back on track (sort of-ish) with a l'il help from sactofloyd ...

i told sactofloyd (thanks!) i would post, so i'm going to keep my word ... post the l'il thingy he sent me saturday.

this is the l'il avatar gift that sactofloyd (aka (affectionately) stupidicus, as i am his moronicus) made after poaching from here, for which his (and my) virtual stalking will continue through ddust's project runway recaps ('cuz ya gotta love his top chef recaps!).

other avatar thingy's that sactofloyd has thrown my way ...? some previous blog posts from the simpson stuff here and here. and that's been it so far (i think), at least for what i've memorialized.

and as for getting back on track (sort of-ish) ... i wanted to wait until ms. iris got back on-line so she would see the results of my iris-google-stalking. she's back on-line (hi iris!).

so yes, admittedly, i slumped on m'6 steps that i posted - recap of 6 steps here:

• step 1 - frakin' post to m'blog!
• step 2 - read my friends' blogs and others i miss!
• step 3 - energy and exercise!
• step 4 - prepare and cook food!
• step 5 - reconnect with moi!
• step 6 - reconnect with r|alex!

and now i intend to get back on track. what went off track? well, i did keep up with steps 2, 4, and 5 for sure ... and so-so on step 3 (until a bit of a recent bout with some funky, yet-to-be-figured out dizziness ... wassup with that?! crazy sh** still to be figured out.) and so-so on step 6 (i did get some r|alex in here and there). step 1 ... ugh, not-so-much. not. so. much.

still - what has happened? hmmm .... perhaps it's just the change in seasons? it's a bit of a little of this and a little of that - resulting in not regularly posting ...

• i'm thinking it's my partially pondering the now ~9 months at cubeopolis with my angst. actually, have been pondering a bit intensely since ~april. (is there such a thing as the 7-month itch?) now it's time to get thoughts down, eh?
  
• and i'm thinking it's partially my newly found cookin' bug-up-my-bum with new pots/pans + knives (these knives!). on most weekends, i make a point to get out to a farmers market and then play test kitchen.
  
• and perhaps it is that SF has not been graced by the threat of billn, and in fact such a visit may be in slight jeopardy. (bummer)
  
• and partially digging into the pages of many unread books and magazines that sit on my shelves, nightstand, tabletops, under my car seat, etc. - so far over the past couple+ months, books have included: (currently finishing up) moore's lamb: ... and have finished up seidman's how: ..., mcewan's on chesil beach, stephenson's zodiac, and sedaris's when you are engulfed in flames.

and who knows what else? regardless, getting back on track-ish. so let's give this another try!

thanks sactofloyd!