This is great. First it was David Bowie, then Lyle Lovett, and now I’ve had Annie Lennox songs stuck in my head all day! I think it’s because they played “Keep Young and Beautiful” during the credits of Daria the other night. (Yes, I’ve succombed to a teenage stereotype – watching MTV. But *just* Daria, mind you. I wouldn’t be caught dead watching TRL.)
Eeeuuuggh, now I have icky MTV thoughts.
I spent the afternoon painting a huge canvas for the basement, and I used the colors for the walls. But, you know what’s sad? The colors dried way too purple. I have to take the paint back tomorrow and I really hope they’ll give me my money back. The weird thing is, in the can the colors look pretty close to right. They’re supposed to be blue, and they are. But when they get painted onto something, they’re drying all lilacy. Now, normally I have nothing against lilac, but it absolutely cannot go in the basement. Pastels do not go with my theme at all. So, back to the hardware store again tomorrow. Sigh. And I have to redo the painting I did. And it was so perfect! It’s all geometric so I had to spend ages with a ruler and a pencil, sketching it onto the canvas. Major pain in the butt, but with the right colors I think it’ll look smarvy.
I’m really tired and I think I’m not making any sense.
Kevin, Jen, and Max came over after dinner to play a few games. Max is so cute. He got his hair cut and it made him look so much older. He’s just so dang fun. He wouldn’t scat with me tonight, though, but that’s something he kind of has to instigate. It’s not an on-command sort of thing. But he was running around in a tshirt way too big for him, wearing a bright red hat that says “I believe in elves.” That hat’s been around forever. There’s even a picture of me in it when I was his age. Sigh. He’s growing up too fast. He’s actually really talking now. He says please and thank you for all sorts of things. He can read. (Holy crap, he’s two and a half! He’s going to make my future children look like idiots, even if they’re little mini Einsteins.) Anyway, no grand Max stories for tonight. We just played with magnets, spelled tons of stuff with alphabet flash cards, and had a grand Max time. Kevin should have pictures up of the Elf hat tomorrow. Dang, he’s cute.
I think that’s all for now. Good night!