12.28 - Chinese Food Christmas

I've heard of many people who go out for Chinese food on Christmas day, especially if they don't celebrate Christmas or if they just don't feel like eating at home that day. Never have I actually partaken in this kind of tradition. Until this year.

For Christmas Day, "I," his family, and I randomly found ourselves at a new Chinese restaurant that was promoting a buy one-get one lobster special. With the purchase of three entrees, we could get one lobster for the price of $5.99 and get an additional one for free. Pretty awesome, right? So we ended up ordering six entrees and getting four lobsters (sauteed in a nice ginger sauce) that evening.

Extremely satisfying and unique Christmas dinner, I would have to say. :)

12.06 - Distant Memory

I haven't thought about this in years (and I probably repressed the memory because it was too difficult to go without), but I used to work for a company that treated all its employees to lunch every day of the week. Granted we only had 10 employees and it was a sly tactic to keep everyone in the building at all times, but it was still a pretty awesome perk.

One person was in charge of ordering-- and every morning, she'd pass around the chosen menu for the day and each person would write down what they wanted on the accompanying sheet of paper. The order was usually placed at 11 a.m., and we'd all be eating and sitting pretty around noon. We could eat from any restaurant we wanted as long as we had the menu for it, they could deliver to us, and we didn't go too crazy.

I got over 300 free lunches from that job. Oh man, I'm feeling envious of my former self. Ha. No wonder I gained so much weight back then.