Very grateful for my wife tonight. And my friends. I’ve worked really hard to surround myself with happy, healthy people, and today was a day over and over that reminded me I have them in my life. They love me, and they support me, and I’m happy and able to offer the same in return. It’s a cycle that renews rather than depletes me.

It’s been a good three-day weekend. Really good. I made a dent in this list of stuff to do that’s been haunting me for several months now, a ball and chain around my ankle in an anxiety sense—always feeling as though I couldn’t fully relax because I have all this stuff to do. Ugh. Well…the antidote to that is getting some of it done. And this week, in the end, I did! Incremental progress, but progress nonetheless, and unassailable.

Tomorrow, it means getting my ass back into the writing chair. Sigh. Not pleasant. But it must be done. Night night!