Would you like mustard with that?

We apologize for the erratic appearance of blog posts this week, as the Princess has taken up residence in the local paint store, where she is pursuing full-time the researching of yellow paint strips. She has taken a vow that she will not rest, day nor night, until she finds the perfect shade of mustard for the family room trim, which will match a Shaker cupboard she once saw in a magazine. Or maybe it was a decorating book. Or maybe it was actually a rocking chair. But it was mustard.

She has made occasional trips home for eating and slapping paint samples on the walls, where, according to the Hero, the room is beginning to resemble a color wheel, only without purple.

The Princess believes that her diligence will pay off in the end, although there may also be large paint purchases to pay off, given those tempting tester jars that are quite reasonably priced when you buy one or two. The Princess has made several "one or two" purchases of these testers, all in the name of research, of course. This has resulted in a very important discovery: She does not like any of them, and has in fact gone so far as to suggest to the Hero that they consider some other color besides yellow, perhaps blue, which could not POSSIBLY be as difficult to find. This alarmed the Hero, whose work space is drowning in color chips and who would be content with Bumblebee Yellow.

And so the Princess soldiers on. Stay tuned.