It's so not just a scratch.

[sarea]

The day started off well. I woke up and remembered to call my father to wish him a happy Father's Day. I tidied up a bit around the house ... not as much as it needs, but better than doing nothing.

Then I was putting one of my large Pyrex bowls away, and it hit another bowl, and I heard clinking as some of it apparently broke off onto the kitchen floor. I thought I picked up all of the pieces but ... I would soon be proven very wrong.

I was grilling a New York steak (my favorite food second only to sushi) when I stepped away from the stove to put the away the pepper ... and promptly felt an agonizing pain in my foot. I looked, and of course there was a large piece of glass from the Pyrex bowl embedded in it. When I removed it, blood immediately started gushing like a geyser and splattering all over my kitchen floor (and on the rug by the sink).

I was freaking out on the inside but managed to get a paper towel to staunch the bleeding and hop to my bathroom to get a band-aid (WHY do I only have the little ones that are only good for things like paper cuts???). The paper towel was of course soaked with blood and the cut was bleeding very freely still. I felt a bit nauseated looking at it (I mean, I know I bleed every month, but somehow that doesn't feel "real" -- I mean, it's more than just blood when one is menstruating) ... and it looked so red. Anyway, I bled through the first two band-aids I put on (but not before I dug out my favorite lime-green slippers to wear as a precaution and promptly stained them :( ), but the third and fourth seem to have done the trick.

To make myself feel better, I started reading Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella (author of the Shopaholic books, which I still haven't read), and ended up gorging the whole thing -- I just could not put it down. It was most excellent, exactly what I needed/expected from the book -- fun chick lit with some t00by romance. And I liked the heroine. The hero was so Ron Livingston. They ought to make this into a romcom.

Blurb from Publisher's Weekly:

Things are suddenly starting to look up for the hapless but optimistic Emma Corrigan. She has kept her job at Panther Cola for nearly a year, has the perfect boyfriend and hopes for a promotion to marketing executive should her first opportunity to strut her stuff and land a business deal be successful. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned, and on her unusually turbulent return flight from a disappointing client meeting, in a terrified state, she confesses her innermost secrets to the good-looking stranger sitting beside her. When she shows up at work the next morning, she is horrified to discover that her mystery man is none other than the revered and brilliant Jack Harper, American CEO of Panther Cola, on a weeklong visit to the company's U.K. branch. Thus begins a series of chaotic, emotionally exhausting and funny episodes that thrust Emma, with her workaholic best friend, Lissy, and their awful flatmate Jemima, into a world of fairy tales, secrets and deceit.

Speaking of romcoms ... I saw Chasing Liberty yesterday, and really, really liked it. All right, I like Mandy Moore. But this Matthew Goode person was completely unexpected. Ohmygawd hot. Deep voice, British accent. YUM. And while the story was of course silly (she's the First Daughter, he's a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting her, though she doesn't know it...), something really worked. I think his initials were MG. :D

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Ugh, How to Deal was TERRIBLE. Not only was it just bad, plot/writing wise, but I didn't find the guy attractive at all. Chasing Liberty is much better in all respects. If you like MM, I can almost guarantee you'll like CL. :D