If you follow me on Facebook, you know I had a little mishap last Monday. Nothing serious but it did make me break down and pay REAL MONEY for something I have had my eye on for some time now.
Okay plastic money, with real money to follow at a later date, but whatever.
What happened was this: scalding water erupted all over my right hand when I inadvertently slammed my morning cuppa against the side of the counter as I transferred the hot liquid from microwave to counter.
CRIME SCENE:
Notice the disparity in height between the table I have been using as a makeshift microwave cart and the counter.
Never mind that I have been making the transfer successfully for the past two years without incident. SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE. Also, until I took that picture, I had not noticed how ghetto that little area of my kitchen had become. Functional does not equal pretty, apparently.
To prevent any further mishaps, I broke down and ordered a kitchen cart that was too expensive but the only one I liked the look of that would fit in that space:
It is not as pretty in person as I thought it would be but nothing ever is, is it? It certainly tells a better story than the prior slap-dash configuration. Also, notice the equality of counter heights. I did have to relocate the second trash container I use for recycling but it is a small price to pay.
I was finally able to put away the aloe and lidocaine gels and the ice bag at 1:30 the afternoon of the mishap when my hand abruptly stopped hurting. Magic! My friend Alice tells me she learned in her first aid class my hand did not actually stop burning until it stopped hurting, which both grossed and creeped me out, but I was just happy to be out of pain.
LESSONS LEARNED
- I can operate a mouse with an ice bag perched atop my hand but typing is out of the question;
- Putting together a piece of flat-pack furniture counts as exercise, and I have the sore butt muscles to prove it (much squatting involved);
- I seem to have a propensity for burning my hands but this was nothing compared to last time;
- I will no longer procrastinate when I need to spend money to fix something properly even though I am a genius at attaining functionality through jerry-rigging.
