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Day 3,794: He’s All Done

Day one of the new OmniFocus reality. I did good with it. Real test, however, will be if I stick with it when the whole thing goes sideways, which is bound to happen sooner or later—the stretches where the schedule has to go out the window for a week or two because work or life got hectic. That will be the true test!

I have holes in my rough outline for book 5, and I need to plug them before I move onto the detailed outline. Sigh. It takes so much brainpower to come up with that shit. It’s ha...

Day 3,793: Edison

Making this a quick one because it’s almost bed time and I want to establish a new routine of using my omnifocus app every night before bed to plan out my next day in terms of all the little stuff I need to get done. The big stuff, too, but it’s the smaller stuff I struggle with.

I’ve gone through stretches of using the app to really great effect; the last time was a couple years ago. Really helped me keep on track of stuff. But, then I get more on top of things and I let the rope slip. I’m o...

Day 3,792: Ghost Tapes

Had a really nice day with Bear today. We had lunch with one of her friends from USC—he’s about to get married! That was really nice. We then went down to Chinatown from there, and she got cake slices from a cake shop she really loves, and then went to a tiny Japanese stationary store + coffee shop that was super cute and she’d been wanting to visit for a while. She got a really nice pen for her journal, and some other cool stuff.

It was home from there, a nap, walking the dogs, and then hang...

Day 3,791: Hot Europe

Hitch is hitting a stride. Hasn’t all come together yet, for sure, but I know he’s taken a leap in that I’m starting to look forward to watching his movies each week. They’re tipping from intellectual exercise into “movie” territory. They’re becoming entertaining. It’s cool.

Super late. Time for bed. But…a good day. A really solid week in terms of getting up on time, putting in the writing hours, reading, and working out. A really good week. I think I’m turning a corner, too.

Night night.

Day 3,790: All Too Well

Tired days. The time change is hard, but the new daylight hours are invigorating. I wouldn’t say I’m refreshed or particularly energized, but they do suit me.

I wrote. I read. I got Netflix work done. I yoga’d. I went to Costco with Bear and we got the groceries we were missing. Took a quick nap. Worked and wrote a little more. Walked the pups. Ate dinner and watched Taylor Swift with Bear—her Eras tour concert film just dropped on Disney+—and then read some more in bed. That last bit always ...

Day 3,789: A Step

I lost a week on the front yard project last week, and I nearly lost another this week by not doing anything on it this weekend. I fixed that today. I started moving the big, heavy stuff. There’s several inches of mulch in the front planter-thing, several inches of earth underneath that, and then the concrete retainer blocks will need to be moved as well. It’s heavy, hard work. But, if I can break it up into small stints, I can do it all myself. I made progress today, and it pleases me to look a...

Day 3,788: Your Problem Not Hers

Joy is NOT moving to let Liz into bed ahahahaha.

It was a solid day today. Whew. Got my writing done in the morning, on time, got started on work on time, yoga and lunch like wham-o blam-o, which meant that we got to go over to Nicole and Alex’s and hang with their growing kittens who are SO CUTE—Fran and Elliot—then came home in time to finish up with work, writing session to close the day, took a whole-ass shower, walk the pups, dinner with Bear where we started watching Constellation on Ap...

Day 3,787: She’s Still Here

I watched Barbie. Or, rather, finished it tonight. Really enjoyed it. That could have been such a hollywood movie, y’all. It could have been pink and pretty and that’s it. But it wasn’t. It was thoughtful. It reached for some really, truly deep shit, and more often than not it grabbed it. The scene with the older woman on the bus stop bench in particular just—one of those surprise scenes that kind of takes your breath away. It wasn’t perfect, a lot of the magic was fast and loose, but everything...

Day 3,786: Mazar

Daylight savings time is the best time. Let’s be honest: nobody wants “night” to begin at 4 fucking pm. This is the time of year I come alive. For whatever reason, that “extra” hour of daylight means everything to me. THAT SAID…

…the transition is goddamn murder.

I feel like a ton of bricks hit me this morning. Tired and out of it all day. Tomorrow is gonna be rough. ROUGH.

But it will be worth it in a few weeks.

And in the interests of tryyyyying to get a good night’s sleep, I bid y...

Day 3,785: Good Conversation

I caught up on some sleep today. Took the pups on walkos, took Coops to see the vet for his ear and got him some medications to make it go away, watched the Jedda Grand Prix, took a nap, cleaned the house, walked the pups again, helped set up for our friends Audrey and Jesse to come over for dinner, and then had a wonderful time eating and talking with them.

Now…sleep. Daylight savings tomorrow!