It is the winter of my… no, wait, that’s wrong.  Four score and seven years ago… no, that’s not it, either. OUCH MY FREAKING TOE HURTS!

Yep, that’s it. Its time for my semi-annual, autumn “you will sit and like it” foot/ankle/knee/toe injury. This year’s winner is the ingrown toenail from hell. I’m so mad that yes, I’m going to speak of my disgusting toe. I have a genetic predisposition to this plague. My mother had six of her toenails surgically removed, leaving her with a place she COULD paint with toenail polish, but it was gross. I’m sad to say, that I am likely heading down that path. This shit hurts, I can’t walk without limping and Mary Sunshine stomped my foot while we were waiting for preschool, and I kind of wanted to ask her teacher to hug me and get me an ice pack, while the tears streamed down my face.

I keep asking myself, “where is this on the pain scale?” and I’m trying to compare it to a papercut (annoying, but livable) and a beheading (does not seem like it feels too good), and I fall somewhere in between those, possibly leaning toward the extreme pain level. Plus, my plan to have an online vacation this week is totally wasted, since I cannot watch TV without my brain falling out, and I cannot finish my house purge because that requires I get up, and walk, and I just don’t have the willpower to beat this, so I’m going to say this is one of those lessons from the Universe telling me to relax. And so, I shall.

Over the weekend, I had the rest of my Reiki II attunement. Its somewhat ironic that now I’m laid up with a bad toe (Jeebus, that sounds so pathetic) and I’m doing my very best to heal myself. The attunement was wonderful, and I am still getting a bunch of messages from it like my toe and I expect to still have more to come. I went into it wanting a focus. If I were to take the toe thing seriously, then being online, and letting others help me is my new focus. It makes me laugh, since I’m constantly second-guessing myself.

Anyhoo, I’m all relaxing, which is still a vacation of sorts, so it all works out. I’m going to stop blogging about my toe, at least for the next few minutes. Maybe. Or not.

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Not to be outdone, though, and to wrap up this puppy…

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