New Theme.
With a little help from TheBoy, and a whole lot of tweaking of an existing theme, Cathartic Ink has a brand new look. If you're viewing through an RSS feed, you might want to click over and check it out. Thanks!
Mind the Clutter
New Ink! When I first moved from blogger onto catharticink.com TheBoy decided to spend some of his free time writing an application for me to blog with. Now that he spends his 8.30-5.30 writing applications he's decided that he just can't keep up with rewriting the blogging application, at least not without sacrificing quality time with me. And as I told Fyberduck earlier, I am very selfish of our time together. So, out with the old, and in with wordpress. This is not without some little glitches. Firstly, the old rss feeds won't work anymore, please point your readers at http://catharticink.com/?feed=atom Bloglines can bite me quite frankly, but you can go here to subscribe via Bloglines. I think. It might not work just to spite me. The other thing that changed is that I discontinued use of Haloscan for commenting and so the comments are gone. As such, the first person to leave me a comment wins a little prize! Be sure to leave your email if I don't have it.
I didn't design the site, but the images in the header are mine. There are seven so refresh if you want to see them all. They rotate randomly. The design is an open source theme made possible by Marten Timan. TheBoy and I will be working on new themes of my own, but I would be surprised if that happens before the wedding.
There are a few housekeeping things to do yet that make the site a little empty, but not unusable. I'll be getting to tidy those things in the next few days.
Cart Before the Horse?
My doppelganger made a comment about my shawl [which looks very close to the same as it did the other day so I'm not going to post a new photo] and how it's coming before the dress. Folks might have also noticed that the shoes came before the dress too. It's primarily been out of necessity. My mom [hi mom!] lives on the east coast where I grew up and I have refused to try on dresses until I can try them on with her first. I'll be going home in two weeks to do just that and I'm taking the shawl with me to make sure that if I buy something out there that the shawl won't totally clash with it.
However, the shawl has never been just an accessory for me. Instead it's a tangible symbol of how much I am putting into this relationship and the marriage. Each stitch [note there are approximately 45,000 stitches in the shawl] stands for all of the ways I am willing to work to make sure that our marriage is a long and happy one. Yep, I am a sap, expressing my love through yarn. How better? Everytime TheBoy sees me working on it he smiles, so it must be working.