Posted by Brad on March 16th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
This year for lunch at school I mostly just drink Carnation Instant Breakfast. It takes far less time than more conventional lunches and it’s easy to pack. I drink three packages and use less milk than is called for. My meal ends up being around 600 calories, which isn’t too bad. A 400 calorie Healthy Choice frozen dinner would be more healthy, but it would cost more and take a long time to heat in the microwave. Mixing and gulping Carnation takes less than five minutes. Then I can get back to trying to stay ahead of my schoolwork.
I need about a cup and a half of milk for my lunch. My favorite container is a Tupperware thing Beth gave me. She gave it to me for some other use, but I can’t remember now what that was. It makes a great milk holder. When I forget it at school, I have several back-ups. In the picture below, they’re assembled behind the Tupperware cup. The colorful cup to the right is what I take to school to mix my Carnation in. I got it at a KFC in St. Maarten. It’s fun to use such an exotic cup for my lunch every day. It’s like I’m having lunch in the Caribbean. 
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Posted by Brad on March 15th, 2010 — Posted in Cat
Max has somehow learned to jump up on the kitchen counter. I really don’t want him to. Jumping up on the couch or my bed is okay. Jumping up on table-like surfaces? Not okay.
My first clue that he had been on the counter was discovering a chewed Pilsbury crescent roll after school one day. His presence on the counter top was confirmed by a paw print. I checked to see if there was a chair or other route that he might have discovered, but there wasn’t any way for him to get up there except by directly jumping. That meant I would have to block all access. So far it’s been working. I’ll wait to see if there are any other incursions. But how long must I keep this up until he has learned to stay off the counter? I don’t want to do this until he is too old to jump.
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Posted by Brad on March 14th, 2010 — Posted in Gardening
Yesterday was a day of returns. I’ve been searching for a new windowsill pot ever since Max broke my old one. I tried three different new pots to no avail. Finally last weekend I found what I was looking for. That meant I had to take back the others I had bought. I also took back the IKEA chair I had gotten for Lauren since she made a magical trip to Minneapolis to get one herself. I don’t return things very often. It was kind of fun. I gave the people stuff, and they gave me money. Cool!
And the new windowsill pot? It’s actually a tiny casserole dish. The haworthias fit perfectly. Well, actually, they’ll fit perfectly after I repot them. They’re a little over-grown right now.
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Posted by Brad on March 13th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
Lutheran Schools Week has ended. Whew! It was a wild ride. The kids were crazy all week.
Yesterday was Multiple Birth Day, where you dress like someone else. It’s not one of my favorites, because it requires so much work to figure out what to wear. We teachers decided at the end of the day on Thursday that we would wear jeans and a red shirt.
Every time I dress in jeans and a long-sleeved red shirt I brace myself for time travel. When I was a little kid and drew pictures of myself, I was always wearing blue pants and a long-sleeved red shirt. I figure that at some time, I must travel back to the past and meet my young self. And I must be wearing jeans and a long-sleeved red shirt so my young self is inspired to draw pictures that way.
The shirt I wore yesterday has a tiny logo on it. Whenever I wear this shirt, all day long I brush at that logo with my hand, thinking it must be a piece of lint or food or something. It isn’t.
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Posted by Brad on March 12th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
Yesterday was Crayon Day at school… we were to wear all one color. I was excited because as I was browsing at the mall this past weekend, I stumbled across some jeans on the clearance rack for $10 that were bright purple. Awesome! The store I was in was H&M. I like their clothes because they’re funky. And in keeping with that, the pants I bought were cut a little weird. The first student who saw me said: “Are those skinny jeans? Eeew!” Heh.
Among us Middle School teachers, we almost got a box of eight crayon colors, but no one wore orange, yellow, or blue. Still, I think we did a pretty good job:
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Ja, mon, you be havin’ some chicken from the Colonel?
Look at all those different containers! I think you should challenge yourself to mix and drink Carnation out of every vessel in your kitchen. Start with that crock-pot thing in the sink, please?
Gravy. That’s what I was thinking.
But, I mix my Morning Frappaccino in mine every day. And it takes a cup and a half of milk also. What are we? Related?