TYVM – Bad, Bad Kari.

 

 Free Therapy Courtesy of Kmama

Dear Self,
I like to think that you are a pretty intelligent human being.  Sometimes it’s hard to see that on days like yesterday.  Please stop making yourself look like you don’t use your brain.  Self, Thank You Very Much.

Dear Mile High Sun,
Yes, I know you are 5,280 miles closer to me than those who live at sea level, but could you please be gentle when you kiss me. Sun, Thank You Very Much.

Dear Sunblock,
For years I abhorred you because in all my study, you are more dangerous than good for my skin.  No, I don’t want to slather PABA all over me.  No, I don’t want to rub hormones into my skin or my children’s skin.  No, I don’t want to apply you 500 times a day with a list of chemicals that long on the ingredient list.  Sunblock, Thank You Very Much.

Dear Wonderful, Healthy Sunscreen,
I finally found a brand of sunscreen that is amazing and not toxic or dangerous to me or my children’s bodies.  I also have recently found an amazing, natural, locally made sunscreen that I can finally apply to my face without it irritating it to no end and causing me to look like a teenager covered in acne.  But, dear wonderful, healthy sunscreen – you only work when I take you out of the bag and apply you.  Because of my laziness yesterday, you went untouched and unused.  Your benefits were rendered useless to my skin. Sunscreen, Thank You Very Much.

Dear Self (again),
When you are looking through your closet and picking out clothes to wear for your afternoon at the park with friends, in the Mile High city with the Mile High sun 5,280 miles closer to me than at sea level, knowing you’ll be too lazy to apply your healthy, amazing sunscreen – when you find that tank top and shirt and your intelligent mind chimes in and says, “Self, if you get a farmer’s tan today – those lines will not work with your new swimsuit that you have to wear in a couple weeks – pick something different.”  Then, Self.  Please listen.  Since you did not, you now have to look like a fool with your new farmer’s ‘burn’ while you wear your cute, pink tankini swimsuit you went to great lengths to buy.  Self, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

 

“Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” 

Henry James