Oh My Goodness! THE PIES!

I FORGOT ABOUT THE PIES!

Whoosh! Splat! Squish! Laughter!!!!!!

The hardest part about doing 19 before 19 or 20 before 20 and this year's 21 before 21 is that I'm intrinsically such an overachiever that I inevitably do more than just 19 or 20 or 21 new and different things in one year.

And this year I did something so fun and so cool that it blew all the lists out of the water so I suppose I'm putting on a different list - an epic list. As Jenni said afterwards, "This is the best idea [I've] ever had!!!!"

What did we do you may be asking? What was so colossal, so monumental, so epic that I gave it its own blog post???

We

Had

A

PIE FIGHT!

AND IT WAS AWESOME!

One night I was watching television with Mari (I'm pretty sure it was a Mari night at least) and saw someone squish a pie in another person's face and a light when on in my mind. A light that went off in a part of my brain that has not been lit so brightly in quite some time. And I thought, "Why have I not done that?" So it had to be done.

With Jenni leaving for the MTC any day and me turning 21 at the end of the month we all understood the urgency of such an epiphany - so we acted... fast.

Monday 10 January 2011:Pie Fight Day

On my way home from school I stopped and bought 1 Oreo Creme Pie, 1 Banana Creme Pie, and 1 Lemon Meringue Pie. I smiled in my soul the whole way home.

We decided that we would squish the pies in each other's faces first to be sure that we did in fact hit our intended targets. So we all chose a pie and lined up to be splattered.

First up the Banana Creme pie, Me to be splattered, Ryan to do the splattering, and Jenni to record all things splatter.

I don't know if you've ever had a pie splattered in your face, but it's a little nerve wracking the first time around. Standing there waiting for the release is so intense and exhilarating because you have absolutely no concept of what to expect. Will it hurt? Will she miss? Will it be cold? Will it be lame? So many questions being hurled around in your mind as you stand waiting for the pie to be hurled having no idea what to think about or if you should duck because you've never just stood still while a giant object is chucked at your face before so you don't know what the standard protocol is but then again its a pie so therefore WHOOSH! SPLAT! SQUISH! LAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!

And it was done.

You laugh first because you don't know what else to do because honestly your mind hasn't fully had time to process what just happened. Then you laugh because your nose is filled to the brim with banana creme pie and you can't smell anything but pie and you certainly can't breathe properly at all. I couldn't see either because my glasses had been squished into the pie so tightly that when Ryan took the pie off my face, my glasses stayed with the pie. Haha. I spent the next several minutes pretending my fingers were glass shield wipers. Note to self and all other pie throwers alike, take off all glasses, jewelery, and any other removable items that may be affected by pie saturation - I may or may not have found left over pie on my glasses for the better part of that next week...

Next up the Oreo Creme Pie, Jenni to be splattered, Me to do the splattering, and Ryan to record all things splatter. WHOOSH! SPLAT! SQUISH! LAUGHTER!

I slammed Jenni's pie into her face... hard. I remember being pretty worried about missing her face - even if it was right in front of me. Nope, I was spot on!

And then the Lemon Meringue Pie, Ryan to be splattered, Jenni to do the splattering, and Me to record all things splatter. WOOSH! SPLat?....laughter....??

It didn't work. We were all laughing but there was hardly any meringue on Ryan's face and there certainly wasn't any pie to be found anywhere like the other pies. So we tried again. Jenni splattered the pie and gave it a good squish on Ryan's face to try to produce the desired effects - nothing. So disappointing. Note to future pie throwers - Meringue pies are not throwing or splattering pies - avoid at all costs.

So we sat down to have a bit of the pies we'd just conquered only to realize that they were the grossest pies I'd ever eaten. Disgusting. Good thing we hadn't wasted anything delicious. If anything we took those pies from awful to epic in one WHOOSH and completely fulfilled and succeed the little potential they had - they should say thank you.

Off to Macy's (without a star) to buy more pie and buy whipped creme to refill and reuse the other pies. This time we bought really delicious pies and didn't eat them... hmmm we'll work on that next time around.

On our way through the check out line the checker took one look at us (as if we'd taken time to clean up all the pie on us...mine was mostly concentrated in my hair) and asked, slightly concerned, if "that" had happened in the store. We laughed and assured him that we'd thrown no pies in his store and that he did not need to send Bob to clean up isle 6. Relief was visible on his face.

Back home we HAHA! Oh my gosh I forgot about this part! SO FUNNY! Sorry, back home we got geared up for Pieing Ryan take two. The pies we'd bought were in a freezer of sorts but we didn't think they could be too frozen...

We were wrong. Haha! And when Jenni went to splatter our friend, Ryan, you could hear it smack his nose!And I'm pretty sure he was laughing out of shock and possibly out of a little pain. We all thought that his nose might bleed. Turns out Macy's means business when they put there pies in a freezer of sorts... Haha! SO FUNNY!

What did we do next?!

To the oven we went to hopefully melt some of the frozen out of the pies so we could throw them. By this point we could see that pie splattering was quite the messy business so we decided for space and for mess that throwing pies was the business of the back porch.

If you could imagine the nerves involved in having someone right in front of you squish a pie in your face, you might be able to imagine the infinitely more abundant nerves involved in having someone stand several feet away from you and launching a pie at your face while you stand stationary. (If you couldn't imagine the first set of nerves, please don't try to imagine this second set - we don't need anyone getting hurt)

It was terrifying. I had no idea if it would hurt or maul me or eat me on contact or miss me completely. Plus, it was freezing outside so I was shaking already. WHOOSH! SPLAT! SQUISH!...
LAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have ever thought that maybe, just maybe, you should buy some pies and do some splattering - DO IT!

If you regret it, you didn't do it right. Come find me and I'll show you how it's done!

Goodnight, dear void.