Summer fun

Ahhhhhh, summertime! True, not one of my favourite seasons, but it does have its....charms. I seriously hate the heat. I hate humidity more. And while I do like to take a quick dip in the boys pool to cool off, I'm rather thrilled when I have a friend invite me over for a dip in her rather larger pool.

Now, it has to be said that I work with THE most fun bunch of girls in the hospital. Some, of course are not people I would generally hang out with, but there are others I really truly enjoy being with.

Colleen being one of them. Kate being another.

So when Colleen calls me to go over to her house, it's just easier to say; 'Yes, Colleen, I'll be right there, Colleen!" Otherwise, it's a torturous barrage of "Come on Kelly, you old poop, get yer ass over here!" I went through it once before in the winter and I had a hard time living down the fact that I didn't go over. So now....there's a pool party and my attendance is mandatory. When I try to get out of it by saying the kids were in bed, we had just gotten home from Dad's birthday supper and I was in my jammies, the response from Colleen was: "So, get OUT of your jammies and get the hell over here!" *sigh* Then she hands the phone to Kate who is even more shameless. I believe her line was something like; "Kelly---YOU SUCK".

Shame...or dare...either way, I cannot back down!!

So, off come the jammies, I put on some clothes and off I went last weekend, to my Colleen's house to go swimming in her (heated) pool. Thank God it was heated because I was freezing, and what with knowing I don't like the heat, it had to be pretty darn cool for me to be freezing. I had warned her that I certainly wasn't sufficiently shaved to go swimming, but that didn't seem to matter (only to Joel, apparently!) When I arrived, Colleen, Kate and Kate's friend Jen were all there and had been knee deep in alcoholic beverages that her house boy CoCo kept feeding them in the evening (house boy=husband Joel) so my little friends were all very joyous upon my arrival, but it wasn't seeing me that made them so happy. No, no! But they were happy they had shamed me into coming over...they WON!!

I go in to the house to change and I do a cannon-ball into the water that is bath-time warm. There is steam rising off the water, it was that warm, and the air was that cool. I had a blast, and I'm really glad that I was shamed into going over. I really like these girls very much....they're good people. A little kooky, but loads of fun. Not to mention a little unpredictable.

The conversation went in a direction I sooooooo did not see coming. We were talking about skinny dipping. Had any of us done it. Colleen has (of course she had....she has a pool). I had (Kathy Kinnie's pool in grade...um..what was it?....6?....7?...I can't remember) and of course Kenny & I do from time to time in the boys' little pool (what rebels we are!!). But Kate & Jen had never. Colleen was floored. So...in their drunken state...they thought that then and there was as good a time as any!! Jen needed no coaxing, nor did Colleen. Kate was a bit apprehensive and me? Well...I was still stunned at the turn in the night's events. I went from bundled in my warm house, with my warm husband to a pool in the cool night air and possibly becoming nekked!!

Sure....what the fuck!

Colleen turns the lights out, so it's REALLY dark and we can't see each other, and off come the suits. I have to tell you...it had been YEARS since I've skinny dipped with a bunch of friends and it's funny!! I think when you're young, you start out with little inhibitions. Then you get a bit older, and think that maybe doing things like that aren't such a good idea, maybe. Then, you get to be my age, and Kate's and Colleen's and apparently you regress to the whole screw-it mind set. And it was fun.

So now when I see Colleen or Kate at work, I know we'll just giggle to each other. For the term "Full Moon" has taken on a whole new meaning!