You Are What You Eat

You know those days when you wake up and from the get-go everything seems to just go wrong?  Today was not one of those days.  I woke up and actually felt like today was going to be a really great day.  In fact, I had so much extra time this morning I watched a whole movie.  And then things started to go downhill. . .

And it started with a cookie.  A week-old Subway Chocolate Chip Cookie to be exact.  There it was, just sitting on my desk, and I thought, “Wow, that would make a great breakfast.”  So I heated it up in my microwave (to soften it; it was quite hard after sitting out all week) and then ate it.  It was very stale and not very good, but who was I to waste a once-upon-a-time-good cookie?

Well, as you can imagine, that cookie did not fill me up as much as I thought it would.  So I decided to have a bowl of cereal.  Sadly, the only cereal I have right now is also very stale.  Ergo, my breakfast consisted of a stale cookie and stale cereal.

And that’s how my day started.  Rather stale.  My first class was very boring and I wasn’t really looking forward to the rest of my stale day.

Luckily, my math teacher brought us cookies today.  Un-stale cookies that were quite delicious.  Which was a good thing, too, because we all had recently failed our group homework assignment, and that was her way of breaking the news to us gently.  And you know what?  It totally worked!  I mean, I was slightly worried about not doing well on the homework, but the joy of a good cookie pretty much canceled out that feeling.

Fast-forward a couple of hours and I’m starting to get hungry.  Stale cereal and cookies are just not part of a balanced breakfast.  Sadly, there was no time to eat until I went to work, where I got some trail mix from the cupboard of food.  And then things got a little nutty.  I was having a hard time focusing on anything other than my stomach and my uncontrollable thoughts went from hungry, need to work, ooh, 5 minutes have passed, so fast I was having a hard time keeping up.

It’s now almost 9:00 and I’m no longer entertained by the fact that I have not had a chance to eat anything real all day.  The good news is that I have chicken enchiladas in my oven right now (and we all know how much I love those things), so life is looking up again.  Thank goodness for chicken enchiladas.