Live to laugh, laugh to learn

So I was thinking, I haven't really told any good stories since Ive been away, just my day to day adventures. Well, it was just a average day or two at home, but ekk... bad news bears. First, we have a dinner date and all is well. I have some free time during the day so I prepare a nice Cobb salad and then when run grocery shopping and I promise to make dessert since Tony is cooking the main course. Well, my US recipe did not work out well, let me tell you. You all know that my middle name is improvisation, so we changed oreos to some butternut something or others, cool whip to whipping cream, jello pudding to home-made custard and icing to home-made chocolate; no worries bananas were still bananas. So we get home and the cookie crumb crust turns out just fine.. I'm pleased. Then, then we get to the custard, which I have never made before, from scratch. I have never used natural sugar before either. So this turns all wrong and it is oozing out of the pot, Tony is yelling at me (sarcastically) and I am laughing pouring in milk thinking that will stop the globs. Well I eventually sift (yes I used a sift) the globs out and thus custard we had, so it looked...hmmm ok. I suppose. But I wanted to make it chocolate and it wasn't sweet enough so my additions of this cadburry stuff they use in tea and natural sugar made for an interesting substance. In the freezer it went with bananas on top. Now, cool whip would have covered that whole mess up, but no cool whip for us. So Sandra insists that whipping cream is worth while. I think I remember whipping cream for Tom and Jerry's one Christmas so I thought sure, lets try it. After beating the crap out of it and Tony on the floor laughing at me we realize something isn't right. But there are no instructions I think "they must be to whip it, cuz who would write Instructions: Whip under Whipping Cream", right? You are laughing, but you know I'm right. So I continue to whip and hey it gets bigger, but it tastes horrid, so I add sugar...ekk..that ruins it all. So I ask "who knows the science of sugar?". Sandra thinks we should microwave it. And thus we do. It all melts, so I just pour that on top. Then, I make some dark chocolate and add that to the top and after freezing Voouuuuaawwalla! ha ha.... It was... hmm... edible. :) Note to you, don't turn a US recipe Kenya. ha ha. Ok, so what happens today you ask? Well, its getting to be dinner time so I think Ill cook everyone dinner, I look at what we have in the apt and think a nice stir fry would be good. Dum de de dum dum, Im cooking away, things are fine and then BAM.... pitch black. Its me and the gas burners. I think oh its fine, maybe the power just went in the kitchen, so I continue stirring until I reach for the handle and grab the pot.... owwww. Yup, learned my lesson. Gas burners off, Anna out of kitchen, lights tested, neighborhood check...yup, darkness everywhere. Hmm, what now I think? Well, I dont want the food to go bad, so I slither my way back to the kitchen zombie-style as if not to injure anything else. Dark in here, like super dark, so I find the counter top, open the cupboard and uf off goes the one woman drum show. I fumble and knock over ever pot and pan. Her neighbors should were probably thinking I was getting robbed. After finding the covers, leave the food and go play cell phone yatzee for the next few minutes. Until, you know me, Miss ADD gets bored. Oh, Sandy has got to have candles, so I text her. Sure, I find some, place it in a Tusker bottle and the cooking is back on. Except now I have only a little tiny candle to light the whole kitchen, but I'm determined. So I have to switch pans as the veggies have been stir fried and now its time for the rice. Well these pans have no handles. So I reach with the kitchen towel (no oven mitt) for the rice to move it to the front burner and not only to I sizzle a bit a flesh but I also start a small house fire with the towel. Frantically waving the towel into the sink I drop the rice onto the front burner and put out the flame. After that squabble is complete I'm putting the rice into the new pan and sure enough a pleasant breeze blows the Tusker candle right out. Alone I stand staring at the gas burners, with a bit of a smirk on my face, probably much like the one you may have after reading this. Having learned my lesson, its bottom-up when I feel my way for the location this time setting the pot down; I relight the candle and smile. I suppose I never realized my great dependence on electricity until now. The only think I could do was watch traffic outside, play yatzee on my cell phone (me and the phone were 2 -1) and read by candle-light. I felt like Laura Engles Wilder sprawled across the living room floor reading and snacking on a cooking before dinner. Just another think I have come to be thankful for; not that I wasnt before, but I realize it more so now. There are times I just want to step back and get away from it all, technology, the Internet, TV, cellphones and just live life and nature intended. Hopefully that trek to Kilimanjaro will become a reality before I leave here and that will leave me with the sensation Ive been longing for. Speaking of nature and lack of technology if any of you see my pops wish him a HAPPY FATHERS DAY for me. I love him and miss him sooooooo much!!!! Daddy, I think about you tons and am so grateful for everything you have taught me in life, I wouldn't be where I am today without you. I love you!!! :) What have I learned today? Take every experience with a smile! Learn to laugh at yourself. I may have struggled, but I still make a mean stir fry. :) Things may not always go the way you had planned, but if they had life wouldn't be as wonderful as it is. :) When people ask me what my plan is in life I always say plan A is to go with whatever comes my way, but if that fails I have planes B though G in my back pocket. :) Have a wonderful day and a wonderful weekend. Peace and Love