Susie's Secret: Tetanus and the tree

Today. Saturday. Mum and dad are away for the weekend (30th wedding anniversary) and cousins that stayed for the night have left. I got a real early start on things today, like 3.45am early start. This is never by choice but just because I am too nice for my own sense of comfort. Somehow I was the one elected to wake up in the middle of the night and take my cousin's flatmate to the airport. I might point out that I hadn't even known her twelve hours. Bah. Anyways got a Maccas brekkie which was supposed to cheer me up a little but as with most instant gratification, left me feeling just a little less proud of myself.

We're having the lounge room floor redone on Tuesday so I ripped up the carpet and the nail strips around the edge. I must have been feeling arrogant in my own invincibility because I was working barefoot. Removing rusty nails with a hammer and flathead screwdriver. No shoes. Stupid. I blame it on the extra corners. So I cut my pinkie toe on said strip of rusty nails. My doctor was closed. I went somewhere else and had a tetanus shot and a nice nurse who bandaged up my foot and charged me $75 for the service: no bulk bill. On the bright side, the floor is now bare and ready to receive the lovely new wooden floors we have in store for it!

In other news, I now have my very first Christmas tree! Every holiday of my childhood was spent at my cousins' place up at Hervey Bay so my brother and I never had a Christmas tree to decorate. We never got one because our rellies would have one at their place which they would decorate before we arrived. Ver. sad but not quite as sad as the two potted plants outside our front door that we draped in tinsel. This year I bought a tree I had been lusting over...a black Christmas tree from Big W! I got to put my origami to good use and hung up other various items I found in my room. I had fun... If one person chuckles to see a rubber chicken hanging from a branch, it's worth it!