"Am I going mad or did the word 'think' just escape your lips?" ~The Princess Bride

Today, sadly, was not such a good day.  I guess we all have those and I am optimistic that tomorrow will be better.  But, it was an interesting day.

In the morning I went to the hot shop where Mia and I were going to work on glögg mugs.  We were really doing well and Stig-Allen said we had to make 50 by the end of the morning.  We were chugging away and Mia opened the annealer, which is kind of like the shape of a refrigerator, and suddenly out comes this huge piece which crashes to the floor and EXPLODES! All of a sudden I have incredible pain on my lip and I am like "SHIT SHIT OOOWWWWW SHIT OWWWW!!" and Mia thought I got a piece in my eye and I am trying to brush the piece of glass off my burning and cut lip and it just rolls down my lip burning it as it goes until I finally realize to pick it off where it starts burning my fingers! Amazingly I managed to continue to hold my piece in the giant tongs and Mia was able to put it in the annealer while I ran to the bathroom to run my lip under some hot water to avoid a giant blister forming! IT HURT SO BAD!!!  In the bathroom I finally looked in the mirror and saw that I had a cut and 3 blisters forming on the left side of my lip.  When we told Stig-Allen what happened he was like "shit! that is a really rare accident!"  which didn't make me feel that much better.  He did point out that is on my left and I use my right thumb when blowing in the pipe!  I was able to go back out and help Mia work on her pieces but was unable to blow for the rest of the morning :(  I sat around with a wet towel on my lip between getting her puntys and handles.  

After a lunch of sandwiches eaten in tiny bits and ibuprofens I went back to the hot shop.  It turns out my lip was still too tender to move around enough to blow so Mia just made more pieces.  Every once a while she would blow me a piece and I would open it up into the shape of the mug and make the little handle.  It just wasn't the same though.  After a while Mia was done and I helped Rosanne.  It turns out Rosanne was also having a rough day.  She was exhausted or something and just could not think or really function well.  Instead we convinced Stig-Allen to make a giant piece.  This weird Danish guy brought this HUGE pipe for Stig-Allen to straighten and so we convinced Stig-Allen to make a piece so Rosanne didn't have to suffer through any more difficult blowing!  At the end of the day Stig-Allen gave me some of an aloe plant to put on my lip tonight while sleeping... I tried a little when walking back to the house and got some in my mouth and it was DISGUSTING!!! It was like rinsing your mouth with nail polish remover! I couldn't handle it! And when I spat it out it was GREEN! How gross is that?!?!?

After school though.... I moved my stuff into Kirsten and Anniina's apartment where I will be staying until the end of October for them.  Kirsten is away in Norway doing her practical work (where they go work at an existing hot shop for a few weeks) and on Saturday Anniina will be going to Finland to do hers.  Sp, they asked me to house sit for them while they are away.  I will be here, using their reliable internet, watching their better tv (way more channels!!!) and staying in their very comfy apartment! But, it will be weird without them here... I will miss 'em!  Tonight, I made Anniina and I a very tasty chicken curry dinner! I didn't take a picture... but I assure you it was as tasty as it was beautiful... and it was very both!

I will have some pictures tomorrow I promise and hopefully my lips will be much more healed!