Don't you hate it when you wake up not knowing what day it is?

Thankfully, I'm now sure it's Saturday. My widget says so. Yay widget! Yay, Saturday!

News of note: we have furniture. We spent a good portion of last night arranging it, and buying a bigger rug to put under hubby's office area. I had to cut the edge off the rug we bought (it was too big) and I did feel a little silly about spending $90 on an area rug to put over a rug, then having to mangle it, but then I remembered the giant black mark his shoes/chair left in the bedroom when we had to temporarily move his office upstairs. In just, what, 6 months? I can't get the carpet clean. Luckily, the bed covers the worst of it. Anyway, so it's worth it and it really defines the area, anyway. We still need to assemble the CD holder and move out the old stuff, then haul down the books and CDs. That may not all happen this weekend. In fact, I know it won't all happen this weekend because, as always, there's too much to do and too little time. But eventually there will be pictures! Yay!

FERURARY 1, 2008 - A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY!
More news of note: after recently talking about my lack of grey hair (surprising, actually, since my mom's had grey hair since her 20s), I'm pretty sure I found one yesterday. It's no longer attached to my head, so I'll have to see if I get another one. It was in the bangs area, and, unfortunately, it didn't appear to be the sort of grey hair I wanted. Not entirely, anyway. You see, I have zero problem with having white hair. I had it once when I was 17 and had to use a color-stripper on my hair after accidentally turning it a lovely shade of forest green. It was pretty, actually. I'm not talking about platinum over-processed bleach blond - I mean it was white. I liked it, and I'd like it if my hair would turn all white-grey and I could highlight it with streaks of colors as the mood hit me. Hot pink... violet... black or blue, even. Though I doubt I'll go completely white fast enough to still pull that off. My mom has a lot of grey hair, but isn't completely there. So, anyway, since the color isn't my problem, you ask, what is? It's the texture. I wanted, basically, for my hair to just lose its color. But grey hair can also get thicker and wiry... which this one seemed to be. And here's the trouble with that. My hair already falls into the 'thick' category. But it's not that my hair is thick - it's actually fairly fine - it's that I have a metric ton of it. Now, take allllllll those fine little hairs all over my head and double their thickness. Now what do you have? I'm gonna look like Alice from Dilbert! O.o I don't need more volume, really, really, really I don't. I guess only time will tell!

I have a zillion journal entries I've wanted to comment on that I haven't gotten around to (not been much in the writing mood) so hopefully I'll get that done here real soon. For now, I really have to start some laundry and get cleaning... something. I'd like my office to get at least as clean as my craft room, tehn I'd like to clean them both up some more!

And, also... (before I get to work on those chores...ahem)

If you haven't read the recent news post on the 'Explore LJ' section, where your public entries can be spotlighted, do so. I waffled, then opted out. It's not that I care if my posts are seen (it is public, after all), though with a picture-post there is the extra bandwidth drain (though honestly, even those posts move too fast for that to be much of a concern, at least until enough people opt-out), it's the possible cringe-factor of mislabeling. I don't want a story about menstrual issues to end up under 'technology' just because I say something like "and I was using my beta version of my new cloth pads, I still need to tweak the design - but I think I know what I need to change..." If they could actually get it right, I probably wouldn't mind. I do write my public entries as if the whole world was watching, and I certainly don't mind the attention. ~.^

But the fact that the sorting and labeling will not work until they have an actual human approving the picks stops me from participating. And really, that's just impossible. And pointless. Let's stick with the 'latest posts' feed for real variety, and let us search by multiple interests to find people of interest. And you want to make it really nifty? Make the 'multiple interests' search display as either a list of comms/people (as the single search does now) or as a list of the most recent entries from those users. How cool would that be? Like a 'friends page of people that share many of my interests' page.

( And so this isn't text-only... here's a screencap of Explore LJ and their awesome sorting: )

( Edited to add another screencap! )