Not that anyone ever asks......

But in my role as a Traveling Home Electrical Service Representative, I do try to influence homeowners as to what is tasteful, electrically speaking. And I'm convinced that Pink is the next new color for appliances.

In fact, if I didn't know better, I'd swear that this was taped in the office last week, when I was trying to sell my co-workers on my vision.

Ach, what a day it's been....

It was a truly dreadful day today: Rainy and windy. Even with my stylish white Prius, it was hard to keep my hairdo from flattening, and my paperwork dry. Being a traveling home electrical representative - even in Our Better Neighborhoods - is not all orchids and limosuines, I'm here to tell you.

And then, to top it all off, on the way home, a perfect DOWNPOUR! So I did what any sensible home electrical representative would do: I pulled off the interstate, headed for Capitol Hill and That's Atomic, and bought a new dress for Mrs. Dan Langdon, who has been somewhat in the fashion doldrums recently.

After the rains subsided, I drove home, poured myself a glass of wine, and gave her a makeover. All of my cares vanished, and my hairdo miraculously rose.

So what do you think? Isn't she pretty?

Summertime trips

As you no doubt realize, its summertime, which means that all sorts of people are doing all sorts of interesting things. For example, The Professor is stomping through Europe (I think that's somewhere near France) with the eldest child. That means that members of the Beacon Hill Architectural Community are de facto single mothers, but we keep an eye on her, and bring her blanc mange and my special homemade calves foot jelly, and they seem to get by. Can you imagine?

Being a new employee, I have no vacation, so I have to be satisfied with occasional little trips in the Recreational Vehicle or on the Cascades. A mountain jaunt is coming soon, so stay tuned.

What are YOU doing this summer?

Ephiphany?

Darlings, it's been AGES, simply AGES, since I posted. But I do have a somewhat good-ish reason: I swore to myself that I wouldn't bore you with another electricity post, or one of my political tirades, and - well - that didn't leave me with much to say.

So today, when The Colonel was at work, making terribly executive-type decisions, I spring free. I hopped on the 11:20 to Centralia, Washington, and had an afternoon of shopping.

It was there that I found a split vegetable dish that I can actually approve of. Look at this:





Long-time readers of TGTC will no doubt remember my strong disapproval of split vegetable dishes. And that feeling still stands. It's simply that when you see one like this, all nice and innocent looking - looking like any other sort of buffet warmer you might run across in a tasteful home - you can't help but forgive it for it's irritating purpose.

Besides, I can see it coming in very handy at a Cocktail Buffet or Election Night Lap Supper. It's dual-purposed, and I like that in a server.

So it just goes to show you that things can change. I can write a post that is not about electricity, or politics, and I can even find it in my heart to adopt a split vegetable dish.

(But now that I've proven that to myself, just wait until I tell you about this horrible woman I had to deal with over in Laurelhurst the other day: All boobs and lips, and none of them original. She didn't even know where her electric meter was located. Can you imagine?)