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Day 3,559: Nugget and Bingo

I first saw Nugget and Bingo as two terrified kittens in my backyard. Little balls of black and grey fir with giant terrified eyes. They were hiding from the sun, all by themselves. I still think they were abandoned, but maybe not. Maybe their mom had simply died, and they’d always been feral. I don’t know. But they ran as soon as they saw me, and I didn’t see them again for several months; they were twice the size when I saw them again, and they’d become friends with a couple other neighborhood...

Day 3,558: Close

It’s been a couple more-hectic weeks than I anticipated, BUT…I’m already into act 2 of my book. It’s moved along, actually.

It’s bed time. I’m freaking wiped. Tried to catch one of the last two kitties to get her fixed, but she didn’t go for the KFC and stayed away from the traps. Sigh. Smartie pants. I’ll get her eventually.

Night night.

Day 3,557: A Quick

Quick one tonight. It’s bed time. It was a rough day production-wise. I was just knocked off-kilter all day. Sigh. Still finding that balance between ambition and over-kill. And being reminded that mornings are absolutely crucial. They make or break a day. So…

It’s to bed with me. Night night.

Day 3,556: Toe Nailed

So, my dog decided he didn’t need one of his toe nails today.

I DON’T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED. I just came into the room and there was blood everywhere. He was looking at me like…wtf just happened? Ouch.

Took him to Dog Urgent Care. He got drugged and bandaged up. He gonna be fine. But like…wtf dude? Poor guy.

I found the toe nail by the way. Whole ass claw just sitting there on the living room floor. I think he must have been trying to jump up on the chair we have there and slipped on the...

Day 3,555: Deeply Cleaned

It is bed time BUT…man, I hit twenty pages today writing-wise. Whew! Wasn’t all that hard. I think I’m finding a groove. I hope so. I definitely have some things to fix this weekend, and it’s going to take some TIME to do so. But…I don’t think they’re too major. They feel major, but I don’t think they will be. Just need to hone down on a couple things that aren’t in the rhetoric right now. Setup information for the adventure to come that I missed somehow, and it needs to make sense that they’d a...

Day 3,554: Wins and Losses

So, the win is that I just did a last writing sprint here to finish out the week with 60 written pages. Done. Did it. This little hour before bed of 9:30 to 10:30 was very, very effective. I think I wrote four pages in about 40 minutes. And GOOD pages, too.

I definitely need to find ways to write more at night; it’s always been a very natural creative time for me…when I’m able to sit down and do it. I also REALLY like being chill at night, like unplugged, and I also get very tired around this...

Day 3,553: Zonked

I caved in and let Joy run around with Snacks this evening for a little bit. And by ‘run around’ I truly mean she just ran around the yard having the zoomies. They hardly actually played together at all; she just wanted to run. And you know what? She is ZONKED OUT tonight. Super sleepy. And a sleepy pup is a happy pup.

She’s literally snoring right now. Lol.

Podcasting with Josh. Had therapy. Took Liz to the airport. That was my day.

Liz is in Scotland now for the next four weeks doing ...

Day 3,552: Puppy Energy

Joy is so crazy before bed now. I have to believe that part of it is that she’s not getting nighttime walks right now because she’s recovering from getting fixed. No play time with Snacks, either. But man, she is WILD before bed. Right now, she’s digging around under the covers. Cooper HATES it.

Omg. She’s licking my feet right now. She found them.

She’s so cute.

Anyway…long day. Long week. Ended it right, though: a date night with Liz. We went to Bacari, which is near our old digs, and...

Day 3,551: Rhythm

Had much of my writing rhythm disrupted today BUT…I knew that was going to happen, so I made sure I got in some hours early.

I can reliably write three good pages an hour. GOOD pages. No rushing. Stopping to fix stuff as I go. Clean enough prose to give it an easy polish later in the week. Hour in, hour out. Three pages.

That is SO HELPFUL TO KNOW. That’s my rhythm. I can count on it whether I’m having a good writing day or a bad one. I have a lot less bad writing days knowing that’s my p...

Day 3,550: She Will Not Be Tamed

Coops has a heart murmur. He saw a cardiologist today and the news is about as good as it could possibly be. Downside, he does have a heart murmur. The upside: it’s a type that has an 80% chance of developing so slowly it will never be an issue, and currently, his heart is otherwise completely normal in every other aspect. In the 20% that it does start to cause issues, such as enlarging his heart, by checking it frequently, we’d be able to catch it very early on, and there are medications and li...