Hella Stella

J tagged me in a meme and I am happy to oblige!

7 things about me (that you may or may not want to know):

1. I hate having a broken or snagged nail. It has nothing to do with the way it looks... It's the way it feels. Even thinking about it makes me shudder... Yuck. Now I've got goosebumps.

2. I am not squeamish around bugs - my first response to a creepy crawly is usually "cooooool!" (this all disappears if I know they bite, so xnay to wasps and hornets)

3. Although I love to travel, I am a total homebody and start to get homesick after two weeks away. Case in point: every trip I've been on.

4. I can sing in Hebrew and I can even do Israeli folk dancing, although I will only demo this whilst drunk.

5. I met Jerry Garcia shortly before he died.

6. One day, I would really like to go here.

7. I currently have a gigantic pounding headache and I want nothing more than to crawl into bed. Oops... I'm not sure that fits into this meme.

I am now supposed to tag seven more people, but this headache has taken hold of my brain and is smooshing it around in my skull. Ever had that kind of headache? Yeah. It makes me want to kill things.

So!

If you have seven things to share, please feel free to scoop up this meme and do naughty things to it. You have my go-ahead.

If you need me, I'll be napping.

I learned a lot of valuable things from my dinner with Heather last night. Lessons about the beauty of friendship, the pleasure of good food, and the therapeutic effect of wine.

But most of all, I learned that when you are cutting hot peppers to throw into your gnocchi, do not scratch your eye. Even if you have washed your hands several times, do not scratch your eye. Even if you are sure there is no way hot pepper juice could still be on your fingers, do not scratch your eye.

Because if you do, you may find yourself in the bathroom frantically dunking your head into the sink to stop the infernal burning. I just kept repeating "oh no oh no oh no" as though that would dull the pain. It didn't. The throbbing, hot, searing sensation lasted well into the night. My BH kept trying to attack me with an ice pack, and I evaded him mostly because I couldn't see him very clearly and so kept walking away. Morty was all, "What's the crazy lady doing?" and I was all "Maybe I should walk into this wall."

Fun times.

Some useful things we've done in the past week:

• ordered a telephone so that people can call us on our land line. not that we have access to voicemail yet...
• ordered a battery for our laptop because our current battery lasts for 0.04 seconds! useful.
• bought a super duper on sale air conditioner so Morty doesn't freak out during the next heat wave.
• gave away nearly everything we weren't using anymore.
• memorized the Primus customer service number. this is essential for new Primus customers everywhere.
• spilled turmeric on the white table cloth and then SCREAMED.

Yeah, so it's same old same old with us. But the good news is that my Mystery Cough is slightly less violent today. It's not rattling the windows anymore.