The Saga of the Swimsuit

On Mondays I usually read to my 3rd graders for BookPALs.  But this week there was a scheduling conflict so the teachers and I decided I would read on Tuesday instead.  So on Monday I was looking forward to having an entire day for writing.  I ate my breakfast, got ready for the day, packed up my computer and was making my way to the coffee shop when I realized I had forgotten my headphones at home.  Even though I was almost to my destination, I decided to turn around because people can be loud and I'm easily distracted and I wanted to be productive.  Better to have a 15 minute delay and have my headphones than go straight there and get distracted all morning.  On the walk back, I checked my email and I had an audition notice from my agent.  Commercial audition, that afternoon, in a few hours.  Ok.  I can still get some writing done, I thought.  Then I saw the attire: one-piece bathing suit.  Hmm.  Looks like I wasn't going to get much writing done after all.  I own one one-piece bathing suit and from the description of the part ("athletic") I didn't think it would work.  Mine is a red suit with white-heart-polka-dots and a bottom that does not provide the type of coverage needed when I think "athletic."  So I decided to make a quick run to the Sports Chalet - which is basically like the Sports Authority - to see if I could find a more 'full-coverage' suit; something I would feel more comfortable in.  So much for my writing plans! I go to the shopping center where Sports Chalet is, take my ticket for the parking garage and as I'm taking it, there is a sign on the ticket dispenser:  "Sports Chalet is Now Closed."  What??  I drive in and park and sure enough, Sports Chalet is totally cleared out.  Luckily this is a shopping center so there are other places to get swimsuits - maybe.  It's not exactly swimsuit season.  So after striking out at Nordstrom Rack and Marshall's, Old Navy comes through in a major way.  I find a great suit that is athletic and covers well and I feel confident it.  The only thing is...now I have to wear it in two hours.  And wearing a bathing suit without washing it gives me the heebie jeebies.  So I think, it's a bathing suit.  They dry quickly.  I'll go ahead and hand wash it and it should be okay by the time I need to leave.  So I give it a good scrub, wring it out, hang it up to dry and go eat lunch.  About an hour later I come back to check on it.  Totally wet.  Hmm.  So I give it a good wringing again.  And check on it again in 15 minutes.  This is obviously going to take more than wringing.  So then I proceed to take my hair dryer and blow my new bathing suit dry for a good 15 minutes.  It may have been slightly damp when I was at my audition but at least it wasn't soaking wet.

And that was Monday.

And, sometimes, these are the days of my life.