Anticipation Overload

Oh my gosh you guys! I got so excited by an email I received today. It's so silly but I was giggling I was so giddy. I got an email from Victoria's Secret announcing their new swim suits have arrived!!! You know what that means? Summer is in my not too distant future!!!

The weather here has been beautiful but it is teasing me. It'll be nice and warm during the day, making the pool look really enticing. But then it'll drop into the 50's and 60's at night and my poor pool is like an ice cube. Our next pool will definitely be heated! We're usually able to get in it in mid-to-late April so that's really only a couple months away. Seeing that email though, put me in a summer state of mind.

You can call me as crazy as you want to but my little, old pool is a sanctuary to me in the summer-time. I get out of bed on the weekends and change out of my pajamas and into my bathing suit. I slip on a little terry-cloth cover up and I'm ready to start my day. I put on the Jimmy Buffet CD and start skimming the pool and washing off the deck. I get all the pool floats out and ready for my usual weekend company (mom and my sisters). My pool may be old with cracked tile and set in the middle of a yard that's torn up from my dogs running laps around it but when I'm on my pool float looking up at the clear blue sky, I might as well be on a yacht in St. Tropez because I'm in heaven. We'll take lunch breaks to eat sub sandwiches and pass around the newest gossip mags... I'm telling you, it's bliss! I don't even mind getting out every 45 minutes or so to throw another load of laundry in the washing machine. Housework is much more fun when you can lounge in the sun in between.

Back to the Victoria's Secret swim suits though. Another good thing about my pool is that it is completely privacy fenced. So, even though I don't look like Adriana Lima in a string bikini, I'm the only one who will know. Well maybe my mom and sisters will know too but who cares, they love me anyway. I do have bathing suits for when company comes that give me more coverage but when it's just me and Joe or me and the girls, you better believe I'm in a skimpy little two piece. I didn't get a pool so that I can have tan lines, okay?! Victoria's Secret always manages to come up with some really cute stuff so I'm hoping to get a least one of the twenty suits I saw that I just have to have.

It's amazing how one little email can change your outlook on the world. Now when I'm having a bad day all I have to do is close my eyes, imagine myself in that cute little green and white polka dot bikini singing along to Changes in Latitude while floating around on my favorite silver raft. Ahhhhh.....