So it was another one of those lazy weekends…

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Last night I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD, tonight I put in some quality time with the latest Dave Barry book, and overall, the weekend was pretty much just spent lying around, relaxing, and trying not to think about everything that’s been stressing me out over the past couple of weeks. I didn’t make it over to the park like I had wanted to…maybe tomorrow after I finish baking…but I can’t really complain too much…

  • Got a decent amount of writing done over the course of the week (mainly humor columns) and spent a good bit of time trying to find a new design for my professional site that I can be happy with. Unfortunately, I had to scrap the “lined paper layout because it was just too confusing and it’d have been impossible to get the text to line up with the background, but now I’ve got something better and I’m VERY happy with the way that it looks! Hopefully it won’t be more than another week or so until I can unveil it because I’m really proud of this one – the biggest step is probably going to be converting 300+ columns over to a new format (…again…), but ultimately I think that it’ll be well worth it.
  • Came across an interesting find this evening that I may or may not put up on the new site when I get that far – some of the very first columns that I ever wrote, circa 8th grade, which would’ve made me about 14 at the time (1994). Apparently I was a bit racier then than I am now and I don’t know if I want to go there or not, but it’s still kind of interesting to see where I started with all of this. Then again, I’ve always said that one day I’ll put up the big “novel” that I wrote around that same time, so we’ll see…
  • Need to go over to Disney either next weekend or the one after because I guess the blockouts for Easter are coming up soon. It’s kind of hard to believe that I haven’t been over once since I renewed it, but I know I’ll get my money’s worth eventually, so that doesn’t really bother me. Man, would it be great to find someone around here that had the money to go every now and then, though! 😛
  • Finally got Mom’s taxes done this evening, and Lori’s will be soon to follow, but I haven’t even touched mine…and I’m a little afraid to! I can’t possibly owe what I did last year because, well, I didn’t make as much money, but I suppose either way I really should get it done soon at least so I won’t be scrambling for change at the last minute…
  • But seriously, the truly scary post – being included here not to freak everybody out, but more so I can look back on it later and such – is that tomorrow I’m going to the doctor’s before work. I’m doing it under the cover of a “routine check-up” because I haven’t had one probably since I graduated from high school and that was seven years ago, but more so I’ve decided that it’s finally time to find out if I’m going to be following in my family traditions of high blood pressure, diabetes, etc… I know that I’m still a little overweight, even though I’m trying, but a few things that I’d rather not talk about here have happened lately and frankly, they scared the bejesus out of me enough to where I actually made the appointment last Friday. Hopefully it’ll all just be attributed to nervous anxiety … lord knows that’s caused me enough trouble in the last month … but I just don’t want to have a heart attack (or worse) at the age of 25.

I tried to convince myself tonight that I was too young for that to happen, but with the rate that today’s society is going, I’m really not. I know a girl younger than me who has to check her sugar every few hours for diabetes; another good friend of mine cut caffeine completely out of his diet altogether last year after he started having heart palpatations, so anything can happen. I can handle taking a pill or something everyday if it’s just hereditary and there’s nothing I can do about it, but I just really hope that I won’t have to do anything too drastic because although I really am trying with the diet and exercise, I’m going to be miserable if I have to cut out the things that I like altogether. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens…

New Super Mario Bros.!!!

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http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=www.jeux-france.com/news14998.html&lp=fr_en&tt=url

Almost makes me want to go and buy a DS, but I just couldn’t do another handheld … my eyes are bad enough as it is! Show me a port on the Revolution, though, and I might have to do some rearranging in the old stereo cabinet…

Tuesday Update.

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Today was … better than most:

Junk Around the House…
I spent a good portion of this evening cleaning, which was certainly necessary because it was getting a little gross around here! I’ve still got a ways to go and plan on spacing things out over the rest of the week, but I’ll get this place ready for company one way or another. Also, my dieffenbachia took a turn for the worse and is now effectively just a stalk, and I still have no idea why. I pruned the hell out of it the other night and got rid of all of the dead or diseased leaves, but I’m not sure if it’s going to make it at this point or not. Mind you, I did say the same about Rex last year and he’s still alive and kicking out on the patio, so keep your fingers crossed!

