Did You Know That..

I have a nasty habit of burning myself doing trivial things. It's like my brain knows there's the possibility of getting burnt because the object in question is steaming or feels very warm, but my gut region thinks, "You can handle it! No pain, no gain!" I'm proven wrong every time, but I'll always keep trying to defy common sense.

Tonight for instance, I burned myself putting away leftovers, or perhaps I burned myself. The sensation of burning stuns me and then I never know what to do. I was attempting to take a pot of pasta and transporting it into a tiny tupperware container - we don't have large ones and for some reason asking for help was not an option. I lifted up the extremely hot pot and tried pouring the noodles into tupperware, not realizing that the pasta would overflow into other directions besides where I wanted it to go, then the tupperware would move, because the world is out to make my life difficult. I get the bright idea that holding the pot to my stomach, as I hold tupperware with one hand and the pot/spoon with the other, that it would work. It doesn't. You'd think at this point I would stop, but I don't. I utilize my college sophomore brain the way any college student would.

I grabbed the pot with one hand, used the spoon to scoop dump the pasta into the tupperware container. This worked for about 3 seconds before the sensation of burning kicked in, which still didn't cause me to stop. My method was working - clearly my body would eventually resist the hotness. It didn't. I couldn't ask for help at this point, so I awkwardly tried to save my hand and make sure all the straggling noodles were in the pot before setting it down. At this point in time, my hand doesn't feel like it's been hurt. I'm sure by the time I wake up though, my hand will be blown up with a massive blister, because I'm such a badass.

I just realized using an oven mitt would have been an equally smart idea. There were oven mitts around me too - I guess culinary school is out of the picture, because my brain can't fathom simple logic.