Spring Bling

My tulips and daffodils are coming up, and I am feeling a little like I need sprucing up, too. It's funny how I get the urge to stop wearing all of this brown and navy blue when the sun starts to show up more often, just as my yard puts on its spring finery. My weeds are popping up as well, begging to be pulled. In fact, I can hear it now, urging me to come outside and edge, and trim, and dig, and...

But. It's raining. Really hard. Ah, the irony in a spring day. The desire to get out but the aversion to chilly and wet.

So. Outside=prettying up. Me=wanting to pretty up, too. That means gauchos-- are they still in? And capris, and tank tops, and big hats, and sunglasses. Yay! I am, however, pasty as all hell. It's scary.

My scaly winter skin needs me to care. I take cups of sugar into the shower and scrub away the dryness. I have also been taking my metabloize and try to avoid the urge for Uncle Eddie's oatmeal cookies. Bathing suit season will be here soon. I try not to be shallow, but it *does* cross my mind.

So, what do you do to glamorize for spring? Plant flowers? Show more skin? Laugh more? Open the windows and scrub things?