May 11, 2007

Blazing sun + Oregon "rain tan" = Sucky!

Ok so I have been working on Eric and Laura's farm again and I just discovered that when living in Oregon you develop what I like to call a "Rain Tan." Now you may be asking yourself what in the heck is a rain tan? That my friend is a good question, one which I am glad that you are asking yourself.

You see a "Rain Tan" is the opposite of a sun tan. All of the rain we get hear essentially sucks the color out of your skin and you turn this awful shade called pasty white.

Now the trouble is that when you mix the rain tan with a beautiful Sunny hot day and standing in the sun you get what I like to call a Lobster husk.

A lobster husk is a painful bright red, almost purple shade that your skin turns. The only plus to this Lobster husk is that when it peals away you are left with a golden brown sun tan and the rain tan is banished until sometime in mid November when the rain once again sucks the color from your body.