By all counts, it hasn’t been a bad day. I actually woke up fairly early with an intense pain in my left hip. I found Summer on the porch having a cup of coffee, seemingly unphased by her night of reckless abandon. I don’t recall our conversation specifically, but I found half a cup of coffee later in the evening and was told that I said something upsetting that prevented the completion of the cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We talked a lot, sporadically throughout the entire day. Things weren’t bad by any means, but we had a few difficult conversations. Nothing had really changed, but my goal was just to get us talking. We’ve been so focused on surviving the day to day that we haven’t made time for anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the day was kind of a blur, but we did make it to New China for lunch. After that, we went to the car wash so I could get rid of the bug splatter. As we left there, I thought we’d just let the car take us for a drive wherever it wanted, so I activate autopilot and ended up going south down Highway 331. Summer didn’t seem at all interested in the adventure, so I had the car take us home where we settled in for the afternoon. We eventually started to assemble a bookshelf I had gotten from Vine, but I ended up completing it alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the sun went down, I knew I had to take Muad’Dib out for a run. We did our usual route and he didn’t bother spending much time in the creek. We visited with Dad, then continued home for the evening. I had texted Shawna just to check in, but didn’t get much of a response. I drank with Summer on the porch for a bit to enjoy the weather, then came in to settle down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eaddie came in and only saw us briefly to check in on how we were doing. She’s an incredible kid, with a better head on her shoulders than what I’ve got. I ended the night with some tipsy tea to calm the nerves, and everyone went to bed super early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In your wake I stumble on, but the smoke is nothing that I haven’t seen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By all counts, it hasn’t been a bad day. I actually woke up fairly early with an intense pain in my left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,56,96,66,95,42,71],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anxiety","tag-disappointment","tag-dog","tag-frustration","tag-onewheel","tag-pets","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}