Joy is curled up so tight against me right now, all the way up on my hip, which makes it very difficult, very constrained to type this entry. She is such a little snug. She has been from the very beginning, especially after hanging out with Tommen, whom we watch quite frequently. He is an excellent snuggler, and he taught Joy, who was very impressionable at the time, that you didn’t have to ask for permission to plop on top of a human, you just did it. I’m not even joking, by the way. It literally happened that way. She saw him do it, and then she started doing it, too. I’m grateful for Tommen teaching her that. Though sometimes it makes me wake up in the middle of the night, sweating.
I got my pages done today! Whew. I was definitely anxious yesterday and last night, but somehow in the middle of the night last night this mantra came marching through my head of “chill.” “Relax.” “Let it go, everything’s fine.” And it worked. I sat down in my chair today just feeling…better. More focused. Capable. I got 16 pages written, I think. I’ll end up short of what I thought I could do, but that’s okay. I’m in decent shape. I’ve lost one week instead of two. I can handle that. It’ll definitely be a challenge next week to get my pages done, but I’m resolved on that, too. I can do it.
I’m working through the weekend. Blech. Not on writing, I mean on my Netflix work. It just has to be done. We’re doing some fun stuff for the World Baseball Classic, and that means working over the weekend. I’ll get a couple random days off throughout the week, though, which I’ll take. I love that kind of shit, you know? It’ll make it challenging to get my writing done, but that’s okay. I’ll figure it out. It’s less stressful than going out of town, actually. Which reminds me, I need to figure out when we’re going up next to see Cal. Maybe Memorial Day…
That’s all for tonight. It was so much better of a day today. Whew. Grateful for that. And I feel an extra bit of accomplishment because I’m just about to tick over, tomorrow, into Act 2 of the new book. The meat and potatoes. The mission. And right at about 20,000 words, which is great. If this book can be 80,000 words, total, that would be awesome. That would be what I was aiming for. It definitely helps that it’s just one point of view. That’s what makes the other Glory book so long, it’s so many characters to follow! I love it, though 🙂
Night night.
—artwork tonight is by Ray Pioch