summer....it too hot. I get cranky in the heat.....Cora and heat=bad combo.

lols, I still eat ice cream in da winters.

Me too....I could sit and eat a whole gallon litterally.

Sorry for disappearing. Was working on carving a little heart out of wood for my boyfriend.

Awww, thats cute ^.^

True. Shitload of work, though, and I already cut my own thumb twice. -sigh- Fresh wood, didn't bother waiting for it to dry. Not the first time such a thing happens.

Am about halfway done with it or so, doing the other half later.

Letting it dry does help.....but is your finger ok?

Small undeep cut, not unlike a papercut. Only issue is that it went through part of a cuticle, but then again, that one was messed up already anyway. So yeah, long as I don't get citric acid or salt or such in it, I'm fine.

At least thats good o.0

Yeah. Usually I hold a piece of wood in such a direction that if the knife slips, I can't cut myself, but this piece of wood is too small to do that with. Oh well, I'm glad that it happened while I was stripping off the outer layer. Or well, the second-most outer layer, the one after the bark itself. That requires a fairly smooth movement but with, in comparison, little pressure or force behind it. Easy to slip, yes, but unlikely to give yourself more than a few small cuts at worst. However, to shape a piece of wood that's more or less in the shape of a part of a tree-branch into a heart, one needs to use much more pressure. If you slip then, it tends to be... a lot more annoying. xD

I still wish you the best of luck!

my first husband used to carve things.....but he would never let me try it.

why hello iro ^.^

Been a while since I saw you, Iro-in-the-guise-of-Xae.

Cora: Ah, thank you. =) It can be fun, though accidentally ripping open an inch of skin, as has happened to me in the past a few times, isn't so much fun. Also, if you ever decide to do it, try to keep the cutting side of the knife away from you, as well as the movement the knife makes. That way, it can at least never end up in your stomach or such.

Carving isn't that scary, unless you're of course thinking of using your own limbs or such as material to work with. If you do so, try to make it a clean cut and make sure it doesn't infect too badly, that way you get the least scarring. ;)

Cora needs to go for a couple hours. She needs to make soup o,0

Silly wishes Cora best of luck and shall hopefully see her again soon.

Ah, I see. If I may ask, dangerous combo for you, or those around you?

Ah. Long as you know where your arteries, veins, muscles and organs are and focus well enough on not hitting them, worst that happens is infecting wounds and scars. Which usually isn't fatal. xD

Red-glowing metal (well, depending on the exact metal) tends to split open your skin on touch. 'Merely' hot metal objects (and cigarettes if the touch is fairly short) form blisters first.
Wounds near the edge of your socks tend to get infected a lot, likely because of the salt (from sweat) and the sock's fibers make it into the wound.

So yeah, I know. Most of my scars are white or white-ish, so when you don't know they're there, you don't really see them on my pale skin (unless you're actively looking for them), though some, especially those from blisters splitting open, take longer to fade to white-like colors and even then, when it's extremely hot or cold, they turn a color that's somewhere between blue, purple and red.