Don't it make my brown hair blue?

I finished painting the walls of the soon-to-be family room last night.  They are a bright, grayish blue.  Being the novice home improvement decorating chick that I am, I'm not sure whether I like/hate new room colors because they are different or because they look good/bad.  The new bedroom color was easy because we just went one-half shade lighter than the old bedroom color.  This is my first "new" pulled out of sky (!) because I thought it would look good.  My reasoning is that it was a nice compliment to our main house color, yellow.  And I do think that it looks nice.  I'm just worried that it's a bit darker than we wanted.  Once we have all our white-washed antique-i-fied furniture in there, I think it will bright up.  I just really, really, really, really didn't want a pastel blue or a baby blue.  And many of the light blues we tried were heading towards that genre.  Maybe I could have gone more gray-ish, but the current family room is a gray-brown, which as you may imagine, is just loooooooovely.  Hence, why I did not choose it for the new family room color. 

There's little else going on besides work.  I finally (almost) finished up an analysis on a project in which I've had the data for nearly two years.  The good news is that I finally figured out why the analysis wasn't working.  The bad news is that it's because the data doesn't fit the model I have been trying to test.  Yippee!  Now, I have to figure out how to present it so that it still seems like an important insight that everyone should know. 

When I'm this focused on work, I have a hard time thinking of things to write about that could be interesting to anyone else but the 10 other people doing research in my area.  It worries me about when bun pops out of the oven---how am I going to keep my brain focused on all it will need to focus on?  One of my male colleagues suggested that while I'm on maternity leave, I should be able to get a lot of writing and research done.  I totally plan on doing that.  But when he shared that he was surprised with how much he got done when his children were born, it was only a hint of sarcasm that I asked if he nursed his children.  I'm really hoping that on my maternity leave, I can get 4 hours a day of writing done.  That's a lot of writing for research.  I usually need more though.  Writing hurts!  At least research writing does.  This sort of writing is much more fun and much more interesting.  Although, honestly, when I figure out the story behind my research, it turns into something more like this. 

Anywho, for some truly funny writing, I found this on a link from Bitchypoo.  Also, check out Arianna Huffington's new blog.  I love her style and wit; it's one of the few political blogs I can read which is actually interesting, informative and funny.  With a topic like this (babies, home, career), I'll never make her blogroll---although that's flattering myself!  This blog is not as witty as something like Julie/Julia or Real Live Preacher which are interesting because of their writing, not because of their topics.  BTW---both of the latter two blogs have book deals.  I can't wait for the Julie/Julia book tour!

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