Have you ever noticed....

that you never injure yourself doing something smart? Like have you ever heard someone say, "Oh, I was doing the smartest thing on earth when I hurt my _________(insert random body part here)"? Nope, it's always doing the stupid stuff that gets us hurt. And it's always so embarrassing to admit how you hurt yourself when someone asks. For instance, today I am running around with a pretty swollen, somewhat bruised, right eye. It looks lovely, NOT!!

How did I hurt my eye, you might as, as my co-workers did this morning? Well, ummm, I was, ummm, shooting a rubber band? Who was I shooting a rubber band at is the next logical question, of course. Well, ummm, it wasn't a 'who' so much as a 'what'. See, I decided to be clever last night and shot a rubber band at a fly. Yes, you read that right, at a fly. Oh, I'm sure I could have grabbed a fly swatter or even a piece of rolled up newspaper, but oh no, I had to shoot a rubber band at it.

So, there I was, lining up my shot. I closed one eye to be able to aim just right. I pull back the rubber band to get that fly good and THHHWWAAAP!!!! the rubber band broke and popped right back at my eye. OUCH!!! I think I saw stars. It was a good 2 minutes (maybe longer) before I could even speak, it hurt so bad. I think I'm just lucky that I had my contacts in. That probably protected my eye a bit. I spent most of the rest of the evening with an ice pack on my eye and I'm a bit surprised my eye wasn't swollen shut this morning. It's still kinda sore but I think I might just survive it now.

Fortunately, my co-workers know me and D well enough to not think for even a moment that it could have been him that blackened my eye. Poor guy, he was a bit worried that he'd somehow get blamed for it. Nope, no wife beating going on here. Just plain old stupidity.