Holiday Haze...

This is a scheduled post

which means if you actually see it then a small miracle has occurred

and I didn't stuff it up as I usually do

which will be an achievement in itself

scheduling a post for when we go to the beach has always been a bit dodgy

but maybe 2013 will be the year I manage to organise it...

Apologies to all you snow bound and cold wintry Northern hemisphere folks

but payback is a cow

 last July while you were writing about summer fun

I was shivering and cursing you all

so feel free to hurl a few curses my way

I will be able to handle  it

because I will be in that salt water and sunscreeny haze

 that makes everything seem wonderful

You will note I didn't say sun and sand haze

because I hate sand

even the gorgeous looking powdery white stuff that we get here in Queensland

it gets everywhere and the bloody mutt seems to store the stuff in hidden pockets in his coat

I am actually considering weighing him before we leave home

and then again before we leave the holiday house

and if he weighs more than half a pound more than he did when we left 

he will need to be dunked in the pool again to try to shake the sand out of wherever he hides it

because at random times over the next two months

he will somehow manage to get it everywhere

most notably on my reading chair which drives me to distraction

but sand nightmares aside 

by the time you are reading this I will have had a glorious week

lying around reading books and trashy magazines, swimming, 

pretending to not hear Sinus and Phantom fighting like 4 yr olds

rather than the 45 and 16 year old that they are

we will have started 20 crosswords

and have finished none

taken the dog to the beach and laughed ourselves sick

at how he gets a shock every time a wave reaches his feet

seriously, every time a wave touches him

he jumps then runs in mad barky circles like it didn't just happen two minutes ago

we will have eaten our body weight in fruit and ice cream

and played about 20 games of three handed canasta

of which I will win

exactly none

and I will have been asked for to cast the deciding vote in what will be heated discussions

between Phantom and Sinus over earth shattering issues

like is it worse to have a pickle shoved up your nose or have an ant in your ear???

In short we will have had the same holiday we have every year

and in all that I will probably do the same amount of artwork that I did during our last visit

which I am going to throw in here just to rub it in a bit more...xx