Monday, September 20th, 2010

Today was an awesome day, especially for Steph. Here's what made it awesome.

1. Steph burned her leg on the handle of the oven...probably a 1.5 degree burn.

2. Shortly after, while preparing the pizzas for dinner, Steph greased the pan and thoroughly spread the dough with grease on her fingers. About to start greasing and spreading the second pizza dough, Joy, alarmed, asked "What are you doing?!" Suddenly it dawned on them both: Steph had "greased" the first pan and spread the dough with dish detergent instead of vegetable oil. An understandable mistake as both liquids are yellow (as shown above). She asked Joy if they could still serve the pizza for dinner. Joy, always the more rational one, denied the request. The soapy dough was thrown into the trash, and they set off to make new pizza dough, only to realize that there wasn't enough oil to make it! Steph ran frantically to the store in search of more oil, cursing the ground for the Latinamerican tradition of an afternoon Siesta, when all the stores close from 1pm til 6/7pm.

3. After returning home, dejected and defeated, Steph and Joy started to walk to the house meeting room for a team meeting. They walked through the kitchen, looking at each other and chatting about the misadventures of the day, when out of nowhere the kitchen cupboard charged and attacked Steph, pummeling her directly in the forehead. She crumbled to the ground, pain shooting through her head and both girls fearing the worst: that Steph might have yet another concussion on the books...Concussion #3. Thankfully, after aid from Joy and their other teammate, and ice on the forehead for an hour, Steph pulled through with nothing more than a large bump on her forehead and a few days worth of pain.

4. During their team meeting and while icing the forehead, Steph and Joy forgot about the first pizza in the oven until it was too late...the dough had burned in the fiery furnace and would be served crispy to the team for dinner. Epic fail.

Epilogue: It looked like all hope for a sufficient dinner was lost until on a walk later Steph and Joy discovered a woman selling things through the locked gate of her corner store, and the girls were finally able to obtain the coveted oil and return home to make the second pizza.