This time next week I'll be on my way to Cyprus with my girlfriend Jess and our daughter Ruby.
Before that, though, we've got our final game of the season against Hartlepool and I'm desperate to finish my first year at Charlton on a high note.
I always look back and take stock of how a season has gone and this is probably the one where I'd criticise myself the most. The two red cards I got in January and March weren't great and I feel I could have played better in certain games, so I'll look back and be a bit critical of how I've done.
It's always difficult moving to a new club and adapting to new styles, so there are reasons it has been an indifferent season but while I can be critical of myself, I have enjoyed it. Things haven't gone exactly as the club would have wanted but it's been something different for me.
I moved away from Dagenham and Redbridge where I'd had great times and it's all part of the experience: you learn so much more when things aren't going for you than when they are.
I feel I'm a lot tougher mentally than at the start of this season. I've gone through a few difficult moments, such as the sacking of Phil Parkinson, the manager who signed me, in January.
I've also had to win over the new boss Chris Powell, which I think I've done. These are all things that toughen you up. My old manager, John Still, used to say adversity makes weak people weaker and strong people stronger, and hopefully I'm stronger.
One of the reasons for moving to Charlton was to improve certain parts of my game and I feel I've done that. I'm better with my back to goal and I'm adapting to dropping deeper and picking the ball up. My left foot used to be only for standing on but I've actually taken a few shots with it this season!
On Monday, we'll go to the training ground for the final time before heading off for the summer. There will be fitness tests and we'll have our body fat measured before a debrief from the manager and a meeting with the fitness staff, who will give us our programmes for the summer.
In my first year at Dagenham, we did absolutely nothing over the summer and used pre-season to get fit - and it was horrendous.
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I much prefer the way things are done now, which involves building up gradually to ensure that you're in good shape for the start of pre-season so it doesn't become one long slog-fest.
There is usually a two-week break where you do nothing but in the third week, I'll head to the local gym, get on the treadmill and go from there. I tend to do a fair bit of swimming, which I find more beneficial than just running all the time, and it's easy if you're on holiday and near a pool.
We're due back for pre-season on June 30 and I'll make sure I'm ready to hit the ground running when we return. Before that, though, it's the Hartlepool game - and a well-earned break in Cyprus.
