I'm bored out of my mind. I'm feeling tired and run-down and just overall "blah" right now. Niece came over last night and spent the night, and then this morning SIL came to visit and niece wanted to go home with SIL to visit with her and she's going to spend the night there to get to see her daddy a while too. Tomorrow we're going over to visit and have supper, then we'll bring niece home with us and someone will be coming to pick her up. I can't wrap my head around why she is not spending more time visiting us - it's summer vacation. She doesn't have school or anything, she could spend more time here than an odd weekend here and there.

I somehow managed to get poison ivy. No idea when where or how... all I know is it itches like mad. I noticed it yesterday, when I was getting ready to braid my hair in the afternoon. It looks better today - I did a lot of white-lighting last night, and whenever I'm not too distracted by anything else I keep up with it. I haven't had poison ivy since I was a little kid. I'd thought at first maybe I'd gotten it from the dog, she rolls around a lot when she's out for walks; figured I'd gotten it from petting her after a walk. But, it's on my wrist not on my hands. There's some ivy on the hill by our driveway and I tend to take pictures there, so I'm thinking I was probably lying down to take a picture of something and didn't notice the poison ivy.

My friend Julie made a logo/banners for my WinkElf shop for me. She still has one more to make that she'll get to on Monday. I am really happy with them - I wanted to pay her for the work or send her some free earrings or something, anything, but she just wouldn't have it. So I'll accept the fact that she did this out of the kindness of her heart..... but I'm like my mother, I'll find a way to give her something in return for her work, I'll disguise it as part of a birthday present if I must but I will find a way. I'm not used to people doing nice things for me and not expecting something in return, it's odd... and it feels wrong. I know it's not wrong - but it's so unusual that I can't seem to make it make sense in my mind.

Well at any rate I have some stuff to do today but first I need to eat. I think some ibuprofen couldn't hurt either, this headache is horrendous and it's starting to turn into a migraine. If I take some ibuprofen now it might help keep it from getting too bad.