August 28, 2012
-
{Color} Brown
Well, it has taken a long time to get around to this post because I didn’t get the post done on the weekend and then yesterday and today I have been fighting a flu bug. I seem to be getting some better, so I am hoping that by tomorrow I feel OK again.
This flu thing has been going around. Mostly sore throat, headache, fever, etc. It tends to only last a day or two. Two of my kids had it previously, so I guess I must have caught it from them.
Anyway, I think that last Friday was my “brown” day. The last of the color posts.
Without further ado…I introduce you to some of the brown in my world. (I think brown has to be, like, the ugliest color ever. It hardly even seems like a color.)
One of the first things I do every morning is fix my bed. I often think of this {odd} advice my Mom gave me before I got married. She said “Audrey, I just wish you would learn to fix your bed in the mornings. And eat breakfast instead of skipping it.”
Apparently I took her advice, because now I ALWAYS do those two things.
Our room has almost no brown in it, but our red silk sheets had seen their better days and at a Black Friday sale they had these micro-fiber sheets on sale. They are really nice! Only, problem, they didn’t have red or black sheets, so we ended up with brown.
The thing is…once I get the whole bed fixed, you can hardly tell there are brown sheets under there. So its all good.
This is the ceiling fan in our living room. It’s brown. But the color has very little to do with this story.
Nikki and I were sitting on the couch on Thursday night, looking through our respective “In Style” magazines, when I noticed it seemed really dark in the living room. Turns out, two of the light bulbs were burned out. I went and grabbed some light bulbs, got a stool, and climbed on up there to change them. Apparently, I either forgot that the fan was whirring at a great rate of speed or else I just mis-calculated the distance to the fan. Either way, that fan hitting into my head at full speed did NOT feel good. At all. For days, I could feel the spot where the blade hit me. Thank God that He made our heads really hard!
Our dirt road. It looked especially brown this morning because it had just rained.
The ferns are starting to lose a lot of their green color and turn to brown.
A brown shirt that was given to me by a client when they came back from a hunting trip to South Africa. I was touched that she thought of getting a gift for me. I tried to wear this shirt today, but honestly, it is just too small for me and it kept riding up and showing off more of my stomach than I like to have people (even my kids) see. So, I ended up changing.
Nikki had a birthday party to attend, so the boys and I dropped her off and then went to a few garage sales. One garage sale was all kinds of OLD stuff. Nothing that I am really interested in, but I know that some of the stuff I am looking at is really cool, if I would just know what to do with it. I think of people like Jenny K and Rachel B and wonder just what great finds I am passing up.
Here are some pictures of “brown” things that were among the many items at this garage sale.
We walked out of there with something Kendall bought for a quarter. I can’t even remember what it was.
And then we went grocery shopping and picked Nikki up from the party and came home and had some supper and went to a high school football game.
And that was the end of the “brown” day.
Comments (10)
It’s so funny because your dislike for Brown totally comes through in this post. And that cracks me up. Maybe it’s your recovering illness type of writing, but I’d rather think it’s your total disgust for the color brown. The whole bit about your mom telling you that and you doing it now is hilarious. Every time I go to change lanes in traffic, I hear my mother tell me, “make sure you can see the car in the lane over behind you in your rear view mirror and not your side view mirror before you change lanes”. This is the only driving advice she ever gave me. And I hear it every time. I hope you have a good brown day. ;D
@bethro78 - This post felt SO boring. Even to me. Another piece of advice I hear a LOT, in my head, was from a lady that administered my driving test. She told me I was the kind of driver that was too reckless and would probably run into someone in a Wal-Mart parking lot!!! I think about that SO often. Probably the only reason I never have had an accident in a Wal-Mart parking lot!
@appalolly - That made me laugh out loud. I mean, what were you doing that lead to her saying that? Who says that to a driving student? I had NEVER DRIVEN a car when I took my drivers test, and we went on the INTERSTATE. My lady: didn’t say that to me.
I really don’t know what I did, Beth. I think she thought I was just too rammy or something!!?? Yes, it was quite a comment to make!
And you DID buy that super cool old telephone, right? RIGHT? Brown and all? Because wow, it’s just really awesome.Sorry you’ve been sick already this year! I know other people who have been sick recently too and it seems far too early in the school year to be passing those germs around already! Hope that passes quickly for you!
@lifeisadance - No, Clarita, I did not. Because I had no idea what I would do with it. Now I know. I should have bought it for you!
haha about thinking of jenny and rachel—i do too! i even came up with this in my head about repurposing; WWTD? which stands for what would thelma do? no pressure thelma.
that ceiling fan story is hilarious. i mean, i’m sorry that you got hurt. but it sounds so funny. maybe a good rule of thumb would be to wear a helmet before changing lightbulbs. maybe that would work. teehee.hope that you are feeling better soon! <3
i used to HATE brown…then i really liked it… and now brown is just brown.
i actually really like brown!!! you’re too funny about making your bed and skipping breakfast..i should follow your moms advice too!
)ouch on the ceiling fan. but i chuckled just a little too [sorry]. 
sure hope you’re feeling better with the flu -we had the same thing. it’s miserable. that’s a really pretty shot of the road – - i don’t know why but i love road shots.when i see them i always think of captions about “the journey” or something like that! 
have a great day my friend~
Your color posts have been fun, Aug. Even though I haven’t really told you so. I’m feeling quiet right now and don’t know why. I could SO feel the head bopping from that fan.
I like brown, though. Have a good day.