Third Bento

Yes, I skipped one, but I can tell you it involved onigiri, a (badly) molded bear egg, baby carrots, and hummus for dipping. On to the third:



Top: Crabmeat and baby shrimp with chili mayonnaise in Hello Kitty cup, crabmeat and cream cheese sushi, wasabi in paper liner
Bottom: Shrimp and chili mayo California roll with soy bear.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's called a California roll when the rice is on the outside. This was my second attempt at sushi / first attempt at California rolls. I think I have the regular kind down pat, I can get nice tight rolls. The inside-out stuff will take some practice.

I also have grapes, an apple, and cajun sesame sticks (I like to munch during the day).

First Bento

I spent some time putting this together this evening...it took me a while but I can see how after you've done this often enough it could get easier to do. First, the box:



It's just so adorable. Of all the bento boxes I looked at, this was the one I "had" to have. Might have something to do with years and years of Super Mario Brothers on the Nintendo...the mushrooms are just so cute! When I first opened it I thought "Wow, this is small, I don't know if I can make this into a proper lunch." However, once it was filled with food it is actually quite heavy, and I think it will be pretty satisfying. See for yourself:




Top: onigiri with soy sauce in Hello Kitty container
Bottom: grapefruit sections, heart-shaped ham slices with sweet mustard dipping sauce in another Hello Kitty container.

The soy container is sitting in a paper liner because it leaks... I could have used something else I suppose but I *really* wanted my Hello Kitty. :)

Today my egg molds and animal soy bottles came in the mail. However I am down to my last egg, so the egg mold test will have to wait. Also have some little shape cutters coming courtesy of a friend's Pampered chef party.

Why yes, I am crazy, thank you very little. But I have to admit I am looking forward to my cute lunch tomorrow.

HAHAHAHAHA!

*UPDATE* David Weigel sums up my thoughts on the whole Boston Lite-Brite-Freakout pretty well.

The entrepreneurial spirit of America never ceases to amaze me:

Authentic Mooninites LED Sign ATHF

That would look great in the office!

Oh the hilarity!

AP:

A judge ordered two men held on bond Thursday for allegedly placing electronic advertising devices around the city in a publicity stunt that went awry and stirred fears of terrorism, shutting down parts of Boston.

Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, were held on $2,500 cash bond each after they pleaded not guilty to placing a hoax device and disorderly conduct for a device found Wednesday at a subway station.

Officials found 38 blinking electronic signs promoting the Cartoon Network TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" on bridges and other high-profile spots across the city Wednesday, prompting the closing of a highway and the deployment of bomb squads. The surreal series is about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball. The network is a division of Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc.

"It's clear the intent was to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location," Assistant Attorney General John Grossman said at their arraignment.

The 1-foot tall signs, which were lit up at night, resembled a circuit board, with protruding wires and batteries. Most depicted a boxy, cartoon character giving passersby the finger - a more obvious sight when darkness fell.

If you're familiar with ATHF at all, that boxy cartoon chracter was a Mooninite, doing what he does best. We have really gone over the edge, eh? Especially when the signs have been in place for at least a couple of weeks -- oh, how we can congratulate ourselves on our vigilance for finding lit-up mooninites giving the finger. And you've got to credit Turner Broadcasting with a special kind of stupidity -- seems they didn't learn a thing from this incident from last summer:

A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible III" movie was off to an explosive start when a California arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.

The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the Mission: Impossible theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.

This was all over the news last year. Then again, maybe Turner did learn something about getting free publicity...just not a whole lot about not freaking out the normals.

Wiimarkable

Reuters:

Kris Smith called it "the equivalent of a man Tupperware party." In early December, he and a few pals gathered in a basement in suburban Chicago to try out their friend's brand new Nintendo Wii video game console.

At the end of the night, Smith, 32, was sweaty, exhausted, and completely sold on buying a Wii for himself.

Smith, who never enjoyed video games before the Wii, said the console has given him a new way not only to enjoy time with his wife and children, but also to socialize with his friends.

That has definitely been our experience with the Wii (correction: our friend's Wii). Where with the other console games it's easy to ignore the one guy at the social gathering playing the Xbox or whatever, the Wii is definitely a more social experience. Any time we have gathered to play it, it's been like a party-game atmosphere, where even though only one person is playing, it's just so damn entertaining to watch them. I'm looking forward to getting one at some point in the future, just for the contrast of having a more active playing experience than the passive stare-and-push-buttons kind I have with my (still fun though) Xbox.

In other news,

Sony may be eyeing price cuts for its next-generation PlayStation 3 video game machine in a bid to break even on the console by the end of fiscal 2008, it told reporters in Tokyo.

Ya think?