Monday, November 8, 2010

A Letter to Me About my Fingernails

(Has anyone seen those creepy commercials where people are writing letters to themselves about quitting smoking or drinking? I am putting myself in that creepy category with this letter to me.)

Dear Me,

It's time to stop the gross, disgusting madness of biting your nails. You have done it your whole life. If you quit now, by the time you are 62, you will have bitten your nails for half of your life. Gross. You have the tools to stop (Anti-Nail Biting Cream ordered from some shady website online). You know you can do it (you have done it for a few months at a time here and there over the course of your life). When students tell you how disgusting your fingers look, it's time. When your husband looks at you like he is going to vomit while you are biting them, it's time.

So, you are going to post pictures of your nails on this blog starting with once a week until you have quit. Week 1 is going to be awful, especially if a lot of people look at this post. They are seriously in the pits of despair and look like vomit.

Good Luck.

Love, Me

Week 1:

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm proud of you.

Amanda said...

You can do it!

Me Too said...

I gotta tell you - my nails are jsut as bad as yours. And you're right, it is gross. (And if you look back through my blog, you'll see that I have written many a blog about biting fingernails and hoping to quit!)

Last week, I got an infection in my finger from biting my nails. Yeah. FROM BITING.

I had to call in sick to work for a week (I wasn't allowed to serve with this nastiness that might touch their drink cup). I had to have "surgery" (i.e. numbing injection and scalpel) to relieve the pressure (bc my finger tip was turning purple and about four times its normal size). And the pain was horrible.

So. . . . I plan on quitting, too. I don't think I can go through this again. Good luck! I'm right here with you!

Erin said...

Good luck. I know you can do it!