i’m losing my tan

How can that be, you ask?  I live in the hottest state in the country, where we have 360 days of sunshine a year.  And I’m losing my tan.  Well, don’t judge me yet, my sun-deprived friends of the Northeast;don’t judge me.  The thing is, there’s no water here.  There’s the occasional inground pool, but by this time of year it is just a puddle of tepid water, hovering near boiling point and full of who-knows-what kind of fungi and algae.  Our rivers are bone dry; the closest “lake” is almost 2 hours from here and even then you can’t swim in it.

So.  That is why I’m losing my tan.  Who wants to sit out and tan when there is no place to go swimming and cool off?  Given the strength of the sun, it would probably only take 15 minutes of “sitting out” a day to build up a lovely, toasty color, but it’s still 95+ degrees, so it really is quite miserable.

It’s amazing how addicted we can become to air conditioning.