take a bath.

My skin gets really dry in the winter. I am fairly obsessed with finding the right products to keep my skin nice and hydrated and soft and smooth. This morning when I was in the shower applying my oh so lovely Origins Salt Rub I had flashbacks that I think explain my obsession with moisturizing products. When I was little I didn't care about dry skin and never put lotion on my body. In the spring my skin was still dry but by summer it would be okay. One spring I was running around in shorts and tshirt and because my skin was all dry and ashy, my knees and elbows looked darker where that dry, ashy skin was bunched up. One of the neighbor kids who was 6 years older than me pointed and laughed at me and yelled, "Look! Jenny has dirty knees!" When I tried to explain that I just took a bath the night before, she laughed and yelled, "Dirty knees! Dirty knees! Jenny has dirty knees!" And from that point on, whenever I saw her, she would call me "Dirty Knees." That's right. I've never recovered from having dirty knees that were indeed, clean. She stopped calling me Dirty Knees right around the time she said I was too stupid to meditate. I think that's a story for another day.