As most of my friends and family know I generally do not see color. That's as far as the color of one's skin. It's just not a big deal with me. You see my mama always told me it wasn't what the outside looked like that counts in a person, it's the INSIDE. A package can look beautiful yet be filled with rotten apples. So I have never understood what the big hoopla was all about. I understand the struggles. Hell I grew up during those turbulent times. I remember them quite well thank you. What I never understood was really very simple you know.....Why? But that is a very long and difficult question for us all to answer isn't it? It brings out more than we care to admit to one another. It's in the past, we say. We can't change it, we say. Are you sure? I say...... Something to think about.
My kids bought me a tanning bed certificate a while back as a birthday present. As it is I haven't had a chance to use it. However, I have been thinking lately I need a bit of color on my cheeks! And my legs.....looks like my arms could use some too......I guess my summer color is starting to fade. lol The Winter White has arrived in my wardrobe! I am now 51 soon to be 52. I look in the mirror every morning searching for those wrinkles and gray hair that elude me. I have a few lines around my eyes as if from squinting to read something. But other than that no real wrinkles. I see very little gray, maybe some at my temple when I pull back my hair. I want to take naps now, maybe that's why I'm not graying like my friends are. I once read if you eat a lot of nuts that will keep you from graying too. Well folks, I sure have eaten my fair share of nuts so that must be it! I don't bruise and I tan very easily. So imagine my surprise when I looked down the other morning and my hands were WHITE. Uh.....yeah.....my arms are tanned and my hands are WHITE........FREAKY...... At first I thought the gloves I slept in had somehow drained all the blood out of my hands so I commenced to slapping my hands against my leg and rubbing them.......to no avail of course.......then I came into the house and ran cold water over them........they turned GRAY.....and then BLUE.......FREAKY FREAKY......... So I patted them dry.......Now I have white hands and tanned arms.........and you can even see where the glove ended......Yay! It seems one of the side affects of my meds for my hands is loss of skin pigmentation.
My friend Little Bird says I can always learn the moonwalk and grab my crotch while singing Thriller. Can you see that at Grandma's? Uh.....Not happening! So get it out of my head now! Thank you! Hmmmmm I could always wear gloves but then I would look like a fat Debutant so next please! Oh well maybe I'll get lucky and it's only temporary! Hey! I could just tell everyone I'm wearing invisible gloves! Something to think about! I wonder if now would be a good time to use that tanning certificate the kids gave me for my birthday......
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