I should wear safety shoes twenty four hours a day. Or just line the house in Nerf ™.
June 10th, 2016
I couldn't drift off to sleep as intended tonight.
This was primarily because I crushed my big toe earlier, while preparing to go to bed. Well, preparing isn't really the right word, since it was dark out, and the lights were off, and everything else was in place for sweet, sweet sleep. All I had to do was put one thing away and crash out on the couch. This is where I've slept the last week or so, so I can be closer to Brenda, you see.
So I went to put this thing away, and whilst fumbling around in the dark, as my night vision isn't what it used to be, I knocked something off the transforming Ikea end table we have by the door. I didn't have to wonder what I'd knocked over for long, for it landed on my toe with the power of terminal velocity behind it. The falling object, you see, was my Maglite ® flashlight.
I said bad words, I saw stars, I cried a little. It smashed perfectly on top of my big toe nail, which has been throbbing ever since. You forget just how sensitive your feet are, but when they get crushed by several pounds of D cell batteries and flashlight you remember - and quickly. So yeah, couldn't drift off, so here I am, yammering away at all y'all about my poor big toe.
Perhaps I'll get some sleep once the drugs kick in. Drugs are yum.