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I am being WAY lazier than I oughta be this morning....considering I have more cookies to make, presents to wrap and clothing to plan for the next 2 days. Did I mention that I have two black eyes to try and "make-up?" This is the most bizarre thing! I think I've only had a black eye two other times in my life. the first was when I was in about 2nd grade and got hit in the eye with a baseball. The second time was when I was 19 and in a car wreck. Now I have 2 in one week! What are the odds? The first one....don't laugh....I got up in the middle of the night and went to the kitchen the other night. Now mind you, I never turn a light on when I get up at night but it isn't THAT dark and I know my way around the house pretty well. Anyway, I walked right smack into the corner of one of the hall closets. Caught me right above the eyebrow of my left eye. If the discoloration would've stayed there, my bangs would've covered it up....but NOOOOOO. My whole eye swelled up and turned black and purple. that was a week ago. The swelling is down, but the discoloration isn't improving much. Well, anyway, as if that wasn't bad enough, Friday night I was looking through my scrapbooks for a specific page. Now some of my scrapbooks are the big 12 x 12 ones. I smacked myself in the OTHER eye with the corner of one of the scrapbooks. It isn't as bad as the first one, but it is black underneath, too!

The day after I got the first black eye, I had to go to an MDT meeting....we have them monthly to review cases in common. These are meetings that include representatives of our agency, several state and local law enforcement agencies, schools, prosecutor's office, juvenile probation, hospital, etc. You can bet that was fun trying to explain a very nasty looking black eye to a room full of naturally suspicious people. LOL!