It's Been a "Minute"

Getting ready for a major yard sale on Saturday and dreading the fact that I will have to be in the sun ALL DAY! Don't get me wrong, I love the sun but since I am losing my pigment, it can be very dangerous if I don't replenish my sun block every 2 hours.

My beautiful brown skin tans so well and it looks fabulous, until I glance at the white areas on my hands, arms and legs and have to make sure the white spots are not irritated and red. Pain in my azz!! But I grease up so I won't cook-lol Quick reality check and sometimes I will spiral downward in emotions when I look at the different areas of white on me. Then it takes that one person to walk by me and smile or a kind man alerting me to my beauty..once again! --LOL

So, I pull it together and summon up the inner beauty to radiate and keep it moving! Which reminds me of my visit to Baskin Robbins today. I saw this beautiful, tall (6 feet 2 inches,) male with dark bronze skin, fabulous bod, nice not too tight not too loose jeans and yes flip-flops for all those East Coast/Mid-westerners that just don't get it.!! He was SEXAYY!! and a presence that would make King Tut come back for a challenge!-LOL

Not knowing if he was gay, straight or both, I brushed all those off and decided to hand him a piece of paper with my blog info on it, and a contact # ; that was in case he had any questions :-), about my vitiligo, Of Course!!-lol When I introduced myself, he said hello Maia but did not say his name and that! was my Que to smile and politely exit, cause he never said his name (and that was my wisdom to know women were obviously not his taste or maybe he had SOMEBODY!) Either way, a sister has to know how long to be subtle make her point without saying anything and if no response exit like a Queen! (can't give the Ego time to trip me up-LOL!!)

Either way, I was excited thinking that he might have thought I was cute but not his type because I was losing my color. I had a zillion things going through my head but was glad he acknowledged my greeting . Hell! he was just a damn good sight to look at, so as I enjoyed my brief encounter with Mr. No Name but Handsome! I felt an exhilaration about myself and looked forward to his commenting on my site and had no regrets about him and or any embarrassment about my vitiligo.

U should know I go up (and am mostly up) than down about my discoloration. There are days where I simply don't give a S#$^+)(& and then there are days that a person staring too long will either make me acknowledge their staring and chat with them or ignore it and go on with whatever I am doing at the time.

One thing that does get under way under my skin is when people stare as if I am contagious or a circus animal, I get real bitchy then and have to chant to myself not to approach them to clarify their looks! That has happened a few times and believe it or not , I made some really nice friends! (but that is me anyway)

Well, gotta shower, chant and sleep to get ready for the sun, sale and fun of DE-cluttering my life!

Til next time,
Be good to yourself and to others (I sound like Jerry Springer!!) -LOL

Maia