baking in the backyard

so today is my day off and i have miraculously been re-infected with the cold virus. yay me!
woke up with the usually head cold, aches and pains, stuffy sinuses, and it was only 6 a.m. i'm sure that i would've felt better if i had been able to sleep more but for some reason i just couldn't.

my usual method of curing the cold is hourly ear rinsing with peroxide (did you know most cold germs come into your body via the ear canals? freaky. cleany your ears every day!!!) and then i take multiple steaming hot baths, blow my nose until it bleeds, swallow gallons of homeopathic medicines and sit by an open window. out of all of these, the heat and fresh air of the outdoors seem to do the trick to clear me up- so today i spent about two hot, sweaty, skin burning, ice water guzzling hours just baking under the south florida sun (trying to rid myself of the cold and tan my almost six pack) on a towel in my neighbor's back yard.

although i may have been temporarily cured of the common cold, i have NOT in fact been cured of today's embarrassment.
wanna hear the story? okay!

so i was sunbathing out in the grass, minding my own business (it is important to note that i was wearing hardly any clothing. in fact, the amout of clothing i was wearing is probably not something you'd ever want a group of peers to see you in, as it was less than the amount of sunscreen i was wearing) when who should run into the yard but my friends Gabe, Lexii, and Paula (and Paula's very nice LSD camera.. but the type of camera is kind of irrevelant as it was still a working camera). said friends decided to pull out said camera and begin shooting various snapshots of me rolled up in my towel (i had about one second to cover myself once i heard their footsteps, before they saw me wearing hardly any clothing) with my hair frizzy and full of suncreen, my face white with too much suncreen (because i burn easily), and overall looking like i must've been naked under the towel.... and they all asked if i was. maybe if i had said yes, they would've left me alone with my flushed cheeks and misery.


so i had to slowly put all my clothing bac on as they headed toward my house, fix up my oily sunscreen hair, and walk inside with some dignity; and at this point, they had already left.


hope this story finds you having a better day than me.

DFBTA everyone!