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Thursday, March 18, 2004

um, ouch

Here's one for the Stupid Things I Did Today column. (ever since I made that comment in the entry last week about how I think I do something stupid every day, I've been kinda keeping track, and it is so completely depressingly true. Usually multiple stupid things each day, albeit small ones.) I was bending over to put groceries away in the fridge and when I stood up I smacked my head extremely, very, really, extra hard against the freezer door handle. I cried, I literally did, and I cannot remember the last time I cried in pain. I don't think I even cried when I was having my third c-section and the anesthesia wore off before they finished stapling me, and the afterpains, and the shameless begging for morphine, and augh. Anyway. Back to the present, I was standing there snuffling and holding my head and kind of rocking back and forth and trying not to cry in front of the kids, and WHACK, I rocked "forth" right into the open front door, end-on, which not only hurt the top of my head and made my neck feel oddly compacted, but it also, well, was really stupid. Meanwhile my daughter was beside herself trying to figure out how to make me feel better because MOMMY IS CRYING RED ALERT RED ALERT -- offering me cookies, candy, flowers ("Let me go into the backyard real quick [holding up one finger] and see if there are any flowers that blossomed and I'll get you some. OK?"). And I now have a really big bump on the back of my head, like I used to get all the time... when I was ELEVEN. And the pain has still not gone away.

While I'm adding things to lists, here's one to add to my Things I Once Swore I Would Never Do But Now Do With Unabashed Enthusiasm (right under "have an online diary"). I am wearing capri pants. When they came back in, first I went, "eew." Then I thought, "OK, they're all right on thin women but they're certainly not for me. They've been slowly growing on me, and then I got a few pairs from a church friend who's losing weight and shrunk out of her 12's (I'll be there someday! I swear! Just let me finish eating this peanut-butter-and-fudge cookie first!), and I've been wearing them, and, well, really liking them. (and hey, I only have to shave below the knee; that's pretty cool, no?) I even wear them with a button-down blouse tied in a knot at my waist. Next thing you know I'll be wearing Birkenstocks and watching cable TV. No I won't.