And since we're on the topic of cooking... :p

I'm down on thematics (from all the joyful data analysis crap, I mean "stuff", I've been working on...)

Another occasion of the unfortunate person trying to make dinner, occurred back around Christmas time. The hungry soul got home from a data-analysis type day (oh, joyful, joyful times!) and was quite hungry. So the at this point, the hungry person trying to make dinner decided to steam up some seasonal vegetables, so she turned the oven on to preheat. Well, soon enough, the hungry person trying to make dinner turned around and smoke was POURING out of the oven and taking over the kitchen. In addition, the 2 [insert word "bloody" here...] smoke alarms decided to chime in and join the party! So the hungry and now terrified person trying to make dinner freaked out and opened up the oven to find a roomate's Christmas bread loaf blackened to a crisp. The now-coal-like loaf soon was flipped into the back yard and the hungry and terrified person trying to make dinner (but practically dying from smoke inhalation) frantically tried to turn the smoke alarms off, but was too short [exclamations not suitable for PG blogs would be otherwise inserted here]…. After a while of this kind of chaos, the practically dying, hungry and terrified ex-cook paced back and forth through the house trying to figure out how to tell her roomate about the roasted bread loaf sitting in the backyard in the pouring rain.

In the end, the loaf was just a trial run and Amy, the roomate didn't really care about its wellbeing. But the still-frantic but recovering, still hungry and terrified ex-cook learned even more lessons that day (like perhaps cooking just isn't her thing) and now always checks the oven for randoms before turning it on.

But as Kristy, I'd like to say that I, on the other hand, really am a good cook and people comment on my meals and leftovers all the time! It's unfortunate in this world of telecommunication that I can't attach some reference letters to this blog, so you'd actually believe me, but you're just going to have to come to Halifax to judge for yourself! :) Consider yourselves invited!!

All's for now.
Kristy