August is always strange in Virginia. The nights get cooler already and the days seem really hazy. But, yesterday was absolutely perfect. I swam in the pool for over an hour!!!! There was a slight breeze and the sun was shiny, clear skies............so glad we spent most of the day outside. Of course I took J and E school supply shopping...........it was the last day of the tax free weekend in VA., so we clamored with the rest of our town in Target.............I have to say I am so thankful I am not famous. I am pretty social, but I tend to be one of those people who worries more about how my house and yard look than I do myself.................I will be working or running and think nothing of putting a hat on and jumping in the car and running errands............therefore I look like crap most of the time............the summer is worse. I live in Virginia so am safe from my sister and Grandma Ruby........My sister always looks like she just walked out of the hair salon, and I have rarely seen my Grandmother without her wig and makeup. She told me once when my babies were little that if you get up and get ready....lipstick on, etc.........you are prepared for whatever happens that day.........or for whoever comes by.......I am rarely prepared, although I always tell myself I am going to be better. My children are going to remember me as a hag. I remember my Mother and I walking in the Promenade in Tulsa a few years ago and an elderly woman walking by us..............we stopped dead in our tracks..............she smelled of Estee Lauder's Youth Dew and Wrigley's spearmint gum..........we both looked at each other and said, "Doy".......(my fraternal Grandmother)..............my kids will see a woman in gym shorts needing a shower and say "Mom"!............anyway, I digress, my point is, if and when I go out like this, hat and sunglasses and all..............I am going to see 15 people who need to tell me something........errands take forever and I have even been known to go down a different aisle to avoid somebody...............I think how stressful this is on my little unfamous level...........I can't imagine people wanting something from you all the time............oh! wait! yes, I can.........they all live in my house..........anyway........to my sister who very kindly asked me this summer.........maybe as an intervention...........if I ever thought of getting a makeover.......I am getting my haircut tomorrow and I won't be able to wear a ponytail!!!
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