I put a cool-ish compress on the burn when it first happened, and it's not hurting too much now unless something touches it. It seems similar to the one I got last year when my arm touched the top of the oven as I was taking out some cookies. I'll keep an eye on it and go to a doctor if it doesn't seem to be healing properly.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Jul 23, 2011 2:39:15 pm PDT #25998 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Barb - Jul 23, 2011 2:48:30 pm PDT #25999 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I went to the local dance shop and got tights, a leotard and a dance skirt to wear when practicing skating. I NEVER wear short skirts. I NEVER wear tight clothes. This going to be hard.
You can do it, Scrappy! What monster said is absolutely true in ballroom as well. Once you get to concentrating on your thing and what you're doing and improving your craft/performance, you'll totally forget what you're wearing.
Scrappy - Jul 23, 2011 2:53:07 pm PDT #26000 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Thanks, peeps. I think you;re right. I see women of all sizes rocking the practice dresses on the rink, and it is about time I join their number.
Barb - Jul 23, 2011 2:54:11 pm PDT #26001 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Encouragement to Scrappy said, can I just add how nervous I am about my upcoming competition? I'm have faux hair! I'm going to have to spray tan! I'm going to be wearing rhinestones at 10AM! EEP!
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2011 3:40:20 pm PDT #26002 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SailAweigh - Jul 23, 2011 4:22:31 pm PDT #26003 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
No shit. Wow.
erikaj - Jul 23, 2011 4:38:12 pm PDT #26004 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
sj, yeah, I used to think it was my job. But it doesn't pay worth dick. And if you're not nice it gives so much currency to the Bitter Cripple thing, and argh. Sometimes I feel like giving up on meeting people in meatspace, period. Other disabled people bitch at me, and Able-Bodied People want to go over "What happened?" for the millonth-billionth time. And if I try to lighten it up by making a joke or whatever Carolyn Hax would say, all I get is the fascinating "Wow, you're sure not what I expected!" or "I think it's so *refreshing* the way you laugh at yourself."(Which,ok, are not Horrible Insults. I just wish people wanted to keep my attention the way I'm expected,almost commanded, to keep theirs.)
askye - Jul 23, 2011 4:43:21 pm PDT #26005 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
I've had grilled okra that was really good. You thread the pods between two skewers and grill it. Although it did come out a wee bit slimy that way.
Dad doesn't mind the slime and steams okra. Which makes it really, really slimy.
sj - Jul 23, 2011 6:12:59 pm PDT #26006 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
We have no water.
A series of inappropriate questions to ask a trans person. Oh, yeah.
Wow do people suck.
sj, yeah, I used to think it was my job.
Yeah, I never did, but the questions have been coming less and less the last few years. Maybe I'm finally getting better at my "Don't talk to me" look.
Nora Deirdre - Jul 23, 2011 6:36:10 pm PDT #26007 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Oh no to the no water!
I decree my pink eyed peas served over shitake mushroom grits to be delicious. Now I need to figure out what to do with the rest of the haul tomorrow...
I've also been blogging like a fool! Blogging about vacation, beer and vacation beer!