Manage

Most days we manage well. Open the windows at night, suck in cooler air with the powerful (and loud) attic fan, shut the windows in the morning, turn on the ceiling fans. For most of the summer, it works quite well. And then there are the days that you can practically see the humidity. The days that are just miserable. It's okay, night comes with breezes and sometimes rain. And I always think about halfway around the world, how we all cling to the same air. When it is night here, it is sweltering there, and vice versa. I want to take my turn, not sit in manufactured air all the time. But some days, all there is to do is lounge and sweat and sweat some more.

I have a skin disease. Tinea Versicolor. Whatever you do, don't look at google images of it. It'll make you think I'm some sort of scaly dinosaur. I'm not. Mine is not nearly as bad as some of those people's. It's not contagious, and doesn't really harm anything, it's just a bother and it really itches. It's a yeast imbalance, but it's the kind of yeast we need, so usually people with it are completely healthy. I was diagnosed in the fourth grade. My friend had noticed that my neck was sort of giraffey. So after a mortifying trip to the doctor, it was determined that my spots were nothing more serious than this annoying condition. They said I could take a pill, which once in a blue moon would mess with liver function, or I could apply selsun blue dandruff shampoo once or twice a week for six months. I picked the shampoo. That halloween was also a blue moon, so thank goodness I didn't pick the pills. (kidding.) It went away for awhile, and then came back. And eventually, I didn't put the effort in with the shampoo. It's rather messy. I don't care much about the spots, it's the itch that drives me up a wall. It's especially bad in the summer. I'm going to start selsun blue again, hopefully to get it manageable. All the blue in this house expired in 2003 though. :)

Getting used to my random endings yet? teeheehee. :)