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Day 3,897: Che Fico

Had a really nice dinner for Liz’s dad tonight. Food and wine were excellent. It was a beautiful day, too — we took a nice long walk together. That was really nice. It was sunny with a cool breeze. And before that we all went back to sleep after breakfast, lol. That was delightful.

Happy Birthday Lin!

Day 3,896: PG

Happy Birthday Doctor Ho!

We had our first of two birthday dinners for him today. It was the women that used to run his office when he was in private practice. 40 years together! And his brother and sister in law also came out, Ben and Marge. A Chinese banquet. Yum yum.

Beautiful day. Pups are good. I am wiped. Night night.

Day 3,895: Fool’s Gold

Long. Days.

Put in another 12 hour day today. Whew. But shit had to get done for work! No way around it. And I did. I got it done. All of it. Outline is with my co-writer. Gonna start jamming on that Monday. Let’s goooo.

Pups are tucked in and snoozy. Bear is too. Life is good.

Now: sleeeeeeep.

Day 3,894: Clean

I have the living room floor scrubbed clean for the first time! With our “cross wave,” at least, which is this vacuum-slash-mop that sucks up the water as you go so it doesn’t stay sitting on your floor and cause water damage. The only thing about this thing…is that we have the battery-powered version. The more EXPENSIVE fancy version, of that I have no doubt…but it only lasts for about 30 minutes at a time, which is not enough for our floor. Not by a long shot. So, it’s a dance of how many char...

Day 3,893: Big Day

Got my outline done. Whew! Big day. Wiped because of it, but it is done. Sent it off to my co-writer. He’s gonna let me know what needs to be changed…and then I’m writing this damn thing. Let’s gooooo.

Work was slow today, thank lord. I was able to crank on the writing. Pups are good. Bear is good. Life…is good.

Night night.

Day 3,892: Hey!

Doing a quick one tonight, but hey! I did good today. Slept in an extra hour because I was wiiiiped from yesterday’s crazy long work day, but I got my ass out to my office and did the other hour of morning writing, and then cranked out the two evening hours as well, despite feeling super fatigued. Good work, too. Very happy with it.

Now…a good night’s sleep, and back at it tomorrow! Real close with this outline 🙂

Day 3,891: The Scary Vacuum

Joy is so scared of the vacuum. Poor babes. Doesn’t like it, not one bit. She doesn’t bark at it, though. Cooper used to do that.

I worked my ass off today. From 7am to 10pm. Whew. I’m freaking wiped. Get a good night’s sleep, and back at it tomorrow. I’m in good shape, though, for the rest of the week now because I pushed today nice and hard to get shit done. I hope, anyway. We’ll see.

Night night.

Day 3,890: As Hell

Whew. Hot as HELL today. 99 degrees. One of those “oven” days in LA. We definitely get a few more of those out here further in the valley where our home is, now, than when we were tucked in closer to the foothills. About five degrees on days like this. Yeah, I just looked it up—it was 94 degrees today back in our old zip code, lol. Sigh. Upside: it does get cooler here first. We get more air circulation. And that’s nice. We can open up the sliding doors to our bedroom and cool it down naturally....

Day 3,889: Smatlas

It late! But not too bad 🙂

We got to hang out tonight with Stephen and Thida, and we brought the dogs over and watched the JLo sci-fi movie Atlas together. It was terrible. Deliciously so. Had a great time.

I fixed the solar panels (hopefully) for our two front yard cameras. I’d put them vertically on our eaves, but they weren’t generating enough power, so the batteries were slowly dying. I moved them each up onto the actual roof. We’ll see if they do better there. They should! Plenty of s...

Day 3,888: Prime

Dogs are on the primo spots on the bed right now, over on Liz’s plush-ier blanket side. It’s so nice to have Coops back home. He came out and hung out with me in my office while I worked today. BUSY workday. Very very busy. I’m wiped. I only got one hour of writing in because it was so busy. But, that’s okay. I’m going to work through the weekend. I want this outline done.

Night night.