I wish I burnt my hand on my keyboard. (Actually, I don't -- that would imply something was wrong with the keyboard/computer...)

I actually burnt my hand cooking, of all things.

I've always had an electric stove in the past, and now I have a gas stove. And believe me, it totally rocks. I love it. I hardly even miss my convection oven that the other stove had. However, the whole open flame thing takes a bit of getting used to.

Last night I was in a hurry to finish dinner, and left the handle of a skillet too close to the open flame under a pot. And the handle got mighty hot indeed, as evidenced by the lovely burned imprint of the pot on the outside of my left palm. You know, the bit that leans on part of my happy laptop surface. BUT, I also got it under cold right immediately and treated it, and so instead of being the nasty burn it had the potential to be, it's mostly just a huge irritation at this point. It hurt like a mother last night, but during the night (I iced it all night long, even when I went to bed I kept icing it) the pain subsided, and now it's only an issue if it gets touched wrong.

So thank you all for your kind comments and thoughts. It does seem to be healing fast, is still not so happy, but there was no writing done after dinner. Rice even helped me finish prepare dinner because he's a sweetie, and most cooking jobs require two hands. Now, though, writing two-handed again can commence.

Bloody hell, though, you know? I rarely cut myself or burn myself cooking. Rarely, rarely, and when I do it's always very minor. This time it was a decent sized surface area and really, really hurt.

I'm going to tell people that I just type that fast, though ;D.