Odd stuff

I have been sitting here cross stitching thinking about some odd things that I have missed. I never knew that I could miss having a mail box at the end of the sidewalk. Is that just weird? I don't like these medal boxes that have half the neighborhoods mail boxes in them. Granted we don't have that here, we have the nice convenience of having our mail on our living room floor. None the less I really miss walking out to the mailbox. Strange! I doubt mom and dad miss having to replace the darn things though. I can't even remember how many times it got ripped off or bashed in. Sad that our society has come to that and much worse now. Brandon might remember this the most, I remember taking a round tin and putting a whole bunch of stuff in it, stuff I can't even remember anymore and we buried it in our back yard. I don't even remember how long it was before we dug it back up again but I remember we couldn't get it open because it had rusted shut. Lets see what else. Oh going in the Killians wagon to their house in Yucipa. They had that wagon that you sad backwards so you can see out the bad. Waving to people and than going down and up that huge hill that would make your stomach float. Mrs. Killian use to gain so much speed before that hill just to make it a little more fun for us. Man I miss them! We use to have to much fun. Their dog us to have that extremely hard tail that we would throw snow balls at because it was like a baseball bat. Remembering all this stuff just makes me so sad that I don't get to spend more time with my niece and nephews. I guess that is partly my fault. I feel like I miss out on so much of their lives. It give my heart and ache to have to see them leave or when I have to leave them after seeing them.
Anyway before I cry more, we finally figured out what is wrong with my brakes. There is a little thingy in the brake lines on the back brakes that makes it so the back brakes don't lock up with hard braking. Well both of them are leaking. Go figure. So I have to order those tomorrow since I was on the phone with Maytag for about 2 hours today and it irritated me to no end, I totally forgot to order them today. So my car should be up and running in a few weeks hopefully!
I picked up color samples for the color of the kitchen and bathroom. I for some reason have an itch to have a purple room. No the kitchen is not going to be purple. The kitchen is going to be yellow, and the bathroom is going to be purple. I just can't figure out what shade of either one I want. I couldn't believe how many different shades there were in each color. Makes the decision all that much harder. Where have the days gone when it was easy to make a decision on this kind of thing. Why do there have to be so many choices. Oh well. So what do you guys think. Should I go with a darker purple, medium purple or a light purple for the bathroom? And what shade for the kitchen? Of course the kitchen will not be done until it is remodeled, and that is depending on if we get the home equity loan that we applied for, which we should be hearing back about any day now.