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Hee hee... Hi. *sheepish wave*

So NaNoWriMo? Huge fail. Epic in fact, because the story never came to me and when I tried to force on it fell flat on its face.

It didn't help that in mid-November I lost my job, but I was very lucky to find another one fairly quickly! A Massage job too - oh yea.

So I made some Bento since I work tomorrow all day and will need something healthy and yummy to eat.

BENTO!

Yea I'm pretty happy with these. They aren't the cutest I ever made, but after being out of Bento making for quite some time I'm happy with them.

One of my goals for the new job is to make Bento when I work. That way I always have something healthy and cute to eat. It will hopefully help me condition my body for working as a therapist full time, and help me lose some more weight this year.

Here's hoping!

Another Update

So yes, time has escaped me again. But this time I come bringing.... BENTO!

That's right I made an adorable little Bento for Logician sometime last week (no I don't remember when oddly enough) and it was probably the cutest Bento I have ever made. I had intended to make Bento for both of us all week but that didn't happen.

I made the Bento with precooked frozen sausages that we bought quite awhile ago on sale. I still have some fish cake in the freezer but I am still quite frightened of it and have not opened it yet. So I had to work without it. I used some fresh bean sprouts that we'd bought, some carrots (we got a 4lb bag of baby carrots for $2.00), and an egg. There is rice underneath the people.

I took the idea from a Bento I remembered seeing on Aibento.net quite some time ago and just changed it slightly for myself. So here's the picture:

The "male" looks a little weird owing to a cut in the sausage but he looks smug to have his lady friend in the bed with him. The carrots are supposed to be a sort of headboard, and the sprouts are the pillow. The sprouts and the people are on top of a thin layer of rice. The eyes and smiles I cut out with a straw (a tip taken from Aibento.net) and their eyes are black sesame seeds. The blanket is an omelet like egg that was covered with Sirachia sauce.

In other news:

Work has been going well, although I am now spending an extraordinarily large amount of money on gas. I have (thanks to Logician) finally paid to take my state boards and should get an e-mail back to schedule the exact date sometime this week.

I am also beginning to follow several paths towards my goal of getting a M.A.(or higher) in Psychology to work towards opening my dream clinic.

More later!

Ciao!

Bento oh Bento

We ended up going out to dinner last night and getting some delicious chicken dishes, however it seems Logician's may not have been cooked all the way as he got pretty sick when we got home. Not wanting to chance the fact that I was feeling slightly sick and we had left overs I tossed them. So it took some quick thinking and replanning to get today's Bento some protein content!

Luckily I had the foresight to pick up two nice thin steaks and some thin pork chops while we were shopping yesterday. I broke both of these down into Bento size portions - the steak by cutting it and placing it between layers of wax paper, and the pork by putting two of the small thin chops in a ziploc bag. This gives me something like 5 servings of steak and four of pork (although the amount of pork may be too much for one day's Bento). So last night I cooked a bit of the steak with a lot of soy sauce to sort of "cure" it.

I also tried out my smaller onigiri maker and it worked amazingly! Seen here: From Japan With Love. I made up a batch of rice and then a small bowl of salt water. I wanted to be extra sure that the mold did not stick. I filled it to the top of the container (I personally packed it a bit full) and then simply inserted the press and voila, cute and adorable triangle onigiri.

Here is Logician's, find mine after the break.