A Back to the Future Style FabuLetter

Dear Self from 3 Weeks Ago,

Hey, great job on the Bento Box project!  I can't believe you're still taking those things to work every day.  Good for you!  It's ok to take a frozen Freshcetta Pizza Slice to work today and leave the Bento Box at home (heads' up: that Vegetable Medley flavor is delish!).  And great idea on taking a clementine to go with it.  One suggestion, though?  Please don't put the clementine in your purse.  You don't know this now, but today you'll only have 15 minutes for lunch because your colleague will be late getting her kids to the lunch line again, and you won't have time to heat up a frozen pizza slice and peel and eat a clementine for lunch (I mean, who do you think you are?  One of those fancy Corporate Americans who gets more than 25 minutes for lunch?  Puh-leeze, Girl!), so of course you'll choose the pizza slice.  So then the clementine will still be in your purse after school when you walk in the condo and find Olive threatening to pee all over the carpet if you don't take her out right now, and when you have to dig around in your purse later to find your receipt for those extra caulking supplies you want to take back to Home Depot, the clementine'll fall to the bottom.  You'll never think about it again until the morning of October 8, when you're eating breakfast tacos with a friend and you're trying to find a clip for your hair and you're fishing around in the bottom of your purse for a clip or a rubber band or, dear god, anything to hold all this flying hair out of your face because you can never find anything in that giant purse and you really need to downsize to a smaller one, and you pull out that clementine that's now all black and orange and kinda looks like a really teeny tiny shriveled little halloween pumpkin waiting to be carved into a Jack-o-Lantern, and your urge will be to put it away and pretend it's not in there, but this is the kind of friend who would never judge you for something like this so instead you show her, you both laugh, and you think to yourself simultaneously, "Ewww.  I'm gross.  This is so embarrassing!" and, "Sweet!  Finally something to write about in the blog!"  Eewww.

So, seriously.  Take the clementine to school with you, but find another place for it to ride instead of in your purse ok?  Trust me.  Oh, and please put a couple extra hair thingies in there now, while you're thinking about it and when you don't need them.  You're welcome.

Sincerely,
The FabuLeslie of Today