sj once you narrow it down to a few choices you might want to get some wood about 12x12 and buy small samples of paint and pint the boards to get a better idea of the colors.

My dad did this &we thought he was being weird and obsessive but it really helped him pick a color.

What paint are you using, sj? The probably have the colors online. Also, most stores that sell paint these days have the magic color matcher machine, so you can just take in the quilt.

Happy paint picking, sj!

So, if I'm going to meet with someone at an environmental nonprofit about volunteering, I should still dress professionally (knowing I will likely outdress them) and bring a resume, justincase?

sj, that's a lovely quilt.

Choosing paint colors is fraught with difficulty. I still haven't found the right green for the upstairs bath.

I didn't think of that. They do have their color chart online. I don't have time to point out all the individual shades I am looking at though because I should already be gone. I want a yellow for the living room, a pale blue for the master bedroom that would go well with the quilt I just linked to, a taupe for the smallest bedroom, and a pale lavender to go in the guest bedroom. I haven't decided about the bathroom yet. I want to find a shower curtain before I decide that color. The kitchen is completely tile at the moment, so I won't be painting in there unless we decide to gut the whole thing.

I'm so glad Teppy is around to calm us down from all of our medicine fears.

me too.

Hatul dog with my sister and our cousin. Photos from yesterday: [link]

One warning is that blues tend to come out way more blue on the wall than on the sample.

Thanks brenda. I think to play it safe I'm going to go one shade lighter on every color I think I want.

Go you, smonster, with the networking!

Morgellons disease is one of those illnesses that have transmogrified into a debate between science and pseudoscience. Patients tend to be self diagnosed, symptoms include the sensation that something is crawling through the skin and skin leisons with weird synthetic fibers in them. The patients think the fibers are growing from their bodies, or were implanted there. The CDC claims that it isn't a disease, so most patients are diagnosed as suffering from delusional thinking, and are assumed to be causing their own symptoms albeit probably unconsciously. It's a mess.

It had a brief moment of popularity as an illness when Joni Mitchell claimed she had it.

I have a friend who discovered an open, irritated wound on her arm and then freaked out when she found little blue fibers in it. But you know, went to the doctor, doctor looked at the fibers and looked at her hoodie and pointed out the fibers came from the sweater and to stop wearing it until her arm healed. Friend was delighted at the simple, logical answer to her problem.