Don't Get Your White/Gold or Black/Blue Panties in a Wad!

Last night I was winding down ready to go to bed early.  Then I saw it.  The DRESS my friend, Rachel, posted on Instagram.  Like her, I saw White & Gold but her whole family saw Black & Blue.  What??  Black & Blue are no where near the same colors as White & Gold!  How could this be?

I read some suggestions.  I stared at it and stared at it.  Yep.  Still White & Gold.  I put it away and watched some Rehab Addict.  Picked it back up.  Yep.  Still White & Gold.  Eric came home from work and I asked him to look at it and see what he thought.  Black & Blue.  What I say again??  And he thought I was completely crazy for thinking it was White & Gold.  How could two people looking at the same exact picture see it so completely differently?  We adjusted the backlight on my iPhone.  That just solidified our positions on opposite sides of the debate.  This was two hours of my life last night!  I never made it to bed early.

Eric even polled his buddies.  All but one were in the Black & Blue camp.  (Thanks Eric C.  You were always my favorite ;)  We polled each of our kids separately.  We had one Black & Blue.  One Blue & Brown.  And one Lilac & Black.  (You can guess that the one girl child is the one that said Lilac.  The boys wouldn't even know what color that was!)  I could not even wrap my head around the fact that no one saw it as White & Gold.  I knew that it was White & Gold and it was just taken in a shadow so it was not really bright.  I demonstrated this for Eric in my white shirt as I stood in my closet (in the shadows) then jumped out in the light.  Over and Over.  "See!!  It is still white even if I am in the shadow!!!"  The debate was intense and heated in my house, but we also laughed so hard that we were in tears.

While I was getting ready, Eric came back to tell me that "the Dress" was headlining on the Today Show,  CBS and ESPN.  What?  How crazy!  Apparently just like us, a number of people got momentarily sucked into the great Dress debate.

Now there is a another debate.  A debate on how ridiculous and what a waste of time this whole thing is. Is it ridiculous?  Sure.  Did I waste two hours of my life last night and even more today by writing about it?  Absolutely.  But who cares?  Why do you care??  We spend time talking about very worthy causes...ISIS, Vaccines, Allergies, Sex Trafficking, etc.  I wrote a book on Infertility.  I think that covers my "serious quota" for at least a little while  ;)  Sometimes it is nice to just be silly and forget for just a second about all the junk going on in all the world.  If you don't, it can just bog you down and depress you.  Laughter is a great way to recharge your batteries so you can get serious and tackle the real stuff of life.

So in closing, I saw the "real dress" in all its Black & Blue glory.  Eric had a TON of satisfaction that he was right and I was wrong.  I contend that this is a conspiracy to sell lots of Black & Blue AND White & Gold dresses ;)