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I went tanning. I went out to the pool which looks so very inviting, but they chained all of the entrances to all of the pools up. Ugh. I want to spend a day poolside drinking beer and swimming and listening to good music and worrying about my tan (which is nonexistent right now). Last summer was the best summer I ever had and I totally have that feeling and am ready to start it all over again. Damned idiots locking me out of the pool. Ugh. |
I'm starting to remember why I wanted to come here. |
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can't you hear what i'm sayin to you? cold and wet it's the message i'm conveying to you: how many times do i has to tell you that i'm cold and wet? |
For the second time since I have lived in Ohio, I had to shovel my driveway. It's my neighbors turn, btw. |
however, as i look outside, it appears the clouds are starting to break for some blue skies and sunshine. finally. 4 days of overcast and rain can drive an Angelino to suicide. this is also good, because we are expecting a healthy crowd this afternoon and i dont know if my humble home can cram 40+ people in it. but it looks like the sun will win. the sun always wins here. it probably wont rain until april. |
dude. |
Next month I make my first trip to CA, although I don't think I am going to see much of anything besides Camp Pendleton. |
it just started raining here on thursday, and it shows no sign of letting up yet. the cats are pissed. |
Some of the locals have decided to rent a bounce house and put it outside my bedroom window. The kids see it and some of their friends out there, but we weren't invited to the party and don't know who's party it is, so my kids are watching re-runs of Celebrity Mole instead. |
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my two best friends in hawaii, ashby and jane, called me from ashby's house friday night. we talked for almost two hours. we talked until all three of us were caught up and there was nothing left to say. it was great, it was just like how it used to be. we'd go out to lunch and come back to my house and drink tea and eat a dessert and sit on the lanai and chat. just talk and talk and talk about everything and nothing. they said they went out to lunch and spent half the time talking about me, so they decided to call. it totally made my week, to know that i haven't been forgotten, that i'm missed as much as i miss everyone back home. after we hung up the phone i cried. i was so homesick. coincidentally i already had rented the movie Blue Crush to watch later that night. it was a really great movie, despite what so many people i know said about it.... things like "cheesy", "bad plot", "obvious", "it's just a bunch of beautiful young girls with perfect bodies wearing bikinis", etc. while i'd agree that maybe the plot was predictable, a story line told a million times before in a million different ways, the movie itself was great. it was very realistic in terms of portraying what life really is like for your average person who lives in Hawaii, and in particular on the north shore of oahu. and the surfing footage was gorgeous. and now i have summer fever too. last year winter started depressing me in late november. this year i held out to february, but it's finally starting to get to me. even though it's been a milder, sunnier winter than last year, i'm fucking sick and tired of the cold. i'm tired of being inside all the time, and not having any friends who like to take the time to make trips to go hiking or other outdoors activities. everyone i know all they do is go out to eat or drink or go to movies. or they shop. they buy things and fill their house with things that they can talk about when they have parties. i want to go surfing. i want to camp at makua beach and swim with the dolphins. i want my year-round garden and mango tree. i want to walk barefoot everywhere, forget to wear shoes to work. i want that organic, real life back. |
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i live minutes from the pacific. i've seen snow in excess of an inch maybe four times in my life. it's about 47 out. 75 is the lower threshold of warm. 54 is chilly. |
When I was in Vermont, it was very cold. But, curiously, I didn't feel cold. I felt warmer at -20 that I do at 54. I think it's because it's such a dry cold in Vermont. I don't know. It was the coldest weather I had ever been in, in my life. Seriously. I thought long and hard about this. Last night I read at the coffeehouse for a while and then went to bed early. I slept for twelve hours. And my rear-view mirror fell off so I can't drive anywhere until the auto parts store opens tommorrow. I've tried glue, I've tried double sided adhesive goo...time to go act girly at NAPA. |
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hahahah!! that's *really* funny! |
My best friend is coming here in April for our birthdays (hers is the day before mine) and I told her to bring her swimsuit, but she is in Missouri and it is so much colder there that she can't fathom the idea of going swimming in April. It's funny. Our weather here in April is warmer than their June. I grew up in Cali and now I am in Texas with a very similar climate. To me 54 is definately chilly and if I am dressed in shorts and tank tops like I usually do then it is just plain cold. I just want weather in the 80's and the pools to be open, so that when my tanning membership expires I can just hang out by the pool with the kids all day! |
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10 key bonus, aiight? go on, now. git it! |
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pasty white hot flesh good. leathery aarp scene bad. |
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When I don't have any color on my skin I am beyond pasty white and people walk up to me on the streets or in stores (literally) and ask me if I am feeling allright because I look sick all of the time. By tanning with this package (2 weeks) I will not acheive super tan brown skin, but rather what is normally concidered white. When I am in the sun I always use sunscreens, I have sunscreens in all of my lotions and cosmetics. When I get a little color for once I actually look healthy. I am different that way, kinda like I have to gain weight to look healthy when most people are trying to lose weight. I am not out there cooking myself constantly every single summer and getting all brown and leathery. I think that is gross. I do have to admit,though, that I do like it when I have some color on my skin, a little brown, not so ghostly white. I feel great. It may be more due to the fact that I am usually swimming and in much better physical shape, but I still feel good. |
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tanning is bad for your skin (trust me, i lived in the sun for 9 years straight and am well on my way to walnut-face), but it has been known to improve your mood. my doctor told me last winter to try tanning when i was having seasonal depression. i didn't - instead i tried those lightbulbs, which i'm not sure if they improved my mood either. |
i am blue it's ok |
so much snow. i hate shoveling it, and i don't have a shovel. Every time i go into the driveway i have to gun it and pray. It's actually very funny. You know what else it funny? Little kids in snow clothes. They can't walk, everything is too bulky, they become so useless, they fall down n can't get up like turtles. And their boots, their boots are bigger than their heads. 54 isn't chilly, 54 is ideal! I love 54f! the online temp converter tells me it's -4f here today. Or, 253.15 Kelvin, if that's what you're into. |
