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I'm working on a little site (could turn into an app if it's not one already) that I've been calling Dog Diary, one place to add, update, and see any important pet reminders. For context, I have two lovely pets and work a full-time job. I'm pretty good at remembering things but sometimes I just have so much on my mind that I forget what I've already done. My daily routine has been that as soon as I get home I feed Autumn (my cat) then take Ivory (my dog) on a walk. However, recently when I came back from a walk, Autumn began following me and I couldn't remember if I'd fed her so I fed her again. I thought to myself, "it'd be nice if I had a place to log if and when I'd fed my animals."  I also have a friend who has 2 dogs and 2 cats that have each needed some form of medication taken at specific times, not to mention the individual dosages. She said that it was a lot for her to keep track of and she was worried about forgetting a step.  So,...

 I'm officially 4 months into my bootcamp experience and I'm moving on to the backend side of things now. They're introducing me to Express, testing, RESTful APIs, and it's... a lot. I'm a visual learner so I think it's hard for me to visualize how my code is actually manipulating the data whereas in frontend, that's pretty much the whole point. I might have to create a visual diagram for myself once I understand more. I'm currently stuck on Express routing, particularly nesting routes and filtering data based on parameters. I think I'm going to stew over this on the weekend.