On a mememe note --

I am conflicted on what to do tonight. On the one hand, I would kind of love to stay home, watch The O.C. and play Sims. And that's it.

On the other, Patrick's band is part of a battle of the bands tonight, and I should really go and support him.

But I just saw them Monday, and their set's not until 11, and I'm not sure how much good my moral support would actually do. Plus, he says it's up to me, which probably genuinely does mean that he doesn't care,

Thoughts?

Assuming the answer is not "like Easter exploded in there," what does PTB's room look like, Plei? I remember you were having a hard time finding space for the crib -- how did that work out?

Her room still looks like an office. We're not moving everything out until after she's here. The walls are deep rose, the hardware is copper, and the floor is (at the moment) crappy softwood with acute damage. (It will probably be bamboo after we've moved the computers out of there.)

We'll be using something other than a crib until we've got the room done.

Newsflash! Goths Hate Spring Fashion Lines!

Newsflash. If you've seen this year's Spring Fashion Lines, you'd realize that ALL right-thinking people hate this year's selections. It's a selection of Best of the Worst of Color Me Beautiful's Spring Palette. Most people will not look good in the corals, teals, and lime greens that are this year's must-haves. (I can wear the lime. But I prefer a slightly yellower lime to the almost-neon I see in stores.)

The current frilly pastel thing, though, needs to DIE DIE DIE.

You would think this trend would mean that I would be able to find a frilly, high-collared, faux-Victorian blouse in pale pink lace. But nooooo, they don't exist. Most vexing.

Plus, he says it's up to me, which probably genuinely does mean that he doesn't care,

Not that I have an SO but I'd hate to think somebody was coming to see my band when they didn't really want to be there. I'd worry about them having a bad time and that would negate the moral support I'd get from having them there.

Newsflash! Goths Hate Spring Fashion Lines!

Shocking, innit? Although as Jesse notes, the popularity of citrus last year was not as tooth-grindingly annoying as whatever there is in stores this year.

edit: or What Plei Said.

I flipped through this month's In Style and realized that there is nothing in their Current Trends section that I would wear.

Not a goth, but damn if I didn't hate the citrus too. What are called tropical colours here are not colours I'm actually used to from the tropics.

Most people will not look good in the corals, teals, and lime greens that are this year's must-haves.

It's like they put shots of ugly juice in the fabric dyes!

What colors do people wear in the tropics, by choice? Is there a winter season and a summer season?

I'd say if you don't feel up to going tonight, you're fine staying home, Lyra.

Is there a winter season and a summer season?

What are these winter and summer words that you use?

I'd say in general, business wear is more muted (I dressed for my one Jamaican business meeting in bright red, and my father winced), but casual wear is jarringly bright to the First World eye. But the colours are deep and almost royal -- our yellows are gold, our greens forest. And then it devolves into cacophony.