Well, I almost let an entire calendar month go by, didn’t I? Whoopsie. So much for getting back on the horse… again.

So! Notable things about this month? One, I managed to take an entire calendar week off from work for the first time since I started work. (This doesn’t count stretches of unemployment, mind you.) Last time I scheduled a week-long vacation, my boss got canned and I spent half the week in the office anyway. This time? Peace and quiet.

What’s really cool about the time off is that I didn’t actually waste it all. Instead, I used half the week to de-junk my living space a bit. A couple bags of trash went out, sure, but the really big part involved having Green Century come by on Thursday to haul away several 17-gallon bins’ worth of computer paraphernalia. I’d accumulated 15 years’ worth of working-in-IT and taking-my-work-home junk, like old PCI cards and cables and drives and drives and cables and plastic fiddly bits and empty chassis and printers and you get the picture. Finding, sorting, piling, and staging all of this took up the first two days of my vacation.

A lot of work to do on a so-called “break,” yes, but utterly worth it. I reclaimed a lot of storage and floor space, found some nifty things during the sorting that I wanted to store more safely, and my physical possessions total a few hundred pounds less now than they did before. Sweet!

The second notable event this month? My son turned 20, mid-month. Twenty years old! It’s amazing, and he’s turned out to be pretty damned cool. I have the best kids, I tell ya.

Speaking of numbers?

Push-ups completed this week: 41

Sit-ups completed this week: 11

I started a morning exercise routine this week, and yes, I’m starting small. I figure on doing ten push-ups and five sit-ups per morning until that gets (relatively) easy, then move to some combination of more of those activities and another activity yet to be selected. The idea isn’t to turn this into some massive workout or use this as a weight-loss program; I just want to get my body back to a place where I can do things again without becoming winded way too quickly or just plain being too weak.

Unfortunately my abdominal muscles flat-out gave up after the second day of sit-ups. Wednesday’s attempt was accompanied by “OW OW OW.” Which scuttled my push-ups as well. Since then I’ve been starting with the push-ups since I know I can do those. My sit-up attempts yesterday and today were met with a big fat “NOT HAPPENING” from the abs.

I think they’re on strike.

There’s talk of putting in a workout space into the office expansion (yes, we’re expanding again). This might be a good thing, as I can’t afford or schedule a proper gym. (Nor would I want to deal with that environment, really.)

So. There’s me, trying to get a bit healthier. Yay?