Yellow?

I love green. I have 5 rooms in my house painted green - all different shades. I actually didn't realize this until recently when we had to go searching for one of the aforementioned shades to do some touch-up in the boys' bathroom (post-re-installation of towel bar after P *yanked* the thing out the wall trying to free his towel - I do not think I need to worry about the kid's strength).

But we never found that particular shade still lying around waiting to be used for small (or not so small) detail work. We did however find 4 other shades and realized that having achieved a rainbow* in our home, we're a little heavy on the green. (Though I challenge anyone who steps into my house to really pick up on it. I don't think we have an overwhelmingly green aura.)

Now that we are going to have to pick out a new paint color for the kitchen - in the kitchen-project-that-won't-stop - I was aiming for green. Before realizing that I'd have a perfect half-dozen of rooms in that shade. My husband balked.

"I like this one," he tells me pointing to one of the dozens of paint chips taped to the wall - it leans to brown. Yellowy-brown. Dare I say, baby-poo brown. The breastfed kind.

He's not terribly wrong. It's a doable color but do I want doable? I think not. I also really suck at this coordinating stuff. At least five times a day (in line with my shades of green), I wish for an expert to come and tell me what to pick so it all works together - backsplash, cabinet knobs, light fixtures, paint, granite. Someone, please, steer me away from serious error.

Alas, no kitchen color expert has come knocking. So I am wading through tin finishes for the backsplash, different shades of bronze for the cabinet knobs, sheer panic at the light fixtures, and page after page of granite colors.

Which brings me to the point - am I crazy for contemplating yellow granite? It's really pretty:

Arandis yellow. 

It has some red - my family room is red. It would work with bronze - the eating area light fixture is bronze. It's *interesting.* I want interesting. But do I want yellow?

And there's no way I could paint my walls green.

*Yes, I have at least one room in each of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. I may have missed indigo but I'm pretty d*mn close. :)

Random things for today

I had forgotten that the last time I posted before today I was still a bit obsessed with lists a la Facebook style.

More random things from me (v. 4/09):
* I attended 3 different high schools in 4 years. No two consecutive years at the same one.

* I chased a rabbit out of my yard last night with my 3yo, completely oblivious to how I might appear to random strangers. The random strangers I met were my new neighbors. That was a little embarrassing. They seem very nice.

* I am claustrophic to a degree not easily expressible. I am learning that non-claustrophobic people don't seem to get it. At all. Knowing it's in my head doesn't mean I can control the awful fear I have of suffocating.

* I have been known to say that my worst fear is something happening to my kids but that's not quite true. I won't even entertain those thoughts long enough to allow them to become fears. My worst fears involve terrible injuries to myself.

* My husband has spent part of every March for the last 14 years in Springfield, IL, with me, working with YMCA Youth & Government. He has never been to a single Lincoln site. I am racked with guilt over this. I am hoping to rectify that this summer.