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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...

Day 3,761: Valentine’s

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

It’s super late, so I’ll keep this one brief…but it was a wonderful day. We made ourselves dinner! Steak, potates, salad, and shishito peppers with a super fancy bottle of Napa cab. It was insanely good. Legitimately, insanely good. And then we made a fresh fruit tart that was delicious.

Now…sleeps. Love you Bear, you’re my everything.

Day 3,760: Baking Baby

So…I want to make a fruit tart for valentine’s day. Liz and I are making it together, but it’s my idea, my initiative. Two elements can be made in advance, the pastry cream and the tart pastry dough. So, we decided to make those tonight.

I’m positive we botched both of them, lol. I just have no idea what I’m doing, so even following directions to a tee, I still fuck stuff up all over the place because I have no foundation of skills. Like…our pastry cream isn’t going to set. It’s just not, I k...

Day 3,759: Read

God, there’s so much I haven’t read. Sigh. I want to read so much more. And watch everything. And write everything. And get all of the housework done. And make all the money.

Not as easy as it sounds. Impossible, even. But, here we are, trying anyway.

I’m wiped. It’s bed time. Night night.

Day 3,758: Defeat

Well…the Niners yet again have played in a super bowl and lost. We played well. REALLY well. Both defenses were elite. Both teams struggled mightily to score all game. It went all the way DEEP into overtime, but by the end, Patrick Mahomes had one more touchdown drive in him than we did. We kicked a field goal. He threw a wide open, game-winning touchdown.

The loss wasn’t on our defense. It wasn’t on our offense. Both had opportunities to win the game and couldn’t quite do it, but that was fa...