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Day 3,681: Visalia

It was Ashika’s 4th birthday (party) today. She turns 4 for real on Monday. But, today was the big bash, and big it was. She legit had like 20 kids show up. Bounce house in the backyard. Tons of pizza. Moana showed up.

We went up early to help get everything ready. It looked so good! And then drove back home. I’m wiiiiiped. Super wiped. But happy to be getting to bed on time. Whew. Coops came up with us. He was so good. Loved all the peoples, kids included. He’s so good like that; loves ALL p...

Day 3,680: Le Quick

Making this a quick one, but…took it more low-key today. Work was actually fairly busy, but I didn’t try to cram in all the other stuff. I mentally took it off. Let stuff go.

It worked. I feel better. One step toward better, anyway.

Mental recharge, here I come.

Night night.

Day 3,679: The Wall

Hit a bit of a wall today energy-wise. And not even writing-wise, just in general. Writing was good this morning! Great, even. It’s coming together. The best week I’ve had writing so far this year, in fact. But man…round lunch, when it was time to do yoga…I was done. Done with the day. Wanted to conk out. I so rarely get like that, it was noticeable. I’m not exactly sure why, except that I’ve definitely gone hard these past few weeks.

I rallied though! I rallied to finish work, go to therapy,...

Day 3,768: Counterpart

Left my iPad out in my office. Eye roooollll. Thumbin it over here on the old iPhone.

Joy is being a maniac tonight. So silly. Right now she’s digging into my leg like she needs to build a burrow. And now she just dove underneath the blankets and wants to play blanket monster. Crazy baby.

Three days in a row getting up on time and getting in all three hours of writing in! I think maybe I was trying to force a 6:30 start time when 6:45/7am is really the sweet spot for me. Like…THE sweet spo...

Day 3,767: Writing Mood

A busier day today, both writing-wise and work-wise…and I’m bushed. Feeling…feeling resistance. I’m close on this outline. But I’m not there yet. Big hole missing. I’ve been coming at it from a plot perspective, and I’ve gotten things reeaaaalllyyy close. But maybe I need to come from a character perspective. So I’ll try that in the morning. The good news is that I did three full hours today. Three full hours that didn’t get me a solution, which has me in my feels…but it was the first time in a ...

DAY 3,766: Heheh

Joy giving me kisses right now on my arm. Sweetie pie.

Good writing day. Otherwise…it was slow, and that means anxiety creeps in, which god, I know…there’s issues there. Issues calming down. Issues being idle. I know this. I know this. Working on it.

It’s not that bad, truly. It’s not like it overwhelms me. It doesn’t. I just…I have a hard time relaxing when I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing. When I relax the best is when I know that’s what I’m supposed to do. But when it’s nebulo...

Day 3,765: Nice-Ass

I watched a documentary today on the opioid crisis in this country, and it was pretty eye opening. How often our healthcare system fails people. Law enforcement, too, and government. There are good people out there, without question, but there are also a LOT more monsters than you’d think. And it always, always comes down to money. I wish we could get money out of our politics. I really do. It would be so different.

I slept in. I took care of the pups. I ate breakfast and finished that doc. I...

Day 3,764: Derrick and Gary!

Got to hang with our friends Derrick and Gary tonight. Loooooove them. Been a while since I got to hang with them. A WHILE. They’re good. Food was amazing. We drank some wine. We talked. We petted pups and kitties. It was perfect.

Edited the podcasts today. Got caught up on that. Took an epic nap. Fed pups and kitties, walked pups, ate food. It was a good day.

Wiped. Night night.

Day 3,763: Gaslight

It’s late! But not crazy late. Josh and I did pretty good tonight getting through the podcasting tasks. And the movie was good, too! The Lady Vanishes. Fun premise! Not perfectly executed, for sure, but the pieces were mostly there, and the premise was a legit classic. Everyone’s telling the main protagonist that she’s crazy, but she knows she isn’t…or is she?

Work was light today, thankfully. Wrapping up a big project, finally. Writing was good today! Really good. Space battle is gonna be a ...

Day 3,762: Cozy Sounds

I just had to move Joy so my elbow had somewhere to rest as I type this entry out. She make the sweetest little grunt, a cozy sound, to let me know I’d awakened her. It’s the little things like that I love so much about sharing our bed with the dogs. They’re so cozy. She’s curled up right next to me, pressed in tight, and already back asleep. I love feeling her there, warm. Makes me feel sleepy. And happy. And cozy.

Busy day today. Woke up feeling…well, a carryover from waking up two days ago...