Let’s get one thing straight from the beginning – I never claimed to be a skilled architect. I am a communication and Spanish major, okay? You want me to tell someone how to build something? Fine. Want me to do it in Spanish? Bien. When it comes to the executive portion of a building project, however, I am most assuredly not the lady you need.

It all started at a holiday party for my college’s club that welcomes prospective students. We planned to have an innocent meeting and holiday party to celebrate the end of the semester--tacky holiday sweaters were encouraged, naturally.

After taking some cute pictures and snaps in our seasonally appropriate garb, we moved on to activities. I worked with some friends to build a gingerbread house. The frosting is the glue and the pieces act as structural parts. It should be fine. Disclaimer: I’ve never really made a gingerbread house, but the concept seemed simple enough.

Well, perhaps it is simple if you have the ability to competently use frosting. To be squeezed out most effectively for purposes of artistic design, the frosting was squeezed from its original packaging into a tube with a tapered opening.

Everything was fine until I forgot one key component – tying off the end. Without tying off the end, I left one side completely exposed and exceptionally vulnerable to my human error. It was like a toothpaste tube with the bottom cut off. As I was focused on squeezing the top part to create the most aesthetically pleasing results, I neglected to realize my lack of preventative measures.

The frosting squeezed out the back of the tube and got all over my hands.

As made apparent in this glamorous Snapchat screenshot, this was not my intention. I tried to salvage the project, but the project only continued to descend downhill from that point onward.