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Day 2,208: Success Runs Through Happiness

My success has always run a direct route right through my own level of happiness and contentment.

I realized that at therapy today. What I fear about stepping away from Netflix is not that I won’t or can’t succeed. I already know I can. I’ve done it before. Several times, actually. What I fear is that I won’t be happy…and because of that, I will fail.

That’s what happened in 2017 and 2018. I failed because I was so unhappy. I mean, there were reasons I was unhappy, it wasn’t just arbitrary, of course…but ever...

Day 2,207: Home

It’s so good to be home!

Happy Belated Birthday to Kerbear. It was soo good to see her today. We had amazing pizza and then played pinball to our hearts’ content at the Pinball Museum.

Morning was great. Got to chat with Ronnie and Yudha. Packed up and left right on time. And my flight was easy. Burbank was a little crazy, but now I’m home, fed, and Coco is snuggled next to me.

It’s good to be home.

2,206: Swimming

I have to say…this 20 Books conference has been a bit overwhelming. And not in a bad way. Just…overwhelming.

My head is swimming in a mixture of excitement, fear, possibilities, choices, upsides, downsides and plans, hopes, dreams, nightmares…it’s a lot.

I wanted this life. I wanted the success of these inspirational people. And then I stumbled, and am recovering, and it’s scary to want it again…while also feeling like some new, necessary perspectives have changed me in the process.

Which is to say; I feel like I’m going...

2,205: weeerrrrkkkkk

Another looooong long inspiring awesome exhausting day

Day 2,204: 20Books Day One

The team killed it today. They really did amazing.

Day one in the books, and night one too. I went to the Fantasy genre dinner and had a freaking blast. Those are my peeps. Maybe even more than SciFi nerds

Day 2,203: Phew

Good lord today was busy.

Flew to Vegas.

Applied for SW cards on the plane and in the airport so that we can hopefully get the companion pass for the next two years.

Checked into hotel and into the conference.

Met with group of main volunteers for a luncheon at the firelight buffet here.

Met with the AV Club who’s going to run the show for us tomorrow.

Had dinner with Amy Duboff and her amazing crew.

Watched a little football.

Oh! And did an editor call with J about his short story for the SG anthology.

Jesus.

Today. Was. Busy.

I am wiped out. Time for sleeps. More sh...

Day 2,202: prep

Crazy day today. I did so much stuff.

Took care of pups in the AM. Drove a stool sample from Coco to the vet to be tested. Bought new shirts for Vegas (and work – I need them). Did laundry. Tested our computers for the conference. Fed pups and walked them for the night. Packed. Managed to eat food here and there too.

Crazy day. But I got (almost) everything done. Wanted to edit and post the Film School we have recorded, but I ran out of steam and time. Plus, I wanted to spend SOME time with Liz today,...

Day 2,201: Milestone coming

Oh, man… I just realized that there’s a milestone coming with the bloggity blog: day number 2,222…it’s been 1,111 days since I last had an entry that was four of the same number all in a row.

Definitely makes me want to go back and read that entry. It would have been…four years ago? Little less? Crazy. Just crazy. I bet I was trying to write my Indiana Jones/X-Files script and thinking that what I reaaalllyyy wanted to do was rewrite my novel I’d finished a few months earlier…

That’ll be a fun read.

Pups are...

Day 2,200: Old Chum

Life is a Cabaret, old chum.

Podcasted tonight. Josh had an epiphany tonight: he likes musicals

Day 2,199: Whew

I am wiiiiiiped out tonight. Usually with an extra day of podcasting in a week, I’m pretty tired the following work day. This week, it was the second day