I tripped over my dog while walking her this morning. In trying to avoid hurting her, I took a header onto the sidewalk and now have a swollen lip, a bruised nose and a scraped-up hand. Also skinned both knees. I am just happy I didn't break anything or chip a tooth.

Not my most graceful moment!

Except I feel dumb now.

I have to draw circles in my mind (oh, scary visual place of mine) in order to figure these things out. You're not alone, or I'm in good company, whichever way you prefer to see it.

[Edited to {{Robin}} Glad no big damage was done. Oh, and in a lame attempt for a silver lining, that you have a dog to trip on?]

I also want one of these.

Archie McPhee has those!

(Also, I keep meaning to say, I giggle every time I read your tagline.)

Nilly: human Venn diagram. But cute.

poor Robin. ice cream for lunch!!

This is my new favorite site. Abusive stamps! So useful!

Gym dilemma: $16/mo for the one with more stuff, or $7.50/mo for the one that has the stuff I'd actually use, and is less of a howling pain in the ass to get to.

(Huh. Phrased like that, it seems so very obvious.)

Wow, Robin, that's so noble of you to take the hit for the dog. I'm afraid I'd be more likely to use mine as an emergency cushion.

It does sound like an ice cream for lunch kind of occasion.

This actually makes it make more sense to me.

Okay, thanks. Except I feel dumb now.

I have a question, on that quiz, I got all the answers correct except for number 7. I figured out number 7 on the second try, only because I knew the first two options couldn't be correct, and neither could the third, because that's what I'd answered, my first time out. Here's the question:

7. If QUIZ is written as UYMD, how do you write HEAD?

MIEH
MJEH
LJEH
LIEH

They want me to answer LIEH

Now, I'm pretty good at cryptograms. It seemed obvious to me that it couldn't be either MIEH or MJEH, because M stands in for the letter "I" in quiz, and there's no "I" in HEAD.

What am I not seeing? Why is LIEH the correct answer. Now I know with cryptograms, it's not usually a one for one substitution, in other words, just because A stands for B doesn't mean B stands for A, and I'm good with that. But because I had no more information, I chose LJEH the first time out, because there didn't seem to be enough information and there's nothing that says there can't be a one for one substitution.

I feel like it's staring me in the face, but I'm not seeing it.

5) Drum (Played by a Child)

This brings back memories of the I Love Lucy episode where Little Ricky got the drum set and played the same 5 notes continuously for days on end. Lucy started doing her housework to the rhythm, and the high point was Ethel yelling "Fred! Fred! FredFredFred!"