May 12, 2006

I put in pictures on various entries to share our Frog situation, I believe you can scroll down to see them all, if not you can click on the links to the right that say

Procreating Frogs, The Toad Shed and of course... Tadpole Takeover :)

Now, on to the regular entry.

I have been going to feed this cat up on the hillside at an old burned down recreation center that we got a lot of lanscaping rocks from. This cat is the cutest, most loving thing there is and all I have been waiting for to bring it home is to be able to take it to the vet first. I don't want to bring it in if it has something that can make the kids sick or the other animals. I'll have to remember my camera when I go there tomorrow. Anyway, last week when I went to feed it, I stepped on a "Ten Penny Nail" which is a huge nail and is as long as my middle finger if not longer and of course, being as it is at an old burned out building... of course it is rusted straight up orange. I step on the thing and it stabs through my shoe and penetrates my foot. Instantly I feel this foreign body enter my foot and pull it right off.. jerking my foot off while doing that "Two year old scream with loss of breath cry" I rip my shoe and sock off, hopping on one foot while Bill is screaming.. "What happened? What's wrong???" and I grab onto his shoulder. As my foot exits the shoe you can see blood seeping onto my sock and as I jerk off my sock, it starts to pore onto Bill's boot. I swear to heavens I have never bled like that in my life. Now, we have no Health Insurance for me.. and everyone of course wanted me to go to the ER. To which I say... Uh, not for a hole in my foot, its still attached! I'm not spending $150 to have them tell me what I can see... I have a freaking deep ass hole in my foot. Duh! Now, everyone of course was concerned that I would get Lockjaw, Tomain poisoning or whatever... but I had a tetnus shot about 8 years ago... so I had to be ok?? Anyway.. against all advice I just sucked it up and limped around for a week. Its healed over now but I can feel a rocklike growth in my foot and it still hurts to high hell. ARG. The good with the bad people.. the good with the bad. Sigh.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolhoward/145243375/ foot pic :) of course

Laura's friends are driving us to the brink of insanity lately. School lets out and all of a sudden all those jackassess know how to dial a phone! The phone rings five hundred times a day and it is really getting annoying. I am threatening to block numbers, Bill is threatening to pull the phone out of the wall and Laura? She is eating up the 20 boys calling every day. Have I mentioned the fact that teenagers suck I love my teenager?