I don’t know how many of you are water babies such as myself, but to me the pool is a place of great comfort and relaxation. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t absolutely love the water. I know such a time existed, as I have the proof: photos of “mommy and me” swim classes when I was under a year old… photos in which I am screaming my poor baby head off. (It was so bad, allegedly, that my dad had to leave and not watch.) But obviously something clicked right since after that they had to drag me out of any pool.

Den spent the day at a charity golf tournament, and I went over to our friends’ house. They had a broken computer, and of course they have a lovely, heated in-ground pool. (It was only 82 degrees in the pool today. The shame!) So all day I alternated between attempting to fix their computer, piddle-assing around on my own laptop on projects, floating in the pool, and laying in the sun. I think it was one of the best things I could have done right now.

There is just nothing better than laying half on an inner tube, floating carelessly in a pool with your legs in the nice cool water, kicking lazily. Or diving under the surface to swim along the bottom. I LOVE that feeling. I love having water all around me. I love feeling the water slide between my fingers and toes as I swim. I love how all sound gets muffled, and the sunshine reflects off the ripples on the surface and dances along the bottom. It is just… sigh… perfection.

Laying in the sun was also nice and relaxing, much to my surprize. I’ve never, ever been a “sun worshipper” – I think mainly because my skin is so pale that I burn before you could sneeze. So all my life that lovely sun-on-your-skin warmth has always been the signal for Shit! Shit! Get into the shade! But today I slathered on the SPF 55 and just layed there to enjoy it a little bit. And it was nice. I think I’ve gone a little batty being inside all the time, and my body needs a little vitamin C. Sunlight is just so lovely.

I didn’t spend very long in the sun (when it got too warm I’d move into the shade to play with my laptop), and I re-applied the sunscreen, but apparently I didn’t too such a great job on the re-application. My shoulders and face are fine. My arms however… red streaky patches. Oh yeah. So sexy. But the good news is that I actually have a bit of a tan on my stomach, legs, and arms. Who knew it was even possible??

It really made me realize that I need to get out of the house and actually find some way to unwind myself. I like to think retiring to the bedroom with my laptop is unwinding, but there’s only so much relaxing one can do while still tethered to the object you do work on. It’s one of the hardest parts of being a computer freelancer. I was thinking maybe I should spend some time on weekends working on some scrapbooks or something. Something not computer related at the very least.

However that is going to have to start next weekend because tomorrow I unfortunately have work to get done. Hopefully I can clear a little bit off my plate and open up my weekends for myself again. My wouldn’t that be nice.