miss sommerson, my angel
i should be going to bed but for some reason i'm not. just finished reading two twin posts--a happy time. sister's posts motivate me to post i guess.
i must describe my current state, however unpleasant such descriptions may prove to myself and others. my hair is caked in salt. a result of a triple dipping in cool ocean waters. if i continued on in this way, i'd surely have the beginnings of dreadlocks. my nose, i just discovered, is burnt. not badly, but pink just the same, while wide swaths around my eyes remain pale thanks to my sunglasses. i also burned the lower half of my upper back if you can picture it. what i mean is i burned along the plimsoll line of my bathing suit, more on the left side than the right. another light burn. i didn't mean to burn at all. i had sunscreen on but it must have worn thin after our six hours at the beach and two swims at that. i did put my shirt on but not soon enough it seems. oh well.
had a nice time at the beach. we invited an investigator who's getting baptized this saturday. her name is brianna and she is a very interesting person. i talked a lot with her the second time i went in. i'd say she's a searcher and a very spiritually intune person.
when we first got to the beach around 11:30, the tide was way way way out. right back to the drop off warning signs. so we sat and talked for a while and ate sandwiches and doritos and fruits and veggies. but elicia and i couldn't wait any longer for the tide to come in, so we walked out and randy came with us, sure to tell us that he was just going for the walk out and wouldn't stay long.
the hard sand was so full of people doing different things. lots of skim boarders and people throwing footballs and frisbees and kids splashing in the hot puddles. we saw some people stationed right at the waters edge with beach umbrellas and everything. the water was cold and refreshing. there was no way randy would come anywhere near any drop off and elicia defended him. i've always felt quite curious about the sharp drop off there. like how sharp is it? i don't think i've ever quite found it. the people i'm out there with are always at least a little unsure so i don't venture too far in search of it.
when we were in the water somewhere mid thighs elicia started to take off her shorts. now back at the beach she had discovered that she had put them on inside out and we thought she could fix it in the water. "elicia!" i said "you're not doing that right here, with randy here are you?" i said slightly shocked. it's very un-elicia like to be so brazen. that's when she explained what i did not realize. she had bathing suit bottoms underneath her shorts. haha. we had a good laugh about it. even funnier was when randy started edging back towards the shore and elicia said "don't go yet, i just got my shorts off!" i did some yoga moves and elicia did some water aerobics. then we all headed back together.
scott and chandra came very late. we visited for a while before heading home ourselves.
i was so tired from the sun and my toasted back i fell asleep in my dry suit on my bed. i would have probably slept all night that way if elicia had not woken me up to write my rent cheque. then i watched the last two episodes of north and south with her. i watched the whole thing myself last friday and cried at the end of just at the relief of tension and with the power of tenderness after so much harshness. such a good movie. bbc is really putting out a lot of good movies. this one has miss sommerson from bleak house in it. there's always someone you know from some other british-movie-from-a-book.
and now i can hold of sleep no longer. well long enough to read my scriptures, but no longer. i can hear elicia laughing with andrew from here, but there's no way they'll keep me awake tonight.
i must describe my current state, however unpleasant such descriptions may prove to myself and others. my hair is caked in salt. a result of a triple dipping in cool ocean waters. if i continued on in this way, i'd surely have the beginnings of dreadlocks. my nose, i just discovered, is burnt. not badly, but pink just the same, while wide swaths around my eyes remain pale thanks to my sunglasses. i also burned the lower half of my upper back if you can picture it. what i mean is i burned along the plimsoll line of my bathing suit, more on the left side than the right. another light burn. i didn't mean to burn at all. i had sunscreen on but it must have worn thin after our six hours at the beach and two swims at that. i did put my shirt on but not soon enough it seems. oh well.
had a nice time at the beach. we invited an investigator who's getting baptized this saturday. her name is brianna and she is a very interesting person. i talked a lot with her the second time i went in. i'd say she's a searcher and a very spiritually intune person.
when we first got to the beach around 11:30, the tide was way way way out. right back to the drop off warning signs. so we sat and talked for a while and ate sandwiches and doritos and fruits and veggies. but elicia and i couldn't wait any longer for the tide to come in, so we walked out and randy came with us, sure to tell us that he was just going for the walk out and wouldn't stay long.
the hard sand was so full of people doing different things. lots of skim boarders and people throwing footballs and frisbees and kids splashing in the hot puddles. we saw some people stationed right at the waters edge with beach umbrellas and everything. the water was cold and refreshing. there was no way randy would come anywhere near any drop off and elicia defended him. i've always felt quite curious about the sharp drop off there. like how sharp is it? i don't think i've ever quite found it. the people i'm out there with are always at least a little unsure so i don't venture too far in search of it.
when we were in the water somewhere mid thighs elicia started to take off her shorts. now back at the beach she had discovered that she had put them on inside out and we thought she could fix it in the water. "elicia!" i said "you're not doing that right here, with randy here are you?" i said slightly shocked. it's very un-elicia like to be so brazen. that's when she explained what i did not realize. she had bathing suit bottoms underneath her shorts. haha. we had a good laugh about it. even funnier was when randy started edging back towards the shore and elicia said "don't go yet, i just got my shorts off!" i did some yoga moves and elicia did some water aerobics. then we all headed back together.
scott and chandra came very late. we visited for a while before heading home ourselves.
i was so tired from the sun and my toasted back i fell asleep in my dry suit on my bed. i would have probably slept all night that way if elicia had not woken me up to write my rent cheque. then i watched the last two episodes of north and south with her. i watched the whole thing myself last friday and cried at the end of just at the relief of tension and with the power of tenderness after so much harshness. such a good movie. bbc is really putting out a lot of good movies. this one has miss sommerson from bleak house in it. there's always someone you know from some other british-movie-from-a-book.
and now i can hold of sleep no longer. well long enough to read my scriptures, but no longer. i can hear elicia laughing with andrew from here, but there's no way they'll keep me awake tonight.
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