Pluses and minuses

Still no brains, so have an update of what's been going on since my plus-and-minus entry earlier in the month*. :V And a few other things.

+ Received my new credit card after that whole fraud debacle. Looks like everything's sorted now. (Aside from updating my various subscriptions, but - we'll do that later.) Ugh, that was a pain in the ass. I don't mind paying cash for things most of the time, but I did need it for like... bills and stuff.

+ Brother's new puppy is adorable. Such a cutie! Still learning to keep his teeth to himself, though. And I'm looking forward to when he'll be big enough to take for a proper walk - he's still way too small for that right now.

± Received the instructions that my finance guy said would be sent to me. I haven't set up the free anti-fraud protection stuff yet, but at least I have the info I need. Going to have to look through it when I have a moment. (Ugh.)

- It's been very smoky lately. You know how the Weather Network will have weather status as "sunny" or "chance of rain"? We're just "smoke" at the moment. As far as I can tell, it's all blowing in from elsewhere, since most of the province is on fire. Currently no warnings from the municipality, so I'm not concerned, but ugh, I really hate not being able to open the windows.

+ I started work on something niche. I've had it in my head for a while, and it feels good to get it down on paper, though I'm not far into it yet. It's very much a "just for me" sort of thing.

- Ahhh my mom has started the "what do you want for your birthday? You know that I need to know ahead of time in case I need to order something, blah blah" thing. Which is true, however, at the moment I'm just like... "I dunno, some colourful socks and a box of lokum?" To which the answer would be, "You can just buy that yourself". As usual. :V (SIGH)

+ Monday is a stat! Hooray! I'm going to sleep so much, hot damn. (I probably will not, but let's pretend.)