ladysprite | She Thinks In Mysterious Ways

How the heck is it that I have no problem making complex and adorable bento lunches for myself and my husband 3-4 times a week, usually requiring moderate prep-cooking the night before and anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour of cooking and assembly time in the morning while I'm getting ready for work, but on days that I'm not doing that for one reason or another, making a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich seems like an annoying and insurmountable feat?

I mean, the peanut butter is in the cabinet but the jelly is in the fridge, so I have to open both, and it means getting a knife dirty, and then the ziploc bags are All The Way Back In The Pantry and that's so far to go, and really, do I have to do all this, and maybe I can just skip lunch, or toss together a quick bento anyway - just make some ramen, and there are frozen meatballs in the fridge that I could put together a little homemade teriyaki sauce for and I think there's some leftover broccoli that could fill it out.....

Also, my PB&J never tastes quite as good as

umbran's. I find it fascinating that I could probably make the individual components of the sandwich with more ease than the darn sandwich itself....