Desperate Housewife!

OK so I may not actually be one, but I certainly feel like one after the past couple of days!
I spent all of yesterday afternoon (that is not an exaggeration by the way!), in the kitchen, firstly making a cheese cake,which sounds easy enough.oh no, of course I'm following a German recipe which is written in German,and to my surprise doesn't actually include any cheese.even though it is called a cheese cake.i found that quite bizarre!
anyway so i begin making the cake...which is of course a surprise birthday cake...and using all the gadgets and what not that can be found in the magical Huck kitchen,and who should come strolling in...Dieter!the birthday man!neither of us actually said anything mind...he just left the room and continued pottering about within the apartment...i think he gathered it was a surprise by the look n my face when he walked in so to save both of us any embarrassment he said nothing.bless him!
anyway after the cake was all made and in the oven i began to make the cheese stick twizzley things. so I'm busy rolling out the pastry,adding cheese,rolling etc etc and the oven bees for the cake,great! good timing 'cause i need the space now for real cheesy things! cake is looking nice and golden on top and i poke it with the stick to check its cooked through,and expecting the stick to come out clean (meaning its cooked through) it comes out practically dripping with topping! i was horrified! if i leave it in the oven any longer it will burn and be ruined,but if i don't it wont be cooked and then we'll all get food poisoning! in a panic i call Chris about 6 times until he picks up at work and tells me to leave it 5 more minutes on a lower temperature then take it out and just leave it to cool and it'll probably harden up then. so i cross my fingers and hope and start piling in the cheese sticks around the cake in the oven!by the time Chris gets home nearly all the cheese sticks are cooked (and trust me there were LOTS) and the cake is a bit better in shape but then of course i have to face the Spanish inquisition.or in this case the German inquisition! have i followed the recipe properly,did i whisk the eggs right
,did i put in enough thickening stuff, did i use enough cheese in the cheese sticks,have i rolled them out enough,why are they all so big...and so on and so forth! i just cooked it all like it aid and how i was told to!
then of course we had to prepare everything else,dress the table,bring up drinks,put out glasses and plates,sweep,dust and hoover etc etc. by the time we'd finished there was just 10 minutes before people were due to arrive!
having said all that it was actually a very good night.i think nearly everybody that was invited came and all bought something along too! i spent pretty much all of the evening in the company of Chris and Manfred talking etc. i think it all went well. Chris and i left to go o bed about 11 as he had to be up at 6 in the morning!
so today of course was the big clean up...which i again have sent most o the afternoon doing! once i was finished with washing up,sweeping,vacuuming,wiping down tables,taking out bottles,etc etc I've been so exhausted i couldn't be bothered to do anything else this evening.i sat around a bit and watched some top gear and QI on you tube and that's been about it.i couldn't motivate myself to keep on with this holidays tasks-knitting legwarmers,converting a skirt to a dress and finishing the game XIII. although i did get to eat left over cake for my tea :o)
tomorrow i am going to crack on with my legwarmers and hopefully finish one. it shouldn't take too long now. if i get the chance i might begin work on the dress. and apparently we are going to see Batman at 11pm tomorrow.why 11pm i don't know! i don't really want to go...not my thing. ah well,at least we're going in English!
watch this space!
LG