Guys. GUYS.
…tomorrow will be day 1,000. Holy SHYTE. I literally just went and made sure that I’ve counted this all correctly. This snuck up on me. Big time. I figured the millennium day was still a good week or two away. It’s not. It’s tomorrow.
I’m honestly not sure what to do with myself on this penultimate day for the switch to quadruple digits…except to say that I remember when I was at the crossroads of three digits. That was…over three years ago? That’s a bit hard to conceive, but I think that’s right. No, no, that isn’t right. It was October of 2013, not 2012, that I decided to start writing this bloggity blog. So, *almost* three years. Somehow that makes me feel a bit better 😛 So much has happened…and it hasn’t even been quite three years yet. Not even enough time to go to college, yo!
That’s kind of interesting way to think of this journey that I’ve set myself on; that any meaningful change in self, knowledge or behavior probably takes a good four years to work through. The length of higher education isn’t chosen arbitrarily, methinks…it seems about right.
That makes me think about where I’ve been, and what I’ve done, and what I’ve learned, and how I’ve changed, but I think we’ll save some of that for tomorrow. Tonight, I stand upon the precipice, ready to leap into the next unknown.
I wrote today. It was an emotional writing day, as I had an idea for the opening of Starstuff…and opening that I think I like a lot. And Coops was snuggled up next to me so close this morning to write. Both him and Coco really seem to love when I sit over in that chair. They both come from wherever they are and snuggle up for a nap while I write. I wonder if it’s because they can sense that I’m so calm, and so focused when I write? But Coops…he’s always the first to find me when it’s writing time, and he’s always the closest to me. I realized that he really is my writing buddy, and that I don’t like writing without him.
He’s currently re-making the bed. Gotta get it just right, you know, for the sleeps.
It was another warm day today…but I was inside working. All day. But, man, did I get a lot of work done. I did want to FINISH by today with this project, but what I have left for tomorrow…is totally absolutely within my own more reasonable projections. I will finish this project ahead of the hard deadline. Not necessarily “on time,” since we’d originally hoped that I’d be finished at the end of June…but when it was clear that wasn’t going to happen, the end of July was the new goal. And I will meet that with a few days to spare. Very happy with that.
My vlog for today is almost up. The program has been buggy lately, I’m not really sure why. But it has stalled out when uploading, which is super annoying. I couldn’t paste the link for yesterday’s vlog into last night’s written entry until this morning…holy bananas was that a complicated sentence. You guys get all that? Anywho…’twas a good day. I’ve written every single day now for over a month. I remember last year, or was it the year before that?…I set myself a challenge that I was going to write every day for 30 days, and I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t figure out how to have that level of commitment and focus. Well…I’ve found it now. First time ever. EVER. And I was even sick, and under the gun to finish this big work project.
I cannot tell you how much of a win that is for me. I will get everything done I want to get done, guys, if I can just put in my writing time every day.
Next on the agenda is to take better care of myself physically. It’s coming…
Happy last day of triple digits, my dear friends. After tonight, we’re in the quadruple digits club.
Can’t wait.
Tonight’s artwork is from David Schleinkofer