Sad selfy-pitying story

Payday. Payday party. Not much of a party. Just a dessert. This month: halva. A Mediterranean semolina treat. Pretty easy to make. Especially when compared to what I have been making over the past few years. Really really really easy. En faît. (Don't know about that circumflex. Don't care much either). Indeed, so easy that this would be the first time things went wrong. I went to set out all the ingredients and saw that I was short of semolina. I walked up to the store and found that they only carried semolina flour in the bulk section. It was a finer grind than the Greek semolina I had. Oh well. Half semolina, half semolina flour. Things looked up when I was able to make an immediate bus connection home. Whew. Cream the butter and the sugar. Add the other ingredients. Pour into pans. Place in oven. Set timer. Life was good. After the 20 minutes baking time the halva was golden and...what? Not firm to the touch. For some reason I glanced again at the recipe. It would have probably helped had I added the eggs. Panic. Sweat. Audible profanities in an otherwise empty house. The dog didn't seem to mind. Nor the cat. I took the pans from the oven and scraped the contents into a bowl. Furiously I added the eggs. Furiously so they wouldn't cook in the hot crumbly mixture. Back into the pans. Back into the oven. Should I just start over. I'd have to soften more butter. Grind more nuts. Probably need to go back to the store for something. Lemons perhaps. No. I would just face the music. Let the chips fall as it were. It came out, twice-baked, no worse for the wear. I suppose. The syrup didn't absorb like the first (and only other) time I made halva. How many people have even had halva before? Who would know? Who would care? Now I wait for the appointed time. Should I keep it a secret or try to play it off as authentic twice-baked lemon-almond halva? Oh, and then, on my way here this morning I realized that when I added the eggs, I didn't add enough. One thing is certain, for June's payday party, halva will be served.