seeing stars

 there're a couple of things that have become clear over the last little while:

1. i need to exercise more - i was shocked to discover i've put on ten kilos, and although i'm confident that two or more weeks of donuts and cake had a part to play i'm also confident that five months of barely going outside have something to do with it.

2. i need to invest my time better. i've been taking gd's advice and slowly adding "downtime" to each day, it seems to be helping.

3. i need to update my blog more often! what follows is missing so much and it's always been a really good tool for me to process my day-to-day.

after running a few tests, it looks like the swelling in my jaw that's been bothering me on/off for the last couple of years is just another irritating part of getting older. i've also, over the course of the last couple of weeks, given up on there being a good way for me to get a healthy amount of sleep. i'm not comfortable or safe with the pillows, or without them, and so far the biggest help has been my returning to sit on a pilates ball while i work.

in other news, krybabie's been in rapid decline since we heard the diagnosis (which appears to have been inaccurate), which is kinda hard to process... we may not be very close any more, but we were and our families still are.

work-wise, it's been a decent week overall (in spite of being dopey due to allergy season being in full swing) but i've lost so many hours to python shenanigans that i'm at the point where i feel as good about python as i do about php, even if it's for very different reasons.

i've picked up a bit of extra work helping SxS out with a piece of code i wrote a few years back - i was surprised to discover that although nobody every really tested it, it's been live for clients and working unexpectedly well :)

we had the plumbers in last week - they damaged the floors a bit, but they finally got the awful wardrobe smell sorted out! it appears that some workers damaged the seal to the stack (or whatever it's called) and we'd been enjoying open access to our neighbours bad smells for over a year...

the next sonnetcomix page is beginning to take shape, although it's turning out to be a little more complex than we originally thought. i've had to make yet another big shift in how i approach the pages in the first place, which i guess is evolution.

mr smear has been really funny and fun when he hasn't been hardcore, and he's been a lot less tough to deal with since we realized that his "thing" right now is asserting himself. the other night he told me "you're not the boss of me!", and i told him that he's absolutely right, and if he doesn't want to live under my authority he's welcome to go out, get a job and take care of himself. he's begrudging agreed that gd and i can be "the boss of him" until he's ready to go.

on a different note, last night i did something that upset him and was met with "YOU GET ZERO STARS!" - it was truly difficult to hide my laughter as he was really angry, but after my third attempt to apologize had been ignored i asked him if i really only get one star. "okay, if you apologize you can have ONE star".

he's been really getting into writing words lately (i only wish he wouldn't get so stuck on things like "PPOO"), and although we haven't got him on his new bike yet (he refuses to try without training wheels) he did a great job on his balance bike around the pinelands canal yesterday which was awesome.

oh, yes: "do we have the ben ten game?"

"uh, i don't remember any ben ten game."

"i've been waiting to play it my whole life!"