The Best Kind of Pie

I pride myself in my responsibility: that I am always early, I get things done, I don’t lose or break things. However, in the past two weeks I have had two fat slices of humble pie, and God is teaching me a lot through them.

The 28th of May was an exciting day, I packed and prepared to take off for Ocean City, NJ, and got to the airport around 7pm for my 9:55pm flight. When I met my traveling companions at the airport, we were all super excited! We were getting to know each other and hanging out. Our flight was to board from gate 33B, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. However, little did we know that in gate 33A there was another flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to take off at 10:15pm. The only difference was that ours was with Spirit Airlines, and the other was JetBlue. Mind you, they were both labeled JetBlue... Confusing in itself. Anyway, what ended up happening was that we thought that our flight was delayed 20 minutes because Spirit didn’t have clear flight postings, and we got in line for the wrong flight. When we got to the front, they informed us that we were in the wrong line, and the rest is history. We had to come back the next night for the same exact flight, 24 hours later.

My next incident happened on Thursday night. After our weekly meeting here in Ocean City, NJ. There were $1 rides at the carnival place on the boardwalk. It had been raining hard earlier that day, and so the ground was still wet. Some friends and I decided to go on the Log Ride, similar to the one at Knotts’ but WAY smaller. In the big splash at the end of the ride I got a bit drenched, and my purse was in the line of fire. I found out a few minutes later that my phone and iPod and all of my papers were quite wet and dysfunctional. I went to the AT&T store the next day and got a $20 phone - no email, internet, camera, or contacts! Super humbling. Also, the rainy day is pictured below!

What I’m learning through these incidents is that I am definitely not in control, and when I try to be I still fail. Yet in these lessons it is easy to forget that the lesson of being conscientious and aware is still extremely important. It’s embarrassing to mess up so many times in such preventable ways.

On a lighter note, I started work at Superfresh in the Produce department, and according to my co-worker, Chris, I’m a natural at cutting and presenting vegetables. So, Mom, all those days of helping you in the kitchen have paid off! I make beautiful chopped vegetable dishes :).