Yeah, so today I feel like crap. Not like when I felt like crap for almost 2 months, but definitely like when I felt like crap last summer. The sun hates me. (Or conversely my body hates the sun.)
Not long ago, (up until about my high school graduation) I was an avid sun worshipper. (I am now too, but it an entirely different way and connotation.) I could swim in the glaring sun all day long, and wish for more daylight so the pool wouldn't close. I lived with a perpetual suntan and absolutely dreaded the Labor Day weekend. I still love to swim, and I would happily spend my days sunning if it wasn't for one big issue. It seems as if my body turned 20 and decided it no longer knew how to tan, or could handle the blasting heat of summer. No, instead, it has decided to be faithful only to the A/C and shade. I look like a freaking Goth, for goodness sake!
Being that I tend to listen to what my mind and heart want, and not what my body asks for, I consistently torture it. I go to the splash park in 106 degree heat and dare it to fail me. I come home and spend the better part of the rest of the day in the bathroom or lying flat out in front of the A/C on the couch. Can I get a trade in for a younger, more cooperative body? This one doesn't work anymore!
I don't know...maybe I just need to look at this from another angle. I love Abby (Paulie Perette) from NCIS and she is as Goth as they come. Can you be Goth without wearing pancake makeup and looking depressed all the time? Maybe I'll be a an Emohemian---dark hair, light skin, hippie clothes. Ah, what does it matter any way? I'm willing to take the pain after the fun, if it means I can pretend to be normal for the day. (Wait. Normal? That's probably not the word that best describes me...)
Later this week I get to have my niece and nephew for the whole week, so I best figure out a way to enjoy the sun and be able to function after. (Maybe a portable toilet in the car?) On a related note, kids grow much faster when you don't see them for 8 or 9 months.
Ok, that's enough rambling for today...my addled brain has run off without me, so I must chase it back to the couch.
To Sun sickness and summer pools.
Love and Laughter,
-Kat Lady
The random musings I manage to pull out of my slightly damaged mind. Also, humor may be involved.
Ahh it's been too long since I read an entry. I feel yea hear. Even my "tan" looks white lol
ReplyDeleteJust think how much your skin will love you later and how much everyone will envy you for your young, elastic, non wrinkled skin!
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting on my blog! You HAVE to tell your gross story! The internets are dying to know.
Ok, fine. tomorrow I will tell the gross story. I will to apologize in advance tho...lol
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