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Day 3,753: Awesome Dog

The rain has finally petered out. It was just dry enough this morning to take the pups out on a proper walk—incidentally the last time Joy has gone number 2 as far as we can tell…which means she’ll probably wake me up in the middle of the night to go outside and do it—and then it rained the rest of the day until now. Light rain, but steady nonetheless. Quite the storm, for sure. Rarely do we get such steady rain for several days. It’s going to make everything so green…and I’ve got this one weed ...

Day 3,752: Hungry Dog

Watched a couple movies today, actually. It was just the right kind of day for it; dark, cold, wet…and oh so sleepy and cozy inside. But what we just finished was Kelce, about Jason Kelce of the Eagles. Very sweet doc. Highly recommend. It was about many things. One that stuck with me was his considering retiring, his body breaking down, and wondering where else in his life is he going to the best at what he does?

Klay Thompson is going through that right now. He got benched in the fourth qua...

Day 3,751: Grams

So so wet and rainy today! It’s been steady rather than a deluge, which is nice, but you know what’s even NICER? Having a roof that doesn’t leak! 🙂 Huzzah for that. Big thanks to Lin Ho for helping us with that. Couldn’t have done it without you! No leaks. Warm and dry inside. It’s worth its weight in goooolllddd.

It was a busier day than I’d anticipated. Sigh. But…good busy. Really good busy. And here I am in bed early, feeling as if I did get to slow down here by the end, spend some quality...

Day 3,750: Storm’s Coming

Rain is coming to LA. Big rain, apparently. We’ll see how big it really is. We. Shall. See.

Feeling strong with yoga. Back in the flow with that, which feels nice. I got front yard work done before the rain comes. I got my car smogged FINALLY. I was supposed to do that back in October. Sigh. That was a busy, busy time. I actually had a tiny bit of Netflix work to do, but that’s running in the background now. Got gas for my car. I wanted to do a bunch of other stuff today, but the smogging too...

Day 3,749: Poop Watch

We’re on diarrhea watch here at the Ho-Heinichen house. Joy got into a tube of lotion today and we didn’t catch it until she was inside the damn thing and licking at the lotion. Ugh. She’s already had poosplosions twice, so maybe it’s already out of her system, but I doubt it. Just spent like fifteen minutes putting down pee pads all around the bedroom rug.

Sigh.

The joys of having a…well, she’s not exactly a puppy anymore, but she’s still a puppy. Joy joy joy. Can’t take our eyes off you....

Day 3,748: Read

I wish I was better at reading. Not reading and, like, understanding. I think I’m pretty good there. I always have been, it seems. Maybe not, but at least as long as I can remember. Reading feels like it’s always made sense to me. I mean…I wish I read more these days. I wish I was better at that.

I used to read all. the. time. I remember my mom telling me I needed to put my book down because we were on vacation and she didn’t want to just sit in silence. I needed to participate. THAT’S how mu...

Day 3,747: Hobnobs

A really solid day today. Whew. Didn’t get my outlines finished, but that’s okay. I will soon. And I got a crap ton of Netflix work done. AND got the house ready for our guest, oh, AND got the green bin loaded with a bunch more to take away tomorrow. I didn’t get that done this weekend because…football, lol.

Anyway…a solid day. Whew. Tomorrow’s gonna be cold and wet…but I should be able to get some solid work done.

Night night.

Day 3,746: Under

I was literally under the weather today. Not sick! Thank gawd. But…this weird warm, dry weather, full of pollen and stuff, and this pressure change coming with the storm that’s about to roll in, it had me literally under the weather. Little achy, headachy, and wiiiiiped out. Super tired. I think that was because yesterday was a little stressful, the tiredness I mean, but crazy, huh? I feel better now that it’s slipping cooler again and a storm is coming. I think it’s supposed to rain tomorrow. W...

Day 3,745: Toxic

It’s hard to hear that someone you looked up to—someone who’s even helped you—is in reality a toxic person. I’ve heard it enough times, now, from enough other people and their personal experiences to know it’s true deep in my bones. I really dislike this kind of vagueness in my blog, but for right now, anyway, I’m not going to be more specific. It’s my story, and I’m keeping it to myself. It’s not even that big of deal, actually; it’s not a surprise. It’s more a confirmation and a final settling...

Day 3,744: Bang Bang

The 49ers are going to the Super Bowl for the third time in my adult life.

I do remember the niners winning in the eighties; at least a couple of them. Probably the last two times. And then again in ‘94; I remember that one more clearly. But as an adult? In the era post-Montana and Young? We’re 0-2 so far, and so, soooo many years in between of being absolutely terrible. Well, we get another crack at it in two weeks. A rematch of our last super bowl loss—we’re playing Patty Mahomes and the Ch...