April
1: walking around the apartment complex
2: broccoli time with the dongles
3: a wide-brimmed hat on a sunny patrol morning
4: territorially barking at me from inside the laundry basket
5: frustrated gremlin growling
6: "Tap Out" by the Strokes
7: bringing the dogs to the bougie park
8: finishing The Duke and I so I can rewatch season one of Bridgerton
9: a writer x editor romance set in the publishing world
10: Rebecca's comment that the lullaby renditions of Daft Punk give off the ambiance of a New Age massage parlor
11: when we get Mercedes, the most wholesome of the lot, joyfully repeating Kanye West's "Hurry up with my damn croissant"
12: an anthropomorphic tea bag (in a picture book of humanoid foods)
13: The Ex Talk
14: dog cuddles after a long day in urgent care
15: Dot leading the park explorations
16: foisting lullaby renditions on coworkers and family alike
17: getting back to French lessons (inspired by my coworkers' Duolingo craze)
18: the absurdist, Black Mirror-esque Beautiful You
19: listening to a Spanish podcast
20: browsing someone's extensive CD donation drop-off
21: trading up for a better weekend read (i.e., not all contemporary romance is created equal)
22: sharing the couch with the dogs & managing to sleep in
23: having gained Dora's trust enough that she gets excited & approaches me for pets
24: our first solo walk (well, as a trio)
25: tracking checkout transactions in a Word document during an internet outage
26: a love story starring socially awkward adults
27: everyone pitching in on check-in
28: bringing the girls to visit a potential adopter (& the fact that they have chunky senior Chihuahua-mixes of their own)
29: some quick French lessons while waiting in line for a food order
30: going through my boyfriend's family's old pictures
1: walking around the apartment complex
2: broccoli time with the dongles
3: a wide-brimmed hat on a sunny patrol morning
4: territorially barking at me from inside the laundry basket
5: frustrated gremlin growling
6: "Tap Out" by the Strokes
7: bringing the dogs to the bougie park
8: finishing The Duke and I so I can rewatch season one of Bridgerton
9: a writer x editor romance set in the publishing world
10: Rebecca's comment that the lullaby renditions of Daft Punk give off the ambiance of a New Age massage parlor
11: when we get Mercedes, the most wholesome of the lot, joyfully repeating Kanye West's "Hurry up with my damn croissant"
12: an anthropomorphic tea bag (in a picture book of humanoid foods)
13: The Ex Talk
14: dog cuddles after a long day in urgent care
15: Dot leading the park explorations
16: foisting lullaby renditions on coworkers and family alike
17: getting back to French lessons (inspired by my coworkers' Duolingo craze)
18: the absurdist, Black Mirror-esque Beautiful You
19: listening to a Spanish podcast
20: browsing someone's extensive CD donation drop-off
21: trading up for a better weekend read (i.e., not all contemporary romance is created equal)
22: sharing the couch with the dogs & managing to sleep in
23: having gained Dora's trust enough that she gets excited & approaches me for pets
24: our first solo walk (well, as a trio)
25: tracking checkout transactions in a Word document during an internet outage
26: a love story starring socially awkward adults
27: everyone pitching in on check-in
28: bringing the girls to visit a potential adopter (& the fact that they have chunky senior Chihuahua-mixes of their own)
29: some quick French lessons while waiting in line for a food order
30: going through my boyfriend's family's old pictures
May
1: placing first in the Amethyst league
2: when they trot along behind me even after I let go of their leashes
3: the "Entre deux mondes" episode of the Duolingo French podcast
4: getting them riled up about cookies
5: winding along riparian trails
6: adventures involving arroyo ravines
7: testing Jack's COVID taste blindness
8: wine-gifting for mother's day
9: a WLW contemporary romance
10: "Fourth of July" by Sufjan Stevens
11: fragrant flowers on our walk
12: Les 7 Vies de Léa
13: Kurtis' fushigi video
14: Bad Seeds
15: flipping through a book of instant pot recipes
16: une histoire en français très bizarre
17: Here Today
18: making it to one year (& not doing anything more special than our normal work/store commute)
19: Transatlanticism
20: the visual ASMR quality of Country Life Vlog
21: attempting to speak French in a dream
22: throwing together a taco bowl
23: cake in the car after a bike ride
24: being fluent enough to completely go off on a terrible Spanish book in a Goodreads review
25: little vulnerabilities (between Those Darn Squirrels & him trying to convince me that Sheryl Crow's "Mississippi" is the superior version)
26: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
27: brunch at an extremely bougie/hipster restaurant
28: Dora getting completely engrossed in a rawhide while Dot, after pacing out her boredom, sits on top of a shoe
29: belated birthday coffee cake
30: a turn (or two, or three) around the grassy park
31: a quick post office visit
June
1: finishing a well-despised book with gusto
2: restaurant patio-eating with the pups
3: rewatching Kurtis' "Barbie vs. Bratz" video
4: the popularity of the guessing-jar raffle
5: finding another "joule" vanity plate on a Tesla
6: jamming to mid-2000s' The National
7: Long Story Short
8: my mom bringing Thai Vegan to my work for lunch
9: boredom spurring some revision work out on the patio in the stormy afternoon
10: Modern General's bougie carrot-mango smoothie
11: a crusty-bread-with-soup kind of night
12: left-field escape propositions
13: The Sign for Home
14: Danny's spider story (shared on Kurtis' podcast)
15: Thank You for Today
16: picking out a new summer work outfit from Goodwill
17: return to Sims for some low-level torture
18: hanging out with the fam before they leave for their trip
19: another baby boy in the Sims family tree (in generation 5)
20: my coworker bringing me a (oat)milk tea from her boba run
21: Girl in Ice
22: an obsessive climb to the top to secure first place in the diamond league
23: You Had Me at Hola
24: The Kiss Quotient
25: personal notes left in donated books
26: little pieces of art in the complex's landscaped areas
27: spur-of-the-moment putting that bilingual certification to use
28: feedback about scene-setting and parallel dreams from the critique group
29: finding out my new coworker went to the same school, years earlier
30: homemade smoothie hitting different
