Kimchi: A Cautionary Tale

With all of the Korean mania going on at my house, it is only natural that we should have a jar of kimchi in the fridge.  If you have no idea what kimchi is, I will enlighten you.  It is spicy, somewhat fishy, kinda smelly cabbage.  It's pretty strong, but I like it.  During one of our little parties in Korean class in November, one girl brought something along the lines of a kimchi omlette.  It was kimchi mixed with eggs and then cooked on the stove and man was it good! 

Yesterday I decided to make one for lunch.  I got out our little jar of kimchi, forked out some cabbage and chopped it up.  Then I needed to move the jar.  Why I picked that thing up I simply cannot remember.  With it in my hands, I moved away from the counter (again, why?) and it began to slip from my grasp.  A horrifying image of slimy cabbage and red cabbage juice all over the floor filled my head as I tried to avoid dropping the jar.  I managed to get my hand over the counter/stove, the junction where the two meet, just in time.  The jar hit the counter/stove rather hard and flung kimchi juice onto the surrounding area.  And into my face, my face and my unfortunately open eyes.

Now I've had a lot of things done to my eyes.  In fact, earlier yesterday, we went to the optometrist, who put burning dilation solution into our eyes.  That stuff hurts but it was nothing on the kimchi.  My eyes immediately started to burn, the pepper in the kimchi NOT doing nice things, and making distressed noises, I hurried to the sink.  I had to take my contacts out in order to flush my eyes and in order to take out my contacts I had to wash my hands, especially after that kimchi catastrophe.  The delay made panic a little but I got my hands clean and my contacts out.  I spent the next several minutes flushing my eyes.  They kept burning and burning.  Finally my right eye, the eye that got hit the worst, no longer felt like someone made a mini campfire on my eyeball.  The fire in my left eye on the other hand refused to go out.  After a few more minutes of attempting to douse the pain, I gave up and turned off the water, hoping the burning would go away on its own.  Later, while putting contact solution in my eye, I noticed a small piece of pepper sitting in the corner of my eye.  The culprit was found!  With that evil little thing removed, the last remaining pain went away.

Moral of the story:  be VERY careful when using kimchi.  It hurts like heck if you get it in your eyes. 

This is me

Since I'm approaching the end of my schooling, friends have decided to up and leave me (Liz, I'm looking at you!).  So with encouragement from some of them, I now have a blog so we can be "blog buddies."  Sweet.

As you have noticed, the title of my blog is...a little odd.  It was Jain's idea, since I can't come up with anything.  "It's a random thought!" she tells me and because I have no concept for this whole deal (unlike my mother's themed blog), I guess it works.  So no, this is not a pokemon centric blog.  But don't be surprised if they do make an appearance.  Yes, I am that much of a geek.  And like Liz and my mom, there is a very good chance Asian men, most likely Korean, will show up here.  Actually, it's pretty much a guarantee.  Also, I'm definitely showing off things I make.  Just so you know.

So Liz and Lauren, here's my blog!