by Ira | Apr 5, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
What job would I do for free? I think this question might mean “what job do I love so much, I’d still do it even if I wasn’t paid to?” But, the first thing it made me think was: you mean “volunteer?” For the latter, anything the benefits those in my life or my...
by Ira | Apr 4, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
It is…so hard to breathe carefully and not cough before going to bed. That’s what I’m laying here struggling with at the moment. Just took some cough meds that will hopefully aid that struggle but damn. All my chest wants to do is cough. But if I start, it’s a vicious...
by Ira | Apr 3, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Sick, day three. A bit better than the first two, I’ll say. Not a ton, but a little. Took a covid test and that was negative, so that’s good. Still have never tested positive for that one (though I suspect I actually had it in that super early very first wave of 2020,...
by Ira | Apr 2, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Took a sick day today. Woof. But the fever is gone now, I think, so the worst should be over. Coops is doing okay—when he’s been, like, sleeping for a little bit, when you first pick him up and put him on the floor, he’s wobbly and seems to take a minute to remember...
by Ira | Apr 1, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
So…I have an apple pencil. I bought it with this iPad Pro, but I hardly ever have any use for it. I use it to fill out worksheets when I was doing that for my writing, I used it very briefly to color—someday I’d like to get back into that—and I’ve used it to sketch...
by Ira | Mar 31, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Le sigh. I really really wanted to finish my outline today. I even started work early because there was stuff that had to be done asap today, trying to clear myself some time at the latter half of the day…but it was not to be. Work was legit insane aaaallllll day. No...
