It's Christmas Eve...And A String of Bad Luck

It's Christmas Eve, and is the general deal for holidays with my family, the bad luck has begun.

It started with the stranding of my little brother's most wanted gift. He loves legos, and my mom had ordered him a Lego Harry Potter set, #4840, The Burrow (The Weasley's Home). That gift has been in Newark, NJ for three days, even though my mom had 2 day shipping. My little brother is devastated.

My bad luck started this afternoon. I was walking back to my parents' bedroom to check on my brother and sister, who are watching a Star Wars marathon, and I stepped wrong, dislocating my big toe. Normally this wouldn't be a huge deal, but the pain was so much more intense than usual. I currently have a lidocaine patch wrapped around it, covered in gauze and taped on, and an ice pack over top.

Then, as I was making lunch, I dropped a plate, that shattered all over the floor. As I was cleaning the mess up, I got glass slivers in my feet.

I hope Christmas is better!

Having an okay time, until...

So far college has been okay. I moved in, got unpacked, and have been doing Welcome Week activities. Today, however, I managed to piss off the gods of chance, and paid for it.

I was participating in a competition of sorts, and I was to imitate a Jaguar. This entailed crawling around on all fours and growling. I figured, it's been a good day, so I did it. Right as I finished my imitation, I simultaneously put my knee down on my hand and yanked my hand forward.

Dislocated my index, middle, and ring fingers on my left hand all at the same time.

Well shit. I popped 'em back in, got an icepack from the student center, and kept going.
Fun.