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Today was pretty windy, and part of my job today at work was to change the letters on the sign outside. I do it most Sundays, so it wasn’t a big deal. I’ve done it when it was windy before. Heck, I’ve done it in rain, snow, and 105° weather before. No biggie.

Nope. The wind blew one of those black plastic letters and it hit me square in the nose! Now my nose is all swollen, starting to turn purple, and I’ve got this big cut right across the bridge of my nose.

And if that wasn’t the worst part, my nose is so swollen that it hurts to wear my glasses, so I’m stuck being… well, kind of blind. My vision is awful. I’m probably about a foot from my screen right now, and I can’t read the words I’m typing. And I look funny, to top it all off!!

My other minor disaster happened just a few minutes ago. I’m a complete Firefox fangirl, but I guess it has its days just like every other program ever made. I customized the heck out of mine… plugins, custom theme, all these options changed… it was exactly how I wanted it. Nope, all back to default when I opened it just now. I’ve got to start ALL over again! Curses, Firefox!

Edit: Life gets better. Painkillers have made me temporarily forget about my nose, and I restarted Firefox and all of my tweaky goodness has returned. Hooray!

I’ve been getting this message from a million different directions recently… that life is too short for all the crap we’ve got going on. One of my closest friends could have died very recently in a car accident, and everything she’s been saying since has confirmed this. One little thing in your life could go slightly differently, and boom… you could be gone. Life is too short for all of the things we are and are not doing.

I feel like I need to make a lot of changes in my own life. A lot of changes. I feel resolute; I feel like this whole thing is so fleeting and I’m wasting my time with inactivity. I need to get up and go. I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, before you tell me that it’s not the new year just yet… I’m thinking more along the lines of “I want to check back on myself around New Year’s, and I want to see if I’ve actually done what I set out to do.”

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