Finally Home!

Before I begin just a shout out to the Petura Patrol Pals, Kim, Stacy, Jen, Christina and Hana. You are always welcome on my blog (even though you should probably be taking care of your kids or something)!

Ok, after getting home from the beach you come into the house and because of total exhaustion you drop your cooler, kick off your deck shoes (which are still crunchy inside from sand), drop your bag with the sunbloc, the book you did not read, your sunglasses which somehow have lost one of the lenses and your camera which only has two beach pictures because you did not check the batteries before leaving and your SD card was already filled anyway. Hopefully, those pictures are of the girl with the wedgie and no top. You go up to shower and even the cool water seems like needles hitting your hot pink, soon to be fire engine red, skin. Once showered you feel a little better but your skin is very hot. Slumping onto the sofa you pass out cold and sleep for about 3/4 of an hour only to be wakened by your cell phone. You look but don't answer and realize that the movement to look at the phone is excruciating. Your whole body is stiff as well as hot. There are great streaks on your face from where you laid your head on the arm of the sofa and you realize you look like a racoon because you left your sunglasses on at the beach. Little blisters are forming on you shoulders and the tops of your feet look like raw London broils. Ah summer! Did you ever notice that whenever you have bad sunburn everyone seems to slap you on the back, step on your foot and say stuff like, "Were you out in the sun?" or "Boy, you look like a lobster!" to which I always answer, "No" and "Yeah, you should see my tail"! When you are sunburn aren't all other people idiots? When you are sunburn don't you want to hurt your children when they climb on you? Doesn't getting into the great outdoors really lift your spirits? NOT!!! My problem with Summer is that I hate everything about being outside and everyone else thinks we should always be outside because it is summer. The catch is that since I work in a high school that is when we have off. It seems much smarter to me to have winter off and go to school in the summer. In the winter when weather is bad and it is real cold outside how great would it be to just stay in bed and not go to work? If we had school in the summer we would get off at 2 or 3 PM and still have 5 or 6 hours of sunlight to "enjoy". Well, that's not how it is so I guess I have to live with it. Have a great summer. If you need me I'll be in the living room enjoying the air conditioning and watching Dr. Phil.