It frightens* me that I don't rank a notable in the self-injury list. My parents would be so shocked thrilled.

*(and, yes, thrills a little as well)

I'm so proud of all of you.

So I put my ATM card in the machine and get some Fast Cash.

That transaction done, it tells me thank you and asks me to take my card.

This would be easier if the card were out of the slot. Which it is not. I press some buttons and nothing happens. It continues to ask me to take my card. I hear it attempt to spit it out, to no avail.

I peer in the slot and see the edge of the card and wonder if I can somehow nudge it out, poke it a little so that the machine can relinquish its hold on my financial security.

AND THEN IT JUST EATS MY CARD.

"Please insert card," it says.

I'm so proud of all of you.

(You know, on retrospect, I am not sure if I can really work the Botox joke right now. My sarcasmeter needs to be calibrated.)

Though Hil has generally been in the lead, with Ginger close behind, Erin is quickly moving up to the front of the pack for sheer goofiness of self-injury.

At least I'll never ask anyone "how could you do that"? I know that gravity and boiling water and wine bottles are just out there waiting to get you. I've been skimming through because work is eating me from my bottom, but I started to tell Beth about the times boiling water has attacked me. The most spectacular was when the boiling water from boiling potatoes for potato salad attacked my foot ,and I had to spend the rest of the day with my foot in ice water. It turned into a kind of surreal day, in that the Cartoon Network was showing an Iron Giant marathon, so I watched The Iron Giant several times and took leftover codeine pills.

I hope the arm is doing better, Erin.

P-C, I thought of your family troubles today when they announced arrests in a murder in which an Indian man paid to have his daughter-in-law murdered because she was not Indian and he wanted her out of the family [link] I'm afraid this may just confirm your worst fears.

eta: Sorry about the card-eating machine, P-C.

Erin, I hope you are being well cared-for, and recover quickly.

I hate the machines that swallow cards, swipeing causes so many less problems

DH is home , and hasn't killed anyone. The worst of all this is that if this had happened next week - there would have been no one around to fix it til nov.

t tacklehugs beth

P-C, I thought of your family troubles today when they announced arrests in a murder in which an Indian man paid to have his daughter-in-law murdered because she was not Indian and he wanted her out of the family [link]. I'm afraid this may just confirm your worst fears.

Damn. My family's not THAT crazy. They'll just disown me, GEEZ.

t taklehugs Kristin back

Erin, be nice to yourself this weekend