Finally Friday! Thank goodness! It has been a long week of trying to get out of holiday mode and back to regular life. This hasn't been achieved very well. I have managed to get to work on time every day this week (except Wednesday when I had to scrape the inside of all of my windows in my car in order to drive safely), and I have eaten breakfast at home every day this week, but the lunches are something to be improved on. I am trying (so hard) to bring a lunch to work everyday, but I always manage to not get there. I have tried everything from packing it the night before, to waking up a half hour earlier to even deliberately not packing something and planning on coming home... I have the hardest time not buying lunch! I just love the idea of someone else making my lunch for me (fresh). I don't know where I got this idea, I always had a packed lunch when I went to school. I had my purple lunch bag, freezer pack and my half of a bologna sandwich (with mustard and until about the 6th grade, butter), with a juice box, apple and often a pudding too, and I was content. It was predictable but I looked forward to it every day. Why is it that I cannot just love it again? Maybe it's the lunch bag? I don't have one... I just take my lunch in my tote bag with my book or whatever else I'm carrying back and forth. Maybe it's the ice pack. The mini fridge at work freezes everything and I can't stand cold bread, maybe the ice pack kept it just cold enough to be salmonella-free but not freeze the bread? I love juice boxes, so I know that's not it... in fact, I don't care how I get my juice or water, that has no effect on the enjoyment of my lunch. The apple, on the other hand, makes me hungry. I love apples, but as soon as I'm done it, I want to eat everything!! I don't get pudding (often) as it contains a lot of milk and I'm (sometimes) lactose sensitive... but it can't be that. I guess I will never know. My lunch box has been gone for a long time (I think that happened around the time that we had duct taped it 5 times and the zipper finally broke). The ice pack had to be retired after it was put in a plastic baggie due to leaking potentially harmful liquid all over the aforementioned purple lunch box. Maybe it was the combination of those key elements, or maybe that it was the wonderful lady who made those lunches for me every morning. If only I lived closer to home, maybe Mom would pack me a lunch to see if that was the element that is missing. Whatever it is, I need to figure out a solution. Buying your lunch out is expensive, often not so nutritious and ridiculous. When you live in a small enough town, you get remembered. My order has already been memorized at 2 local haunts, I really can't keep making such a wonderful impression!
- E
Erin, this is hilarious! :) I had to resort to the plastic baggie for the ice pack too, so it didn't leak harmful chemicals over my lunch as well! hehe I've found a good way to go about taking lunch to work though, just make a little extra of dinner the night before (ta-da, instant lunch) And since you had extra from dinner, it's already in a little container or baggie and away you go :)
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