When will I ever learn.....

This past weekend Jim & I had to go to Meagan's high school graduation ceremony at the St. Charles Convention Center. Everyone knows how boring graduations are and there were 600 seniors graduating! I passed some of the time by practicing my text-messaging skills and sent about 5 or 6 short messages to friends. As hard as I tried, I couldn't figure out where the punctuation marks were! I wanted a few !!!!! and still have no idea where to find them on my phone. I admit I'm a novice when it comes to text messaging and it was quite obvious when I observed the young girl in front of me typing her messages with lightning speed. I bet I could beat her on my computer keyboard though!

Anyway, I was anxious for the ceremony to be over because I had plans to go to Debbie's community pool with her and catch some rays. The only sun I've gotten so far this summer is when I'm outside gardening (which is a lot) and it's hardly noticeable. I finally got out of there and left for Debbie's around 1:00. I even made a sandwich to eat on the road so as not to waste valuable afternoon sun time. When I got to her place I was very impatient and kept telling her to hurry up because she was dawdling.

We got to the pool around 1:45 and it was hot. We found a couple of lounge chairs, spread our towels out and began basking. I decided to use an accelerator on my legs (because they take forever to tan), a sunblock 4 on my upper body & a 45 on my face. We had a very nice, relaxing time just talking and cooling off in the pool periodically. We had to sneak to drink our beers because we messed up and brought bottles and Debbie was paranoid we would get in trouble. We had only brought 4 beers and ran out so we made a quick run back to her place to get more which Debbie poured in plastic containers because she's such a chicken. When we got back (within 5-10 minutes, tops) I noticed I was getting a little red so I started using the 4 sunblock on my legs & 45 on top. We stayed until around 5:00 and I went back to Debbie's to sober up a little before driving home.

After I got home & cleaned up, Jim & I went to a school picnic to meet some friends. While we were sitting there talking I felt my legs begin to catch fire! I suffered until the picnic closed but as soon as we got home I ran a cold bath and laid in there soaking my poor, red legs. It felt so good! Needless to say, I had a miserable night's sleep. I had to sleep on my back (I'm usually a stomach-sleeper) because it was the tops of my legs & hips that were so sore. I woke up a few times and put soothing lotion on before trying to get back to sleep. I'm hoping I won't peel.....