Friday, July 30, 2010
Charbroiled
If you would indulge me for a moment while I whine.
Because I work outside all day, I do my best to keep covered up as much as possible as well as slather on the sun screen. I’ve seen what the sun can do to people’s skin and how it ages people way before their time. Plus there’s that whole skin cancer thing I’d rather not experience.
Being that I have Irish blood coursing through my veins, it means I’m extra white. Even when I’m tan, I’m still pretty much the whitest person around. I wear long pants, a long sleeve t-shirt under my uniform shirt and when out on a boat, wear a hat and sunglasses. And, like I said, am constantly putting on the sunscreen and chapstick.
But kids, my God today was so fricken hot. HOT, I tell you. Scorching. Unbearable. INhumane.
And I got charred, fried, burnt to a crisp. (My face.)
See, in, say, WA state, I could be in the sun about 2 hours before I would start to get a burn. Here? It’s like 10 minutes. Yep, that’s all it takes. So again, constantly slathering on the lotion.
I could feel my face getting hotter, feel it burning, it hurts right now, (don’t even start with the jokes, I will cut you), and I was wondering how the hell that happened when I am so conscious about protecting myself.
You know how?
Because it was so fucking hot that every time I put the sunscreen on, I would sweat it right the hell back off in less than a minute. I didn’t realize this until too late today. I cannot remember the last time I have ever burnt my face like this.
IT BURNS! (Exorcist voice)
I still have two more days I have to be out in the boiling ass furnace and guess what? Those days will be HOT AS HELL as well! I’m so thrilled I can hardly stand it.
You know, I think the Chinese are on to something with that “welder’s mask” visor they like to wear. Looks stupid as hell but I bet it works. How many burnt Chinese have you ever seen?
Anyway, that’s all. I just wanted to come on here and feel sorry for myself for a minute as well as write this out so that I remember it for the future. Note to self: Find a solution. This is not good.
Oh, in other news, I did finally get my car back. Have had it back for about two weeks now. They did a pretty darn good job on it. They even did the alignment. That meant I had to get two new tires on the front so I did that on the weekend after getting the car back.
Kids, that is about the straightest alignment I’ve ever had on a car. EVAH!!!1!!1!! I drove back home and because the traffic was light, I got it up to 60mph, (in a 45 zone...don’t tell the cops), and went about 1/2 a mile without touching the steering wheel. (I chose this particular area because the road is nice and smooth and flat there.) The car did not even attempt to pull to one side or the other. I’m damn impressed.
You can tell that the left side is a bit different color than the right side but only if you are specifically looking for that. Any random person probably would not be able to tell. They did a damn good job getting that color as close to the original as possible. (Plus the left side is shinier.)
AND, the repair shop even fixed a slight scratch and small dent that was not from the accident but had been there since I got the car. (They knew this as my insurance company requires us to take it in for inspection before we get the policy for this very reason.) But they did it “free of charge” as a way to make up for taking so fucking long fixing the car.
So, like, my car is practically brand new. Or looks that way, anyway. It took too long but I’m pleased with the results.
Now I get to see if I ever get my deductible back. Said it could take 30-45 days or so.
And in other, other news....yesterday and today were Cry’s days off and I wasn’t about to let him cut that tree down out of childish spite so I backed my car up in to the base of the tree leaving him NO ROOM at all to do a damn thing. I found another way to get to work. Ha, ha asshole. And I will keep doing this every Thursday and Friday until he gets the fuck over himself.
And finally, there is a new Kindle out. And it looks sweet. And I’m thinking....get my deductible back, maybe I’ll plunk down the $189 to get it. Not sure yet. I hate spending money but it’s pretty hard to resist the new Kindle. I am going back and forth with myself.
“You don’t need it, your current Kindle works perfectly fine.”
“Yes, but, this one has all kinds of new features and it’s smaller and sleeker and has more space and you can have more books and reading leads to serious intelligence and while you are already insanely intelligent, you can never stop learning and think of what a power house you could be with 3500 books worth of intelligence!”
“Are you mad? Why on earth do you need to carry around 3500 books at one time? You can’t even possibly read that many books in a lifetime.”
“But you could give it a valiant try! And then you’ll know everything and you’ll rule the world and everyone will be your minions and have to do what you say and you’ve got a couple of people on your shit list who you would love to fuck with and make their lives miserable as hell as they do your bidding; it would be sweet nectar revenge.”
“Hmmm, well, you do bring up a good counter argument with that one. We’ll think about it.”
See? How can I resist?
