Ow! My thumb!

I managed to rip my right thumbnail off today, like halfway down.  It bled, and it hurts like the dickens.  I would put a picture up, but it's covered by a bandaid right now to keep me from getting grossed out.  I never knew I used my thumb for so many things in life. . .work is going to be super fun tomorrow!  My nails do grow fast, but this is seriously going to take at least a month just to cover the nail bed.  Yuckers.

For those asking how it happened (thanks for caring!), I was pulling a tray off a shelf and jammed my thumbnail into the shelving.  It was one of those where you're scared to look because it felt like it broke something, but it seemed fine, other than hurting.  Then a few minutes later, I tossed a tray into the bin and snagged it on something and apparently it was weakened enough it just split.  After a bad night, since it's throbbing a lot, I've learned that toweling my hair is painful, as is zipping up my boots, brushing my teeth, and trying to manipulate any kind of container. . .   Just another lesson in gratitude, as in I've spent my whole life not being grateful enough for two operational thumbs. 

Back to school. . .

I applied to Utah Valley University today.  Which I really should stop telling people (even though I can't because I'm so excited about it) until I actually get accepted, because it will be all sorts of embarrassing if I don't.  Thanks to Andrea, for figuratively and literally driving me there!  I'm going to try and get my four year degree finished in the next two years.  That would mean 22 years for a 4 year degree, which does seem a little ridiculous.  Then again, is it ever really too late to be who you want to be when you grow up?

Check this out!

Surprisingly enough, 3:30 this morning did not find me scrubbing my bathroom sink with a wet pumice stone like I've been doing the last two days. . .instead, after writing over my word goal for the day, I decided to indulge in a little creative tinkering.  I'm so excited with how this turned out.  I think I'll call it Inspiration in Green.  Melissa, because it's your birthday, it's yours if you want it.  If not, anyone else can claim  it.  :)

And Tragedy Strikes

I lost a story.  It's missing.  I've searched every computer file on both computers, and looked through every flashdrive I can find.  It's gone.  How can it be gone?  I distinctly remember the witty dialogue, the engaging characters, the convoluted plot.  It was all sorts of fun.  This is tragic. 

Finances

I just got my power bill, and I am now sitting in candlelight.  According to the digital meat thermometer, my apartment has been a comfortable 64 degrees (that's sarcasm - I'm freezing), and the power bill was still twice what I had budgeted.  I've been coveting a pair of wicked good slippers from LL Bean, but they are ridiculously expensive, so I found a cheaper pair on Amazon that have good reviews.  Now I'm just waiting for enough Power Play points from people at work to trade in for another Amazon gift card.  And I'm thinking that I should exercise more.  Like my dad says, "If you're not warm it's because you're not working hard enough."  While I'm whining, my rent renewal is going to be an extra $25 a month, and they raised the laundry prices.  And I just got my car's cracked windshield replaced.

The headaches have been pretty manageable lately, though.  Frequency has gone down, intensity up.  Always a price to pay.  The diet is still effective, although I've been too tired to eat a lot lately, so I've been dropping weight again.  Which I didn't notice, until three people brought it up in the same week.  Maybe that's another reason the cold is getting to me so much.  I've started taking a bath every night just before bed so that my feet unthaw enough for me to get to sleep.  Life is so tricky sometimes.  Luckily, I enjoy candlelight.

Facebook

I don't Facebook a lot.  Every now and then it's nice to cyber stalk someone - just to see what they're up to.  I have a friend or acquaintance (not really sure how you classify some of the random people that become "friends" on Facebook) who I just unfriended.  Not something I normally do, mostly because I'm too lazy, but also because if I unfriended all of the random people then I would barely have any friends left, and then what would be the point of Facebook?  It wasn't so much her stance on gun control, although she's wrong, but that she's constantly inciting flame wars with political statements.  The gun control one was just the last straw.  If the best argument that she has is a photo of a child holding a handgun, I'm unconvinced.  There's my rant for the day.