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October 10, 2023
Day 3,634: Caught Up
I finished Stray tonight. What a fun game! The design was breathtaking. Gameplay was pretty straightforward and easy, but in a fun way. Really, really enjoyed it, and it’s the first game that I’ve played and finished in a very, very long time. Years. I want to play more. I think maybe Horizon Zero dawn next? Maybe? We’ll see.
I caught up on work today. Whew! Means I should hopefully have the majority of the week to wrap things up on the book. Wish me luck on that. Some major hours to put in a...
October 9, 2023
Day 3,633: Catching Up
Whew. LONG day today. Longest work day in a little while. I got the big project done. Tomorrow, the small project, and then after that I’m hoping that I have the rest of the week to wrap things up on my book. Decent amount of work there.
Ugh.
Joy is curled up and pressed right against me as I write this, right where Coco used to snuggle sometimes. Joy is so different than Coco. SO different. They’re completely different dogs…but the love is the same. Joy’s utterly devoted to me, and me to ...
October 8, 2023
Day 3,632: What A Beast
Bang bang, Niner Gang. We demolished the Cowboys tonight on Sunday Night Football. It’s the best team we’ve faced thus far, and I definitely wouldn’t say I was worried about the game, but I was curious as to how we’d look against a plus defense and a good offense.
We looked good. Very, very good.
Next week, we face off against a legit GREAT defense. That will be very interesting. We scored 42 tonight on six touchdowns. That’s not going to happen against the Browns. But, the Browns offense ...
October 7, 2023
Day 3,631: A Six
The dogs really help me. They really make going to bed doable. It’s the routine of it. The coziness. They put me in the mood for sleep and rest and I really am very grateful for that. It’s such a wonderful thing I get to experience every night.
Working through the weekend, unfortunately. I have writing work to do, but I have to get these Netflix projects on my plate taken care of first. Maybe not completely finished, but on automatic pilot, essentially, otherwise I can’t focus on the writing ...
October 6, 2023
Day 3,630: Hootenanny
Had a wonderful date night tonight with Bear! We went over the hill to the little Sawtelle neighborhood and had Killer Noodle, which I haven’t had in way waaaaaayyyy too long. That shit is legit one of my favorite meals. I crave that. Spicy dan dan noodles. Like, super spicy. That kind of spicy that builds the more you eat it. Uuuggghh. And then we got some dessert and came home to watch GBBO. Well, we walked the pups first, and then watched GBBO. And now…
Sleep.
I have to work through the...
October 5, 2023
Day 3,629: Copter
Late. Time for sleeps so I’ll make this one quick. Work. Podcasting. Alien. Pups. Now…sleep.
It was a busy, good day 🙂
October 4, 2023
Day 3,628: Strongly Worded
Busy work day today! And I got word from my cowriter that our editor has finished with the manuscript, so tomorrow morning I dive back into that to get it ready to ship out. Ahead of the game this time. A bit. A month earlier would have been nice, but whatever. It’s not nearly as mad-dash as the last one was. Learned my lesson there. Whew!
It’s kind of wild that I can put together a book as quick as I can now. Pretty cool.
Pups are good. Coops has a little scratch/ulcer on his eye that he ...
October 3, 2023
Day 3,627: Coopey Doopey
Got some stuff done today! Another light one work-wise—which changes tomorrow, got a whopper coming in—so it was some catchup. Getting ready for the conference coming up. Getting the podcast caught up. So much catching up to do on stuff that I either let grow wild because of grief and depression, or because I set it aside to finish my book. SO MUCH. But…the book is almost fully out the door. Just got word I’ll have it from our editor tomorrow, so it’ll be a week or so of making sure all the righ...
October 2, 2023
Day 3,626: Prompts
I restarted yoga today. And took such a hard nap because of it, lol. It’s only been two weeks since I paused, but damn. I missed it. And obviously I need to get back into it because it exhausted me.
Started sketching out stuff for the next book. Next few books, actually. Sent some ideas to my cowriter to see what he thought about it. We’ll see what he says. I also had some slow time with work today, so I got a little caught up on podcasts. Hit the ground running this month as opposed to how h...
October 1, 2023
Day 3,625: Impossible!
A floaty kind of weekend. Which is to be expected, since I finished by book this week. Kind of the post-exhaustion daze, I guess. I’m really proud of how I finished this book, though, because it wasn’t a mad scramble to the end. That last day of writing was just kind of a normal writing day. I wrote 18 pages to finish the book. Not, like, forty. I’m really proud of that. And tomorrow, I get right back to it: I’m plotting out the next one. I don’t think I’ll have it finished by the end of the yea...
