adding inconvenience to injury*

bruises continue to be purple today.  they don't hurt very much, actually, unless i bump them -- unfortunately, they're in places (especially on my right leg) that it's difficult not to brush against, and even that's enough.  changing into my pajamas, for instance, i bumped into both of them just taking off my pants, and hence the subject line.  but the swelling has gone down, which pleases me, and the right-leg bruise is no longer (quite as) warm to the touch.  (i have pictures, but i'll spare you.)

* my father tells a story about his late mother -- well, he tells several, and they're always funny.  but the pertinent one at the moment is the story where she wanted to see Kiss of the Spider Woman because William Hurt had won the oscar for it.  my father said "Ma, do you know what the movie is about?  I don't think you'll enjoy it very much."  but she didn't care -- he'd won the oscar, so the movie must be good, so she wanted to go see it.  well -- none of you ever knew my grandmother, but imagine a brooklyn-raised jewish woman, daughter of immigrants, grew up in the thirties, etc., etc., etc.  and if you know Kiss of the Spider Woman (also with Raul Julia and Sonia Braga); i mean.  this was just a bad fit from the start.  and my father reports that my grandmother, who often used set phrases in ways slightly other than how you'd expect (she once called my grandfather at work and said "So it shouldn't be a total loss, pick up a quart of milk on your way home"), turned to him halfway through the movie, indicated the screen, and said "For this they gave him an Academy Award?  They're adding insult to injury?"  ... yeah, we've never really been sure, either.

glee

one of the other sop1's sent me the .mp3 of "Canada's Really Big"!  wheeee!

also, today's purchases:  body shop, blueberry body butter and sesame body scrub.  thought it was time i did something nice for myself.  :-)

also also:  why does the dust accumulate like that on my computer screen?  where does it come from, for a start, and why does it seem to love me so much?  plus, the electric kettle in our kitchen is apparently broken, so i had to boil water in a pot for my hot chocolate, which took approximately 15 times as long as the kettle would have.  but!  i will not allow this to ruin my good mood, for i am full of Canada's Really Big and body shop products.  :-D

sigh.

my father's aunt, who (you may remember) was diagnosed with cancer not long ago, has died.

i'm okay -- we'd all been prepared for this pretty much since it began -- but god, i'm really ready for people on that side of the family to stop dying.  any time.