Thursday, June 22, 2006

Some Like It Hot...

Me? Not so much.

It's true - I always complain about the everlasting gloom that is San Francisco weather, and shake my head disappointedly while donning mittens in the summer. It seems to me the city, which just...can't...find...a way to shake off that morning fog, has its finger on the snooze button.

But these past few days, SF has been running a fever. Yesterday, it was 89 degrees. I woke up, checked the forecast, slathered on the Banana Boat and headed out for an imagined day of snow cones and broken fire hydrants.

As it turns out, 89 degrees is unpleasantly hot. The kind of hot where the back of your knees start to sweat. And I couldn't find any snow cones so I bought a Diet Coke (not as exciting as it sounds.) I had laid out in the park with the hopes that this would be the day I'd finally tan. It wasn't, and instead I'm left with a scorched chest that inspires "Oh dear god" and not the "Nice color!" I was hoping for.

I'd consider standing in front of the open refrigerator to cool myself off like some damsel in a Hitchcock movie, but my eco-obsessed boyfriend would then have to kill me. (Haha...cutie...just joking...wouldn't think of it. Ha.) And so I'm left to bathe in Aloe Vera and pray that my sunburn heals before I visit home next week.

Ya see, my sister and I were sunburn scratchers. We would creep up on each other, and with our nails, dig deep the wounds of sisterhood. I think those days are past, but the scars remain.**

**Don't actually have scars, but wasn't sure "Sunburn in a Park" counted as good story-telling...

4 Comments:

Blogger chloeee said...

you stinker...you didn't really write this on thursday, you lie to your readers? to your dedicated fans....i bet you delete this comment... i love you. i don't really blame you. had i known you could do that i would have done the same.

June 24, 2006 12:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Baking soda in a cool bath: best sunburn relief EVER

June 24, 2006 5:55 PM  
Blogger Claire and Lara said...

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June 27, 2006 9:55 AM  
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