we'll be there, will you?

I'm dumb and forgot to upload my pictures from this weekend again. Hopefully I'll remember tonight, although I've got to go to the grocery, make a salad for a potluck, find a certain pair of earrings from the Big Box of Inventory (of doooooom!), take care of a migrainey fiance, deal with dinner, and make sure the proposal I'm writing is ready for printing tomorrow. So, you know, no promises.

But! There is one promise I can make, and that is that both the elusive Don and I will be at this Friday's Blogger Happy Hour at Holy Frijoles! I'm going for the people, he's going for the margaritas. If you're local, come out! (And if you're not local, drive here and THEN come out!) The Baltimore bloggers are, without fail, fabulous and awesome and seriously friendly.

(PS don't forget to do like Danielle did and check out the new stuff on Etsy, if you see something you love I can just bring it to the happy hour!)

popping up on my RSS feed

Martha Stewart has a blog now. And somehow that woman finds time to post every day (or at least to write -- I recognize her writing style well enough to know that it's her putting together the words, but I can't guarantee she's the one logging into TypePad to actually hit 'publish post' every day [also I find it kind of accessibly charming that she's using TypePad instead of just having her web gurus just whip up a page for her to upload to or something]). As usual, she puts me to shame. But I still can't get enough of the inside peeks into things like photo shoots for the production of a new book, or glimpses into her Bedford and Skylands houses (FIFTEEN different kinds of artisanal salt and pepper sitting ready and waiting in ramekins next to the stove, I kid you not). It's nice that's it's not just another incarnation of 'oh, check out this crafty project you too can do!' Which is all well and good, of course, but there are lots of other places in the Omnimedia Empire (PS I love the word omnimedia) to do that sort of thing. She actually seems to have grasped the concept of blogging as I see it, having a little internet window into real goings-on and personal behind the scenes stuff.

Now if only SHE'd read MY blog. I wonder if she uses an RSS feed.

totally unrelated

I don't know if anyone's looking for a house in Bedford, PA, but this place is just screaming for a houseblogger.

(Never you mind why I'm looking at houses in strange places.)

banner

I just added a new banner to the site. I had to use this workaround to get around Blogger's insistence on using their text for the title and subtitle. Worked pretty well, although since I'm using yet another workaround to get the three-column layout, I had some frustrations. It won't put the banner along the far left edge of the columns -- it'll always start in the middle of the first column. So I couldn't do a color bar, which is what I wanted to do. But I think it turned out pretty decently, for a quick thing. :)

Update: I also added the Etsy mini, to the right. Now you can be tempted by our pretty jewelry without even leaving AP! ;)

what blogger happy hours look like

Totally anonymous, lots of beer.

When's the next one, guys?

i'm a dork

I just added a twitter widget to AP; if you look in the top left corner you'll see it. If you have twitter, feel free to add me as a friend. If you don't, check it out, it's cute.

busy bee

Well, no work wound up getting done on the house this weekend. Various commitments on the part of various parties wound up making the scheduling impossible. Alas. Of course, that means I have very little to write about this week. Which is probably good, since my last classes of the semester are on Thursday night, meaning that I have to have a ten page paper and a final presentation piece finished by then -- all while I work frantically to finish the proposal at work that needs to be sent out by Wednesday! Whee!

Don't expect great things from me this week. Or even regular-type things. Just... you know, bide your time. Or something.

don't be alarmed

Please don't freak out. I'm working on making some changes to the blog (those of you who are bloglines-ing me or reading me through some sort of feed or whatever won't even notice). I'm putting it into a three-column layout to accomodate some (gasp!) ads. I know, I'm such a sellout. Aside from that, the new layout adds some space for other things, like tag clouds and the like, which I'm fond of. Eventually I'll put together some kind of banner for the header, too. Maybe I'll get really crazy and buy a domain name. Stay tuned.