like mary poppins' carpet bag.

i really wish i had taken a picture of my lunch from today.  it wasn't bad at all, for this being my second day of packing a bento box.  i'll have to remember to do that in the morning when i pack my lunch.  i was going to take a picture of my lunch spread right before mealtime, but i worried that my co-workers would think i was odd.  the lunchroom was surprisingly abuzz when i went in to eat today (it's usually empty at the time i take my lunch, which allows me the luxury of catching an episode of the bonnie hunt show or ellen while i enjoy my food).

anyway.  so today i packed the pink bento box (also 600 mL), and surprisingly was able to squeeze much into it today.  the bottom tier held the makings of my spinach salad: baby spinach leaves, crushed pecans, dried cranberries, a round of babybel cheese, and a small container of raspberry vinaigrette.  the second tier held two heart-shaped onigiri surrounded by coin slices of kielbasa (remnants from my dad's dinner last night).  the cover had a little compartment meant to store chopsticks, and i capitalized on that space by filling it with blueberries.  it was a lot of food in such little space!  i also brought carrots, an apple, and yogurt for snacks, plus a bottle of ramune soda for my lunch drink.  all of this fit into that little army green lunch tote i had picked up at daiso.  one of my co-workers commented on how much food i was seemingly pulling out of a small bag.  which is kinda funny, because on sunday night i was worried that i'd go hungry if i packed lunch in those small boxes.  looks can be deceiving, i guess.

my co-worker's mary poppins comment brought me back to high school, because mary poppins happens to be one of my favoritest disney movies ever, and my college application essay was one in which i wrote about how mary poppins and i were like one & the same person...practically perfect in every way.  now i know i'm nowhere near being practically perfect in even one way, but you have to play up your assets on college applications to the point of sounding almost too perfect--even if you are convinced (like i was) that college admissions folks simply threw stacks of applications up and down staircases, and the ones that landed on either the top or bottom step were the ones that would be accepted to that college (ok, sort of, but not really).  anyway.  that was a pretty long tangent.

so lunch today was very good.  it looked good too, with all the color variations.  and i didn't eat the snacks i packed (yogurt, carrots, and apple) because i wasn't hungering for it!  woohoo!  ok, i've gotta go pack tomorrow's lunch now to save time in the morning.  i've got a breakfast meeting i need to set up for early in the am and everyone who knows me knows i love my morning sleep.