Daily Writing Challenge

F-23

I did not make it into the quill finals this year. I had two nominations but no finalist placing. I guess I should just be overjoyed to have been nominated twice. Considering they were both flash fiction and were nominated in the same category I really can not complain. Neither of them took more than a few hours at only one hundred words each. A nomination is a good payout for so little time spent. Still I was disappointed.

Today Gracie was the needy pet. She made me snuggle down with her under the covers until almost ten this morning. I think her anxiety was getting to her and her meds just were not covering it enough. I love her and I wish she did not have such an anxiety problem. She has always been high strung. She had a serious arm humping problem after animal control removed out animal hording problem. We got her fixed hoping that would solve it, but it was not hormonally based it was anxiety based. We had to medicate her. At first we tried CBD drops. That worked for a while, but we ended up needing to add benedryl fo cover it. That worked for a little while but ultimately we had to take her in and look at our medication options. The vet put her on Trazodone. It has worked pretty well but she is at the max dosage and she still has days like today and times when she still tries to hump our arms at times. We probably need to take her back in and find out our other options. Most days she is still okay though, as long as we give her her pill on schedule. I wake up at one a.m. to keep her doses eight hours apart. That keeps her pretty even.

My wife is watching facebook videos on her phone next to me. The videos sound cool and are really distracting. I am trying not to listen in as she watches. But I keep looking and listening. I have asked her to send me like ten videos so I can watch them later. They just ate raw abalone. Now they are tasting one hundred year old balsamic vinegar and gold flaked olive oil. My ankle hurts pretty bad. It feels like I sprained it and I have not spent much time on it at all today and I did not twist it. They are eating rare Spanish ham. I am hungry and I just ate dinner. This is frustrating the cat is trying to climb back into my lap and I had to move because of my ankle. They are tasting dry aged wagyu beef. They are spending ridiculous amounts of money on ridiculous weirdly shaped snack foods. They did not eat those. Now they are eating ridiculously expensive caviar with poached emu egg. They are drinking kentucky fried chicken flavored prime. THey are about to eat a giagantic lobster. The biggest money can buy.Now she is watching a video about hatching chickens. A couple of them are not hatching and one is not doing well after being assisted in hatching. My leg hurts in this position but my ankle feels better. I can not get comfortable. Now she is watching a video about secret menu items. I can not help watching but I have to get the rest of my words down. I have about one hundred words to go. I think I can do this. It is hard though. She is really difficult to ignore, or at least her videos are. Just over fifty words left to write. I think. I am pretty sure today I need six hundred fifty words. I almost managed that yesterday but not quite I think. Twenty five words left for me to write. I can not just keep mentioning how many words I have left to make up my word count. It sounds almost as much like cheating as writing, "I do not know what to write," a hundred times. I did it! Six hundred and seventy five words so I know for sure I have enough words.