Egg on the Ceiling (not on the Face)

[sisabet]

So today I am doing many many things. Actually that is a dirty dirty lie. Today I am mostly trying to avoid going into work even though I know I *should* go in and if I do go in, it would make things possibly much better for many other people.

So instead, I decided to clean the kitchen. While I was cleaning the kitchen I decided to get the ingredients ready for a nice salad that I'll have for dinner. So I chopped some veggies, washed some romaine and fried some bacon. The last thing I did was put a small pan of water and an egg on the burner to boil.

Then I came into the living room, sat down, and opened LJ. Now, the thing you have to know about me and LJ, lately at least, is that it makes me actively insane. Seriously. INSANE. I lose all sense of propriety and time passes and I used to understand the concept of a back button but not this past month. I think I was gone to long offline and my LJ-Senses are all too raw now and I don't have the proper buildup of cynicism and wank that protects most of us from acting ass-backwards online.  I can go to work and have to fire people in the middle of shifts and stay for over 24 hours AND deal with a lice break-out AND run a couple of groups and then take everyone swimming and it is no big deal. I open LJ and I lose my shit.

Issues people, I got them.

But today feels like a pretty sane day and I miss the reports and the links and the general chatter so I sat down to read my flist. And I read and I read and I read.

Then I heard the explosion from the kitchen.

I exploded an egg, y'all. The water boiled away and the egg sat on the hot burner and I guess pressure built up and then it went BOOM and it kinda sounded like a less loud shotgun pop and now there is hard boiled egg everywhere.

LJ is dangerous.

Comments

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I have experienced similar foodtastrophes while vidding, actually. The last time, it was a pot of burned beans. Man, you do not ever want to be smelling that smell.

Don't cook and vid! It's like don't drink and drive!

::needs "Oh noes!" icon::

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. That sounds like something I would do!

LJ is indeed dangerous!

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I am pleased no one was injured in the eggsplosion!

[lumenara.livejournal.com]

Awww. But what an interesting science experiment!

And perhaps it is not LJ that is dangerous, but rather the treachery of salads one should watch out for. *g*

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

*snerk* I could've told you that could happen... yeah, my first apartment? We just moved out and hoped they didn't NOTICE the egg bits up in the vent hood because there was really no way to clean them all out.

(We lost my favorite measuring cup, though, too. I told Selena, Dude, just because it's the same BRAND as what they use in chem labs, does not mean the Pyrex they sell in stores can take direct heat. It was fine until the water boiled out... live and learn, my friend.)

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! Not the first cooking-related-explosion-while-interneting story I've heard, though, if that's any comfort. *Hugs*

[heresluck]

...this is all part of your sekrit plan to make me move down there and cook for you, isn't it.

(I'm making tomato soup tonight! With six pounds of tomatoes that I grew myself! Whee!)

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Some kitchen disasters are just more entertaining than others.

Have I mentioned the time I singed my eyebrow off making gumbo? Damn roux. They don't call it cajun napalm for nothin'

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

This is why I am never, ever allowed to leave the kitchen when something is cooking, not even if it's just boiling water. I inevitably get distracted and something ends up burning.