ah, the results of too many hours in the car and too much stress

Perhaps you noticed my little blogging absence.  Perhaps not.

Either way, there is one answer for said absence: 

Work.

That thing that most of us head off to every morning has been using up all of my prior blogging time. I'm not complaining- I only have three weeks of it left before our new work/life adventure begins and I'm managing a major project that I.JUST.LOVE in these last three weeks- but I didn't even see personal interweb sites like facebook or gmail until Friday night this week!  

I did see the office for about thirteen hours each day, and as crazy as it sounds, I'm going to miss that.

What I won't miss involves seventy minutes every morning and seventy minutes every evening wherein my stress and over-thinking about this work thing and that work things leads to fingers as you see in the above picture.

Take a look at those thumbs.  Do you see the redness?  

Yes, I bite my cuticles when I am stressed.  

It's a really horrible habit. I bleed, they are painful for the day, and I instantly regret it.   But couple lots of time to think about all stressful things and sitting in traffic, and two bleeding thumbs and some slowly healing ring fingers is what you get.

Is work sucking up your life? Or do you have a horrible stress habit?