I talked about how I gained weight on the trip. Well it seems I've gained even more since I got back. There's a number of things that could be contributing to this as well that I won't go into but mainly it's that I'm lazy lazy lazy (I know). My brother has taken it on to start jogging/running and told me that he's been following the Couch-to-5k challenge which is actually pretty neat! He told me to go ton the fitness thread on Reddit to read up on it and see what else they had on starting to do exercise. But seeing as how I've been completely inert for some time, I don't think I want to start by running for 60 seconds every 90 seconds for 20 minutes. That actually feels like a lot to me (especially since I hate running). So I decided I would start with walks. Walks on the beach. Walks on the beach that I never take because I'm a lazy lazyperson that doesn't take advantage of her surroundings.
I don't go down to the beach a lot because Mr. Sun doesn't like me and as soon as I put on sunblock he's like "Fine, you don't want me to burn you? I'm leaving" and it starts to rain. Plus when Mr. Sun is out its like it's raining hot needles. Feel that UV index. It's also just a giant project. Anything in my house needs to be approved and stamped forty times before we can step in the elevator. But I was determined to go on a walk this morning and did. My mother did protest.
I put on that can sunscreen which is much faster and easier and protects me pretty well (That's another thing, being the child of a dermatologist and my mother I was never allowed outside without 2 tons of sunscreen or "sonbloc." I never got burned as a child and aloe was foreign to me. Any sunburns later in life were from my own malapplication or lack thereof). I was going to take my Penn Chem bag with a towel keys and phone (also to stuff my flip flops in) but my mom saw me and screeched "DENISE, WHY ARE YOU TAKING A BAG? LEAVE THE BAG." So I left the bag. Attempt to leave house #2: "DENISE, WHY ARE YOU TAKING YOUR KEYS? YOUR BROTHER LOST HIS KEYS AT THE BEACH ONE TIME. LEAVE THE KEYS." So I left the keys. Can't possibly be detained further can I? No bags no keys? Attempt to leave house #3: "DENISE, LEAVE YOUR FLIP FLOPS. WHY ARE YOU TAKING YOUR FLIP FLOPS? LEAVE HERE YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE THEM IN THE SAND." Finally to this I responded that I was not 2 years old and that I could keep track of my $2.50 Old Navy flip flops. As I was heading down the stairs..."DENISE. USE THE ELEVATOR. USE THE ELEVATOR NOW IT'S FREE." Just keep going down those stairs...
Eventually made it outside. Instantly regretted not bringing a hat or sunglasses. But it's a beautiful day and I'm totally like dude what am I doing playing sims all day? Totally. So I walked a while eastwards where the beach gets sort of nicer. I passed the sea turtle nests but I didn't really notice them because I had to keep my eyes down in order to see anything at all (sun got better later). Oddly enough I didn't feel any sun-needles. I also saw about six different people with metal detectors on the beach. I thought they only did that on Spongebob!
So on my way back I did what Denise does not typically do: talk to random people. I asked one of the girls with a metal detector if it was hers or if she and her father had rented them or something. They were in fact their metal detectors. Turns out the like to walk around with those for fun and they occasionally find change and other loose bits. Sometimes there's a profit the girl said. Then I walked past some tourists (you can tell by the unnatural tan and ridiculously skimpy bathing suit in the middle of a week day. had it been a weekend I might have thought twice. Also they were next to a hotel. I was justified). Anyway, awkward tourists aside I came across a weirder sight...There was this girl in a weird 2-piece get up. The top was like shocking coral and the bottom looked like some outdated bathing suit from those old Angelina Jolie photoshoots from the 80s. They don't match, doesn't matter. Like a cow's opinyun. What was strange was that she had a cat. On a leash. On the beach. A wet cat on a leash on the beach covered in sand. She left the cat on the beach as she went for a quick swim and I tried petting the cat when I walked by. The girl got out of the water and Denise did the strange thing again and talked to a stranger. We talked a bit about pets and how she used to be a dog person but now she loved having her cat. "Cats have personalities. Dogs are like your bitch you know? You give a cat shit and it reacts. A dog, no. A dog takes whatever. Because it's your bitch." It was funny how she talked because we were essentially conversing in Spanish but she kept saying things in English, like "bitch" and "personality" and other random words that I don't usually use. I'm just astonished whenever I meet other locals that use more English words in Spanish than I do (Just to clarify: Freshman year Linna asked me if I spoke real Spanish. Yes I do, and I speak it quite well with proper if foreign-to-yous pronunciations, maybe a bit fast, and grammatically correct. But I went to an English-language school and studied in the states, and I use English words a lot more in Spanish than I used to. I can still speak proper Spanish, but my speech is more like my handwriting nowadays: half cursive half print. Anyway, not all schools teach English very well in PR so I'm constantly surprised when I meet locals that I know didn't go to one of these schools and use more Anglicisms than I do).
Kept walking home and decided to go in the water for a bit. It was actually warm. If you thought waters in PR in May were warm, you have no idea what warm is. Waters in August are niiiiiice. The current was pretty strong and I felt like I was being dragged in a lot so I didn't go past my waist and got out after just a bit.
I don't think I'll ever get tanned if I use that 45spf spray-sunscreen. Also I think that spray damaged my contacts because I'm having a really hard time seeing. It's all blurry!
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