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Approximately three weeks ago I stubbed my toe one morning in a hurry to go to work. In the process of doing so, I snapped up my toenail and ripped about two-thirds of the nail up off of the toe. It was not a pleasant experience.

All-in-all, the healing process went pretty well. I had been having my toe taped up for the first week to help keep any sort of infection out, and also to keep pressure on the toenail to keep it hopefully growing back onto my toe.

Then after about a week my toenail seemed to be doing alright. I ended up going out of town for training for work and during that time my toenail had started to develop a small green spot. Something about my toe being green just didn’t seem right, but oh well.

During the week at training the green spot began to get larger and larger. Up until yesterday, I hadn’t done anything about it. But when nearly half of the original area that was lifted up had turned green, Sonja, Seth, Midget, all combined pressured me into going to see the doctor.

The doctor’s visit went fine. I had a lot of waiting. It took a solid 20 minutes of filling out forms and copying insurance information. Updating addresses, apparently they had my address from about 1992. Apparently I do not go to the doctor enough.

When I finally got into to see someone, I was first stuck with a nurse lady who started wasting more time asking more questions that weren’t really useful. Seriously, how it happened? Does it matter? It was three weeks ago. The damage is done. It’s not like the scenario is close to anything bad. “Oh no, spousal abuse. She ripped up my toenail on purpose as torture!” Really? Come’on.

Anyway, eventually she got a real doctor to come take a look at my toe. Who then consulted with another doctor. After some diddle-dallying they all came to the conclusion that my toe is fine and that I should do nothing. Currently they feel that the green that is growing in my toe is not any sort of infection or fungus or anything gross, but simply the color my toenail turned from having the blood clot up under my toe. However, only time will tell as they can’t really get to far under my toenail to see what is really there.

So basically, I get to wait and see.

In the mean time, they attempted to cut off as much of toenail as they could to get a better look, which didn’t really accomplish anything. Then, this morning when I am trying to shower, I now have stinging pain as the water hits my unsheltered toe, because there is now a missing third of a toenail.

Yay!

A new link I have seen being passed around this last week is that for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. I had originally received from spam mail from Felicia Day to check it out, and then had heard from several friends that it was pretty funny. So by this point, I had to check it out.

Luckily for me I checked it out last night, because apparently it was only available free online for one week only in July as production finished. Act one went up on Tuesday, Act on Thursday, and Act three went up this last Saturday. All three were available only through Sunday, July 20th (yesterday). Not a lot of time to catch them all for free, however they are now available on iTunes for fairly cheap.

Each episode was approximately 11 minutes long, and like the title suggests, was mostly a musical. It stared three people: Felicia Day (”that chick from The Guild“), Nathan Fillion (Mal, from Firefly), and Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Houser).

The whole thing appeared to be a fun side-project for Joss Whedon. Which, I really liked. A lot of the songs reminded me of Sweeney Todd with their happy singing but often about sad or angry topics. In any case, it ended up being a pretty funny short film which I would highly recommend.

This weekend was our yearly Drunk Bus party, dubbed Drunk Bus 2.0. If you’ve seen Strongbad’s e-mails, that is probably a lot funnier to you. If you have not, then I probably do not know you and am confused as to why you are even reading this blog.

The night was a lot of fun. It’s been so long I don’t even remember how many people we had last year, but this year we had a grand total of 15 or so people. We actually had a lot of new faces this year. About half were from last year, and half were new people.

We had several out of town guests that made it back for Drunk Bus 2.0, including: James, Seth and Sharla from Minnesota, and Dan and Jeff both made it down from Mitchell.

All in all, the night was a lot of fun. I can’t wait to do it again next year!

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