Midsummer night dream/nightmare
I can smell vacation, it is so close... No this is just the smell of a pre-vacation beer:-D.
Vacation starts tonight and tomorrow I will be on my way to Texas. Slightly odd choice of vacation spot, I must admit, but I am just jumping on the bandwagon with people that had planned this ages ago. I think I will enjoy to see Texas again and I best of all I get to enjoy easy American life for two weeks. Mmmmm... Mexican food here I come.
I went to school in Tulsa, Oklahoma which in theory isn't that far away, but I wont get to go there this time:-(. Cannot really expect the people I am going with to spend 2 days just driving back and forth. It would have been nice to meet few people there but the place itself isn't really a hot vacation spot.
The plan is to enjoy the beaches along the Mexican gulf (Galveston, Corpus Christi, and South Padre Island), do a day trip to Mexico from Del Rio, and then visit San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. I can't wait to lie in the sun at the beach even though I have a certain love and hate relationship with it. The beach is great but I really hate wearing a bikini.
Whoever came up with the bikini should be publically flogged in my opinion. You spend your entire day trying to make sure it is still sitting in place and covering all the appropriate spots. I worry constantly about the fact how white my uncooked chicken legs and the rest of me is (btw. progressive tanners only worked a little bit), and I am desperately trying to hold my stomach in so it looks nicer and flatter. I don't think being tired from the beach is really because of too much sun but rather lack of oxygen after holding in your stomach the entire day:-).
I found some consolation in the fact that 65% of the population in San Antonio is overweight and 31% obese. I will be a real babe there! Ok, it isn't very nice to joice the fact that 69% are overweight but right now I am in desperate need of any self esteem boaster I can get to be able to win the mental bikini battle. Amazing how much grief a tiny piece of cloth can cause women.
For anyone interested, here is our travel route badly drawn on a map which I stole from Only-Maps. Maybe I will blog some if I get Internet access along the route.
Have a great trip, and try to
Have a great trip, and try to send a blog post update at least once a day ;-)
- Eirik
Hæ hæ
Ég fékk þetta sms à gær og ákvað að láta þig vita, það er verið að skipuleggja reunion fyrir árganga 78-79-80 à vÃkurskála og búið að setja upp heimasÃðu. þú hefur kannski gaman af að kÃkja á það.
http://www.blog.central.is/vikurskoli78-80/
Já og eigðu gott sumarfrÃ. Kveðja af fróni
- Anna Rósa -
hehe
smá mismæli, reunion fyrir vÃkurskóla ekki vÃkurskála hehe.. jæja þú vonandi skilur mig.
:S
Kúl!
Kærar þakkir fyrir að láta mig vita! Veit ekki hvort ég kemst en spái allavega à þvÃ. Hefði verið rosalega gaman. KÃki betur á sÃðurnar þegar ég kem heim úr frÃinu eða þegar ég hef betri tÃma.
Kær kveðja Gerður
Busy enjoying sun
Hey, I need to have some time too to have fun... can't just sit inside and blog:-). Will try to blog at least once soon. Just too much sun to enjoy. Thanks!
Too bad you won't make it o
Too bad you won't make it out to SF. Have a great vacation! :-)
-don
_LONG_
Now that would be a _long_ drive. Thanks, will definitely enjoy the vacation! Hope you are good!
Dear Anonymous friends
Anonymous, I find it really hard to believe that New York Times article but then again this is the States where people are generally bigger. I guess people will adapt after a while.
Anonymous, I will spend little time in Houston but I will keep the Luther's in mind if I get the chance:-) Thanks for the tip!
Anonymous, I know nobody forces me to wear a bikini but it is the norm and I don't like sticking out either. It is not that I want everyone to be looking at me and drooling (even if it would be fun to try it) I just want most of all to feel comfortable and be able to forget the fact that I am almost naked. Maybe this will come with age:-)
Being nekkid
Hmmm. I dunno how you forget the fact that you are almost naked, if being naked doesn't quite seem natural.
It seems odd to me to be the only one naked, but in general I don't think being nearly naked is a big deal. But that also was true when I wasn't old :) I'm not sure how you decide to be like that though.
But I find it's a good thing. So if you're going to wear a bikini I hope you manage it too. (I don't really know what you look like in a bikini, btassuming it more or less fits I imagine you'd look fine, and nobody else would think you were worried about it staying on right, or having normal legs, or whatever...)
I do manage
I do manage, but feel a bit uncomfortable. It helps thought that there aren't many really fit people around me excepts the once that I am travelling with:-).
Bikinis...
Well, nobody forces you to wear a bikini do they? (There are places where people might force you to wear more than that, and a few where it is not acceptable to wear as much as that).
But I guess there is some social pressure to be "normal", so let me instead give you a boy's perspective...
It's hard to look like a supermodel. Not even supermodels manage it all that often. Funnily enough, someone I like will often look close to a supermodel. This can happen despite them being generally described as a bit fat, having blotchy skin, pimples, being moonscape white, hairy in the wrong places, and having a bikini that doesn't quite fit to boot.
On the other hand, unless what you are after is for people to be gawking at and drooling over you, it's probably better to be somewhere in the middle of the crowd. (Personally I don't care, but I am pretty vain. Well, more vain than pretty I suspect, but don't tell my ego that ;) )...
Still, you should feel fine about being in a bikini. Ask the people that matter to you. And believe them when they say "of course you do". They know what they're talking about...
Texas
Do _not_ miss "Luther's" in Houston. It's a small Texas barbecue franchise that kicks major butt. It won't help with your bikini issues, but life is short - enjoy it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/0
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/fashion/26GIRL.html?ex=1151121600&en=f93ca39f7c82da67&ei=5070