Getting on the dhow for the slowest boat ride of my life, I slipped and fell and gave myself a HUGE ugly scrape and bruise [link] on the outside of my thigh. It left a dent that you can detect to this day, though it has gotten a lot less noticeable. (it's been 4 years. )

It looks a lot less worse there than it was. It was nuts. I joked it looked like an apparition of the virgin mary, because it was shaped a lot like icons.

I've got a dark, ugly, nasty bruise like that on my leg right now. I knew it was bruised, but I hadn't looked at it. I just caught a glimpse of it in the mirror last night and it freaked me out. Most of my bruises don't show up much.

Ouch.

The worst bruise I've ever seen was a mardi gras injury that my roommate had. Things they didn't tell you: spilled king cake and wood stairs = hazardous.

My mother once had a bruise that covered the entire back of her thigh and was navy/black/purple. Ugggh. Waterskiing mishap.

(it's been 4 years. )

NO. Really?? Good lord.

I had annoying transit things BOTH WAYS tonight. Over an hour, each way. It's a 35 minute trip.

Annoying discovery: You know how, a lot of the time, the generic product is the same as the brand-name, except for packaging and advertising? This not true of Febreeze.

My mother once had a bruise that covered the entire back of her thigh and was navy/black/purple

Me too. It was physical therapy.

My worst bruise was, unsurprisingly, the one that spread slowly from mid-shin down to my toes and got infect and required three different sorts of antibiotics before it returned to the same temperature as the rest of my body. Swelling hasn't gone down entirely yet, and it's been at least a year and a half.

Annoying discovery: You know how, a lot of the time, the generic product is the same as the brand-name, except for packaging and advertising? This not true of Febreeze.

Nor is it true with what claims to be an equivalent product to Pantene conditioner. (Target, I am looking at you.)

I am all dressed up and ready to go to my dance class.

I am wearing my Angel party dress, only with better makeup and hair this time. I love this dress.

OTOH, my Walgreens' Pantene-equivalent shampoo is not bad at all.

Funniest bruises I've had were from when the dog was young and rambunctious and would leap at you with her paws when you'd approach. I'd have a quarter-inch wide stripe of bruise all the way down my leg.