my head feels like it’s three times its normal size, stuffed with itchy cotton and attached to my neck with three slip stiches so that it never quite says upright, just lolls back and forth and around and around. it’s both really neat and really disconcerting. dear gawd, i did not want to get out of bed this morning. i can’t wait until the sun sets at 8pm again so i can not feel guilty for going to bed before ten. what? if your alarm went off at five-thirty, you’d want to be in bed by ten, too.
i’m getting excited about my trip now. i still have a wedding and bridal shower presents to buy and i should probably buy gifts for the wee second cousins i haven’t met yet on either side of my family tree. i need to look for a dress for the wedding and buy some light, summery, hot-weather clothes because i don’t think the cousins i’m staying with would appreciate my standard m.o. in hot weather of wandering around naked. oh, yeah. i need some mosquito repellant. the last thing i want as a souvenier is the west nile virus. although, i successfully flew to edmonton and back and didn’t get the sars, so maybe i have good anti-viral mojo. regardless, i need to get me some deep woods off or some such. i hope it doesn’t stink too bad.
boys are fucking annoying and i just want to kill them all. i want to run away to cambodia with angelina jolie and leave all the stinky boys behind to rot. grr.
p.s. i left my sexxy pen at home and i feel naked without it.
I got bug repellent this year that said “new summer scent” (I think it’s Off brand, but might be Cutter). Turns out I smelled almost fruity when I put it on. Which struck me as odd in a bug repellent, don’t bugs LIKE fruit?
Don’t even ask how many times I got bit. *sigh* I must give off excessive amounts of lactic acid (and Gary was bitching – while never wearing anything – he got bit once). Grr.
But, no ticks. Which is what I worry about anyhow. West Nile isn’t really a big deal for healthy people. Lyme Disease sucks.
Can you go ahead and kill all the girls while you are at it?
See you and Angelina in Cambodia!
I have two pieces of advice:
the first is that 5:30am is reserved sleeping time, one should neither stay up that late nor wake up that early, except in exceptional travel-related circumstances, or if you happen to be a labourer and it’s light by 5:30, hot by 10 and you siesta at 11.
the second is you that want tropical-strength DEET containing insect repellent if you are serious about repelling insects. forget all that hippy herbal organic homeopathic crap, toxic chemicals are the only solution.