Liese, does Biscuit wait for you to go to bed?

Totally! He also has a point where he'll give up, and go in and get in the (giant king) bed by himself, as if to say, you guys can stay up too late if you want to, but I, like all reasonable people, am going to bed.

I like waking to a house with no clutter, and that 5 minutes at night clearing stuff up is a really helpful little ritual.

I'm sure this would be lovely, after I spent 5 months reducing the clutter to a 5-minute level.

Mr Peabody tries to get me to come to bed at what would be a rational hour, and when I stay at the computer, he rolls his eyes at me and goes to bed.

A lot of the house is clutter-free right now because we put everything in closets and such to move it out of the way of the tile guys. It's kind of freaky.

Me too. I can manage it for short periods of time when I have guests staying here. Then they go to bed and I take a few minutes making sure the kitchen is clean and setting up coffee for the next morning. But it's a rhythm that doesn't work with just me as well.

I wasn't always like this. But I really like doing it; it only takes minutes. I find that the clearer the flat places are in my house, the clearer my head is. The more physical clutter for me, the more mental clutter I have. I am certain I have characteristics of an attention deficit problem and this little ritual of clean slating the house really helps me with my scatterbrainedness.

I grew up in an absolute pigsty of a home - one where I could never bring anyone home because they'd be horrified. The good friends I did bring over, I made them close their eyes to walk to my bedroom.

So as an adult, I do everything in my power to not have my surroundings anything like what I grew up in.

One of the nice things about the funeral was seeing relatives that in some cases I haven't seen since I was a little girl. I just sent out a bunch of friends requests to them so even if I never see them much, I can have some idea of how their lives are going.

Hey, can I get some feedback? I'm over at my friend J's and I'm PRETTY sure I've got an almost set header image and background color for my webpage.

Can I get anyone to dash over there and give me some feedback? I'm pretty sure the header image is what I want, but I don't know if the background color with it makes it too girly.

It's eringriggs.com; we're gonna take a little break for about 20 mins and hopefully gather a little feedback from eyes who haven't been looking at it too long!!

Thanks!!!

I do that thing where whenever I have to go downstairs/upstairs for something, I take something that belongs there with me, and vice versa. So I never just go get more tea -- I'll grab Sara's sandals and bring them upstairs, too. Just constantly, during the day.

I am kind of a clutter freak, though. I can put off cleaning forever, but there's generally not stuff lying around because it makes me anxious.

Erin, I just took a look. I like everything a lot except I'm not crazy about the pink and the red. I think overall the page is very "girly" as you put it. Completely my own opinion.

Also, in my experience, anything underlined on a website usually means it's a link. So the underlining of a phrase that isn't a link might be confusing.

But I think changing the backgorund color to not pink or red would be a good change.

Do you want only design feedback, erin? I think it looks lovely. The color scheme is a bit girly. It could be a tad more neutral, maybe a greyer purple?

If you want other stuff, I wouldn't put the testimonial scroll on the sidebar of every page. I find it really distracting, and since there's limited content there, and peoples' reading speeds vary so much, it seems odd as a choice to auto-switch. For me to keep glancing over at it while I'm trying to read the rest of your content, but only to find it's something I already read, is not conducive to a good web experience.

It could be a tad more neutral, maybe a greyer purple?

I agree. Something less saturated.