Oh what a nice day....

[fajrdrako]

It was a mild morning, and sunny. I worried because I didn't have sunscreen when I walked (in sunlight) to the fitness club today. That may sound wussy, but I've been worrying about red blotches on my face lately.

In the afternoon the wind picked up dramatically and the temperature changed - it rose. It was downright balmy. I was walking around with my coat unzipped. Meanwhile, only a few hundred miles away, there are snowstorms. Perhaps we'll get them tomorrow?

I had dinner at a friend's place, a friend I'd never visited before. She made a fabulous meal, a Vietnamese feast, with ice cream and sugar pie for dessert, and I loved every bite.

The Ayurvedic diet allows for the occasional... diversion.

Afterwards, I talked on the phone with walkingowl which was self-indulgent, but she asked me what happened in the Smallville episode "Shattered" and I had to tell her at length, right? I forgot a few points: have to watch it again. Definitely. Soon.

Then I beta'd a story by

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It was a mild morning, and sunny. I worried because I didn't have sunscreen when I walked (in sunlight) to the fitness club today. That may sound wussy, but I've been worrying about red blotches on my face lately.

In the afternoon the wind picked up dramatically and the temperature changed - it rose. It was downright balmy. I was walking around with my coat unzipped. Meanwhile, only a few hundred miles away, there are snowstorms. Perhaps we'll get them tomorrow?

I had dinner at a friend's place, a friend I'd never visited before. She made a fabulous meal, a Vietnamese feast, with ice cream and sugar pie for dessert, and I loved every bite.

The Ayurvedic diet allows for the occasional... diversion.

Afterwards, I talked on the phone with <lj site="livejournal.com" user="walkingowl"> which was self-indulgent, but she asked me what happened in the Smallville episode "Shattered" and I had to tell her at length, right? I forgot a few points: have to watch it again. Definitely. Soon.

Then I beta'd a story by <ljuser="a campbell"> and enjoyed it mightily. Sometimes a joyous bit of fannishness is just what a person needs - and I've been feeling deprived for a while now.

My current audio-book while walking is "Passage to Mutiny" by Alexander Kent. I had a little trouble at first, but now I'm right into it, as always happens. I love that Bolitho. Wish they'd make movies of the Alexander Kent books - good ones. Maybe, if "Master and Commander" is enough of a hit, they will.
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Comments

[brancher.livejournal.com]

The red blotches on your skin are probably windburn. But I urge you to make regular visits to a dermatologist. This is a simple thing you can do to avoid a really, really shitty disease. Believe me, I know.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The blotches seem a little more enduring than windburn. I mentioned them to my g.p. last week and she didn't seem concerned. Perhaps I will mention it again. Even if just to get her to confirm that it's windburn! What is the "really shitty disease", I ask nervously?

[brancher.livejournal.com]

That would be melanoma. Don't get melanoma.

[brancher.livejournal.com]

Although, not to alarm you, this is probably not your red-blotch problem. Still, make friends with a dermatologist.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't alarm easily, but one must be realistic:I know I am not invincible. I have had so many skin problems all my life (starting with scleroderma) that I'm used to dermatologists - at the age of five to seven, I had regular visits to three of them! Skin has always been a 'medical weak spot' for me.

It's been a while since I've seen a dermatologist, though.

My current fear was actually that it was rosacea I'm suffering from -relatively common and annoying and, as far as I know, not painful. Diseases that are not painful are worth their weight in gold. The rest is vanity.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Right. I'm wishing now I'd listened when my doctor told me never to go outside without sunscreen, and to cover my skin when I'm in sunlight. I didn't.... Not, you understand that I think there's anything much wrong now, but there's a problem (even if blotches aren't a big problem) that didn't exist before, simply caused by stupid self-neglect.

I listened when the doctor told me to lose weight. I listened when she told me to get a mammogram. I guess two out of three isn't bad.

I'm taking care of my skin now, even using moisturizer the way sensible adults do.