First official vacation

Been at my new job for over a year and a half now, and in my current management position for less than five months. I wanted to wait until I had a good amount of vacation hours saved up before I went, which meant I was going to delay my usual vacation to well past the usual time frame when I took it from my old work. 

So this year, I decided to take it during the first week of autumn, so starting today through the 30th, I will be off and away from work to recharge and refresh before tackling the next part of the year, which is going to involve the holidays.

But what do I plan on doing while on vacation? Honestly, just playing a lot of games, watching a lot movies and cooking and eating a lot of food, for it autumn is the season of the feast, and that is exactly what I intend to do this week. 

An annual tradition of mine is to make a bit pot of beef stew on the first day of autumn, along with a pumpkin cheesecake. The latter of which I've already made, 

The stew will be started early tomorrow morning and left to slow cook all day. 

To entertain me between writing episodes of Last Tail and reading whatever depraved horror novel I can get my hands on will be Trails of Cold Steel. 

I played it in the past on the PS3, and did enjoy it, but being able to play it in portable form is really going to increase that enjoyment. 

The 37th Year Approaches

The autumn season has (finally) come around once again, and with it a whole new season of possibilities, adventures to be had and stories to be told.

Firstly, we hit a certain sales goal at work for this quarter, which is pretty typical overall, but what makes this one matter so much to me is that it is the first full quarter where I've been in my management position, so on top of the amazing paycheck I make ever other week, I am now looking at an additional $830 on top of it.

And the best part is, it's come literally three days before my 37th birthday! 

My birthday is on September 8th, but since I actually work that day, I will be celebrating it come payday with a trip out of town for a day of shopping, relaxing and hopefully a big bowl of ramen somewhere! 

I am currently without my PC thanks to the local mail carrier screwing the delivery up of my new desk. I had taken my old desk apart in advance, disconnected my PC and all that jazz because I expected to come home and put together my new one, but alas come the end of the day, the desk never showed up. And the real crap on top was the holiday this week delayed the delivery further. 

I am glad that I finished the season 2 finale of Last Tail when I did, but I am itching so badly to jump back in and start the next season. 

The desk is scheduled for delivery tomorrow, so we'll see. 

In other news, later this month, I will be taking my first scheduled vacation from work since I began the working there last spring, and I am excited. It'll occur during my annual Autumn Welcoming celebration that I hold ever year by making a big pot of beef stew and a homemade pumpkin cheesecake. 

I've got some new fishing gear as well that I really haven't had much an opportunity to get out to use given the strain work has been in these final weeks of summer, plus the constant string of heatwaves have driven the fish deeper. But in the coming days, I will definitely be getting back out there.