L7 Comix
Things are going really well lately. We’re actually ahead in the production schedule for Ink, Paint & Tears… for the first time pretty much ever; we’ve been making some good process on a brand new strip that’ll be coming up in the months (only hint: it stars alligators!); and I think right now we’re both fairly enthusiastic about where we’re headed. I’m also continually finding myself more and more impressed with how the final strips are coming out for Ink, Paint & Tears… and it’s really amazing to see the evolution since we started this thing in…2002. :O

Comedic-Genius / writing
Making up for a stint of inactivity, I whipped out a couple of new humor columns today during my “free time” and surprisingly, they actually turned out pretty good! I’m happy to say that the material I’ve written in the last month has been vastly superior to most of the stuff that I churned out last year during my “days of depression,” so hopefully that’ll help give me the momentum to get the website done and get everything back up online again. My current strategy is to write content during the week and work on coding the website on the weekend, so we’ll see how that works out.

Exercise & Weight Loss
Last count was down to 211.2 pounds, which is actually good because for the longest time, I was stuck hovering between 215 and 220 – it’s good to see the scale moving again!

Dating / Relationships / Blah…
I had a couple of short and non-productive “talks” with friends today and although they didn’t help as much as they thought they were, it did at least bring me to the realization that I need to start doing things differently because right now I’m just spinning my wheels and I’m certainly not happy. Part of me really believes that I have to follow the whole “you can’t be happy with someone else until you’re happy by yourself” mantra and focus on my writing / exercising / self improvement and just let love work itself out with time, but pretty much everyone knows that it’s a whole lot easier said than done. It’s tough because I know what I want – a companion – and I know what life with one feels like, so I’m finding it hard to try to put that aside and just focus on being alone for the time being.

It’s kind of weird because up until last year, I really didn’t know the difference between the two, but once you do, I guess I don’t see how anybody could want to go back. I spent a good five or six years of my life being single while I did my own thing before I moved here and I always knew that I was missing something, but I never knew quite what. I have a lot of things that I’d like to do in the meantime, but maybe I’m afraid that if I start on all of those projects, I’ll find myself blocking out love just like I did before when it does opt to rear its head again. Who knows … we’ve talked enough about it for one night… 😛

Doe – a deer! A female deer!!!
And in an effort to not end on a mopey note, I saw a couple of deer this evening while I was out walking. Pretty cool because I don’t know if I can remember actually seeing any since I left Michigan, at least not other than along the highway. 🙁 But these two were just grazing underneath a tree by the path – they barely even noticed that I was there. I forgot my phone, or I’d have tried to get a picture or something. Still, pretty cool.

Simply amazing.

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This morning I browsed around the surface of Mars while I ate my cinnamon-banana toast for breakfast.

http://www.google.com/mars/

I remember back twenty years ago when I used to read my Dad’s astronomy books from cover to cover, plotting out the distance between planets and dreaming of the future. And today, just a few minutes of my day were spent playing around with thermal images from the red planet…over 48 million miles away!!! I can hear Bill Nye now – “It’s incredible! It’s amazing!! It’s science!!!“

Wow. I feel sad now.

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So apparently we’re taking romantic rejections to a whole new level! I’m kind of getting tired of match.com, so I just finished filling out the survey for eHarmony…and as it turns out, they’ve got nothing for me! And not, no matches right now but we’ll keep looking – no, actually more along the lines of “we sometimes choose not to provide service rather than risk an uncertain match.” So now I can’t even get to the ladies that want to reject me – life just keeps getting better and better.

If I was an alcoholic, this is where I would start drinking heavily. That is all… :<