Man, I can’t even get the hang of posting every Monday, apparently. I was doing good at that for a while, but you can see that I fell off of that particular wagon, too…

My birthday’s in a few days. I took yesterday off partly as a birthday present to myself (the day itself is Monday, but Kylanath couldn’t get that day off, I couldn’t get today off, so yesterday was the best I could do) and partly to recover from the intensely horrid stretch of work, and partly to enjoy City of Heroes’ double-XP “weekend”.

I have writing to do, here, and some good habits to reestablish. (It’s stupid to try to “break bad habits,” I think, and smarter to replace them with good habits, since I only have so much time in the day I figure the new will replace the old, or something. I’m quite mentally worn out, so maybe I’m blowing smoke up my own backside. Time will tell.)

So. Let’s see if I can manage my 38th year better than I managed my 37th.

Usually, I can’t smell much of anything.

I’m not entirely certain why, but it’s a fact I’ve grown to live with. Of course, if something is particularly powerful, it gets through. Too bad that of the strongest odors are actually unpleasant, eh?

Today is different for some reason. I woke up being able to smell all kinds of things; that ability has remained with me all day long. Now, had this been a weekend I’d have enjoyed this more. Going to work was already unappealing, never mind that my nose and I would be stuck in an office all day long.

Yes, folks, this is what counts for nose news in my world lately…

$2264.

That’s the difference in my gross income between 2008 and 2009.

Negative difference.

At least I have a job, yes, I know. But.

Yesterday, my contribution to the improvement of my living space consisted almost entirely of replacing the old tub mat with a handful of rubber duck-styled mini-mats. Yes, now there are duck eyes watching me bathe. C’est la vie. At least that mildewed old ugly mat is in the trash, finally. (Turns out that the bottom of the tub isn’t all that slippery normally… I just like having some extra insurance on that front. I nearly made a mess of things during one of my first showers here, owing to my complete lack of physical grace.)

Today I rearranged a bunch of junk… hard drives into a drawer, computer parts into the container set aside for that purpose, cards-and-letters into the newly-assembled Ikea cardboard drawer thingy, and so on. Also, a fair bit o’ junk’s been just plain thrown out. Hooray, me.

I didn’t get any comics done. I have one pending for Monday already so I’m not really hurting on that front, though. I’d have liked having a couple more in the buffer but I think the tidying up in my living space was a better use of my time overall.

And that nearly concludes my three days of vacation time from work. Am I ready for Monday? Of course not, but I’m at least a bit more rested and relaxed than usual…