So.  The Smart Phone, I'm seriously afraid it's smarter than I am.  Over the last few days I've spoken to a number of people who are curious as to how I like the phone.  My response, "I've only had it for a few days and there's quite a learning curve."  Anyone who has an android phone totally gets that.  Learning curve indeed.  So far I've learned how to answer it (I made a special trip to the store for that lesson), text and Facebook.  I'm committed to using it as a calendar but have abandoned the idea of using it for email.  My back up plan is to give up and pass the phone to my husband.  He's looking forward to it.  We'll see.  When I find the perfect calendar app and learn how to use it, I will share.  Could be a while....

With quite a lot of smugness I can tell you we have settled on a furniture arrangement for our dining room.  Here you go, two views:



Yes, it still looks like a bunch of furniture lined up against the wall.  Because that's what it is.  It's what it's like to live with a furniture collector.  And yes again, I like it. 



See how I cleverly mirrored these two pieces?  We can enjoy this view if we contort ourselves into the opposite corner of the dining room.  This is what I go through.

The organizing challenge this week has been meal planning.  In my haste to switch to the electronic calendar I gave short shrift to planning our meals and now am paying the price.  What price?  The "it's 4:00 what's for dinner" angst.  To avoid further drama, I reverted back to my Daytimer for meal planning and the world smoothed right out.

Awesome.

There was also a little backsliding on the "No More Pumpkins" edict.



Whoops.  Well, they're little and cheap, easy to store.  That's justification enough, isn't it?

Number of things left on my Fall To Do List:  One.  And it isn't check out Carol Widman's Candy for caramel apples, because I did, and it was awesome!