In which there are two things! Two exciting things! Two!
The first exciting thing is that last night, while watching an episode of Torchwood, I completed the Big Brown Sweater. (You may cheer; I will hear you even over the Internet.) It spent a year and ten months on the needles, but it’s finally finished and it rules.
(The pattern is Abigail, the yarn is Decadence in chocolate, and both were from Knit Picks. Teh BF was forced at gun point by my pointing my coffee cup at him to photograph it this morning so I could put it on the intarwebz.)
It fits, it’s soft, it’s brown, I made it myself, and I intend to wear it every. single. day. from now until summer returns next year! Yay!
The other cool thing is that yesterday I decided to become obsessed with bento. (I believe it was this page that finally decided me, but I’ve had bento boxes on my wishlists for quite awhile now.)
Today I ordered the! cutest! bento box set! ever! and a few other necessary bento accoutrements (vegetable shapers, mini sauce bottles, a boiled egg shaper, resuable silicone food cups for separating wet from dry foods, and an onigiri mold) from jbox.com. They should be here late next week, and from then on I shall spend a little time after dinner every night cleverly packing leftovers for the next day’s lunch.
This new hobby will not only satisfy my cooking creativity to a certain extent (I hardly ever cook any more!), but will stop me eating at the Mexican restaurant across the street from work like twice a week. It will help me control my caloric intake, something I desperately need to do because I’m forty and built just like a brick these days, and it will have the added benefit of being way totally HELLA COOL!
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Wow! What a Great Sweater! (Did you hear me cheering? Truly, I did, I cheered–that is one fabulous sweater. And as a weird side note, I think I have the same mugs–handed down from Grandma.
I did hear you! You’re the bestest ever! -m
Yay, Sweater! It looks very nice on you, too.
Hugest knitting project ever. Thanks! -m
Oh, geeze. You show me the bento, then I start getting curious. I mean, it’s food in cool compartments. Seriously, what is not to love?
Exactly my feelings. Plus! onigiri: salty stuffed rice balls! How could that be bad? And gyoza! -m
You are a wonderful person.
No. You are. -m
that IS way totally hella cool. the sweater i mean. im not big on veggies.
*hee hee* -m
Since you’re done with the sweater (looks great b-t-w), could you look into Chaos and see if you can move the ‘Recent Comments’, ‘Blogroll’, ‘Pages’, etc. from the bottom of the page up to right next to the last entry like they use to be? Thanks. Luv Ya.
Wow! What’d you do to your sidebar? I’ll try to fix it for you, dearest dad. -m
I totally dig the sweater. It’s oh-so go’box. Love the neckline and the hem. Never take it off. Never! Not even to shower or bathe.
Bentos appear dangerous to me. See, I have this unhealthy fascination with containers. Jars. Boxes. Backpacks. Altoid tins. Tea chests. Anything you can put something in. I find these things irresistible. And now you show me bentos. It’s akin to dropping a gambling addict off at a casino. Damn you.
I spent about 6 contiguous hours surfing the ‘net for information on onigiri. I mean, it’s just balls of rice, sometimes with something in the middle – salmon or tuna or roe or umeboshi plums – fer chrissakes, but I wanted to know EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM before making some to put into my little lunch box full of tiny cute compartments. So it may be that you’re not the only freak around here. That’s all I’m saying. -m
A W E S O M E sweater !!! u so rock!!!
ok, i love bento, and the apotheosis of bento is at the Tea Box, in New York City. (Review here and menu here; pix of the fucking amazing 4-box bentos can be seen here, here, here, here, and here….
shall i go on?
Holy cow, that’s some of teh cute! Yum! -m
yeah, if only i could still dream of being able to afford to (1) go to New York and (2) spend that much fucking money on a box of ethereal and not especially filling food items. lol.
Everyone should be able to afford to go to New York. It’s fucking restorative, that town is! I mean, in the same way that, like, crack is relaxing. -m