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Day 3,757: Annie K

Tilde turned 12 today. She invited her entire 6th (7th?…pretty sure it’s 6th) grade class to the park near school, and they played capture the flag, the whipped cream game where you can’t use your hands and you have to eat a plate of whipped cream, ate pizza and listened to music. Her turnout was pretty good. I think she’s making friends at her new school, which surprises none of us; Tilde is good at meeting people.

It’s wild; all those kids are growing up. Mir is a freshman. Tilde’s in middl...

Day 3,756: Poof

Podcasted! It was actually a good one tonight; I enjoyed it. There was a baseline level of competence that felt like a step forward as far as I’m concerned. Certainly better than the last two we’ve watched. And it was actually charming, which is refreshing given that Hitch has missed the mark so often when it comes to relationships and people.

Work was quiet today. Thank lord. I was able to sleep in and still get some solid writing done without being worried I’d be late on something. I even g...

Day 3,755: Miss You

Miss you Coco. You died today one year ago. It’s been a blur since then, to be honest. I don’t have a concept of time when it comes to being without you. When I think of you, only the time we had together is something I can grasp.

What a hard day that was a year ago. It was even worse the next day, I remember, waking up in tears and alone. Well…not alone because I was never alone…but…missing you.

Still miss you. Terribly. I wish I could snuggle up next you now and fall asleep together.

Day 3,754: Early To Rise

I had a great writing session this morning. I identified my holdup. The section that was giving me the troubles, and so I set aside what I was doing to figure it out. And I did! A major chunk of it, at least. And there are a few other chunks to figure out, both plot and character-arc-wise, but it felt like breaking open the logjam.

And then work got crazy. Sigh 😛 But, I still got in my couple hours in the morning. Phew!

It’s off to bed early now. Gotta make it two days in a row. Woohoo!

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...