It’s iPhriday! I’m joining Lisa at Gray Days and Coffee to post a smartphone photo every Friday. Will you join in? I have 2 photos this week, but I promise there’s a good reason.
My friend and I were driving to dinner one night this week (he was driving) and we noticed how spectacular the sky looked at sunset. He was driving pretty fast, so it was tricky to get a non-blurry shot, but I managed to get this one through the windshield.
I imported this photo into Lightroom to do a camera correction to straighten the lampposts but it didn’t work and I don’t know why?! 😦
Onto the second part of my title – That night, I was rudely awoken by MissG at 3 in the morning and she wouldn’t stop barking really loudly (at nothing, by the way). I guess there was a cat outside my window, but regardless, she gave me quite a fright. My friend was sleeping in the living room and I didn’t want her to wake him, so I gave her a little smack, just a flick really. Of course, I missed her completely and hit mid-air. I let her outside for a few minutes and then we went back to bed. As I was turning off my lamp, I noticed a pain in my hand so I turned the light back on to check and it looked fine but was definitely very sore. I was so tired that I just assumed that a spider had bitten me and that the venom would travel up my arm and kill me during the night. Yes, I’m a drama queen when I’m tired.
When I woke up (luckily) the next morning (Thursday), I couldn’t hold my cup of coffee and the fleshy pad at the base of my thumb (it’s called the THENAR, by the way) had swollen up quite a lot and it was starting to go a purple-red colour. I had an extremely busy day at work, with a lot of driving around, so I just put up with it and watched the colour develop.
Today is Friday and it’s even more swollen, quite painful and has started to go black (if you’re squeamish, turn away now):
Sheesh, I’ll never try to smack GG again. I went to the pharmacy today to pick up some things and asked the pharmacist what he thought. He advised using a compression bandage and seeing a doctor if the swelling doesn’t subside.
Awesome.
We are going to the Taylor Swift concert tomorrow night and I just realised I won’t be able to clap. So, I will send Taylor a shoutout tomorrow to let her know that if the applause sounds a little light tomorrow night, it’s because I can’t clap, but I will show my appreciation by screaming like a teenager instead.
Good grief.
x desleyjane
PS I have a pink bandage for the concert, lol, I am such a child sometimes 🙂
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I enjoyed reading your post (as always) and think you captured the sunset very well all things considered. If you hadn’t pointed out that the lampposts were crooked I wouldn’t have even noticed…but now you have!!! I’m also sure that Taylor will appreciate your pink bandage and your screaming like a teenager. You make me smile 🙂 Have fun and keep an eye on your hand it doesn’t look good at all but I’m glad you didn’t overact and start imagining spider bites and venom killing you in your sleep…
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I know! I am just so perplexed as to why the camera correction didn’t work this time 😭😭😭
Thank you, I hope she loves my punk camouflage pattern bandage LOL. I’ll probably Instagram it tomorrow. Haha, yesterday course, lucky I didn’t overreact 😉😉
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What is it about you Aussies? You’re the third member of my Ocker blogging whanau to hurt yourself lately. Hope the pain goes soon and that you really enjoy the concert. And take care!!!!!
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Oh no!! What happened to the others?! Spider bite? Crocodile? Oops I hope they are ok. And thank you!
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Tripped over cat (lots of bruising I’m told) and slid off box (broken ribs and punctured lung). I’m getting quite worried about you all.
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Oh my goodness it’s an epidemic! Send help! 😜😜
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Or at least chocolate!
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😋😋
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Have fun at the concert and be careful! No more injuries! 🙂
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Thanks I’ll try my best 😀
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I like Taylor Swift
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Me too. I think she’s wonderful. I’ve never seen her live before so I’m really looking forward to it. I bought the tickets a year ago!
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blog about it afterwards!
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Good idea!!!
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I knew about this incident, and still feel very sorry for you, but I think that the only way to recover is to sell the ticket for the concert and stay home recovering from the injury.
That is a much better treatment than going to see TS!
Ok, stop cursing me! Lol
Xxxx
PS. Gorgeous pic!
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Poor TayTay. She has a song about you lol. Thank you my dear. So good to have you back. X
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Ok I now know the song…. Lol I won’t say anything anymore.
Xxx
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Yay another convert!! Xx
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Nooo. Not a convert. Let’s say I’ve been friendly forced in the name of our friendship.
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Have fun with Taylor and I’m sure she’ll appreciate the pink bandage. I once saw Whitney Houston (way back when) with a bedazzled neck brace – it all about aesthetics, lol! 🙂
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Oh that’s brilliant! I hope you were ok! But good on you for going for it 😀
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This so made me laugh! But I would consider seeing a doctor. That color seems to be spreading in your hand and that is not a good thing. Taylor says she understands….. 😀
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Thanks Lois. I’m glad you had a laugh 😀 Yes it does seem to be spreading. I’ve just woken up and had a compression bandage on it all night. The colour is darker today but doesn’t seem to have gone any further. I will keep an eye on it this morning and go if anything changes.
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