Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

I like to plan things. My favorite thing to plan is dinner... I love to cook more than most people should! It really is relaxing to me. This morning I got up at 6:30 for work, went and got my cold press coffee... was in a great mood! I was driving to work planning out what I would make for Dan and I for dinner this evening... I was going to make lasagna! So easy and so delicious! Then I get to work. It was one of the crappiest craptastic days on record. I worked 11 hours without a break because the phone was ringing NONSTOP (Seriously, I hated every person on Earth at this point)! Then towards the end of my shift I started planning dinner again... I thought to myself "Okay... Lasagna is easy, it'll be perfect. I still have enough energy to make Lasagna... seriously, you can do this Toni. Take a breath. Drink a Red Bull." Then I drive home and it takes me FOR...EVER because of people going to Country Jam (UGHHHHHHHHhhhhHhHh) and then I get home and there is a concert in the park across the street tonight so there are no parking spots at my own apartment so I have to park a million miles away.  I get to my apartment finally and look in the fridge and the ricotta cheese I bought specifically for making lasagna was expired. So I f***ing ordered us a pizza.

So as I wait for the pizza, and for Dan to get home from work, I decided to warn everybody about the dangers of not wearing sunscreen. Don't all you fellow 90's kids remember that one song on the first NOW CD? "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" by none other than Baz Luhrmann (ummm what?). I wish I would have actually listened to that man instead of laughing at him at that point in my life.

My story begins the week of my birthday in June, when I went kayaking with Dan and his family. I love kayaking and was looking forward to it. I knew I would get sunburned because I always do, no matter what. This time though, we were in kayaks where your legs were exposed and you were sitting on top. My legs have never ever burned before so I wasn't too worried when I accidentally left my sunscreen at the hotel. So we were kayaking and it was super fun and everything until we got to the point where it wasn't fun anymore, and everyone was just really pissed off. That happens... it usually takes about an hour, to an hour and a half, but it happens. We kayaked out to this island called Horseshoe Island but we were all so tired and pissed its new name was Horseshit Island (har har).

So anyway, we got back to the hotel and that evening I fully understood the severity of my burn. I was all feverish and shaking and crabby and miserable, and my legs looked like this.

They weren't really a red... but a dark magenta color. It was awful. I didn't sleep at all, even a bed sheet was too painful to lay on them. One night I had the genius idea of falling asleep with wet cold towels on my legs. The towels fell off in my sleep and onto the bed which caused me to wake up at 1 in the morning in a panic, positive I had wet the bed. I was still in a hotel too... so I'm thankful I never had to make that unfortunate trip to the front desk, telling them I peed in their bed...

A couple days after this my feet swelled up really bad. My Old Navy sandals were even cutting into them and they looked super gross. I had cankles for sure.

Then, after visiting a doctor and him prescribing me Prednisone and Tylenol + Codeine (yesssss) my legs started to blister and it was really gross. Every time I walked my legs would start dripping gross fluid. There were a couple times in public where I had to whisper to Dan "We have to go soon. My legs are leaking."

So that lasted days... and then this weird thing started happening to my legs where huge chunks of my skin were just falling off, leaving these disgusting looking holes in my legs. I definitely looked like I belonged on The Walking Dead. I didn't take a picture of that stage because I would have barfed.

Then I started getting all these sores and scabs on my legs, which were incredibly painful.

I had all these red spots all over my legs at this point and some of them itched, while others were really quite painful. I went back to the doctor and it turned out to be an infection, something like sun poisoning maybe? I never even heard of sun poisoning before. All I know is it sucked, so they put me on antibiotics, which I'm still on. My legs are clear for the most part now, just a couple spots left on them.

So I know it's gross, but I think people need to know what happens when you're dumb like me. Wear freaking sunscreen people! I don't care if you want a tan... you're going to end up like this and then you're going to cry and be a big baby and nobody likes that. 

So now I would like you all to watch the music video for Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)... which is actually a pretty cool song, and take Mr. Luhrmann's advice seriously.

Ugh. The pizza guy is late.

Just kidding. He just got here.

Do NOT repin that!

I love Pinterest... just like any other girl. But sometimes I come across ideas that are so DUMB... I want to slam my laptop shut.


Here are some of those.

Okay seriously. I read the blog that this idea came from and even the person who wrote it said it didn't work. She suggested wrapping the pieces of paper in tin foil and then putting them in the crescent rolls. Yeah, because that will make the situation better. Biting into TIN FOIL! One of the most unpleasant sensations ever.

Who wants to sit and pull dollar bills out of a bottle, one by one? That sounds like one of the most tedious and difficult things ever. I looked at the original blog posting and the creator had no tips on how the person receiving the gift (which was $30-40)  is supposed to get the money out. Also, maybe it's just me but crumpled up money is one of the most annoying things to deal with in the world. But I suppose it is the thought that counts. This would have real potential if maybe you could somehow attach all the dollar bills together, and when the person pulls one out, the rest come out with it. Maybe tape them all to a string? Plus I know this is the school's fault from wherever this person is graduating, but those colors are hideous. 

This is one that I have seen people pin quite a bit. It looks like a great idea! Too bad it's fake!! Do people really think that by just injecting food coloring into a lemon, it will turn the inside AND the peel that color? I clicked on the image and it brought me directly to the source. This picture came from a website called Visualize Us, where people display their photography. Directly underneath this photo it says "Excellent Fruit Photo Manipulations"... meaning it is Photoshopped. Sorry to disappoint! 

Those are the three not-so-great Pinterest ideas that I have come across recently. I will say one thing... it is hard to find a bad idea on Pinterest! But when you do... it's usually super bad.