Swimming In A Borrowed Suit

Swimming in someone's suit?

To swim is wonderful if you like to swim.  But if you hate water, it's maybe not good.  And, in order to swim, you say you will have to borrow someone's suit......well that sounds like something I might not do.....nope on second thought, never would I do that. 

First of all, someone's suit might not fit.  You have to try to find one that will fit all portioned or unportioned parts of your body.  If you're a woman and are top heavy, then you'll need to find one with big enough boob cups to fit you.  And when you do, your smaller hips might have lots of baggy material just hanging there.  When the butt factor is what gives you trouble, that much bigger size you need just to cover your butt cheeks, might give you what is known as "saggy cups".  This could mean that your boobs might wander around and even fall out when there's too much room.

A person must realize that even a department store won't let you try on swimsuits without leaving on your underdrawers.  Now why would that be?  Ohhhhhh ick!  Can you imagine someone trying on a suit in a store and that person has the unspoken but gross V-A-G-I-N-A infection.   Or, even worse, it could be something else (sperminskis maybe).   Oh crap!  That suddenly makes me want to barf and never try on a swimsuit again.  Of course this body says to me, you should never try on a swimsuit because you look so terrible, and if you really bought one and went out into the world,  you would become the Eighth Wonder of the World .... otherwise defined as a classical construction of an antiquity .... a fat antiquity at that.

At this point, I see that I have four options.  Never borrow someone's swimsuit if I feel the urge to go swimming when it's hot.  Secondly, the other option is to choose to swim only when no one is looking because my suit might not fit.  Thirdly, is to not go swimming at all.  And fourth and maybe the best is to don't borrow a swimsuit.....get nekid and go swimming butt nekid while it's dark.  That way no one will see the eighth wonder of the world having a good time with an "unborrowed swimsuit"..... that eighth wonder classical antiquity will be in the "suit" she was born with.

Illinois State Fair

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1912 Illinois State Fair Coliseum with a covered walkway

Illinois State Fair Coliseum Building 1908

mid 1940's Illinois State Fair Happy Hallow

Illinois State Fair Machinery Hall 1910

Quote For The Day

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind

and won't change the subject.

--Sir Winston Churchill

This weekend will see lots of fireworks and kids calling out ooohs and aaahs.  But is it a good time to light those fireworks when our area is so drought sticken?  

I personally think that this year, fireworks should be banned so that a wildfire doesn't become a first for this area.  Not that a wildfire would burn acres and acres like it does in the forests of the western states, but there are small towns and subdivions in the woods (mine)  which could go up in a puff of smoke.

If you are a person who has a bunch of fireworks to set off to give a few people a bunch of laughs, think hard about this being the right time to give a few laughs when it could result in a lot of persons suffering from fires.  Their tears are not worth a few laughs for others.  The trade off isn't worth it in my book.

Have a good holiday weekend.  It will be a hot one for most of us so take precautions and drink lots of fluids!!

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An Elephant Sat On My Easter Bunny

Awww Shucks!

The Easter bunny didn't come to my house this year, but every year he does.  I was so upset when I got up that morning and found that he had forgotten me.  Depressing, believe me.  'Cause I love those dang chocolate bunny eggs!!

So.....yesterday afternoon I went for a walk out in the back yard, out on the hill.  Lo and behold I first came across some big piles of something gray and icky.  It sure didn't belong in my yard.  But I didn't know what it was.

I walked a bit further and found some fuzzy fur.  ????????????????Then I began to find more fur.  Then I walked a bit further and found a couple of chocolate eggs.  Then the ultimate......I found an Easter basket with my name on it.  So....the Easter bunny actually was coming to my house.  But, just didn't make it.  Wahhhhhh!  Yay he didn't forget me. 

 But what happened to the Easter Bunny?  Then, up ahead, I see something in a heap.  The poor Easter Bunny was lying there but he was no more.  And beside him sat a big pile of something which looked like elephant dung....and it smelled like it too.  It was elephant dung.

I'm not sure how that elephant dung got there.  Last week I found gator dung out there on that same hill.  I think that particular gator escaped from someone in town after one of his gator episodes but, did/does that gator fighter also fight elephants? Who knows.... I just know that gator fighter is fearless.  Or, maybe there was a circus in the area and the elephant escaped and maybe even the gator.  Or maybe one escaped from somewhere else.  But, how did the elephant come to be on my hill and just as the Easter bunny was about to deliver.

Now you know how bad my luck is.  On my most favorite chocolate candy days, an unknown escaped elephant is out in my yard, and steps on the Easter bunny, just as he is ready to bring me a basket with my name on it.  Candy being lost is a crime in itself.  But to kill the Easter bunny is a crime punishable with confinement for life.

If you see an elephant running around, call me so I can call the gator fighter to see if he can capture the critter.  That elephant needs to be in jail for good!  Smashed bunny is just too much for this person to handle without my quota of chocolate for the year.

Old Time Fairgrounds

1910 Machinery Hall Illinois Fairgrounds

Fairgrounds Happy Hallow.....early 1940's

Springfield Fairgrounds Happy Hallow....postcard

with 2 cent postage.  Unknown date but probably early 1900's.  The current permanent Springfield location came into existence in 1894....until then the fair moved from as far north as Freeport to as far south as DuQuoin.

1920....Construction of the underground tunnel from the track infield to the fairgrounds.

1910 Postcard....Sears Agricultural Building

on the Fairgrounds

The fairgrounds racetrack behind the Sears

Agricultural Building

Early postcard photo of Fairgrounds Entrance

Thought For The Day

Someone's boring me.  I think it's me.

--Dylan Thomas

I want, you want, they want, he wants, she wants.....everybody wants these days.  And it's usually money.

The bill collector doth cometh sayeth the Lord of bill paying.  Payday has become exchange day....from the hand of the employer paycheck to the bill collectors/gas station/electrical company/cable company/internet provider/credit card companies/grocer. Does that sound familiar??

Me thinks the paycheck is getting smaller and the bills are getting bigger.  Hmmmm.  What can be done about that??  Nothing....so grin and bear it.  Or don't drive anywhere....or don't eat.....don't heat your house.....use candles.....no tv....no internet......etc, etc....

I think I will grin and bear it thank you.  Enuf said!

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