Posts, Life, and Pantone's Color of the Year 2013

Zero of these words have anything to do with the color Emerald.

Since Thanksgiving, this blogger's life has been a little miserable.  I had to travel to the East coast and back in a 27-hour period, and as a result of all that quality time on the plane and in the airport, I threw my back out.  I've done little else the last week but lay on the couch, pop painkillers, watch "Call the Midwife," and cry myself silly.  My house is a disaster, although I have been forcing myself to do the dishes and catch up on laundry.  I have not been able to finish decorating for Christmas, although I was able to buy a tree and throw some ornaments on it before I threw my back out.

Needless to say, I haven't felt much like posting anything, although I have had a recipe ready to go since before Thanksgiving.  I just haven't wanted to import the pictures.  Maybe this weekend.  I couldn't even bring myself to do a love/hate post last week because I was in so much pain, it would've just been a hate/hate post, and that's no fun.

So, all I've got today is my take on Pantone's announcement of the color of the year, 2013.

More after the jump...


It's emerald.  Emerald freaking green.

My least favorite color of all time.

Just looking at the announcement on their website is making me nauseous.

Who is Pantone and why does anyone care?  Pantone is a company that has been standardizing colors for nearly 50 years (from their website):

Pantone has since expanded its color matching system concept to other color-critical industries, including digital technology, fashion, home, plastics, architecture and contract interiors, and paint. Today, the PANTONE Name is known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, across a variety of industries. Pantone continues to develop color communication and inspirational tools, and aggressively adopts new digital technology to address the color needs of the creative community everywhere.

So basically, when Pantone decides something is awesome, it affects design across all industries.  Expect to see a lot of this horrible color showing up all over tarnation in the coming year, y'all, from Target to Nordstrom to whatever is fancier than Nordstrom.

Just not in my house!

This is not a paid endorsement for Pantone, which is probably obvious since I've made it clear that their choice of color for 2013 is heinous beyond all belief.  They'd  probably ask for their money back if it was.