Eighty Two

Day Eighty-Two:  Sprung!

I’ve been told that the warm weather is to arrive this week and for that I am grateful.  I am ready to be rid of this winter jacket, these boots, scarves, mittens, and hat.  I am ready for flats and for the spring rain!  Oh Canadian weather, how unpredictable and rough you are.  I can forsee another snow before exams are out, but for now I am taking the sunshine and the temperatures in the positives and running with them.

As we get ready for our trip at the end of April I have been opening up my suitcase and travelling bags and missing London intensely.  I wish I had the funds to take a week-long venture this summer, but I don’t think I will be back for another year or so.  I feel like I am now well-versed in airports of all kinds, and have conquered them headfirst with no Tylenol just lots of water and conversation.  Oh travelling, how I will love you so much more when I can experience you comfortabley.

Along with the good weather comes with the sun, and although I love the sun I thought I’d write some tips to good skin, eye, hair, and general care for those sunny days!  I have both just heard of some of these as well as have done them for years, so I hope they hep.

1.       Moisturize.  Even if this means in the morning or evening only when you wash your face, your skin will respond so much more to the tan and sun if your face is not so dry.  It will also be better for the healthy of your skin, so as the spring emerges around the snow banks I suggest SPF proof moisturizer for the mornings.  You really should be using this all year round, but it’s easier to remember when the sun is shining through your bathroom window.

2.      Sunglasses.  This is silly for me to preech because let’s get real here, I wear my sunglasses when it’s cloudy out.  I am an advocate for sunglass wearing year-round, but if you only break out the aviators when the warmer months hit I recommend wearing them every day, even on the cloudy ones, just to be careful.  Sun hurts your eyes, you’ll thank me when you’re old and only have a small prescription in your reading glasses.

3.      Sunscreen.  I sound like a Women’s Living magazine, but really I am going to chide wearing sunscreen because I have friends and people in my life who don’t.  It’s important to re-apply after swimming, re-apply halfway through the day, re-apply if you change your clothes.  If you’re tanning PLEASE put on sunscreen, I can’t even explain the detrimental affects the sun really has on your skin better than saying you could die.  There you go.  Just be careful.

4.      Big hats, big sun umbrella’s, and the shade..  If you are not fully into tanning (so in your late teens early twenties and female…I think.) then you will want to just get in the shade.  Please, for me, invent in a big sun hat or a sun umbrella, and when you’re at the beach or walking around take it with you.  It sounds so silly, but it really does help.

5.      Water.  DRINK IT BE IN IT.  ENJOY IT.  It’s there for you, it keeps you hydrated and helps your skin, and you should be drinking all kinds of it all year round but especially if you’re out and about in the sun during the warmer months be sure to have water with you at all times.  Invest in a re-useable water bottle and take it with you.  It’s so important to always have water in your body, especially when you’re at the beach where you might be there for an extended period of time and don’t think about rehydration.  Or shopping, trust me I forget water while shopping all the time and woner why about three hours in I get so cranky.  Water water water.

And that’s what I can think of for now, maybe this will be needed for the next couple of days and maybe it’s just things to get ready for for the summer, but I hope it will inspire atleast some of you to change some habits for the warmer months!

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