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Day 3,469: The Last of Us

Trash writing day. Blech. Barely got any work done. Distracted as all get out. Sigh. This one is definitely fighting me. But not forever. It will all come together. Just got to keep at it. And I will. It’s actually close. That’s the frustrating thing. It’s close. Just a couple details here and there to figure out, and I’m home free.

Craig, if you’re reading this…it’s coming my man. It’s. Coming.

Otherwise a fine and dandy day. Got my work done, my hair cut, and did the dishes. Dubs play to...

Day 3,468: Sarah

A good day today. Another good day. I felt like myself. Whew. Got up and had a solid writing sesh. Took Joy down to Culver to get her photos from Bowie Shots. Puppy school photos. They’re gonna be LIT. The Warriors won, even though I didn’t get to watch it. I’ll watch later, but they move on to the next round of the playoffs. They beat Sacramento, which is a very, very good team. Got to see Quinn win first place for her skate today out in Pasadena. Took a nice nap. Walked the pups together with ...

Day 3,467: My Bud

Coops is right here on the bed next to me. He never does that. I think he knows that I was missing Coco a lot today. Or, at least that I was feeling blue. Very sweet all day, even with Joy. They’re…starting to get used to each other. He’s more willing now to just let her run around and do her thing, and she’s learned to just kinda stay away from him and that he doesn’t want to play with her. I wish he did. I wish he wanted to play with her. But, Coops decided a long time ago that he doesn’t trus...

Day 3,466: Napo Baby

Did you know diarrhea is hereditary? Yeah. It runs in your jeans.

That’s the joke of the day.

Had a good work day. Had a really nice evening with Liz. We’re very much enjoying The Last of Us.

Warriors shat the bed tonight, unfortunately. Ugh. They did everything they needed to win the series…and then shat the bed in game 6. Yikes. They’ll have one more shot to move on. I’m…skeptical.

Night night.

Day 3,465: Taxi

Decent day today. Feeling…a little better about this book, now. I’ve lately been searching for some oomf. Something that packs a punch at the end, you know? Something unexpected, dire, big. Haven’t really come across anything that really grabbed me until today. Maybe. I might hate it tomorrow morning, but at least today it was like…okay…that…could work.

Was just me and Coops at home tonight. We were buds. Liz and Joy were with the King kids, the “little ones,” though they’re hardly little any...

Day 3,464: Eh

I had a fine day. Not great. Not bad though. I do have the distinct feeling, however, that I just need to keep going. KEEP. GOING. There’s a corner to turn out there. I just need to find it.

And I will. Thank god I have that confidence now. I didn’t a couple years ago. I do now.

Still a ton of stuff to figure out for this next book. It’s a complicated one, even though I didn’t intend it to be. The one after this will be much simpler. This is a fun one, though. Very fun indeed.

Night nig...

Day 3,463: Savage

In a bit of a rut, y’all. It’s weird because I am moving forward, I am getting work done, but man. I peter out quickly. I have very little energy past a certain point. Sigh. It’s frustrating. But, I know it will pass.

Today, I’m pretty convinced it’s because I’m still mourning Coco. I just missed her a lot today. There’s a baseline sadness I have right now about everything…and that’s missing Coco. It’s hard to get fired up, at least after a certain point. Like, writing for example: I’m pretty...

Day 3,462: Solids

A solid monday. Work was really light again today, so I used the extra time to fill in the finances and get next week’s podcast edited. Two writing sessions, both decent. Exciting storylines. Probably too many of them, but I can trim where necessary. Or just keep them short. It’s kinda fun to think about going inside the head of several characters I haven’t before. We’ll see how it all shakes out.

Want to read tonight, so off to bed with me. Diving into a new Trek book. Night night 🙂

Day 3,461: Better…

Actually got my ass up early this morning and wrote for two hours before we headed over to the Kings to figure out what the week was going to look like transportation-wise. I’ll pitch in by taking Mira to her rehearsal on Tuesday, and Liz will handle picking up the kids a couple other days. It’s easy because we live pretty close to their school, which is up in the hills.

Got to meet Ali and Liz’s new pup Rooster today. He was SO. CUTE. Little fearful, little too intense for Joy…but overall ve...

Day 3,460: Patrol

Cooper patrols so much more at this house than he ever did in our old apartment. Sigh. He’s so triggered by the sight of other animals. We literally had to put these frosted-glass plastic clings to the bottom half of our windows so that he wouldn’t freak out about the cats being outside.

It’s not that much of a big deal on its own, but where it does become a big deal is that when he’s “activated,” he’ll lash out at Joy and try to control/patrol her, too. It’s a really, really frustrating beha...