Lost stuff update, and how I burned myself without noticing
To update on Ruthie's lost stuff at camp last week: It all turned up. Hooray! The missing backpack was indeed on the bus, and the plastic bag containing the other missing swimsuit was in a random "we don't know whose it is" pile.
What I learned from this experience: Not only does Ruthie need help/work on keeping track of her stuff, she also apparently has a bad memory -- at least, perhaps, for stuff that she isn't interested in? ;) Because she told me that she had looked for the missing bathing suit and not found it, but then her counselor said "remember, I found it and handed it to you?" and Ruthie just looked blank; and later when we still hadn't found it and she said "it wasn't there" and I said "no, remember your counselor said she found it?" she looked blank again.
Also, yesterday Ruthie asked me, "when we went to the park, was that before or after the pool?" and she was talking about what we had done THAT DAY! Oy.
Anyway, all's well that ends well, I guess, and Ruthie did manage to get through two more days of camp (so far) without losing anything else ;) so we'll see. The new bathing suit that I ordered for her from landsend.com arrived, and is too big in the crotch, so that's going in the closet for next summer, and I'm debating ordering her another one. They seem to be on sale for only $12.99 at present. I also had ordered new suits for myself and Isaac, both of which fit well, so it wasn't a total loss, heh.
In other news, I somehow managed to burn my hand last night while cooking. It was rather mysterious. After the kids had gone to sleep, I put together some food for my lunch today -- my latest quasi-obsession, seitan (a meat substitute made from wheat) with carrots and zucchini, cooked with garlic and ginger and soy sauce*. I got it all ready and cooked it up, and then left it to cool down for a little while. I went into my bedroom to play on the computer.
A few minutes later, as I was surfing the web, I started to feel a painful, uh, burning sensation on my right hand, which was controlling the mouse at the time. I thought it might be mouse-related muscle strain, so I switched to the other hand. (Yes, I am ambi-mouse-trous.) But the right hand continued to hurt, right in the little spot between thumb and index finger. I looked closer, and noticed something on the skin there. I'm still not entirely sure what it was, but I think it was a piece of garlic skin that had stuck to me. I peeled it off, and the pain continued, so I went and ran the hand under cold running water until it went numb.
Very mysterious. How did that get there? And how did it manage to sit on my skin for 5-10 minutes before I started to notice the pain? It wasn't a very bad burn, because it felt better after the cold water, and today it doesn't hurt at all, though it's a bit red there still.
Anyway, that's the thrilling tale of how I burned my hand without noticing. And I'm eating the seitan as I type this. Yum. :)
What I learned from this experience: Not only does Ruthie need help/work on keeping track of her stuff, she also apparently has a bad memory -- at least, perhaps, for stuff that she isn't interested in? ;) Because she told me that she had looked for the missing bathing suit and not found it, but then her counselor said "remember, I found it and handed it to you?" and Ruthie just looked blank; and later when we still hadn't found it and she said "it wasn't there" and I said "no, remember your counselor said she found it?" she looked blank again.
Also, yesterday Ruthie asked me, "when we went to the park, was that before or after the pool?" and she was talking about what we had done THAT DAY! Oy.
Anyway, all's well that ends well, I guess, and Ruthie did manage to get through two more days of camp (so far) without losing anything else ;) so we'll see. The new bathing suit that I ordered for her from landsend.com arrived, and is too big in the crotch, so that's going in the closet for next summer, and I'm debating ordering her another one. They seem to be on sale for only $12.99 at present. I also had ordered new suits for myself and Isaac, both of which fit well, so it wasn't a total loss, heh.
In other news, I somehow managed to burn my hand last night while cooking. It was rather mysterious. After the kids had gone to sleep, I put together some food for my lunch today -- my latest quasi-obsession, seitan (a meat substitute made from wheat) with carrots and zucchini, cooked with garlic and ginger and soy sauce*. I got it all ready and cooked it up, and then left it to cool down for a little while. I went into my bedroom to play on the computer.
A few minutes later, as I was surfing the web, I started to feel a painful, uh, burning sensation on my right hand, which was controlling the mouse at the time. I thought it might be mouse-related muscle strain, so I switched to the other hand. (Yes, I am ambi-mouse-trous.) But the right hand continued to hurt, right in the little spot between thumb and index finger. I looked closer, and noticed something on the skin there. I'm still not entirely sure what it was, but I think it was a piece of garlic skin that had stuck to me. I peeled it off, and the pain continued, so I went and ran the hand under cold running water until it went numb.
Very mysterious. How did that get there? And how did it manage to sit on my skin for 5-10 minutes before I started to notice the pain? It wasn't a very bad burn, because it felt better after the cold water, and today it doesn't hurt at all, though it's a bit red there still.
Anyway, that's the thrilling tale of how I burned my hand without noticing. And I'm eating the seitan as I type this. Yum. :)