Cake disaster

Ok in the earlier post I let everyone know that I was making a cake today for a pot luck we are having for work. Well...it has been a trial making this cake. First off I got up to make it and noticed my husband bought yellow cake instead of white. So off he went to the store to buy white cake mix. As I was mixing it all together my husband started looking for the pan to make it in and it was gone. I don't know what happened to it. We had a muffin pan that is missing too. So just like socks they are coming up missing left and right. So I made the best of it and found a pan that even though is not ideal it will still do the job.
I continue mixing the batter and for some reason I lift up the beaters as I am beating it. We all know that we were taught in cooking 101 do not lift up the beaters unless they are off. So needless to say batter went everywhere.
I was getting discouraged, like maybe someone is telling me not to make this cake. But I continued. Well I put it all together and I thought "man that looks like too much jello liquid and strawberry stuff". Well I put it in the fridge and went off to get ready for work. I went back to see if any of this liquid soaked in and low and behold my milk that was on the other self fell onto half the cake. I quickly yanked it off and cleaned off the milk jug (was a brand new milk) and took out the cake to survey the damage. one side of the cake is smashed in. ugh! I am thinking should I just put a bunch on cool whip on that side so no one notices it. Do I have enough time to go to the grocery store and get the necessary stuff to make another one? Oh no...I feel sick to my stomach. I guess the only option I have is to bring it to work and hopefully everyone will understand. I hope nothing else goes wrong.....but no one has eaten it yet.......