in order of severity:

1) when i was about 4, i sliced my forehead open on a porcelain toilet roll holder that i’d just broken by leaning on it (time and time again). apparently, i was hysterical and there was no calming me, and both my father and brother were in tears by the time they got me to the emergency room at the hospital. if i push on the scar tissue, it still hurts, and i’ve had scans, and no one can tell me why.

2) trying to jump up from a chair to get something off a bookshelf, also at about 4 years of age, i caught my chin on the corner, splitting it open. this scar is really difficult to see.

3) cleaning glass at work, i foolishly reached past the side of it to get to something, and sliced the outside of my right thumb on the bottom knuckle. bled like a crazy thing for hours. i thought i was gonna have to get stitches but i didn’t. yay! i’m still left with the red, crescent shaped scar though.

4) at about 18 or 19, i came home drunk one morning after an all-nighter, and no one else was home. i was hungry so i decided to heat up some canned soup. i couldn’t find the can opener, so i stabbed the can open with a pair of chicken scissors, then attempted to pull back the metal with my fingers. naturally, i sliced my thumb open. (it’s faded though, and i can’t remember which thumb it was anymore).

5) i was using this little metal lifter at work for something completely inappropriate. it pushed through the thing i was using it on, and one end stabbed the wooden table i was working on, while the other slid like a hot knife through butter into the palm of my hand. luckily, it was very thin metal and a smooth shape so the wound wasn’t too terrible, but i was badly bruised for weeks. that scar has also entirely healed, and i can’t recall which hand it was.

i bit the inside of my lip during my sleep last night. i don’t know how or why, but it’s somewhat annoying, but thankfully not too painful.

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there’s a whole bunch of console games coming out soon - the husband and i had to discuss pros and cons of each and come up with a short list. so far, confirmed want-to-buys include : Uncharted 2, Bioshock 2, and Batman. plus the beloved is going to get the UFC game, but I’m not interesting in that and am even less interested in going halfies, so that’s all up to him.

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got our WoW characters up to level cap the other day, me for the first time ever. we’ve been raiding at every given opportunity since, and i am having so much fun. just being able to get together online with 9 other people i enjoy chatting to and playing WoW with, and then chatting and playing WoW - it’s just tops. i know lots of people don’t understand it, but that doesn’t worry me - because i sure don’t get a lot of things that other people do, so it all comes out in the wash.

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went to our friends’ place for dinner the other night which was so much fun. with work and stress, we haven’t been doing much socially of late, and it was so great to be able to catch up with our peeps, eat yummy home cooked food and have a few laughs.

with considerations to the diet, i drank too much beer and probably should’ve passed on the icecream dessert, but the whole thing was awesomely awesome, so i’ve not got too much guilt.

biggest hurdles i’m having with dieting at the moment are :

bread - i want it more often than not. it’s not that we’re avoiding bread generally, just if it’s not necessary. but i want it all the time. particularly soft fresh warm white rolls with melty butter on them.

drinking enough water - i don’t like drinking water. it bothers me. but i’m trying to get past it. some days i’m getting to 2 litres, but usually not. water has so many pluses, not least of all that it gets rid of toxins from bad things eaten, and makes you not eat as much by satisfying that hunger / thirst response, and i know all this but i still have trouble. it’s just so … boring.

and in case you’re wondering, yes, that is something that reminds me in no uncertain terms that i am a spoilt, middle-class white bitch. i’m working on that too.

my whole life is a work in progress.

title from For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica