Cement Girl

I've recently discovered something about myself. I have always been the kind of obsessive person where colors have to match exactly and I cannot stand bumps in my hair when I pull my hair back into a ponytail. I need clean lines and all of that good stuff.

However, it has become so apparent to me lately how much of an aestheticly minded person I am. My favorite show to watch when I am babysitting and the kids are sleep (and the parents have cable) is "What Not To Wear". I actually really, really enjoy fashion which you would not be able to tell from looking at me. On that show, though, they talk people through what works best with their body shapes and what does not work. Somehow this is incredibly interesting to me.

When I was a kid, I was the kind of kid who would empty out all of her crayons and then put them back in again- in rainbow-colored order. This week while I was babysitting the 2 year old I was watching had a new set of Legos that were so nicely colored- much better than the primary-esque chunky Legos I'm so used to. There was red, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, light blue, and dark blue. It soon turned into me building all sorts of things in rainbow colored order. Or trying to combine the best color combinations.

Then I built this thing that began to look like some sort of tall building that could be apartments. The design was so neat I wish I would've drawn it out so I could remember. Anyway, I just thought it would've been the coolest looking building. And now that I think back on it I remember always being interested when my parents looked for houses. A hobby of theirs is just going to open houses on Sunday afternoons "just to look". I have this weird spatial ability with square feet and learned this at a young age. I don't know many 10 year olds who know about how big a 10x12 ft room is off the top of their head.

This is long and rambly but it's just become so apparent to me lately that it's crazy. It seems like all I can do lately is see the shape, colors, and shades of things.