I broke my toe. Stubbed it on one of J's work boots while I was getting something out of the dryer at quarter to five. He was laughing at me for complaining at first, then I sent his a picture text of my toe after first period. It's a brilliant shade of fuschia on one side with a royal purple darkening to navy blue on the other side (that's the side that actually broke). Absolutely beautiful. My students were awesome about it though. They got me ice and tried to find ways to keep me off my feet. I have some great kids this year.

Doctor's appointments and life in general

This weekend I got sunburnt. Really sunburnt, sun poisoning sunburnt. And it was only on my face and arms. You know, the places people see when I'm at work. Awesome! I was at J's rugby game, and I freely admit I was not paying any attention. Usually I pay attention to the games; I'm learning how to keep score (have you ever tried to figure out rugby? it's hard!) and I hang out with the wives and girlfriends. One of the wives (Stephanie) brought her 16 day old twins! So adorable. I kept having to walk away becuase I get baby fever whenever I see babies. I know that babies are hard and I definitely know I'm not emotionally or financially ready quite yet (not to mention that pesky marriage thing) but there's something about bringing a new life into the world with the person you love most that gets to me. Anyway, no more babies. I shouldn't even look at them. Back to sunburn. I actually spent most of the game sitting in a chair reading a book. I cannot remember which one. I know it's a book I've read a million times because I haven't been to Barnes and Noble in months (and yes, it is killing me). Ah well.

My week got even better when I went to the doctor to establish primary care. I haven't been to a doctor for a check up in years, so it was much needed. I had to go back for labs yesterday because I hadn't fasted and that was horrible. I have the world's worst veins. They are hard to find and they are really deep so it took what seemed like ages to find one and when the needle went in the lab tech lost the vein...great. She had to go to the other arm and I ended up getting stuck right over a bone. Horrible. She laughed when I asked her at the end if she now understood why I hate needles.

I found out today that over the course of the next few weeks I will miss significant instruction time. Thank you explore test, PSAT and pep rallies. I am a teacher. I hate missing class time. It gets to me. I haven't done my glucose test for the doctor yet because I refuse to take off work. I'm trying to find a day when I can leave around 12:30ish so I will only miss teaching one class as opposed to 4 classes. Hopefully it will work out.