| A Wonderful Day |
On Monday I drove into Vancouver with Lance and met Melanie at Regent(the college Lance is attending). Lance went to class and Melanie and I drove down to Spanish Banks beach. We sat on a blanket, ate a picnic, talked, laughed, Melanie read to me. It was great. Melanie had worn her bathing suit and announced that she was going to go for a swim - did I bring a suit she wanted to know. It hadn't even crossed my mind. Will your bra and underwear pass for a suit she asked - I checked, the bra would work, but the underwear definetely wouldn't. She invited me to wade with her. I eagerly joined her in the water but it wasn't long before my hiked up capris were getting wet. I said who cares and decided to just swim in my clothes - then Melanie offered me her shorts. We left the water and I, under a towel, squirmed into her shorts while she casually blocked the view of other beach dwellers. The shorts were on, the shirt came off and we went swimming. I found that as long as I didn't look down and see that I wearing my bra as a swimsuit I was comfortable and didn't think about it. We had a great time. It was while we were swimming that Melanie learned two new things about me:
1. I am scared of fish... fish, whales, dolphins whatever. Any kind of moving sea/lake life. This stems back from visiting my grandparent's cabin on a very clear lake in Wisconsin. Seeing right to the bottom, seeing all those fish freaked me out. There's a picture of me, probably four years old, floating on an air mattress, arms pressed against my sides, looking nervously at the camera. This fear persists and while we were swimming in the ocean was not the best time to talk about it.
2. I do not like getting wet. This means that I don't like swimming or showering that much. When I told this to Melanie she said, even Dan (Abarbanel) likes showering! I think I don't like the time it takes to get dry and get dressed. I have been trying to increase my enjoyment of showers by buying nice shampoo and shower gel and using my mom's plum peppermint foot scrub soap. This helps.
I brought a digital camera along to the beach, so there is a record of the improvised swimsuit. I don't think we could have had more fun together. What a blast.
Today was a rough day for me. Unsettled, unproductive, lonely, teary. But also a part of today were some good things - got some portrait photos back that I took of my sister, I am very happy with them, got to talk with a friend from Alberta, had a nice nap, ate pizza, started a book that seems like it'll be good. The day wasn't a total flop and that is good to remember. And tomorrow is another day. I need to just live one at a time.
Well, that's all for now.
Aimee |
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