Dinner Group Disaster...

So last night it was my turn to make dinner for our dinner group. I had thought long and hard about what I was going to make. At the suggestion of a friend I decided to make Hawaiian Haystacks. I had been to the store and I had everything I needed to start making dinner as soon as I got home from work. Things were running smoothly, the chicken was cooked, tomatoes were diced, the cornbread batter was in the pan ready to bake and my oatmeal cake batter was in the mixing bowl ready to be poured. I had just put a pot of rice on the stove and cranked the heat to high so it would boil. The oven was ready for the cake so I set the glass 9x13 dish on the stove and I poured the batter into it. My roommate came into the kitchen and asked if she could help. I turned to answer her and then I heard a loud, crashing noise behind me. My cake, and the dish, had exploded! I thought I had turned the rice on to cook but I had turned the wrong burner on, when I set my cake on the stove it was on top of the burner on high heat! How stupid could I be? I was impressed, and surprised, by how far the shards of glass could reach, they were everywhere! It was fortunate that I had turned around when I did or I could have been hit with the glass too. Unfortunately, my gravy was uncovered and since glass had made it over the pot, I could only assume that some had made it into the pot as well, goodbye gravy. I also had to give up my cornbread batter(which was made from scratch by the way) as well since it too was at risk of containing glass. It was 20 minutes to dinner time and now I had to start over, plus clean up the HUGE mess that was made. Thank goodness for Jenny!!! She saved my life, she cleaned up the whole mess while I started cooking again, she is amazing!!! As people arrived they were put to work dicing vegetables and setting the table-what a great team! We were over a half hour late getting started but it eventually came together and everyone was able to eat dinner. It is a good thing that I don't have to cook for two more weeks, it might take me that long to recover!!