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"Fun" (spelled "fen") is Chinese for manure, fecal matter.

I lost the ability to distinguish colors after a bout of optic neuritis in 2008(?). I could see black, white, five shades of gray, and the color yellow. I've gotten my colors back, in theory; but I can't distinguish shades and minor variants. The differences I can't make can depend on the ambient lighting or variables that I can't understand. I couldn't tell if the pants I was wearing when I was working were dark blue or black after I lost my color acuity, so I put safety pins in the back of the waistband going in different directions so I could tell if the pants were black or blue. I'd pin them as soon as I brought them home from store. I can't tell some purples from blues, or what my daughter describes as "warm tones" from "cool tones." That's why she has to pick out the colors.

I'll pick out a sample rectangle and hand it to her because I think it goes with the slabette and she'd visibly flinch. At the tile place, we were looking at leftover pieces and I saw one that I thought looked just like the one we'd selected and both the person who worked there and my daughter stared at me as if I'd lost my mind and whole conversational thread. My daughter explained to the person who worked there that I'm basically color blind, so don't pay attention to anything I suggest for color options. She said something similar to the current contractor. She'd heard me say something like that to other contractors.

I can tell dark and light differences, like when she wanted her room painted dark charcoal gray...and I ducked when I walked into the cave. It was like the walls were two feet closer all around. That's what the painter wanted me to see/feel. So, he repainted the ceiling in a white(?) that I think is very pale blue, but my daughter said it definitely isn't. Either way, it's got a bright ceiling now and a closet that doesn't swallow everything.

The area is about as dark as it was when we had the old screen room, now that the roof is up. The windows aren't in yet, but we're probably getting almost as much light as we're going to get. The new [doorways] (double door on the side facing the backyard and single on the side facing the side with the walk through gate) will eventually have doors blocking some of the light versus the screens [all around the room that] we had before, but they're both next to HUGE windows and the double doors are supposed to have glass in them. I don't recall if the side door does. I just know that it will have the dog door in it. I have a Solatube in the kitchen, [the room next tot the remodeled space,] so I get plenty of light. [The first week when the screen room was gone and there was nothing but open space, the light was almost blinding in the morning, even with a blackout curtain over the patio window, especially when the light would shine through a small crack between the curtains. I have to remind myself that this is what the house was like before the screen room was added decades ago, and that many houses in my neighborhood may still be like that. Overwhelming light. Let's hear it for remodeling!!!]