#and did the gas station food upset my stomach? for sure! did I romanticize the hell out of it while I ate anyway? absolutely!

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not to sound like An Extremely Old Person Who Is Enamored With The Simplest Things, but people really had it right when they decided to take food outside. One of my favorite parts of my trip to England years ago was buying food and sitting in a park nearby. Packing lunch and eating beside a lake, the food somehow just tastes better. During lunch today, I walked down the street to the gas station, bought food, and ate it while walking back and it sounds so silly and simple but for real? Walking outside at a time when I don't usually get to walk outside? Eating warm food I just bought while it's breezy and cool out and I'm walking and looking at snow-covered mountains in the distance and a crisp blue sky scattered with wispy clouds, just taking my time, while people rush about around me? Truly, it is something else.

#candle ramblings #because I have health issues that affect what I can eat and how much I can eat at once I've developed a weird relationship with food #just coming out of a Bad Food Period and into a Good Food Period and I'm in love with everything I see and eat. #and did the gas station food upset my stomach? for sure! did I romanticize the hell out of it while I ate anyway? absolutely! #I made soup last night and had to drink the broth down because it was almost over the edge of the bowl and I had to just stand there for #a moment because I was suddenly transported to my childhood and the Chinese restaurant my great-grandparents would take us to #not exactly the same soup but close enough. I was absolutely in love just standing in my kitchen sipping broth feeling like a kid again