Flustered Pie

I had hoped to host my parents and grandparents for Easter this year, but due to “it who should not be named”, our plans were cancelled. So, I thought I would make my Grandma proud and ordered in Chinese food…

Have you noticed the outrageous serving sizes from Chinese restaurants?

I ordered Dinner for Two (Dinner for One wasn’t an option – discrimination? I think so).  

The meal included: three egg rolls, a full dish of chicken fried rice, a full dish of ginger chicken and a full dish of chow mein. How is that considered a dinner for two? Most importantly, who gets the third egg roll?

From the looks of these portions, there is no need to scan the scarce grocery store aisles when Chinese food could last for weeks. It will be soggy, but it will be leftover. 

For Easter Sunday dessert, I had a fortune cookie, which was surprisingly closer to pie than what I tried to create…

In Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair, I was flustered by a massage and today, I was flustered by pie. Two things I never thought would fluster me. 

In the book “The How of Happiness-A new Approach to Getting the Life you Want,” Sonja Lyubomirsky, states 50% of our happiness is the set point we are born with, 10% is life circumstances and 40% is intentional activity. (I’m assuming she never considered a world-wide pandemic when she calculated that 10%).

Pre-covid, I used this book for a leisure education group. The plan was to read, discuss and complete the exercises chapter by chapter. (Now that I’m typing this, it sounds yawn-worthy, but in my mind it sounded life-changing).

To begin I presented the pie chart of the happiness percentages. Then asked their thoughts. The participants decided that life circumstances should be placed higher at 65%, happiness set point should be bumped down to 13% and intentional activity should also be lowered to 22%. My recreation therapy brain instantly cramped up – why not place each category in multiples of ten?

Now, do you think I could draw the newly discussed pie chart? Drawing the chart was not the how to my happiness.

Why are we able to complete a task until we need to complete it in front of others? I’m only kidding. I wouldn’t have figured it out all alone either. 

The residents kindly informed me that the visual pie chart was not necessary, which was a nice way of saying, ‘enough already!’ 

In conclusion, this session may have been more successful if I would have baked a custard pie instead of a flustered pie. I blame the flour shortage.