Don’t call me!
These last two weeks I have been having bad luck with things that burn. It all started while making party favors for Ang’s baby shower when I literally melted the tip of my finger right off with a hot glue gun. HOLY SHIT it hurt. To make matters worse the glue was melted into the skin so (and I admit this was rather stupid of me) I took fingernail clippers and clipped the glue right off…..taking my fingertip with it! HOLY SHIT it hurt!!! It felt like a billion bee stings all at once, constantly. Or what I imagine a bee sting would feel like since I’ve never actually been stung by a bee *knock on wood*. I actually had to take a leftover painkiller from my C-Section just so I could sleep.
Next stupid moment…..leaning over the boiling veggies and almost igniting my hair…just like when I was pregnant. That wasn’t so bad. Not bad like when I stuck my hand in the oven to rescue a fallen french fry and burned my hand. Or when making lasagna I stuck my finger into the boiling water. Or dripped hot melted butter down my leg. Or how about when I set the oven on fire while making Joselle’s Monkey Cake….Devil Cake is what it should be called.
All week I had bribed Jeff with this Monkey Cake……will you do blah, blah, blah, and then do blah, blah… I’ll make you yummy Monkey Cake if you do….etc. So I finally make good on my promise and make the damn stuff. Everything is going great until I see smoke rising from the top of the oven. I open the oven and a HUGE cloud of black smoke comes pouring out immediately setting off the fire alarm. Poor Shenzie and Heaten had just gone to bed and WHAMO! Fire alarm. I frantically wave the towel at the smoke detector to get it to stop making the horrible screech while Jeff goes upstairs to comfort Shenzie who is scared to death. I open all of the doors and turn the microwave fan on to get the smoke out….but continue to cook the cake because DAMNIT I want Monkey Cake!!!!! About 3 minutes later I check the cake and POOF! A flame goes up right in the oven. The sugar and butter sizzled out of the pan onto the oven and caught fire. The flames get bigger and bigger and I just stand there watching. I then see my life flash before my eyes…..ok, well not really….but I finally realize I need to do something. This is where you don’t want to call me in the event of an emergency. I run to the stair and yell up to Jeff who is rocking Shenzie back to sleep……HELP! HELP! The oven is on fire and I don’t know what to do!!!! I’m jumping up and down and freaking out, waving my hands up and down like a lunatic. He comes running down the stairs grabs a plastic container and throws water in the oven putting the flames out. Ok, can we all just agree that I had a moment of panic and wasn’t thinking clearly. For some reason I thought you weren’t supposed to use water on a kitchen fire……and as it turns out that is true for a grease fire….not a monkey cake fire.
I’m keeping my hopes up that this next week will be a burn free one!
The invitatons and party bags I made for Ang’s Baby Shower….and in case you couldn’t tell it was Hawaiian Luau themed.
Aloha Ang and Baby
Aloha Baby No Name
More Baby Shower photos found here.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:32 am
You are so talented! I wish I were invited to the
baby shower…..
Rony
May 31st, 2007 at 5:21 pm
You are too funny. I lit my hair on fire in grad school
once… I was really stressed so lit a candle while I was
studying, dropped my highlighter (yes I’m a nerd) and
leaned right into it. Thought, hmm, what’s burning, and
realized it was my head. Only lost some hair, though, no
injuries.
The invites and party bags are amazing. You really do
have a great talent. Plus all that reading you do.
You better stop or you’ll make the rest of us twin
moms look bad!
May 31st, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Ok. Since you have so much “free” time I have tagged
you for a meme! Childhood memories…. Get cracking girl.
Rony
May 31st, 2007 at 6:48 pm
You gave me the “Monkey Bread” recipie about 6 years ago. It is really good, I think you even made it before!!!
May 31st, 2007 at 9:31 pm
But the important question…DID YOU SAVE THE MONKEY BALL CAKE???? By the way, I packed on 4! pounds after eating the whole thing. Yep, next time, I’m planning ahead and going with the “reduced fat” bisquits just in case I accidently eat the whole thing again.