I really need a new layout. As much as I like this one, I think it’s about time for something new. I’ll have to see if I can come up with anything worth using. I’ve been a bit lazy in the layout making department lately.

I feel like I’m still trying to recover from the holidays and get back in the groove of the real world. My sleep is really messed up right now. I’ve started setting my alarm and I’m getting myself up a bit earlier so that maybe I’ll be back to normal soon. That’s the plan anyway.

My room could also do with a little cleaning as well. I’d kind of like to get one of those dry erase boards that you can also use to hold magnets so I’d have a place to put all of my little notes to self. Those seem to be piling up around me, and I have no place to put them. The side table I used for all of that stuff is now occupied by my iLive, and I really don’t have the space for another table. I think I could managed to free up some wall space though. I could really use a wall makeover. Perhaps that should be part of my New Years resolution. Like it will ever actually come to fruitation.

Today I watched more of HGTV than I have in months. Now I think I remember why I don’t watch it often. I watched a couple of shows where they redesigned rooms, and this one room was just ridiculous. The woman said she wanted something sophisticated and girly. Well, they decided to paint the walls two different shades of pink, but on camera it looked like pink and orange and nothing in the room seemed to go together. It makes me wonder what some of these designers are thinking.

It’s also kind of depressing to watch super rich people spend insane amounts of money on decorating just one room. The other day I was doing a little research for one of my stories, and I needed a house to sort of reference for the look I had in mind. I spent a lot of time just looking, and it was kind of amazing how many houses I looked at had home theaters. And I’m not talking just a big screen TV, but the actual theater seating, home theater lighting and the whole shebang. It was really kind of amazing. What I wouldn’t give to live like that.

I need a new layout. Really bad. I should probably attempt to make something soon. I feel like I’ve sort of let this blog go lately, but then again I sort of feel that way about everything. I have so much I need to tend to, but I just haven’t brought myself to do it. I have fanlistings beyond fanlistings I need to update with new layouts. I have this giant To-Do list on my desktop - using Rainlendar - and if anything, I feel like it’s just staring at me, mocking me and telling me to get my ass into gear and do something.

I’ve been in such a weird funk this past week, though. I don’t necessarily feel sick, but I just feel like I’m completely drained. No matter how much or little I sleep, I’m still tired. I keep hoping I’ll snap out of it. I suppose getting out more might help. The weather has been nice the last couple of days. I keep telling myself I’m going to go chillax on the front porch and read or something, but I just haven’t done it.

The other day I felt like we were dropped into the middle of the great flood or something. It just rained and rained all night. I guess some good did come out of it. The grass looked about dead, and Bart figured him and Blaine wouldn’t have to come out and mow again for at least a couple of weeks if not at all, but the grass seems to be back in fine form now, so I guess that means more mowing.

Regardless, I feel like the summer is slowly coming to an end. My brother starts school on Friday, and my sister goes back next week. Pretty soon Tori will be off to pre-school. It will be time for us to put on the outdoor furniture covers and start bundling up for fall. I’m not ready for that. I love the summer, but like all good things, it has to come to an end, I suppose.

I feel like I’m starting experience cabin fever. This seems to happen every couple of weeks if I don’t get out of the house too much, and lately I haven’t been out much. Just a meeting for work last Monday, taking my brother to get some clothes from home and out on the front porch. It’s pathetic, and I really shouldn’t let myself get this way, but with the way the weather’s been lately, I really don’t feel like straying too far.

While I was at my mom’s with Blaine, I noticed she was looking through some linoleum for, presumably, the bathroom floor. Her and Bart have been working on the house on Sundays, trying to get things done. I think she’s hoping to move back in with him before her next lease is up. It was one of those really earthly looking designs. I think it would look really nice with one of those vessel sinks I saw on TV. They have some really neat designs, like faucets that come out of the medicine cabinet door.

I always like watched home improvement shows. I guess I think I would be fun to do something like that. I never thought too much about it before. Definitely too late for a career choice, not that I’d want to. I think it’s just more fun in theory than in practice. I doubt I’d have the patience for that line of work. Some people are just too picky to please.