I've been feeling pretty bad for a while now...I can blame many things, hormones, possible ripped patella tendons (okay, just the one, but isn't that bad enough?), the voices in my head, the weather...hmmm the weather...
This morning it hit me...in the form of light sprinkling raindrops...As much as I love 70 degree weather? I can not stand it when it's combined with 70% humidity. Or rather, my lungs don't do well with the humidity, especially when there is no rain to make the air less, um dense. They've adapted to a myriad of things, from never-before-exposed-to pollen in Santa Cruz to mile-high-dry-oxygen-deprived Kings Beach (Tahoe, bay-bee), but humid air? There is a reason we had gills millions of years ago...lungs + water? Not so good for me.
It slows me down, makes me feel like I can't breathe, makes me crabby and short tempered, mostly because I'll not sleep right, and it makes me want to live in air-conditioned hell (which drys out my eyes and skin enough for me to really and truly prefer the heat (al revesada, I tell ya).
But when my knee and hip started aching this morning (like spidey-sense, oh yes, my human barometer super-power), it was like a veil had lifted and the last few days were just a wicked wicked nightmare. I parked my car and looked out at the spreading sprinkles and actually smiled before 8:30 AM...the smell of too-warm asphalt was almost stifling, but the air was air again once I got onto the sidewalk!
And then the nostalgia hit me hard...that smell was LA getting it's first rain of the year...the warmth and breeze was Hilo as I'd get ready to ride off to work...the friendly greeting of a co-worker driving off the lot was a Kings Beach library patron recognizing me at the Safeway...it wasn't sad nostalgia though...it really just added to my giddiness this morning. I haven't felt like this in a while...and it felt so good.
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Now you're making me nostalgic--Safeway? Oh it's been so long!
Has it been humid here? Huh.
Hi Tana. Saturday the air started feeling "thick." By last night I felt like I was having an asthma attack, but everything kept saying the air quality was "green." What can I say, lake effect? :)
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