about water...beaches and lakes...and Idaho....or something
So this weekend I ventured out to the "lake" aka DAM...It was all nice and sunny and I thought I might actually get a tan..but no the clouds rolled in..sigh. SO here we are at the lake with grass and mud for a shore line...and so we decide to rent a boat and go tubing...it is a plastic blow up tube hooked on by rope to the back of a boat.....looks really fun at first right? I am sure it is when you are prepared. OK so it is my turn to go out..I get the "life vest" on and get into the boat..the boat is a blast I love the speed and all that. Now it is my turn to get on the tube...first off I am used to riding waves and I am great at swimming normally. OK so I get on the tube ..they tell me to do it sitting because it is easier....which I should have known is not the case with me I would do better laying down!! I board for goodness sakes not sit. So I am trying to adjust and the boat takes off and WHAM I flip off into the water....this shit is the coldest water I have ever encountered!! It is worse then the ice pool at the gym!!! And go figure the second my body hits the water I instantly go into an asthma attack(lucky me I brought my inhaler on the boat) So then now I figure I need to relax to breathe right...not to mention I am into he MIDDLE of a LAKE ALONE!!! So I wait a few seconds on my back and feel like I can somewhat breathe and start swimming towards the boat that is coming back around to get me...I make it to the side but I can't get up...my life jacket..yes the thing that is supposed to protect me is too big and is now up over my head pushing me under the water..SO I am freaking and my breathing gets all erratic again..the boat swings around again but this time I am just too tired and the damned jacket is slowing me down to the point I just can't freaking swim fast enough..my friend jumps in the water to get me and is trying to drag me to the boat when finally the rope from the tube is near us..so she says pull us in by the rope..so we grab the rope(I am a moron so if she hadn't;t said to grab it ..it would have taken me another 10 min to realize the damned thing was there..unless I drowned already hehe) Anyway I grab the rope pull my way back and then instead of using the lil plastic ladder I have them pull me part way up and then throw my leg into the boat and smash the hell out of it...sigh. It was retarded and I felt like wuss! I mean I swim all the freaking time..anyway my jacket was all twisted and wrong when I got back into the boat. SO, my opinion is it is a murder jacket not life jacket!!!...needless to say I WILL NOT be going back into the water until it warms up..oh ..say 20 degrees!!!!
Have I told you lately I want to go home? I never knew how much I live the beach and Hawaii in general until I came here...I WANT MY BEACHES with sand and clear water and fish I can identify!! NOt some grassy shore..cold as balls...dark dreary lake to swim in!!!! maybe it will just take some getting used to. I also hate the fact that for the first time in my life I have a disease that inhibits me from doing the things I want. I have never had an asthma attack into he water before. Hell before this year I never had a real one period and I was fine! I know I did this to myself by smoking but sheesh..I want to breathe normal!!!!
I also saw rattlesnakes in the road ont he way to the lake...this wildlife thing is getting out of hand....there are too many freaky things here that I am just not used to at all!!
Anyway....catch you all ont eh flip side..I am baby sitting a 3 month old baby..(which scares me because it has been so long since I had a baby with me) and anyway she is waking up so aloha to all and to all a spiffy groovy day..bye
Have I told you lately I want to go home? I never knew how much I live the beach and Hawaii in general until I came here...I WANT MY BEACHES with sand and clear water and fish I can identify!! NOt some grassy shore..cold as balls...dark dreary lake to swim in!!!! maybe it will just take some getting used to. I also hate the fact that for the first time in my life I have a disease that inhibits me from doing the things I want. I have never had an asthma attack into he water before. Hell before this year I never had a real one period and I was fine! I know I did this to myself by smoking but sheesh..I want to breathe normal!!!!
I also saw rattlesnakes in the road ont he way to the lake...this wildlife thing is getting out of hand....there are too many freaky things here that I am just not used to at all!!
Anyway....catch you all ont eh flip side..I am baby sitting a 3 month old baby..(which scares me because it has been so long since I had a baby with me) and anyway she is waking up so aloha to all and to all a spiffy groovy day..bye