It's not like I'm a beginner cook. By the time I finished high school, I was cooking full meals without assistance from my mom, because I had a job that took me out of the house during the dinner hour and she refused to cook twice. At this point, that means I've been cooking and baking for 2/3 of my life. 
So you'd think I'd know better than to try to bake two completely different things at the same time. But it was a hot day, and I wanted the oven on for as little time as possible. I thought that I could get the brownies mixed and the blueberry muffins into the muffin cups and everything into the oven all at once. I got out my two big batter bowls and got started on the ingredients. Right off the bat I made my first mistake by putting the wet ingredients for the muffins in the big batter bowl (dry's supposed to go in there first!) But I figured I could make it work. And then I took the Hershey's syrup out of the fridge--it's the secret ingredient in my box-mix brownies. I poured a generous shot of syrup into the wrong batter bowl: the one meant for the blueberry muffins.
I'd finished off the carton of eggs in the kitchen, so I went to our spare fridge and retrieved the carton I had out there. Note to self: that was the last of the eggs. After dumping out the ruined batter, I went to crack an egg and discovered that those eggs were frozen.
My kind neighbor talked me down from the ledge, handed me two eggs to borrow, and told me that while she completely understood my reasons for attempting to bake two things at once, I shouldn't try it again this evening. Gratefully, I accepted the eggs and the advice.
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