Go wish Ria a happy birthday!

I got a considerable amount of work done on Live Simply on Tuesday, because I had an unexpected day off. I couldn’t go to work for a completely ridiculous yet completely legitimate reason: I stubbed my toe. But I stubbed it really hard, shortly before I was supposed to go to work. I decided it probably wasn’t broken (I think it’s sprained), took some ibuprofen, and got ready for work.

Then I tried wearing shoes. This made my toe turn purple and throb so badly that I felt faint, despite the ibuprofen. Since we have to wear shoes at work and even my sandals would cover at least part of that toe, I decided it would be better to stay home and put ice on it, as I could not imagine spending the next seven hours wearing shoes. So I put some ice on it and did some cross stitching and reading and stuff. The swelling went down quickly, but it’s still purple. My toe and I were fine at work yesterday, but today we have to work at the bookstore, which involves a lot of standing. Poor little toe.

My camera’s batteries are dead, so I have to buy more batteries before I can take another progress picture of Live Simply. Maybe I’ll actually remember to buy them today. I really want to get this finished before I get back to other knitting and stitching stuff because it’s my first cross stitch project that isn’t teeny-tiny, and it will feel like an “accomplishment” to have it completed.

I wonder how much Ria loves having my Ria’s-birthday entry be mostly about My Purple Toe. Oh, yeah, Ria, feel free to save the birthday graphic, of course. Photo from stock.xchng and by swer_rock.

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