Bye-Bye, Baby

This past Saturday, we sold our little black 2001 VW Golf. That's the new owner, who I swear looked about fourteen, behind the wheel, driving it away. We haven't driven it regularly in a few years and now someone is going to fix it up and give it a whole new life. That's good. I'm going to miss it though. It was the best car we ever had and the first car we ever bought new. It had a diesel engine so it had a very cute "putt-putt-putt" sound when it was running. We put over 200K miles on it and I was hoping it would go another 200K, but no. There were a lot of problems with it and we began to be reluctant to put more and more money into it (someone more mechanically inclined should be okay with it though, since they can save money by doing the work themselves). I'll miss that little car.

There was a lunar eclipse last night. On a reminder text from Kelly, we caught the beginning of it but when we went back out a little while later to see how it had progressed, the clouds had moved in and we couldn't see it anymore. Whenever we have an eclipse, lunar or solar, I think about how ancient peoples must have felt as they witnessed them. The oft predictable moon and sun suddenly being blotted out or, like last night, turning a deep orange mottled with black. It's been an apocalyptic feeling few years, so maybe it's just par for the course to feel as though this were more of the same. 

Speaking of apocalyptic: Summer is coming.

Yesterday the temperature topped 90F / 32C. In the southern part of the state, they're already seeing 100F / 38C days. After working the graveyard shift for a couple of years and having been a hermit since I quit that job, I'm no good with the sun and heat anymore. I feel like I'm melting when the temperature gets above 85. Our big summer move: We stocked up on suncreeen, which both Dave and I have been wearing daily. It's been a pain in the ass for me to find one that works because apparently now I'm allergic to everything, even the stuff that the dermatologist recommended (Elta MD Clear, which made me red and itchy but which Dave loves). I have one that I know works (Blue Lizard Sensitive) and one that I just bought that I'm hoping, based on the ingredients and one successful patch test, will work (Badger Sport Mineral). I'm sensitive to fragrance and chemical sunscreens (both make me red, swollen and itchy), so I have to use physical sunscreen (zinc and titanium) without additives like fragrance, ceramides, niacinamide, etc., that are all being used now because they're the big new things in skincare. 

This week is doctor and dentist visits. Sounds fun, right?