TheBanyanTree: feeling purple

[Cecil]

At 9:48 AM -0500 5/27/04, Julie Anna Teague wrote:
>Feeling purple is my version, apparently, of feeling blue.  When I'm
>getting through a period of stress or of feeling down, I start painting
>things purple.  It took me years to notice the pattern.  When the
>purple started piling up--a Lilac Frost bedroom, Pretty In Purple porch
>furniture, a Wineberry front door--I became suspicious.  Yesterday, as I
>finished the first coat of my Passion Plum laundry room, I was convinced. 
>This is what I do when I need to pick myself up, dust myself off, and
>renew my optimism. 
>
>Last week, before the laundry room project, I painted my nails bright
>purple.  I don't generally paint my nails, but I was compelled by
>mysterious forces.  I should've seen the signs before the same forces
>drove me to the home store for a gallon Passion Plum.  (My mother had
>suggested peach.  The boys wanted a mellow yellow.)  If asked, I wouldn't
>claim purple as my favorite color. That honored position is forever
>reserved for blue.  But there is something in purple that lifts my
>spirits, feels freeing and crazy and joyous.  Average people don't go
>around painting their walls and doors and furniture and fingernails
>purple.  It takes someone special!  Brave!  Different!  Viva la
>difference!  That is me!  (Is that me??)
>
>Perhaps it's an act of extraordinary silliness to go slashing through
>one's home with a purple paintbrush, a plum purple haze of insanity
>clouding rational thought.  But so it is, and with the first coat on,
>there's no time to repaint now.  I've purpled past the point of
>reconsidering.  And I'm feeling better already.
>
>Julie

Do you "treat your engine to something royal, amazing purple motor 
oil" when you're feeling low? (Bet you're not old enough to remember 
that commercial.)

Do you ever turn purple with rage when you read stupid questions like this?

Cecil, a little purple around the gills this morning