Photos! Weasles and New York collages

[ysabet]

^__^  Finally got around to doing something I've been promising myself I'd do since I came back from that trip to NYC last October-- I put together a framed shadowbox of memorabilia from the trip.  Just little stuff-- ticket-stubs and maps, leaves from parks, cards from places I ate at... stuff like that.  But it all means a lot to me and I'm very

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[snotblossom]

Have you tried a vinegar compress on the blisters? I read somewhere it's supposed to be good for that, although at this point it might be a "for next time" since immediate application is supposed to prevent blistering.

[ysabet]

ERK. No. As I've poked the blisters (most of 'em) with a needle to drain them, I suspect that vinegar'd sting like a mofo. 'For Next Time' noted, though; and I know that vinegar makes a damn good compress for strains and sprains-- I've actually done that before. Smelly, but useful. Thanks, though! I'm using Desitin zinc-oxide, which'll heal them well enough; it's non-petro based so it should work well on burns, and it's soothing.

[snotblossom]

I touched the handle of a hot Foreman grill one time, not realizing that the metal plate actually went all the way around the top, including the part you would put your fingers into to open it(how dumb is THAT?) and got one of those FAT blisters on the tip. While I was working data entry. I ended up lancing it, too, but how I wish I knew that quick application of vinegar would've prevented that. I know the blister is supposed to be protective, but mostly it's just frakkin annoying, especially on an appendage you actually want to use.

[ysabet]

**nods** The ones I remember best were skating-rink blisters; I used to skate a lot when I was a kid, and if I didn't wear the right socks or they slid down (or I got into one of the races the rink put on-- I was an aggressive skater)I'd get these horrible bakc-of-the-ankle and ball-of-the-foot blisters an inch or more across, from friction and heat. Those HURT. We had a humongous aloe-vera growing out back in a pot and I'd use the leaves on them, and then stagger around whining about the blisters for a few days. Aaaand then, being 9 or so, I'd forget them totally and do the whole thing over again.

[fergiebaby]

Hmmm...if you answered your voice mail occasionally, you might have been warned about the dangers of hot glue guns...

[ysabet]

If I had been ABLE to get to my voice mail for the past entire week and some, this might have happened. Meh. As it is, it took the phone company a trip and some driving around to figure out that water had gotten into an old splice in the cable (buried, apparently) and shorted it out; they had to replace the line. Phone's working okay now, though! :P

[fergiebaby]

Well a lot of good that does you NOW.
He had to leave on his plane...

[ysabet]

XP

Seriously, though, if he had anything at all to do with a HOT GLUE GUN I don't think things would've worked out.

[werewolfling]

That almost makes me want to go to New York City . . . Almost. I wish my first trip there had been that good, between my mom telling not to make faces at cabbies 'cause they'd shoot me and me being the first to discover a dead body that washed up on shore while we were at the Statue of Liberty, I had a rather uncomfortable time. Granted, I was twelve at the time, but I haven't been able to go back yet.

[ysabet]

@_@... Okay, I just did a sort of mental faceplant about the dead body. Really? Aagh; that had to be traumatic for a 12-year-old.

On the other hand, you mind if I use the 'don't make faces at the cabbies, dear, they'll shoot you' line in one of my domino_effect logs? That'd be PERFECT.

[werewolfling]

Yeah, the statue was completely closed off for cleaning or something so all we could do is walk around, and being the lover of water I am, I watched the harbor, then this thing bobbed into view and washed up on shore. There were walls so you couldn't reach it, but I kept watching because I wasn't sure what it was (it had been in the water a while ~_~) I figured it out just before the officals spotted it, that it had been human. Lots of tourist were taking pictures likew it was so cool. And my mom tried to distract me with food. I wasn't feeling like eating though, I just wanted to leave, but the police boat was blocking the ferry. When we finally could leave was when I started to feel better and I wanted an ice cream bar, but then, we had to leave . . . I never got that ice cream bar. I thought I deserved it. Turns out it was some guy who commited suicide, he'd been missing for like a week.

And yes, you can use the line. ^_^ I don't mind a bit.