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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...

Day 3,549: Of Sprints and Marathons

I was much closer to my page goal today. Sixteen pages. Just four shy. Granted, it means I’m well shy of what I wanted to cover in the first two days, but I’m not focused on that right now. There will be time to make that up in the days to come. For these sprint days, the focus is just on the here and now.

I can do close to twenty pages a day in six hours. That’s…a LOT of writing time to try and fit in around a full time job. I’m honestly not sure if I can do it every day I wanted to…but I’m ...

Day 3,548: Dave

Making this a quick one! Didn’t hit my page goal today, but I did fine. About half what I wanted to, but here’s the thing: a single day doesn’t matter so much as it matters getting right back at it the next day. I know this. There’s always time to make up ground. And make it up I will.

Night night.

Day 3,547: Dance Monkey

Joy has a new game where she likes to go underneath our top blanket, twist around for a bit, and then dig. It COMPLETELY messes up the bed…and she loves it. Looooooves. She’s doing it right now. Sigh.

She’s so cute, you guys. Her little belly incision from getting spayed is healing well. She’s back to her spunky, sweet little self. Being a cutie.

Anyway…I get to start writing my book tomorrow. Whew. Nervous about it. And excited. I hope I remember how. I know that sounds stupid, but I lite...

Day 3,546: Strawberry

Joy just “fixed” the bed. She went under the covers, dig some digging, some twisting, popped back up for air, and then laid down happy with her work. I do have to say, it is objectively better now.

Lazy day. Needed it. Whew! I’m still exhausted. Wiiiiped.

Night night.

Day 3,545: Sent!

Finished the outline. Right on time. Whew.

Now…rest. Then, next week, we go hard. Gotta get this thing out.

Very proud of myself. Very tired. It’s been a very, very long week. Night night.

Day 3,544: Kitties!

Trapped two more kitties from the colony. Lady Marmalade and Pumpkin, our kitten. We also call Lady “Mama” Marmalade because she’s had several litters since we started feeding her. She is FIERCE. All the other kitties stay away from her because she will CUT YOU. Went right into the trap, though. Pumpkin, too. Whew.

They get fixed tomorrow morning and then it’s just two more kitties to go: Baby Marmalade (Mama’s kitten, obvs, who looks just like her), and Sweet Boy, who’s the head tomcat of th...

Day 3,543: Dog Tired

Joy got fixed today. She is TIRED. And uncomfortable. Poor baby. But, she got some pain meds and now she conked out. She gets them every twelve hours, and that anesthesia is wearing off too. Apparently that’ll take a couple days. Ugh. I hate that she’s feeling bad.

I’m tired too. Hectic week. Back at it again in the morning.

Night night.

Day 3,542: Off

Man. My blog count got off somewhere in the past several months and I don’t know where. I’ve been back on correctly the past week or so, but only because I just started using the correct number as opposed to actually going through the past history and figuring out where it went wrong. Sigh…I started doing that tonight while waiting for something to finish on my computer, and it seems to be a waaayyyss back.

Oh well! I’ll figure it out. We were only four days off!

Pups are curled up next to...

Day 3,541: Raisins

Joy has been my BUDDY today. She was snuggled hard in me last night. All up in my business. And then she spent the morning with me in my office (with Coops), and ended up sleeping on my desk. It was just the perfect place to put her! She wasn’t so sure at first, but then she loved it. And now she’s got her butt up against me in bed, getting ready for sleepy times.

I. Am. Wiped.

Solid day. Really solid day. A great way to kick off the writing extravaganza. Got to get this book finished. And...