Tan is happy.
I don't think my liver has had a break since Monday. Last Monday. Ergh.
There is a statistic cited in the latest issue of Allure that states, "Seventy percent of women know that UV exposure increases the risk of skin cancer, and the exact same percentage still think they look better with a tan."
Damn straight.
(We're not going to get into the possible statistical insignificance of that sentence, because we are not in school right now.)
Saturday, seeing that it was like SUMMER WEATHER (and the first time we've seen true sunshine in positively forever), we did what any sane people would do. We woke up at 7:30am (after not having gotten home until 2am that morning) and called around to see who wanted to go to the beach. After a nice greasy diner breakfast, five of us piled into the car and drove approximately an hour south to the South Shore, to the town of Scituate. where one of our friends lives. He's currently living at home with his parents RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE BEACH. And they have a balcony that overlooks said beach.
How perfect.




By the way, that is so NOT my bikini. However, that is my toe.
We got there around noon, changed into our bathing suits, poured ourselves a drink (hey, it was after noon by about a minute by that point) and promptly attempted to get tan. Unfortunately, it was really windy on the balcony of the house and the breeze coming off the ocean was cold.
So we moved into the back yard, where it was like 20 degrees warmer.


Yes, that is my drink on the left. One of many. Many.


We had grilled shrimp skewers and grilled fish skewers.


It's like food porn. Mmmm.


Then it started raining at around sunset. Of course it started raining. Stupid East coast. So we decided to walk along the beach for a little bit before the downpour started.




After dinner, we left, happier and just a touch pink - at least, Tweedle and I did, since we assiduously worked on our tans, not even covering up when there were clouds covering the sun, unlike some of our friends who were wrapped up in multiple layers. As Tweedle said, "I feel like we accomplished something very important today. We got tan. And the others? They lose."

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