A banner day.
The fifth Glory book is off to our beta/alpha readers for a final look-through. The front and backyards are cleared of all detritus, and Coops is on the mend! I got a lot of Netflix work done today, too, amidst all that.
I am wiped, though. Got up at 5am to give Cooper his meds—he needs three of his eyedrops every four hours, so that means getting up at some pretty random times. Le sigh. BUT…it appears to be working. He’s perked up, for sure, and just tonight he wasn’t squinting at all for the first time in a good…week? The “aggressive treatment” seems to be working. Which is suuuuuuch a relief. I mean, I figured it would. That’s what I was expecting…but I worry, you know?
The book is still good. I hope the readers like it. I love it. I think it’s one of my best. In some ways, it is my best; certain things I aimed for that I hit for the first time quite this well. I’m definitely proud of it. Exciting, too, that it will launch with the 3-book bundle. I’m excited.
It’s so huge having the front yard finally cleared out. My god. That’s been…well, all this year so far in the making. Literally. I’ve been working on the front yard since February, I think? Something like that. It’s September, now. It’s finally clear out there. The backyard, too, is spectacular. Beautiful. Comfortable. SHADED. Our plants are all so much bigger, now. And pretty. And they even leaf-blower-ed the turf so it’s all clean. It’s reeaalllyyyy nice. Gonna be great for my birthday. And going forward. But really…the front yard. I’m putting down the weed barrier tomorrow (wait, no—Thursday, actually) and that’s that: the end of the war with the weeds. I cannot tell you what a thing that had been for the past five years. My GOD. No more. WOOHOO.
I’ll say this, too: doing this project over the past month has really emboldened me in terms of taking on other projects. I hope that sticks. I know what it takes, now, to do something pretty big. I can wrap my head around it because I’ve done it. I think it will help me muster up the desire, focus and energy to continue working on stuff. It turns out really nice in the end. So…I want to do more. There’s so much more we can do to really make our property into what we really want it to be.
Feeling good.
Night night.