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Day 3,741: Bodies Are Fun!

Well, shenanigans have conspired to make it ANOTHER late night here at the ho-heinichen household of horrors and hosiery. Audition ran late, there was puppy pee on the bathroom rug, and a few other surprises right before bed, lol.

It was a solid day today, though. Genuinely. It’s been hard lately for me to get my stuff done, but I was better today through sheer force of will. I hope to build on it tomorrow, see if I can find this groove that feels like it’s just around the corner if I could j...

Day 3,740: Deep Breaths

Good day. Sleepy time so snapping this up short…but a good day. Night night.

Day 3,739: Zero

A zero day today writing-wise. Sigh. Resistance is extra strong right now because I’m getting close to a completed (rough/3-act) outline for the next Glory book. And I think the following rough outline will be quick after that. Doing both at the same time since they’re a two-parter. Gonna be a fun one 🙂

Joy is pressed up against me so high and tight on my hip right now that I can’t even write this entry on my iPad, there’s nowhere to put it. Typing this on my phone instead. She’s such a snugg...

Day 3,738: Boooo

Booooooo. Another super short one because it’s already sleepy time. No excuse for getting to bed this late, ugh. Just got caught on the couch hanging out, not watching the time. I was watching a Formula 2 race for the first time. It’s super interesting! You can’t really tell that they’re going a bit slower, and there’s lots of strategy and overtaking because it’s a spec car championship, ie- everyone’s driving the exact same car. So…it’s alllll about the driver (and the team). It makes sense, si...

Day 3,737: My Side

Time for bed! Another good mix today of being productive and rest. But dang, it’s almost 10:30 which is SLEEP time, not just in-bed time, so gonna make this super short.

night night kids

Day 3,736: Whew

Niners beat the Packers to advance to the conference championship. Whew. It was a close one. We played like sh*t for long stretches of the game…but we pulled it out. Just barely. And hopefully it was just the back-and-forth, gritty win that we needed to get through in order to have what it takes to win it all. We’ll see. It’s either the Bucs or the Lions next Sunday.

Got some extra rest. Watched football. Edited the podcasts. Went out to dinner with Nicole and Alex. It was a very good day. Lo...

Day 2,735: Denna

Happy Friday, everyone! The weekend has arrived. Who else is looking forward to a well-earned rest?

It was an up and down week for me, work-wise, for sure. And I do mean the creative work, not the work-work. Work-work was fine. Great, even. But the writing was hard. Specifically getting my ass up on time. Sigh. But I caaaannn do it, and the days I did were good ones. This story seems to be pretty straightforward so far. At least in terms of this is the main chunk of what we’re doing. Not supe...

Day 3,734: Lemonade!

It is not the time of year for lemonade AND YET…it is because lemon trees are giving up their fruit this time of year down here in LA.

We don’t have a lemon tree, but our neighbor does, and he dropped by a MASSIVE bag of lemons at our house over the weekend, so it’s been sitting in our fridge. Well, today I decided to actually use them for something. They seem to be really good lemons! So, I thought: why not lemonade. Looked up a recipe, juiced the lemons, muddled some rinds and flesh with th...

Day 3,733: Blue Heeler

Wiped! Going to bed early tonight just ‘cause. I feel like the extra sleep will do me good. Not to say I haven’t been sleeping well. I have! But, I’ve been tiiiired this week. I know why, too, it’s very simple: I’m doing a lot! lol. Exercising, taking care of all these tasks and projects I’ve put off, working, AND pushing through the hardest part of the novel-writing process for me: the outlining. Particularly the early outlining, where the ideas are all so fuzzy.

So, yeah… not a surprise th...

Day 3,732: Full On

These days where I do all the things. Man. It is FULL. ON. Up at the buhcrack. Nonstop including doing yoga with lunch from 6:30 to essentially 6…and then a collapse onto the couch for some potato time.

Right now, it’s exhausting. I’m out of shape, mentally. The short daylight hours really don’t help. But, you know what? I feels soooooo gooooooood to have a day like I did today, even through the exhaustion. Just need to keep going. And I don’t do this every day. Just the work days.

I final...