Grand Mobile

Grand Mobile is pronounced as one word - ‘Grandmobeel’ as in a car, not ‘Grand Mobul’ as in a phone. And now…

I am happy to announce that I have purchased (leased) my first grandma car – very fittingly, a  Grand Highlander – with enough seats and room for my very tall son, my very beautiful daughter-in-law, her sweet mom, and my very, very precious grandbaby. And 3 other visiting peeps!

My son is 6’5, and finding a vehicle large enough to prevent him from having to fold up like a pretzel was definitely a challenge, but the Grand Highlander will do the trick perfectly.

As I was waiting for the paperwork to be wrapped up, I was examining the description of the Grand mobile.  All I can say is I want the job of those who get to name colors:

The names of the colors available this year in this model are:

Blueprint:  Dark blue

Celestial Silver Metallic

Coastal Cream:  Off-white

Midnight Black Metallic

Storm Cloud:  Gray

Wind Chill Pearl:  White

And then mine:

Ruby Flare Pearl:  Red.

Now that’s a color, I tell ya.  Maybe that will be my gangsta name now instead of White Bread – I could be Ruby Flare Pearl.  Are you wowed?  Is that intimidating? 

For more colors surrounding me, my new condo is not bright, light, sunny yellow – it is Crème Brule.

My new flooring is not a light-colored stone-like pattern, it is Niagara Ocean Mist.

Before I moved here, I had all kinds of names of colors.  In Utah, there are a zillion Subarus, and often they are ‘Bladder Infection Yellow’, or ‘Cadaver’. And the little tiny Fiats that are flesh-colored, I named ‘Wart’.  Now for the brown ones – maybe I won’t go into all of the names… but what the hell.  I named them ‘Baby Poop Brown’ or just ‘Poop Brown’.  I’m sure the car manufacturers call all of those colors something much more magical…

“Bladder Infection Yellow” is likely officially called “Eye of Snake Gold” or “Cleopatra’s Jewel”.

“Cadaver” is probably “Warm Tan Gray Green Irish Mist”.

The brown ones are likely “Molten Chocolate” or “French Roast” or “Luxurious Mahogany”.

“Wart” is likely “Flesh”.  No – not Flesh.  Maybe ‘Human Experience”.  No…”Skin Tag”.  Nope…”Soggy cardboard.”  Hm.  “Human Hue?”  “Beige?”  I’m gonna have to think on that one. I can’t imagine how they can make that color sound appealing.

Meanwhile, I’ll continue living happily in my Crème Brule, Niagara Ocean Mist home and drive my Ruby Flare Pearl car!

As an aside, I’m very happy my car does not look like my rendering - it is actually really hard to draw a car! I’ll keep practicing.