Multi-faceted Fingernails and Pumpkins

This week has been pretty busy with work and school and working on glass projects and going to see live music and hanging with friends. Yep, good stuff. I’ve been feeling not quite sick this week but not quite right either. Hopefully that will figure itself out eventually.

So the multi-faceted fingernails – I was working on grinding down the edges on a bunch of glass jewelry using a butt huge wet belt grinder and ended up giving myself multi-faceted fingernails on about half my nails. Just ground multiple little flat spots on the tops of my nails so they kindof look like pink gemstones. Which that in itself isn’t too weird but on a couple nails I ground in too far on the end of the nail too so they hurt and I had to go cut my nails really short b/c they were too jacked up to save. I am hoping the nails will grow out a little and then I can get them buffed and made pretty again. I am guessing I need to up my jewelry prices to pay for all the manicures I will require! Actually I will have to up the prices a little b/c of how many layers I am using now and how long it takes to make a piece. I should have some out of the kiln tomorrow.

And Pumpkins. Well, my birthday is Monday and Elida (co-worker) had a coupon for 2 for 1 spa treatments at Jackson Ruiz but the offer was only good today and tomorrow. So she called up and scheduled both of us to go in for a treatment at lunch. She had a facial and I had a back treatment/message as Rachel (sister) is getting married at the end of the month and the bridesmaid dress is spaghetti straps. Yikes! So now I smell like pumpkins b/c they used a pumpkin mask thing on me along with a bunch of other stuff. Was overall quite nice even though it is a little weird having someone essentially bathe you. I realized how unaccustomed I am to people touching me. Anytime she touched any lower than my shoulder I pretty much jumped/wiggled off the table. So if you see me today and I smell like pumpkins, you’ll know why.