The Perfect Lunch Break
Because I am serious on working on my Bree-ness I did two things:
1. I established The Perfect Lunch Break à la Bree.
2. I bought a little cook (or rather bake) book with recipes for muffins, brownies, cakes, bagels and other yummy things of the like.
Elucidation on 1:
Until recently I had The Most Common Lunch Break. It included going down to the canteen and eat not-so-very-healthy food, because I need to eat during the day and there weren’t many choices. I only came to praise the staff restaurant at my old company, because the food really was better and there were a lot of choices, including pasta, a huge salad & antipasti bar and vegetarian.
Now? Not so much.
Then I read that it is highly recommended that you really do relax during your lunch break. You should take a walk, breathe some fresh air and clear your head a little. The thing is: you can’t do that in a canteen. It just doesn’t work, believe me.
Then I decided my new role model would be Bree van de Kamp and I’m pretty sure that Bree, Bree of all people, would never spend her lunch breaks in a canteen like in my office building. It’s not possible. It’s like… well, it’s really really not possible.
Now my daily lunch break routine looks like this:
1. Take my bag which contains all the necessary things for The Perfect Lunch Break.
2. Go down to the canteen and get a coffee. Either a latte machiatto or a cappuccino, both with a lot of sugar, because I’m still not coffee gal.
3. Go out and find a nice bench to sit down in the park around the hospital. (Yes, I do work very close to a hospital, which a lot of people first confuse with me working for the hospital. I don’t.)
4. Drink coffee, eat fruit, read and (if possible) enjoy the warm sun shining down on me.
5. Go back to the office thirty minutes later and be relaxed as hell.
Doesn’t that sound amazingly great? I still haven’t figured out what to do when it rains, but I suppose I will come up with something acceptable in time.
Elucidation on 2:
I don’t think that needs elucidation. Have you seen episode 1 of Desperate Housewives? I want to carry around baskets full of muffins and other yummy things like that. So obviously I need recipes.
And baskets.