Fending for Ourselves

Yesterday my mum fell ill. She was feeling too dizzy to stand up and so she was confined to the bed for most of the day to sleep. My dad was at work and for most of the day Aonghas went out to play squash with a friend so it was up to me to regularly check up on her while burning DVD's.

Aonghas had spent all night fixing things on the DVD while I had light sleep on the couch, just in case he wanted to consult me (half awake!). When it was finally finished at 7am we had planned to spend about four hours burning, assuming we had four DVD writers going simultaneously. The one in our main computer was faulty though and the other one was burning duds so we only had two going which meant it was going to take six hours! So I spent most of the day burning DVD's while taking naps in between, as each took ten minutes to burn and we had sixty to do!

The real challenge came at night when us Anderson brothers were faced with the task of cooking dinner. This time we were hoping for something a little more substantial than baked beans on toast, noodles or rice. We sent Aonghas shopping and he came home with lemonade (for our mum!), nachos, two bags of potato chips (fries) and mince.

The fries should've been straight forward to cook, just follow the instructions in the bag right? Well we cleaned the tray, put it in the oven and heated up the oven. After a while Hamish tried pouring the fries out of the bag but he couldn't find the oven gloves, let the plastic bag get a little too close to the tray and it melted and got stuck to it! I came along just in time, grabbed a towel and pulled the tray out to remove the bag.

After washing the tray for the second time, we attempted to cook chips again! Aonghas was in the middle of installing a DVD writer in our computer before cooking the mince. The only problem was we had no idea how to cook mince, except that you have to put it in a pan and turn on the element! I asked around on MSN and got lambasted for being a Kiwi yet not knowing how to cook! Fortunately we got it cooked despite Aonghas pouring a whole lot of cooking oil into it.

We put the baked fries (well actually it tasted a little undercooked...) on our plate along with the nachos with mince dumped on top of it with a bit of tomato sauce, and voilà our dinner!

After that I was waiting for the food poisoning to kick in but I can now announce I did not get poisoned by the food, and our mum made a full recovery the next morning!