Iron, Where Art Thou?

I'm pretty sure I'm anemic again.

It's a relatively simply equation. I was feeling tired, in a way sleep couldn't fix, which is the defining symptom for me. Plus I had little appetite despite having a bag of Doritos and six types of ice cream in the house (I'm not exactly certain how that happened). And I kind of stopped taking my iron pills two months ago because I felt fine and had already been taking them for four months and had almost, almost passed the blood tests at the two month mark.

But then Sunday I weighed myself and saw I was accidentally down three pounds from my normal weight which simply. Doesn't. Happen. I looked up the symptoms for iron deficiency anemia and confirmed lack of appetite is a classic manifestation.

Drat.

So now I'm taking my iron pills again, and debating whether I want to take the blood tests I'm due for right now, to prove I'm still anemic or wait until I've been taking the pills again so the results look better. I'm almost leaning toward the first because if my anemia was due to over-donating blood it should have resolved by now.

In other news, I think skunk season is over.

Since I moved into the house after Thanksgiving I have smelled skunk at least every other morning when I open the bathroom window after my shower. Once I woke up in the middle of the night because I smelled skunk, and found out it smelled the most right under the entrance to the attic, which weirded me out until I realized these windows probably don't let in the smell too well, so the attic is where it would come through. But for the past few morning I haven't smelled skunk! It does make your morning a little more pleasant to not have that smell.

What I don't get is why I smelled skunk so often here and never at my apartment, which is only 2.5 miles away. I did look up whether meth labs smelled like skunk, when I didn't believe there could really be that many skunks. But Google said no, plus I kept seeing skunk roadkill which I took as corroborating evidence.