Funny now, not so funny then

Last night when I was washing my face I realized that I was out of one of the products I use. I remember that I had bought an off brand of it once because I read that if you wipe it on your arm pits it will make you sweat less... WRONG, the same magazine told me that if you soak washcloths in tea and keep them under your arm pits for 20 minutes a day for 7 days it will help with sweating... WRONG and my roommate probably thought I was a total wack job for walking around with hot rags full of tea under my armpits. Maybe I should not get my health advice from Cosmo anymore. Anyways... so as I was using said product I remembered this fun little adventure...

When we were preparing for our trip last summer I went to bed bath and beyond and bought a bunch of travel items, i.e. lotion, Q-tips, funny story about Q-tips, Marshall always tells me that if he could go back and invent on thing it would be the Q-tip, such a great invention he says, easy, practical and used by everyone and probably the most simple invention worth billions. ha ha. Now, back to the story, anyways I also bought some face wipes. I have a brand of face wipe that I prefer but it is way pricey and I quit buying them but since then I have only bought one other brand and it made me break out so I shipped those babies off to the ol garbago cano. Well, I was hesitant to buy more because of my last experience but I could just not spend the money on the MAC ones so what they hay, I bought some at BB&B. So, we take our trip and the first hotel we stay at has this face soap that is awesome so I started collecting them and using them throughout the trip. It just so happens that I run out the first day of our cruise, no big deal, I have the face wipes I bought at the ol' bed bath and beyond. So, I use one the first night, everything seems okay. The next day I was out in the sun all day and got a little burnt so when I used it the second night I though nothing of it because nothing happened the first day, right? WRONG! When we were out and about the third day Marshall was sitting across from me at a table and he said, "Jenn, there is something seriously wrong with your forehead!" I looked in the mirror and it appeared to be badly sunburned and almost blistering, it was nasty to say the least but what could I do, I was in a foreign country and I had aloe on the boat so that would fix it by morning, the foreigners would just have to deal with it. So I used another face wipe that night, smothered my forehead in aloe and went to bed! The next morning I woke up and there was clearly something wrong, this was NOT a sunburn. So I headed out to find the doctors station on the ship. I am sure like 3 people have any idea that there is a doctors station on a cruise ship, let alone where it is and I guess I am just one of those lucky 3. I had to see the flipping doctor and he told me I was having an allergic reaction to something and he asked me if I had done anything out of the ordinary in the past few days...thinking...thinking...thinking... THE BLASTED FACE WIPES!!! So he gave me some benadryl which was outrageously priced but what was I supposed to do, I was on a boat in the middle of the ocean, they could charge a hundred bucks if they wanted too and i would still have no choice, dang CROOKS!

Anyways, the next day it was significantly better, luckily. So alas, I probably paid for the next renovation of the ship with the amount of money I spent on those pink little miracle workers. Good thing I was not allergic to benadryl like my mom... that woulda been bad... really really bad!!