December 12, 2024

Article highlights: 

  • Celebrating 20 years
  • My first ever blog, 2005
  • egg on my… everything!

I began blogging regularly in the fall of 2012 – 13 years ago now – and some of you were on that early blog mailing list.  But my first blogs began being posted irregularly in 2005 on a website set up by a friend in 2005. 

That’s 20 years ago!  So I thought it’d be fun to celebrate a LOT of years of blogging by sharing the first blog I ever wrote, March of 2005.  It gave me a little chuckle remembering, and might give you a smile as well.

Happy Blog-aversary to me and Cheers! to you, and a holiday hug or two,
Mayet

Egg On My Space

A mishap occurred at my place a few days ago.  It was one of those repeat life-lesson moments one sometimes asks for.  I put a dozen eggs on the stove to boil.  I use the Julia Child method: cover eggs with cold water in pot, bring to boil, cover and remove from heat immediately.  Leave covered for 16-20 minutes.  17 minutes gives me perfectly and gently boiled eggs.  Gentle is important because eggs – whether you’re boiling or scrambling –  need the lowest possible cooking temperature so their proteins don’t toughen and turn rubbery.

So.  While waiting for the eggs to come to a boil, a call comes in on the landline in my office (2005 – remember landlines still being a part of things?)  The water seems about simmering so I put the lid on and turn the burner off and hurry to the phone.  

90 minutes later later, I’m blithely still gabbing it up with my friend when I hear a weird sound on the roof and wonder, “what’s that?”  10 minutes later there’s a lot more clatter on the roof and I say to friend, Gary, “Santa must have just landed on my roof or my satellite dish fell off in this wind (remember those giant satellite dishes on the roof?)

Though you’re probably guessing what’s going on, I’m  STILL not getting it.  Another 10 minutes goes by before a weird smell reaches me.  “OMGosh!” I holler to Gary, “gotta go, I’ve burned the eggs!!”  I dash to the kitchen, over in the other wing of the house. 

I thought I turned the gas off but didn’t and THOSE EGGS!  Smoke is wafting about and that sulfur smell of eggs-gone-wrong will taint the air for months to come.  I turn off the gas burner and survey the damage.  

The lid blew off the pot and hit the 14 foot ceiling above before clattering to the floor.  And oh my!  There’s egg stuck up there too.  In fact there’s egg EVERYWHERE.  12 exploded eggs can cover a lot of ground as it turns out.

One egg appears to have blown across the kitchen island, hitting a glass of water by the refrigerator, knocking it to the floor where it shattered.  A glass bowl on the counter is also shattered by projectile eggs. 

Days later and I’m still finding burned egg bits and glass in things.  And wiping the egg off my face.  The pot, of course, was shockingly blackened but I luckily knew the powdered dish soap in hot water soaking-trick and, amazingly, the pot was saved.

Note to self: new rule, no leaving the kitchen with a burner on, NO exceptions.  But what was that life lesson I mentioned re-learning. 

That’s the funny thing.  While I was still standing in the kitchen waiting for that dang pot of eggs to boil so I could turn the heat off, guess what I’d been thinking?

I’d just asked Wisdom, “what’s the most important factor for making things real in the  physical world… for manifesting creatively?  

The answer was Attention, Focus and Intention.  I guess I needed that illustrated, right?

Give something your full attention.  Bring laser focus to it.  And apply a clear intention.  Without those, what you create can be random and surprising.  You think?  

Well, at least I’m laughing.  And learning.

And sending love,
💗 Mayet
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