by Ira | Dec 29, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Coco be FIGHTING taking her meds lately. Ugh. She’s so smart. She figures out that we’re putting pills inside her meatballs and she doesn’t want to eat them. Or, rather, she eats the meatball parts, and spits out the pills. Then we have to shove them down her throat....
by Ira | Dec 28, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
A momentous day. For a couple reasons. Gonna keep it to that, I think. More later. Right now…snuggling in bed with my kindle, gonna read for a bit, and then wake up tomorrow and smash through our finances. Night!
by Ira | Dec 27, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
Solid low key day today. We did our Costco run. Picked up some letters delivered to our old address. Walked the pups around the old neighborhood. Watched the rest of the Warriors game that I missed on Christmas, and then watched them beat the Hornets tonight. Did...
by Ira | Dec 26, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
We watched Glass Onion tonight as a fam. I’d actually seen it for work, but not really; pulling clips, watching most of it at double speed for efficiency’s sake. I haven’t added any of the material I watch for work onto my movie list for the year, so it was cool to...
by Ira | Dec 25, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
It’s laaaate so I’m making this entry a quick one tonight, but Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays to all the rest. I got up early and took care of the animals—NUGGET LET ME PET HER THIS MORNING—then we went and hung out with the Kings for...
by Ira | Dec 24, 2022 | Challenge, Journal
I remember Christmas Eve…must have been 2014, I think? I finished the first draft of my first novel. Might have been the day before, but either way, we were up in the Bay Area (San Francisco) visiting family. We’d just gotten married a couple months earlier. I was...