Don’t Let Your Vacation Be A Four-Letter Word

Vacation is the summer ritual.  Everyone has had at least one vacation of a lifetime.  The one that holds memories that last for years.  The one where the kids actually say, “Thanks, Mom and Dad, that was cool.”

But “vacation” can also be a four-letter word.  You find yourself doing a lot more of the prep work while your husband seems to go missing.

The day you leave, you’re frantically getting luggage, last-minute items, kids in the car, husband in the car, kids out of the car to go to the bathroom, the long plane ride or the even longer car drive…  You know how it goes.  The stress of getting there doesn’t go away.  It turns into the stress of all the activities, fights between kids, fights with the kids, and fighting with the wine bottle as you try to uncork it at the end of the day.

Well, we finally got around to getting away for a while.  Now, I am from Humble, Texas.  I know that many of you out there think that those of us in Humble believe “getting away” means leaving tha kids at Momma’s fer the night and hittin’ tha bingo parlor fer tha big money prizes (y’all can read Texas twang, right?).  Not that I am above a bingo parlor.  I have been known to wear out a bingo dauber.  But this time, my husband and I got away for some special time just for us.

We went out of state to Destin, Florida.  It was beautiful there!  The weather was nice (I like anywhere it is hot) and the water was clear.  We rented a condo that was walking distance from the beach.  We woke up when we wanted, went to sleep when we wanted, and…did other things we wanted to as well.

I remember going to a little town close by called Seaside.  It was terribly cute.  White picket fences and houses that seem to have a 50s style but are well taken care of.  Turns out, the movie The Truman Show was filmed there.

My husband told me that, while he was taking pictures, I had walked a little ways ahead.  As he was catching up to me, he saw four men in their twenties.  They were playing it cool and talking to each other as they walked past me, but as soon as I passed by, all four turned their heads and got in a good stare.  As they turned around to walk on, they saw my husband and they burst out laughing.  Not at my husband, but at the fact that they were busted and there was no denying it.

One night we were at dinner and I was walking back from the make-myself-pretty room.  I was wearing “that” dress.  The one that I haven’t worn in more years than I care to admit.  As I sat down, my husband asked if I noticed the couple of gentlemen that were watching me.  “No,” I said, trying to be nonchalant.  But I had noticed and it felt good!  I started to smile and he just laughed.

My point is, vacation can be a four-letter word because of how you feel about yourself.  How do you look in your clothes or in your bathing suit?  How do you feel when you are around a lot of strangers and don’t feel as confident as you used to?

I have to tell you, it feels good to put on shorts or a bathing suit and know that it fits you the way you want it to.  Laser liposuction was the final step to getting me into my vacation comfort zone.

You’ve got “that” bathing suit, “that” dress, hanging in your closet next to the baggy shirts.  Let Dr. David Carpenter at Lipo and Laser and his skills with laser liposuction give you the body you want so you can leave the baggy shirts behind on your next vacation.

Instead of a four-letter word vacation, this was a vacation full of memories.  Though, this vacation did remind me that “sexy” was a four-letter word as well.

Until next time,

Dee