Pure Genius

Last night I was making the corn and black bean salsa in preparation for dinner tonight. It involves jalapeno's. Chopped, to be precise. While chopping I laughed to myself when recipes always tell you to wear rubber gloves when chopping. Silly recipes I don't rub my eyes until after I have washed my hands with soap. Preparing food means numerous washings just based on what I'm doing. Humph. I was walking to my bedroom to go to bed when I rubbed my eye...and felt fire. On my eyeball. I'm pretty sure the dog has not heard such quite that colorful of a sentence in a long time. I ran to the sewing room to grab a washcloth so I could clean out my eyeball and accidentally grabbed a rag. Thankfully I turned the light on in the bathroom in time to notice it before I tried to clean out my eye with it. The rag was clean but you never know what chemicals still exist and I'm not willing to chance it. I went back into the sewing room and turned on the light and found a washcloth and then tried to force my eyelid to not shut over my eyeball so I could get the burning oil off. Thankfully I couldn't do it because who knows what kind of damage that could cause. The wet washcloth helped and I walked straight to the computer where I put in jalapeno and eye and treatment and got one useful site that told me I wouldn't be blinded for life, just feel like it for a little while. I still won't wear rubber gloves to cut jalapeno's, but sure as hell will wash my hands with soap immediately following the cutting. Sometimes I can't get over how smart I am.