August 8, 2005

• I have good news, and it has nothing to do with car insurance.

  
  

  I loathe those people.  I can’t get their stupid (but clever) slogan out of my head when I say, “I have great news!”

  
  

  Yeah, so I have a personal achievement to speak of. To many it may seem quite trivial but to me it has been a life long battle. It has been a long battle with my folks and most of all with me.  I have spent countless hard earned monies and energies try to compensate for this shortcoming and finally I have triumphed. Surprisingly, I have my lovely little girl to thank.

  
  

  I have quit biting my nails.

  
  

  Due to my past failures, I wanted to wait for sometime before announcing this news to the world. After several months now with no urges, I feel I have finally kicked it.  

  
  

  I thank my little girl for being a little monkey-see…monkey-do. There came a time when she realized I was doing something with my hands, at first she would come over to me and try to get whatever I was “playing with” but there was nothing each time. After a while, I would catch her watching me as I gnawed away at my little stubby nails until finally I caught her chewing on her own.  It was a pivotal moment for me, no longer was I just destroying my own fingers but now I would be the source of another person’s strife with nail biting. (Go ahead and laugh, it’s ok… I can’t hear you.)

  
  

  If you have never had this problem, you may think if is trivial and somewhat stupid, but honestly, it can be a huge self image issue to a young girl. As if there isn’t enough to worry about at that time in a young girl’s life.  

  
  

  So I have done it. I am proud and I wear nail polish often. I don’t like the way it peels off after I do the dishes but it just gives me another opportunity to paint my nails.

  
  

   

  
  

  That is all I have to say for the moment.

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