My Life as a Lobster

Ow.

I am redder than the Red campaign. It was the (now) annual trip to Georgia for Reynolds Rendezvous charity event this past weekend so my friend KatRose and I drove south on Wednesday morning to help prep for the Saturday event, which went off very well, by the way; thanks for asking! Beautiful weather, lovely people, amazing old restored wooden boats, and kids who’ve survived more chemo and operations than any adult could handle and yet are still so excited just to be alive. It was gooooood [insert my best Bruce Almighty voice here].

However.

We had a beautiful warm "autumn" day (ha! the calendar says "autumn" but the weather certainly doesn’t. What the—?!), temps in the low 80s, not a cloud in the clear Georgia sky, sun reflecting brilliantly off the water…. and fair (and I do mean fair) Lu with absolutely no sunscreen on at all. None. All day. Nada. Nope. Zilch. Zero! Doh.

I’m such a dork. I didn’t even think about it until, oh, about 3:30pm. Long after the damage had been done. And it’s not that I just forgot to put it on. I forgot to even bring any with me into Georgia. I didn’t even pack it. I’m such a dork.

Life as a Lobster. It’s always a joy.

So how was your week?

Sunburn

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3 thoughts on “My Life as a Lobster”

  1. I’m very sorry for your sun-burn, my crustaceous friend. I hope you have access to aloe vera gel or something of the sort. It does a good job on burned skin, although I’m not sure it does much for bruised egos. Every time I get a sunburn, I think the embarrassment is worse than the burn itself! I am not in your shoes this time, but I sympathize with your experience.

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  3. Yeah, Los!!! That’s exactly what I said. But its much better now. Now I’m just a big flake. 😉
    Emily, that’s that sad thing. I was all out of Aloe Vera. But I discovered a really cool new home remedy from my friend KatRose. She brewed up some tea, then iced it for a bit and soaked a washcloth in it and put that on my burn. Something in the tea actually takes the sting out of the burn. It’s wild and weird, but it really works. Really soothed my burn those first few nights.

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