Yesterday I told Will that I was going to need to go to a movie some time this week because “I need to think.”  He didn’t get it.  Apparently it’s weird to do your best thinking in a movie theater. Who knew?  That’s where, at least in my adult life, I’ve always gone when I am too deep into my own headspace and am not as able to talk myself down out of trees or off of ledges.  Don’t worry too much–I just have a lot to think about.

The summer was kind of rough–money wise, getting along wise, you know how it goes.  Judging by the tone of some of the other blog posts that I’ve been reading over the last few weeks I’m not the only one who is ready to turn the page from summer to fall and, hopefully, stop feeling so damn cranky and gruff all the time. I’m also toying with the idea of starting a project.  A project that could potentially balloon totally out of my control and I need to do some thinking about how I most want to approach it or if I want to just put it up on a shelf for now while we work to get our, well, everything under control.  See? There’s a heck of a lot going on up in this brain of mine.

A few housekeeping things:

I’m still trying to figure out my approach for my PAX post.  I’ll tell you now that the weekend at PAX was not quite as relevatory (whatever, it’s a word now) as my evening spent at W00tstock. Still, I noticed some things and want to explore them.

I changed my blog theme!  I truly love the theme that Carissa made for me but, with the changing of the seasons comes the time to change the theme.  It’s getting to be fall (especially here where early winter already seems to be setting in) so I wanted something with more muted shades.  Plus, I am really proud of my header.  I made it all by myself!  Those stripes? Were a bitch and a half to make, but I’m super proud of them. The superfluous capitalization of “cellulite” isn’t really something I meant to do, but meh. It’s not just cellulite that has landed, it’s Cellulite! That’s way more important (I totally almost just used asterisks just now to emphasize the word “way” because I switched over to Twitter mode for a second)!

I’m trying valiantly to get back into my blogging groove and to figure out a regular schedule.  Will’s schedule is going to be changing drastically any day now, so it’s hard for me to figure out what kind of approach I want to take to my day.

And finally: yesterday I ordered a month’s worth of meat from New Seasons.  You can do this online and then go pick it up (or if you want to spend five more dollars, have them deliver it to you). You can do this with pretty much everything in the store and you know? If all of the “middle of the store” stuff (side dishes, baking supplies, breakfast stuff, etc) weren’t so damn expensive I would have done all of our grocery shopping that way.  I will definitely be doing our monthly meat order this way from now on.  So easy!

Finally finally: tonight is our first fully homecooked meal in, oh, months. We? Ate like crap this summer. For serious. Wow. I’m kind of ashamed.  Not now, though! We have meat! And mostly stocked cabinets! So tonight we’re making grilled chicken, baked potatoes and corn. NOM. Nommity nom nom nom.