Could it be any worse? Yes, yes it could

Somebody I know did a HUGE favor for me the other day and I wanted to show my gratitude towards them. I felt a thank you note was a little inadequate for the task which was completed. I don't know why but I just randomly decided to make a cake. Big mistake. I had it all planned out in my head and it didn't exactly turn out the way i intended. So let's start at the beginning.

I wanted to make a wonderful cake. This is how it turned out:

Just kidding. I wish it turned out like this. That would be amazing! I wish I could do that...

Anyway, this was my first time covering the cake with fondant. I've used fondant before to decorate a cake, but never to cover it. This was probably my number one disaster. Even though I am in fitness, I hardly have any arm muscle. The first problem was trying to evenly roll the fondant out. This picture is when I had been working on it for about half an hour.

Yeah, I know it's uneven. And very time consuming. I started on my cake right when I got home and I didn't finish until 9:25ish. I gave up for a little bit on the fondant and went for the decorations. I wanted to make a snowman to go on the front, and, of course, he had to be cute. I made a little pipe for him, but it looks like he is sticking his tongue out. It looks kinda ridiculous. I went back and tackled the fondant and it started ripping. Great. I tried to put it together again, but the cracks wouldn't go away so I just threw it on the cake. I put the snowman on and just burst into tears. I looked at my finished cake and it looked awful. I felt so embarrassed at how bad it turned out! After silently crying for half an hour in the kitchen my mom came up and tried to comfort me. It didn't do much. Just look at it and you will gasp in horror.

You sharply inhaled, didn't you? I knew it. I wanted so badly to fix it so I was trying to think of anything to help it. I did something. But it didn't help. I put Merry Christmas on the face of the cake and the letters kept breaking so it's hard to tell what it says. Since my fondant was ripping on the sides, I tried to put holly leaves to cover it up. I took a look at the finished product and started crying again. How could it possibly have been made worse?!
So now I am really embarrassed to give it to the person that helped me because who would want an awful cake as a reward? Nobody!