Breakfast habits. I am a breakfast person. I really love my breakfast. All kinds. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is eat breakfast, pretty much every day. This morning, I awoke at 6:30 or 7, I don't quite remember exactly because I can't function until I eat breakfast and of course I hadn't had breakfast yet at the moment I woke up and looked at the clock. Maybe it is just out of routine more than actually needing food the moment I wake up. Anyways, right now my breakfasts have consisted of Cheerios and craisins because 1. that is a wonderful combination, and 2. I have a huge honkin box of Cheerios I need to eat. So I pour myself a bowl of cheerios and craisins and top it off with some skim milk. This morning I decide to station myself near the window to eat breakfast to take in the view, but on mornings when I sit at the counter to eat I always leave the box out to stare at it and contemplate it and read and examine every square inch of that box while I mindlessly but gratefully eat my Cheerios. Cheerios boxes are some of my particular favorites actually, even though they do get boring more quickly. They are such a bright and happy yellow color, and the backs are often very plain. SO NICE. No silly advertisements for movies I have never heard of. No off brand box craft projects instructions for making a mosaic pot. No extra cereal information. Just another picture of the cereal in a bowl and a nice font in a large size spelling minimal words. Which is nice because I don't feel so overwhelmed and over stimulated by looking at this box that I am so compelled to contemplate over breakfast every day for no particular reason.
This morning, however, I am not staring holes in to the cereal box with my eyes, I am taking in the great outdoors of developed areas of the wonderful city of MPLS. I eat my cereal out of the plastic orange baby bowl I insisted on buying at target. (I needed to have my small baby bowls because they are the perfect size for everything - we have them at home and as a 19 year old college student I use them every day). I use a blue tin spoon because I like to feel like I am camping even while in the middle of a city. The cereal level in the bowl is dwindling and I realize that I am going to have some extra milk at the bottom of this bowl. Because I do not enjoy drinking milk out of the bottom of the bowl, I uproot from my riveting view and flip open the cupboard to fill the bottom of my bowl with just enough cheerios to take care of all the remaining milk. Waste not want not?
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