it has been decided.

something yesterday got me thinking about bento boxes. and wanting to touch one (because i LOVE the way they feel and sound. i do). actually, i want to own one, period. not only are they lunch boxes -- which i have a definite obsession with, see blog title -- they're japanese lunch boxes, which makes them just that much cooler. besides which, it seems like the food that goes in them is bound to be better. because i don't eat japanese food enough to appreciate when it's just run-of-the-mill. anyways, scene set.

this turned into a conversation with my dear darling diamond about how many lunch boxes one could own before being branded a freak. also the design and organizational potential of same -- i am TOTALLY going to incorporate them into my decor in witty yet subtle ways when i get a new place, and i will take pictures to prove to you that it can be done. i'm not totally off my rocker, they sell lunch boxes at the container store, which is a mecca of organization. the mecca, if you will. "you can even use it as a one-of-a-kind gift packaging solution!"

satisfactory resolution was never really achieved on the original question, because we got all distracted by the design and how i wanted to pet a bento box and how weird that was, etc. so i posed the same question to jeff today, while simultaneously proposing the hypothesis that lunch box ownership may follow similar rules to cat ownership: more than four, and people will begin avoiding you in public. assuming you even make it out in public to begin with. although i also think that six lunch boxes could, in fact, be justified: one for each work day, and one for good luck and special occasions.

after much consideration, i got my answer: if i stick to a really cool theme, i could be considered a collector, and supernormal amounts of lunch boxes would be acceptable. also, you can have more than four cats if you live on a farm and don't so much own them as they happen to come around for food sometimes. it has been decided.