iNaked.

I am actually sitting at my laptop right now naked. Not because I'm horny. Not because I'm lazy....but because for some compulsive reason I need to type naked in order to feel completely relaxed.

It is times like these when I wonder if I am normal. For example, when I jump on a trampoline with my kids, I can't help but pee my pants a little. And sometimes when I laugh too hard. And sometimes when I sneeze. I felt very ashamed and embarrassed about it, but then one day I decided to google it to see if other people had that problem. I was surprised to realize that the reason I do that is because after you have kids, that muscle relaxes a little bit from the trauma of childbirth. You don't ever really notice the change unless you are doing something - like jumping on a trampoline.

Once I realized that it was perfectly normal, all the shame associated with it disappeared. Of course because I'm still not normal, I have to take it one step further and spread the gift of knowledge to my other mommy friends. It's called stress incontinence and the solution is Kegel excercises. In case you guys wanted to know.

Me: HEY!!! When you jump on a trampoline, do you pee a little?
Friend: OMG Yeah!! Every time!!! I used to love jumping on the trampoline and it sucks to have to run in and change my underwear!!
Me: Yeah...wait Ew. how much do you pee?! That's gross.
Friend: (silent)

Just KIDDING!!!! Annnyway......

I like to think of it as a little public service. Ha ha ha...okay not really...

And here I am, sitting at my laptop working on my writing and I'm naked because it's the only way I feel comfortable right now. I think I will google that and see if it gets any hits.....

...I may have spoken too soon. It appears that "working on book naked" and "writing only when naked" did not produce anyone like me. All I found were books with "naked" in the title, or "GO TO WORK ...NAKED!" advertisements that were basically those work-from-home-get-rich-quick gimmicks that thought putting the word naked in there was clever. It makes me wonder what kind of jobs people might have been searching for if they were including the word "naked" in their job search. Since their search was actually fruitful does that make them less abnormal than me?

No, today I am not normal....and that actually pleases me. But not in a dirty way. Also, it is important to note that I am not naked because I am having sexy thoughts. The air conditioning just feels so good on my skin - the perfect temperature in the apartment. I need everything to be perfect so that I can write really good material. Really good relevant material. But not like this. Because this has nothing to do with what I intended to write about today however, I think I will keep it.