at 7am for a year. Almost exactly. Couldn’t do it. And, now I have for two straight weeks.

And maaaannnn…I was EXHAUSTED this morning when I woke up. Fatigued. Allergies going crazy. I had a terrible night’s sleep. It was rooo...

Day 2,706: Weedz

I never though pulling weeds could ever be therapeutic.

I haaaaaated that when I was younger. Hated it. But now…it’s nice to put on a podcast and just be down with the plants and the dirt. Who knew? Got to go out and visit somewhere and pull weeds. Happy with the swath I pulled out, too.

I got some rest today. Got up on time, right on time, and stayed up for a good three hours, then went back and snoozed. Forced myself to, actually. I kept waking up with my brain spinning thoughts…but I st...

Day 2,705: Wow

So…

I reaaalllyyyy didn’t want to get up at 7am this morning. I had a late night podcasting, I was really tired, but I’m committed so I did it anyway absolutely convinced I’d stay up for an hour and then go back to sleep.

Nope. I knocked out all the shit I wasn’t able to get done this week instead, walked the dogs and then had breakfast with Liz.

Dope. It was dope. I got SO MUCH SHIT DONE just because I woke up early.

And it is finally getting easier to get out of bed. The determinat...

Day 2,704: Let them eat cake

Oh boy, it’s late. Great day. I set a goal to write 3 pages and I DID IT.

Work was great. Podcasting was EPIC. Also got to play some DJ times with Josh, too, before we podcasted. It was all excellent.

And, now it’s waaaay past bed time. So, we’ll end it here and say…I gotta get up at 7am tomorrow. Lol. Sleep time.