tonight i installed a new toilet seat in my bathroom. a piece of the old one had dropped into the bowl a couple days ago and i was unable to retrieve it before it got flushed away.
that's all you need to know about that.
anyway, tonight i was on my hands and knees installing a new seat. as i reached around and under the bowl to tighten the screw, i bonked my head on the table that sits beside the toilet. the pointy wood corner clobbered me right in the middle of my forehead.
i cursed and felt really stupid for a minute, and then i finished the project. but a half-hour later i happened to glance in the mirror and saw i had a nicely-formed welt the size of a walnut. not pretty.
i put ice on it, but that immediately gave me a headache so i stopped after just a couple of minutes. after dinner i laid on the couch and watched "meet the parents." (i must be the last person in america to see that movie, but it seemed the right kind of thing to watch while nursing a mild concussion).
it's now a couple of hours later, and i still have a substantial bump on my noggin. it's not red anymore, but it's still tender to the touch.
i'm telling you this story so you won't get the wrong idea when you hear me say that a toilet caused my concussion.
Posted by xta at February 22, 2005 12:55 AM | TrackBackEek.....hope the welt goes down soon.
Re: your last couple posts: You make all this home improvement stuff seem so easy but I think it's just that you are a home improvment goddess....it's not coming that easily for my husband and I. We keep coming up with projects we'd like to tackle only to realize that it costs more than we think or requires more skill than we have and therefore isn't worth the effort. Your blog is such an inspiration to me.
Posted by: lainey at February 22, 2005 09:43 AMthanks, lainey! i've really come to accept that if you believe you can tackle a project, there's no stopping you. yeah, the money can be a problem, but that's all the more reason to do it yourself...
watch some HGTV and you'll feel like you can do anything! :-)
Posted by: christa at February 22, 2005 10:49 AM