There are brown outs happening right now at my parents’ house. You know, when your lights flicker or dim when they’re not supposed to. And it’s not because of a storm or something else affecting the power grid at large. No, unfortunately, it’s something to do with the wires that feed our house. It’s bad enough right now that I’m worried about plugging my phone into charge đŸ˜›
Been thinking the past couple days about what to do with my daily blog. It’s been two months now, that feels significant. And, I think I’m game for a lot more. Liz floated the idea out of doing it for a year, there’s been thoughts of 90 days or 120 days…I’m not sure. For now, at least, it’s a compulsion to sit down and write and reflect that’s getting satisfied. At the minimum, I think there are some tweaks I can make to how stuff is organized on the main page; ie- creating a blog-only feed section for these daily entries so I don’t have to do all the sorting I’ve been doing.
I also did a lot of thinking today about what it is I want to accomplish in the coming weeks and months. Next week will be some true downtime of the stay-cation variety. Well, not 100% I suppose because we will have house guests, but I’d honestly gladly sacrifice complete downtime for the company of who’s coming to visit.
But beyond that, I’m resigned to the fact that I’ll have to keep my same ambitious work output goals from the past couple months, but manage to work in both writing and working out. I think I can do it, though. And I really *do* need to work those in because it’s the writing that will eventually get me out of this particular job and into something that’s paying the bills AND what I want to do. Dreams, right?
Today was my brother Scott’s birthday, and we went out to breakfast at the Somoa Cookhouse, which is kind of a Humboldt county staple. It’s one price for everybody, and they serve family style all-you-can-eat french toast, biscuits and gravy, eggs, orange juice and coffee, etc. Then, we went out to Arcata and Liz and I sifted through a record shop on the plaza and found some cool Elvis stuff. Then, we picked up a cake for Scott, and came home with just enough time to feed and walk the Coops before all leaving again for Fortuna to see the new Hobbit movie.
I thought it was a step of from the last one, in the very least, because it followed the plot of the actual book much more closely. But…the script was still so exposition heavy, the extraneous plotlines were all over the place and so heavy handed, and at the end of the day it just feels like a bloated overdone kid’s movie. I really wish that they’d just kept it simple. But, it makes three times the money this way, so, there you go. We’re proving them right, people.
Cooper is staring at me right now from his new puppy blanket. It’s so freaking cute. He really must be stopped.
That’s all for tonight, guys. I’m freaking pooped. Peace!
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