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Day 2,221: Cars and Shows

Busy day today. I was up early for a day off (normal time for a work day) to walk the pups and eat a little before we shipped out to go to the Petersen Automotive Museum over the hill in Miracle Mile.

That was pretty damn cool. We did both the normal museum and the vault tour down in the basement. Some reeaaalllyyy expensive, cool cars down there. One of them, a Jag owned once by Steve McQueen, was worth 20-30 million dollars. Crazy.

We ate lunch there too, then came home and fed the pups....

Day 2,220: Thanks

Thank you to my amazing family. Mom and Dad, I literally wouldn’t be here without you. Seth and Scott and Russell (rip), thanks for being the brothers I could have ever asked for.

I’m thankful for my amazing wife and partner in everything. You are so, so good in your new show, which premiered today (watch Merry Happy Whatever on Netflix). The best I’ve ever seen you, and that’s saying something because you’ve always done amazing work, as your resume attests.

I’m thankful for the pups for...

Day 2,219: Turkey Eve

I worked today. Got another metric shit ton of stuff done. And I’m feeling more myself. Feeling more grounded.

It’s really being home, back in my routine.

I’m really looking forward to thanksgiving tomorrow. The food. The company. The holidays beginning. LIZ’S NEW SHOW.

Yes. Merry Happy Whatever is finally out tomorrow. I can’t wait to watch it. I’ll be watching it for the first time like everyone else because I didn’t get to see them tape it. So…I’m excited. So FREAKING proud of my bear. I...

Day 2,218: Why Does Milk Make Me Fart A Lot?

Good day today.

Something…dare I say…clicked

Day 2,217: Young Blood

Blech. Hectic day today at work. Nothing crazy, but it did hijack both of my writing sessions, morning and afternoon. Luckily, I just wrote almost 500 words just now. Good words. Easy words.

Hoping that continues tomorrow before I send my pages off to J.

Sigh.

I wish I’d known how much panic lay behind my drive to succeed. I’d have made an effort to sit with those feelings a long time ago. I just didn’t know.

Now I do.

I want to go get some reading done.

Today was a good day. Don’t get it...

Day 2,216: Self Care

This weekend was a self care weekend.

I feel so much more myself.

I built a table for my model crafting. I watched the Niners beat down the Packers. We went and got Christmas photos with the pups. I took a nice long nap. Therapy was intense, but helped put some things in perspective, which takes a little bit of a load off. I got the podcast (pretty much) set up for the next two weeks; at least tomorrow is ready to go, the rest is almost ready.

It was a good weekend.

I took a break from...

Day 2,215: Biology

Therapy was intense today.

I talked about my biological father, a man I’ve never met. It’s…a very uncomfortable subject, I’m realizing. Something that I’ve really avoided thinking about or talking about most of my life. And I think it’s affecting my writing. There are a lot of parallels and similarities to what my main character is going through in this second book and, well, aspects of my own life. Definitely not the same, but shades of it for sure.

Anyway…it honestly makes me really...

Day 2,214: Struggle

Coco struggles against getting her eye drops every night. Every. Night.

I looked up some videos, and it looks like there’s a better way. She still struggles against it, but I wonder if I can work on conditioning her with treats to not be so afraid of the way I’d need to hold her. She’s so stubborn. Waaaaay more stubborn and willful than Coops.

I had a good writing sesh this morning. All caught up at work. Got to come home a little bit early. Watched basketball. Figured out how to process the...

2,213: Zonked

Late entry bc of casting.

We watched Sullivan’s Travels tonight, which was a film I knew absolutely nothing about. Which was exciting. The film…not so much. But more on that when the episode drops

Day 2,212: A Quick

Maaannn…

Been freaking exhausted all day. All day today.

BUT…sometimes those are the best work days. I wrote a good scene this morning. It was pure, true, vivid. A keeper.

Working on getting there with the current scene. It’s such a process with this book. So not obvious. But…man…I’m making progress. I really am.

Time for sleeps. Niiiiiiiight