Burn Baby Burn

Fam Bam is in town,

so we have spent the last couple days

outside at the pool and the beach,

 enjoying the gorgeous weather out here

in sunny southern California.

(i love the way, that rolls off the tongue,

and apologize ((kinda)) to my friends that

had snow the other day, Im talkin to you KWB,

you know who you are...)

With that being said,

I guess karma is well, karma,

and I got burned.

Bad.

Let me explain, first of all, I have come to

terms with the fact, that I am a fair skinned

lady, and the sun and I are not besties.

One time when I was in 6th grade, I laid out on my friends

deck, with her and her sister (who were of mexican descent)

and we used BABY OIL.

Great for a couple of brown girls, but poison for a whitey.

Baby oil, is not sunscreen, and I dont easily tan.

It takes me like all of summer burning to get even 

kinda tan, and by that time, summers over.

Needless to say..

my shoulders BLISTERED for weeks.

So, I have learned to not go out with Mr. Sunshine

unless we're using protection.

SPF 100 please.

So, how did this happen today?

Well, my mother offered to spray me with sunscreen.

And it worked. 

In stripes.

Stripes I tell ya.

The fronts of my legs and a few spots on feet,

burned. A couple areas on the backs of my legs, burned.

Im talkin to the point where you put aloe on 

and you can smell it cooking from the heat of my yours legs.

Super gross right.

Oh, thats never happened to you before?

Lucky you.

I have already taken 2 doses of medication

and could possibly use a Vicodin right about now.

(Ok, not really, but maybe)

Moral of the story? 

It coulda been, dont trust your mother,

but instead, its 

apply your own sunblock,

because the same thing happened to my sister...

on her back, where I sprayed her.

Whoops.

Maybe next time we'll plan better

and learn from our mistake.

I hope you can learn from mine, and watch out for 

that first burn of summer.