Jennifer Lea writes for jlogged.com, and is co-owner of 
I Forgot
I forgot that I am a lily white honky. I forgot that my descendants are Irish. People who come from a land where the sun comes out twice a year, and they all point to the sky and say “look, it’s that flaming ball of light we’ve read about in books!”
Yes, I forgot and failed to apply SPF 2000 for the third time while at the pool and burned myself to a crisp.
I’m peeling. Even my scalp is peeling. Sexy no?
I’ll be in hiding until Monday. Hopefully by then the molting process will be complete and I will have a fresh new dermis to park under an umbrella indefinitely while I gaze upon all the beautiful brown people who aren’t freaks of nature enjoying the crap out of the sun.
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June 7th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
aaaahahahahahhahaaaa
did you seriously just say “honky”??
hehehehe you kill me!
i probably shouldn’t tell you that the one and only time i’ve ever had anything remotely close to a sunburn was when i stayed too long in a tanning bed once. ah the joys of being half black!!
June 9th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Or half honky depending on how you look at it.
I’m jealous of your perfect skin Biddy. I’m a freckled mess
June 9th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Irish girl here, too.
I’ll hang with you under the umbrella. And speaking of umbrellas, could we get the cabana boy to bring us some Mai Tais? Makes sitting in the shade extra fabulous.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I am so glad that “rash guards” are in vogue now. Keeps everyone from sayin’ “Why is that whole honky wearin a long sleeved shirt at the pool when it’s 99 degrees outside?”
June 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I watched to much Jefferson’s when I was a kid.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I TOLD you BROAD spectrum spf 50!
June 16th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
This was after the fact Tracee. Lesson learned. I have the good stuff now. SPF 60.
I got my ankle lazered again this week, and it can not get sun. At all.