If this blog is going to center around food, I feel as though I need to open by sharing one of my eating habits: I eat lunch every single day at 11:00 a.m. I have done so for the last 4 years and I see myself doing so for years to come. I recognize that for the majority of people that is a bit early but I can't help it; I've tried to eat breakfast to stave off starvation but my body doesn't react well to that so lunch is my first meal of the day. I have been known to get to work and start making lunch plans at 9:20 a.m. and to genuinely alarm my office-mate with stomach rumbling that starts around 10:45 a.m. and sounds nothing less than violent.
This habit makes days like today very, very difficult. Today my lovely boyfriend of 4 years who I generally only spend time with on the weekends surprised me and asked me on a spontaneous lunch date, a simple gesture which was nothing short of delightful... until I received the message, "Okay, meet you there at 1." 1:00. 1:00 p.m. 2 hours past lunch time. Lunch time is at 11:00 a.m. and Ryan wanted to meet me at 1:00 p.m.
I accepted his invitation because I thought maybe my love for him would overpower my hunger... It did, but just barely. At 11:10 the stomach rumbling began. By noon I was just staring at the clock because I had no nourishment in my body to power my brain. Somehow, I'll never know quite how exactly, but somehow I made it through until I met him. I drove to the restaurant, got out of the car, and as I practically ran inside Ryan asked me how my day was going to which I responded, "I don't know, I think I blacked out from hunger?" We ordered our food and then I strategically picked a table facing a window so that no one in the restaurant had to "witness what I was about to do to that sandwich." (That is direct quote explaining my reasoning.)
I didn't know it was humanly possible to eat a sandwich and chips as fast as I did. Actually looking back I probably set a world record and now I'm sad because I missed out on all of the fame and fortune I deserve. But not that sad, because I had a delicious sandwich with the love of my life... Even though it was 2 hours too late.
