This Week's Mr. RoBento

[Vigo Red beans & Rice with Chicken/Turkey/Basil sausage; Tuscan tomato bisque; Trader Joe's key lime pie; oyster crackers & Kiwi gummy candies. ]

Sometimes I eat beans that are not black. Sometimes. :)

Boys on the Brain

I think I have a crush on Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. I really like his sense of humor, I love that he used to sing opera and that he's willing to try just about anything. I think "liking him" became "luuving him" when, once on Dirty Jobs, he was describing how his co-worker fell into some mud and he said, "That wasn't a pirouette. It was like a tour j'ete [sp?] or somethin." Hee! Ballet jokes! Hee!

Reasons to see 300:

• Half-naked Gerard Butler (and another 299 half-naked Spartans)
• Mostly naked Rodrigo Santoro
• Peter Mensah has a small role (yay!)

Sigh. Pretty boys. :)

Double Arigato, Mr. RoBento

The very kind & generous Jessica gave me a Mr. Bento for Christmas/B-day/Housewarming and I finally get to unveil it! I coveted her Mr. Bento and it was very thoughtful of her to get me one.



Mr. Bento reminds me Klaatu, the robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still. I commented this to Dr. D who quickly christened it Mr. RoBento.

This is tomorrow's lunch - the first meal in Mr. RoBento:


(click on it for a bigger version; grilled chicken, DKM's coconut rice with a little B-Man's teriyaki sauce, spinach with currants, golden raisins, sunflower seeds and sugar plum grape tomotoes (not shown), grapes & Girl Scout Thin Mints [Where are the Samoas, you may ask? In a box, in my desk for, you know, emergencies. :) ]

I'm not disciplined enough to post every one of my Bento's, but I will try to take post the more interesting recipes.

So, double arigato, J - I really love Mr. RoBento. :)

My Beachin' Bathroom

(The floor looks a little darker in this pic than it actually is - it's actually pale sand color.)

The bathroom theme is the beach - sand & surf. :)

So, yes, the old tub is gone - it was in bad shape. I prefer showers over baths, so I put in a shower. The wall for the fixtures had to be put in; the fixtures couldn't go in the opposite wall b/c that's where the China cabinet is.

Here's another pic which is not that great (I'm not sure why the floor came out so dark), but you can better see my pretty shower doors (Solstice by Kohler). [They're actually prettier than in this picture.] It really looks like rain flowing down the glass. :)