Fingernails - Update #2

Don't ask.

I will be starting all over again tomorrow. It was a rough week.

Fingernails - Update #1

I am doing alright with my quitting. The hard part is when they start growing a bit, they have really bad jagged edges. This is when I would naturally bite them right off. Just yesterday, I filed the jagged edges down. I am also dealing with the bad cuticles. You can probably see this in the picture with a sore on my ring finger. So disgusting. But, the good news is, looking at these pictures makes me want to vomit. So, I look at them everyday.

Start of Week 1.

Start of Week 3. Do you see the white at the edges?

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: