:P

[green_dreams]

Can't sleep. Busy weekend. Finished Marna's dress, barring lingerie guards. Burnt my arm reaching around the iron for its handle, and it's stinging again (it's going to scar; remains to see how much and how long. Wasn't so bad for the first day afterwards, when it was kind of a white patch, but time and Polysporin (read: goopy moisture) have caused it to get puffy/crackly, and a small patch of it has been rubbed raw and is collecting clothing fluff--this is weirdly attention-grabbing).

(EDIT: second-degree burn. Nifty. Oh god, let that faint redness around it fade please...).

No luck on placing Toby (unsurprisingly). Two of the clinics haven't gotten back to me yet, but I expect the answer will be "no" there, too. What seemed like the best bet for a shelter is full and wouldn't take him anyway; they told me one other place I might try was full, suggested a no-kill shelter, and explained that it might be better for him if I didn't take him there.

Will be calling a few other places, and waiting to hear back from the vet. Have pretty much run out of hope, though.

...I completely can't remember what I did on Saturday.

Grandmother's funeral on Friday the 13th.

Something else, something else, something else...

...drat.

(You know, all angst aside, this whole "cannot bring self to get to sleep" thing is absolutely screwing with my hopes to put in extra hours over the next three days to make up for Friday.)

Comments

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Re: Burn: Lavender essential oil (good stuff, not in some sort of a carrier). Raw Aloe Vera gel will also help. :-)

I'm sorry to hear that you haven't found a place for Toby yet. I continue to hope that you will. :-)

Good luck with the sleeping. :-)

- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Hm. Just applied topically? Where would I find that in Ottawa?

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Lavender oil? Try at the Crystal Dawn or at Rainbow Foods (in the west end, near Lincold Fields transit station).
And, yes, just topically. :-)

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I burned myself with an iron once. I hope yours is milder than mine becuase it took over a year for the scar to go away :(

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I don't mind the (incipient) scar so much in and of itself; it just seems like a really inconsequential way to have gotten the damn thing, and that annoys me. (It was a stupid way to get it too, but that doesn't annoy me quite so much. I can live with stupid.)

I should probably iron something soon, just so I don't have a chance to get really twitchy about the iron.

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

I just don't like burns per say. Death by burns (not smoke inhalation) scares me far more than any other forms of demise. I can still remember the sensation, the sound and the smell of my skin cooking on the iron.