Purple

Purple is currently my favourite colour. Past contenders have been pink (I was a girly child) and yellow. I still like yellow, but purple has become somewhat of an obsession with me over the last few months. Purple is to me like shiny things are to magpies. If I spot something purple in a clothes shop, I home in on it. If there’s a selection of colours to choose from with anything, I automatically go for the purple one. I picture everything in purple (unless I’m writing Nikara, for some reason).

Currently, when I do a load of dark laundry and hang it out to dry, I have an entire airer full of purple clothes. Jumpers, pyjamas, underwear, tshirts, socks, gloves. It stands next to my bed, which has a purple duvet cover and a purple blanket. My towels are purple (bad choice, they drop purple fluff everywhere and make the bathroom look filthy). My bath mat is purple, as is the shower curtain I use as a window curtain. I also have a rather nifty purple straw laundry basket. My suitcase is purple (with a lime green safety strap. It’s easy to spot on the baggage carousel, that’s for certain!).

I recently made my desktop purple.

The taskbars etc have been purple for a while, but I decided I needed more. I tried to find a purple theme for Firefox too (I spend more time in that than I do on the desktop, after all), but it turned out to be rather too dark, so I went for “Purity”, a nice clean, white theme. I’m now attempting to find a purple skin for Trillian, my IM application of choice.

If I’m not entirely sick of purple by Easter, I’m going to dye my hair purple.

I know, it’s rather extreme. I don’t really care, though. I’m only going to use temporary dye, and I’ll do it right at the start of the Easter holidays, so I’ll have two weeks to repeatedly wash it out if it looks awful. I suspect it will look awful, but I don’t really care about that either. It might, after all, look awesome. I won’t know unless I do it. At any rate, I doubt I’ll regret having had purple hair.

Also, it’ll be hilarious to see the look on my sister’s face. Heh heh heh.

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