ME Whelan Online Writing And Notes: Egg On My Face

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Egg On My Face

January 8, 2014 You've probably heard of the expression, "egg on my face"? Well, I just had a situation that just about wins the proverbial prize (not to mention takes the equally proverbial, and similarly metaphorical, cake) when it comes to having egg on one's face; but it may not be the kind of thing you're thinking...

Earlier tonight I realized I hadn't really eaten much, so I figured (of course) that I should eat. Well, I've been scrambling the occasional egg for several decades now, and never before have I had one pop out of the shell, jump up a couple of feet (or however much) into the air, and land not only on my face and eyeglasses, but also on my hair and shirt! Ew!! Ew!!! Ew!!!

I mean.. When I cook eggs I handle them with a couple of baggies on my hands, use plastic knives, paper cups, and anything else that prevents possible contamination/cross-contamination (specifically, Salmonella). Even when I don't think any of the raw egg has ended up on the counter I do a whole "bleach thing" just in case. So, the only thing that I have to wash (and make sure doesn't have "the wrong" bacteria on it is the pan, which, of course, is heated after it has come in contact with the raw egg.

So anyway (and again) Ew!! Ew!! Ew!!!

This is SO much worse than my previous "all-time-record", horrible, Egg Story about how my husband was watching my little son, my son requested a boiled egg, and I came home to discover that my husband had somehow managed to boil the egg in a way that involved my arriving home to discover boiled-egg bits stuck on the ceiling. THAT was gross (and kind of hard to figure out how someone might do that - and, yes, I'll admit to being a little judgmental about that particular incident and the person who tried to boil that particular egg).

THIS, tonight, is just disgusting! And so, although nobody had to ever know about this "horror", I suppose, at least when it comes to the matter of egg events, I could - at least in some small way - have that proverbial "egg on my face" in more ways than one.

In case you're wondering, I did manage to wipe off enough of the egg to eat the scrambled eggs (what was left of the one that had exploded), but - really - knowing that I had egg in my hair took a lot of the joy out of things. I know that they say when "horrible" things happen to us we must pick ourselves up and "get back on the horse". Still, at least right now and maybe for some time to come, I think the next time I decide that I might like scrambled eggs, I'll have toast instead. :)

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note I

As I continue to reorganize, trim down, consolidate, further develop, and/or otherwise work on any number of my own blogs/sites, there may be the occasional "No Page Exists" message on this blog. That's temporary and not something I can avoid at this stage in my reorganizing "project".

I've got my Google+ profile settings so that all but this blog and a couple of other things are hidden from the public. Because of that, but because I don't particularly want to keep some of my writing a big secret, I'm including a few links that will get anyone who may be at all interested to a page that is far less of an apparent dead end than my Google profile is right at this time. Here's one link:

ME Whelan Online

In order to keep this "explanatory note" relatively brief, I'll write a post (February 21, 2016) to further make it clear what I'm doing with this blog. My plan is to revise and/or delete this note in the very near future, when it no longer seems necessary to include it (or parts of it).

Because I've transitioned from having once used a pen-name to (in more recent times) using my real name, I'm also including a link to my "pen-name blog".

That page is "The Lisa H. Warren Blog"

"The Writing-Reorganizing Project Continues" is the title of the February 21, 2016 post, to which I referred above.

Note II

What's On This Blog

This blog, as its title suggests, is a collection of online writing and random notes/thoughts of its author. Since material posted on or before February 21, 2016 has been imported from a number of my other sites/blogs there's a little bit of clean-up that still needs to be done on those posts, particularly with regard to some formatting issues. I'll be working on improving the presentation of the older posts. There won't (or at least shouldn't) be any issues with material posted on or after the date mentioned here.

Note III

The following is a transfer from another one of my blogs/sites. It appears more attractively presented elsewhere, but I've chosen not to link to that because a) I don't want this blog to be a "dreaded" "doorway page", and b) I'm trying to "bury" (without completely deleting, at least for now) some of the sites where posts already appear. It know there are easier, more automated, ways to transfer material, but with a large variety and number of different types of material to be transferred, I've found that in some instances "more automated" means "further, even if relatively minor, complicating things". In other words, I have a real online mess on my hands. I don't want more of the same, which, for my purposes/aims, often means limiting the "automating".

For now, I'll mark transfer posts as such. (Oh, and way at the bottom of the blog there's a link to the latest incarnation of an old blog. The link is there for my own convenience as I work on things here Links on this sidebar are old stuff. I'll do something with links to new stuff some other time.)

OTHER WRITING

"Other Writing" is a post title (and label) I've used on two posts ("Other Writing A" and "Other Writing B") with links to a big mix of (what else) other writing I have that falls under the category of "free time" or "casual" online. There's also a third post related to other writing, and that describes what much of that "other writing" is and why I included the other-writing-related posts, all of which are dated February 24, 2016.

(In a nutshell, I want those links available on here but don't want to highlight them.)

Also, see March 2, 2016 post " -
A Note About...
Posts/OtherContent"..."

ABOUT 'WORDCRAFTER"

If you've arrived here via my HubPages "WordCrafter09" profile or from any of my pen-name pages here's a link to a blog that I set up as I was making the transition from a long-time, well established, pen-name to using my own name. Until very recently I've linked from my "WordCrafter09" profile to the blog, but since I've made substantial progress with the transition I decided to de-emphasize that blog (while still making a link to it available - at least for awhile longer).

It's not so much "blog" as it is part dumping ground and part explanation. In any case, here's the link (for now, anyway...):

WordCrafter09

NOTE

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Egg On My Face

No comments:

Post a Comment