For about 48 hours this week, I'm in
Huntington Beach, CA. I really like this place, though I do wonder how on earth anyone who lives here gets work done. (But I really am working -
see?) In fact, maybe I've been working so much that I used up all my writing juices for the day, 'cause in re-reading this post, I'm starting to wonder if I'm making any sense.
Anyway, the weather here has been incredible. Today's high is 72 and the low is 65. After the last few weeks in DC where temperatures topped 100 degrees on multiple occasions, I could be persuaded to forgo my love of the four seasons and live in a place like this!
Yesterday when I arrived, I had a few hours before our first event. So I headed to the pool in my gym clothes (I never thought I'd have time to go to the pool so I didn't pack a swimsuit - or sunscreen) and decided to soak up the sun for an hour while reading my People magazine. It was breezy, the sun was warm but not hot, and I got all caught up on the celebrity scoop I've been missing for two weeks.
The problem? I forgot the important lesson that warm sun + cool breeze does not = no rays. Meaning, I came back to my room a peculiar shade of pink. And of course, since I was wearing a t-shirt and shorts, the tan lines aren't particularly flattering. They kind of hurt, too. Note to self: Wear sunscreen even if you don't think you need it.
When I was packing to come here and even in the cab on the way to the hotel, I remembered coming to this same conference at the
same hotel a year ago. Where I had lunch, where we ate dinner, where we made s'mores and watched the sun set. It wasn't until I'd been here a few hours and was talking to someone else about it that they told me the conference wasn't held here last year - it was
two years ago. Yikes! Time flies.
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