aubergine

jeff and i used to watch ina garten's barefoot contessa show together almost every day, and we would imitate her husband jeffrey's voice when he said 'hey ina' and we know all of her catch phrases; how easy is that? how bad could that be? a dog's breakfast. 

but then the day came when jeff no longer loved watching ina. probably because we have seen every episode at least once at this point. 

(image from housebeautiful.com)

but in the afternoon while i'm working online, i still like to turn on her shows and just listen to her in the background as i work. majjy hates her voice, she thinks it's condescending, but i think she's friendly and open and fun. who cares if she tops everything with parsley or tells us the same tips over and over. (add a little bit of instant coffee powder to chocolate baked goods for extra richness, crack an egg into a separate bowl in case you get a bad one, use really good vanilla).

so this week when i had to choose between one million possible colors of speck laptop shells, (and i think it goes without saying, but i definitely found it on overstock.com for $15 less, don't worry), i haddd to choose aubergine just like ina's. i searched high and low on the internet to find a picture of her with it, but came up empty handed.

it's such a deep, pretty shade of blue-y purple. love it. and now i feel that much closer to ina. 

as a side note, i brought a tupperware container of truffles to the office today, and a bunch of people were standing in a big clump so i just held my arm out in the middle with the open tupperware, and 2 seconds later, they had all vanished.