i am xprt life winnar

For a long time, I've had a dry patch behind my left ear that sometimes itches but never seems to get especially flaky. When it bugs me I put a little cortisone or neosporin on it (or, lately, carmex, if I'm away from where those other things are). None of it really helps the dryness, but it does soothe the itch a bit.

Now I've got the same damn thing behind my right ear. :-(



This morning I got in the shower with my glasses on.



Also I caught my foot in my bag strap on my way to the kitchen and almost tripped and fell on my face. (Not quite!)



And soon I will go have my braces tightened.



... No, really, I assure you, I'm 33 years old and completely qualified to live on my own.

i didn't even know motorcycles had horns.

I've calmed down from this now, since I got home safely and have been here for close to half an hour, but the last mile or so of my trip home tonight was ( not so fun. )

In other news, I have been exhausted for days, and a couple of people at curling have suggested that I need more vitamin D and more protein (both of which sound reasonable). I've also been smelling random phantom smells, and a couple of people at chorus and at curling have wondered whether I'm pregnant. (I'm not.)

In other other news, I have been trying to set up a time for yet another blind date, and have gone ahead and advised the guy that while I am cute and funny (and modest!), I am also undergoing orthodontic treatment. I mean. On the one hand, a grown man who sees braces and runs away screaming is not someone I want to hang out with even when I don't have braces on my teeth. But on the other hand, now that I've given him the heads up, the odds are less that he will go holy crap, this is a thirty-three-year-old woman with braces on her teeth (who plays video games!), what's next, glittery lip gloss and a 9pm curfew? In short, the dates are getting less and less blind as I'm cutting through more of the crap with every successive dude, and right now I'm fine with that. :-P

And now: advil, because the braces were indeed tightened this morning, and ow.