New Gmail themes make catching up on email a little less dreadful

I try to stay on top of things when it comes to email. Well, my work email that is. My personal email is another story. It is not at all uncommon for me to go 4 or 5 days before I catch up on all of my personal email.

Oh sure, I use filters to make sure the high priority emails still get noticed. But it's the not-so-high-priority emails that really pile up. And the more they pile up the more I don't want to take the time to process them.

But last night Google made a change to my Gmail that made catching up on email just a little more pleasant.

At first I thought something was wrong. I went to view my email and the colors on the screen had changed. I even refreshed the web page to see if it would fix itself. It didn't.

But that's when I noticed a little message at the top of my email that introduced Google's new Gmail themes. Clicking on the message revealed 31 new themes to choose from. I wonder if it's a coincidence that this is the same number of ice cream flavors Baskin-Robbins offers.

I tried a few out including a graffiti theme and a bus stop theme to match my iGoogle home page but eventually settled on the Zoozimps theme. Here's a few snippets of the theme and what my Gmail looks like now.

As you can see, it's awfully hard to be stressed out catching up on email with these adorable little guys hanging out on your screen. Well done, Google.