O right! The denouement of last night's story! Unless you're my sister, brother-in-law, niblings, or best friend you don't know it yet.... I should at least give the end of the story before I cease writing here, set this to private, and retreat to hermitage mode....

Remember how I said I surged the last bit of the power grid to the house to keep electricity until the kettle boiled? I failed to mention that when it happened, I was holding the mug I intended to make tea in and moving it to be by the kettle when all the power went out and I felt my temper flash as I thought, "No! Not until after the kettle is ready for my tea." A small detail that I had my fingers of my right hand threaded through the handle and the cup itself cradled in the palm of my hand when I reacted , less entertaining than my sister's reactions, but an important one. Particularly since if you know me, you know that I tend to release energy through the palms of my hands when doing energy work magic with my gifts....

Anyway. So fast forward to this morning. (power came back on at like 2am -- was able to watch the France match at 7 no problem and my nephew who was off school for snow day district wide cancellation came downstairs at like 7:15 to join me.) My nephew and I came upstairs at half time to check on breakfast and for me to get some coffee. I also went to go make myself some tea to bring back downstairs with me after finishing my first cup of coffee and making a second I put at my spot on the table to have with breakfast. So bag is in the cup, water boils, pour hot water into cup, wait a couple minutes while it steeps -- normal tea making, non? Not today though. Today, when I use my left hand (I'm ambidextrous, my left hand is quicker but elementary teachers forced me to train everything for my right hand) to pick up the cuppa by the handle and the entire cup cracks down the side with a sound makes everyone turn to look at me  -- scalding water boiled to a 212F temp comes pouring through the crack burning my fingers near the knuckles.

 I didn't cry out or anything, just calmly set down the cup in the sink next to me and inspect my hand. (Later I threw out the mug.) My sister immediately asked, "Are you okay?!?!" and came running over to verify for herself if I was truly okay. She asked this not only because mother of small children, but she has known me her entire life and knows that it is my way to stay calm, pick up myself and try to brave face stoic carry on as if nothing happened no matter how badly hurt I am. And I calmly said, "I'm fine. My hand is burned enough it hurts quite badly right now and will likely blister a bit, but nothing major." She insisted on looking over it herself immediately then got me a gel burn pack from the freezer. My nephew later asked if she was mad at me about breaking the cup and I said, "Honestly, when it happened, your mom was more concerned about my hand than the cup I broke." My sister told him, "accidents happen. Cups break. I bought extras of this set knowing that inevitably they would break. I have more cups. I only have one sister. And you can't ever trust her to tell you she's hurting after an accident happens. She'll always tell you she's fine so long as she believes she will be eventually. No matter how hurt she is." (Which is very true about me. Luckily, in addition to studying me her whole life, my little sister is a Virgo sun with a Pisces moon so she's practical, empathic, and instinctively mothering in a balanced way that works well dealing with my Libra sun and Capricorn moon which makes me diplomatic stoic who will occasionally mislead you by omissions rather than upset you with blunt truths but will always give you honesty if directly asked.)

Anyway. Here are pictures from today of my hand when I first did it, when the blisters started to form so I could see what I was doing, when I first stopped alternating soaking it in water and the hydrogel patch so I could instead bandage it up, and just now to see how well it's already healed and me not even sleeping yet to accelerate the healing. 

Jon was teasing me that my bandaids make me look like a drummer with protective hand tape on. 😆 

This was how my best friend reacted when I told her about it because she's picking me up at the airport and initially I was uncertain if the undersides of my knuckles were just mild burns or if they would blister making extra difficult mode my airports journeying on Friday....

I'm planning to sleep with the bandaids on so that if I accidentally pop the two bad blisters while I sleep I won't get blister lymph fluid on the bedding and to reduce risks of infection in the popped blisters. The liquid hydrogel to reduce heat in the tissue that my sister had from her bad oil burns a while back and which I put on can stay bandaged for up to 3 days per the instructions. I intend to leave it on either until the morning or until I shower tomorrow night or Friday morning.... And then new bandages after checking on it following the shower. 

But anyway. Yeah. Remember the use of chi/prana/gifts is raw energy work and be cautious of directing it into or through brittle ceramics. Normally it's electrical currents or lightbulbs I fry, but glass/mirrors and ceramics and even plastics will crack along their flaws if you release energy through them.... I'm just glad that since it was my doing, nobody else got injured by trying to use that mug when the crack split.... Although, when I told Elliot (the 6 month old) who was staring at my hand with the cooling gel pack on it, "Your aunt did something silly this morning -- it was stupid of her and she should have known better." My sister said, "Did you though? Was it your fault you got hurt? You just did a normal thing you've done thousands of times and bad luck physics caught up to you." So I laughed and said, "Alright then. Ellie Belle, your aunt hurt herself this morning. It was an accident, but it doesn't feel the best just yet." At which my sister said, "Better. Luckily, you had your accident visiting a family of klutzes so I am well stocked for burns." 

It'll be fine. It's already mostly better except the blisters I haven't checked in about 10 hours. 

But anyway that's the denouement to the story of last night. 

Et maintenant, bonne nuit. 

P. S. Yes, energy work, taking away pain, healing hands, and accelerating my own healing are among my gifts. There are limits, obvs. But you'd be astonished by what I can do with those gifts....most of my sister's family have no idea how sick they'd be without me here through whatever they caught. That said, healing energy work makes me super hungry, especially accelerated healing on myself