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<\/a><\/p>\nI have posted that picture before, because it never is not funny to me. The way the bikini is basically cutting off my circulation, and the cruel humor of putting a girl baby in a bikini in the first place – like what, exactly, is the point of that? It can only be comedy. Yes, I was a creature of comedy for my parents. Also, I don’t look too thrilled, do I, even though I am surrounded by floating toys. I look at all of them like, “Nah, I’m just not feelin’ it right now …”<\/p>\n
The best part of this is the last time I was home visiting Mum, I was sitting in the study at my parents’ house, on the computer. My mother walked into the room, holding a tiny washing basin, grey plastic. She held it up to me, as though I should recognize it.<\/p>\n
“Look.” she said.<\/p>\n
“What is that?”<\/p>\n
She said, “You sat in this, wearing a bikini.”<\/p>\n
It was so small that I couldn’t believe it – and I also didn’t think I had ever seen it before. It still exists? Gotta love my parents. They know how to keep things, and use them, throughout generations. Why throw out a small washing basin just because it had its heyday in the late 60s?<\/p>\n
I kept staring at it, mesmerized. Once upon a time I was small enough to sit in that damn thing??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yeah. I know I’m hot. I have posted that picture before, because it never is not funny to me. The way the bikini is basically cutting off my circulation, and the cruel humor of putting a girl baby in a … Continue reading