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Day 2,681: No Photos Plz

Put Coco under the snuggie tonight and she is LOVING IT. I can hear her breathing hard underneath it As in snoozing. She’s so funny. We’re pretty sure she’s lost all her hearing these days, and so the NOISES she makes. Omg. She’s a noise machine. Particularly her chuff chuffs and her snorts.

Love my dogs. So much.

I read about a fellow writer today who’d recently lost their pup. She was an inspiration for a character in their book, just like I put Coops in mine. I love these guys. Don’t e...

Day 2,680: Two Hearts

Gotta put yourself out there.

It takes a long time, sometimes. For me, anyway. I have to protect myself for a long while, it would seem, before I’m willing to open up. Particularly creatively. But, there does eventually come a time when I just do it, I make the phone call or send the email.

I wish it was easier. I really do. I wish I was faster. But…I am who I am.

Today was a good day. I’ve really been tackling stuff lately that I’ve been afraid to before. But, something is pushing me t...

Day 2,679: Two Hundred Five

I’m at 205 pushups/sit-ups. This time last year I was…at 40? I think? Something like that. Doing this many each day was inconceivable.

You, know, actually…it wasn’t inconceivable. I remember pretty quickly realizing it was going to work with this program I set up, of starting so small and gradually increasing each day. I was already sticking with it easier than I ever had any exercise regimen, and adding one each day wasn’t even noticeable. So, where I’m at today was far away at that point…bu...

Day 2,678: The Important Things

There are more important things than productivity.

What I’ve finished, how many words I’ve written, where I’m at on my to do list…these things consume me, often. I let them. But, they are not everything. Not even close.

I practiced that a bit this weekend, and I am so, so glad I did. There are SO MANY other important things to me in my life—things like my goddaughter and her parents, things like the pups, things like spending quality time with Liz, talking to my parents—and I did a lot of ...

Day 2,677: Caught Up

Caught up this evening on watching For All Mankind. It’s a cool show. We’re very much enjoying it. Not QUITE caught up on all my tasks I wanted to finish…but there’s still time tomorrow. I’m so close. Just need to do some uploading and website posting…just realized I’ll need to do that before midday tomorrow, which means getting up on time. Wish me luck.

I think that’s about all I have for you today. It was a good one. Didn’t do a whole lot, but that’s kinda what I needed. Got to spend qualit...

Day 2,676: Rhythm

It was another week this week of not really having a rhythm.

The byproduct of an “unconventional” week is invariably a certain amount of anxiety for me, a background radiation of feeling out of control. That said…

This was a really solid week! I got a crapload of stuff done that I’d needed to do for weeks—if not months—because things were so insanely busy at work I never had a moment to breathe. This week, I got that moment. I needed it.

LA business tax filings, accountant stuff, emails...

Day 2,675: Don’t Normalize

When an artist—even a particularly talented one—turns out to be a monster of a person, someone who victimizes others, assualts them, abuses them…it doesn’t matter any more what they’ve contributed artistically. It doesn’t matter, because all that art was bullshit, a cover for them to hide behind and to enable them to perpetrate their crimes by duping us, all of us, into giving them the power to perpetrate their crimes by appreciating their art. They lied to us.

Intense Film School tonight, bu...

Day 2,674: Violence

So, there’s a ticktok “meme”…or, trend, or I suppose just “ticktok” going around right now in which a person does something extreme in the realm of passive aggressiveness—like, for example, changing their Netflix streaming account from 4 screens to 1 screen so as to kick off friends or family members that are using their login—and say “I woke up today, and I chose violence.”

It’s very funny.

And I’m so glad I just explained it in written form. So sure it translates perfectly.

For All Ma...

Day 2,673: Outage

The power is out!

There was an electrical fire next door down in the sub-basement/garage of the bank. It flooded…either because it seems like there was a flood up the street from us and water got down there, or more likely just because the fire department used water hoses to put the fire out, which flooded the electrical room…but either way, they had to shut off power to our whole block.

We were practically done with our evening, anyway. Didn’t affect us at all, really, except we didn’t ge...

Day 2,672: Letting Go

I didn’t have the BEST Monday, but it was pretty damn good. It started with frustration.

I didn’t have a very good night’s sleep, a recurring theme with my Mondays of late. And pretty sure I know why: I put pressure on Mondays. I shouldn’t. But, I do. I’m working on it. Because I didn’t get a good night’s sleep, I woke up late. Not too late. I was out of bed by 8:30 and sitting down for work 45 minutes later after having fed the pups and done my first workout.

But…I didn’t write. So, I was...