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I went to Destin this past weekend with some friends from church. We had an excellent time. The beach was being invaded by jelly fish the whole time but we only suffered one real attack and it wasn’t me. That’s pretty lucky for the rest of the group because I can be a BIG baby. The girl who was attacked handled it pretty well. She didn’t yell, cuss, throw sand or hit anybody. Clearly, she’s a better person than I am. Most people are. Some of us saw a shark as well. ALJ and I were sitting in our chairs at the shoreline when all of a sudden these surfer like dudes started pointing and wailing, “Shark!” At that same exact moment, our friend L was about thigh deep in the water and making her way out to some friends who were much further out. The shark, which ALJ guesses to have been about 4 ft long, was headed right for L. I tried to do what I could to save her life by panicking and yelling her name but I don’t think I did any good. What I think did help was the surfer dudes diving in as if to catch it. That seemed like an insane thing to do to me.  I don’t know if the shark felt threatened by the surfer dudes or not but it did turn around and leave. I should have bought those boys a drink but then I might have had to go to jail. I’m not sure how old they were. I don’t want to be encouraging any sort of wrong behavior. I’m just very grateful to them that L returned home with all of her limbs.   

The second night there I decided to get a tattoo. It was a spur of the moment decision. Inspired by another friend who also got one. Even as she was having hers done I had no intention of getting one myself but then I saw this devil chick and decided I had to have it.

One of the things I learned on the beach trip is that I am not nice. And what’s sad about it is that I’m often not nice out of stupidity. I don’t pay enough attention to what I am saying. Which is sad because if I was just mean, I probably could make the decision to not be mean… but you can’t really decide not to be stupid. I am asking God to help me anyway. So, I got the devil chick. I wasn’t sure a chick should have a chick on her shoulder but the guy doing them said, "absolutely!" Then later when I spoke to Spunky about it, she said Amy Winehouse had one on her. Fantastic! Cause you know, who doesn’t want to be like Amy Winehouse. No worries though because it was only a temporary tattoo. It was supposed to last for 3 to 5 days. In reality, it lasted about 15 hours. Next time I’ll know. But, I don’t regret it. It was fun while it lasted. Next time maybe I’ll go for the extended stay version.