Crunch
So my sweet, lovable Ratchet bit my index finger yesterday. FYI? That hurts.
(It was totally my fault)
I was walking him through the neighborhood and someone had tossed a chicken leg out into the street. Before I could stop him, Ratchet grabbed it to try to eat it. So, I reached in his mouth and pulled it out. But, he was still crunching loudly on something so I was afraid he still had part of the bone. So, I reached in his mouth, I think, two more times.
I dunno if he was just fed up with me having my hand that far in his mouth, or, if he was simply trying to continue to chew on the food. Either way, he bit down on my index finger. HARD.
Totally my fault. I mean, when he’s got something potentially dangerous like that I have to try to get it out, but I was dumb to continue putting my hand back in his mouth like that after I got the main piece of the bone out. And, while I’ve reached into his mouth countless times to get stuff, I know there is a risk in doing that. I’m not mad at him or anything. Thankfully, he opened his mouth immediately after I said “ouch.” I grabbed him by the collar, told him no and then thought, “Man, that hurt. That REALLY hurt.” That’s when I looked down and saw blood dripping off of it. I guess that’s why it hurt. lol.
He got me right at the bottom of the finger nail — where the nail and skin meet (probably good it wasn’t in the middle of the nail. I imagine that would have been worse). And then there is also a place in the back of my finger, I guess where the other tooth went through. I cleaned it off, iced it down and have been liberally applying neosporin and bandaids on it. It still hurts, looks kinda gross and is still bleeding a little through the bandaid, but it’s fine.
Ratchet was licking my bandaged finger last night. I’m sure it was because he smelled the blood and neosporin and all that jazz, but I like to pretend that he was kissing it to make it feel better. And you know what? It did feel better after that.
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I did a Yahoo News search for “Glavine” just a minute ago to see if any interesting Tom Glavine articles popped up.
Yahoo suggested I also try “tom glavine cat sports.”
I was intrigued. What kind of cat sports would these be?!? I guess if they are Glavine ones they have to be baseball-related. Perhaps something to do with “batting” things?
Unfortunately, I clicked on it but Yahoo couldn’t find anything about tom glavine cat sports.
Very disappointed.
Note: I’m assuming the “cat” was supposed to stand for “category”? Like, search for Tom Glavine in the sports category? But Tom Glavine Cat (feline) Sports is just WAY funnier.
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Good News – scale said I was at 110 this morning. Not perfect, but better than that 111 I was stuck at.
Bad News – went to a web site I did for a guy a few months ago. It’s been totally re-done.
So, that should be further evidence that I am a talentless ball of suck.
ppfftttt.
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One of the latest spam comments I got on this blog was a link that said “How I became an attractive, useful woman.” Should I be insulted?
Maybe instead of being insulted, I should check it out. I don’t feel attractive or useful lately.
For a while I was hovering in the 106.5 – 108.5 weight range. The last few days I’ve been at 111. I know that doesn’t seem like a big deal, and I suppose it’s not, but I don’t want to start creeping up again. That’s what happened the first time I dieted. I started out at 146 (yikes) and managed to get down, very briefly to 110 before hovering around 112. Then 112 became 115, which became 117, which became 120 and before I knew it, I was up to 130 before I started the process again.
I just don’t want to blow it like I did the first time.
And then work…
I feel like I suck at my job. I don’t think I’m very good at web design. I’m decent I guess, but not good. I must not be. One of the clients who had me do a few sites for him has now started getting new designers to make new templates for the sites. And then I have to go and convert everything over to the new design. Basically, that tells me — hey, you’re pretty good at coding up some text and slapping some photos on the sites for us, but your design skills suck, so we’re going to get these people who don’t suck to do it. It hurts, because the new sites DO look better. I know they are better than what I previously did. And it is painful to have to sit there and change the work I did previously over to this new work that someone else did.
But I don’t say anything to them about it, I just do it and act like I’m cool with it. Because why bring it up? Then all that happens is that they’ll have to break down and tell me I suck. I feel like I do, but who wants to actually hear the words?
I guess it’s just a down day today.
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My name's Amanda. I'm 33 years old, am married to my best friend and love animals. I have two dogs - Ratchet and Clank - and two cats - Dr. Nefarious and Zoni. They are awesome. I dabble in freelance webdesign, and I'm also a runner, albeit a kind of slow one. Tom Glavine is my favorite athlete of all-time. 