Oh, geez, it’s been a week since I wrote anything. Well, on the personal front, last week kind of sucked, and there’s not much to say about it besides that. Things just caught up with me and I let myself get really sucked down into all the crap. (Now there’s a lovely visual image!) I think I’m starting to pull myself out of it, however. And it’s going to be a busy week this week, so hopefully there won’t be much time to dwell on the crap.

I distracted myself somewhat by messing around with design on this page, and I think I’m going to stick with this one for now. I liked the other template I had up but the comments got screwed up when I upgraded Wordpress and I didn’t have the patience to figure out the problem. As far as this site goes, I have some other ideas brewing but it remains to be seen if they will come to fruition.

I distracted myself when not in front of a computer with the Art Fair, which was difficult to avoid since it was taking place all over my daily routine. I took a ton of pictures, for the first time in the 20+ years I’ve been going to Art Fair, but I don’t have any uploaded yet. It was the first year I’ve worked on campus during Art Fair, so it was a neat experience, actually, watching the town gear up for it, deal with it, and then shake it off. And then there was the ability to go out at lunch time, buy overpriced fresh-squeezed lemonade and giant plates of funnel cake, and wander around sweating and people-watching. (Don’t get me started on WHAT THE HELL people wear to this thing. Oy.) Far more appealing then sitting in the basement breakroom eating warmed-up leftovers. Plus, all the downtown stores have sidewalk sales to take advantage of all the foot traffic, and those are fun to browse. I did pick up some new sunglasses, as well, so that’s something.

Yesterday we decided we needed a break from the house, which is no where near unpacked and settled, and the stress, and the general crankiness, and so we packed up the kids and went to the Toledo Zoo. It’s less than an hour away and provided a few hours of relatively cheap entertainment. Mimi was a bit out-of-sorts and kept complaining that she wanted to go home, but Boo was a hoot, waving bye-bye to all the animals and, typically, being more entranced with the mundane ducks than the elephants, giraffes, and penguins. Took a zillion pictures there as well, again which will be forthcoming since I haven’t had a chance to download anything off the camera. (Hey, I finally got the pictures from Kev’s birthday at the, uh, end of June uploaded, so give me a break.)

Like I said, it’s going to be a busy week, and I leave on Saturday morning for a work thing and will be gone for another week. Which I am sort of in denial about because a) I have yet to review the lengthy and rather dry materials for the class I’m taking and b) I have done nothing to prepare the girls for my absence, which will be the longest I’ve ever been gone from either of them. Ack.

So I may be here a bit in the next week and then again I may not. We’ll see.