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 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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Posted by Brad on March 11th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
I made the double recipe of Calico Beans last night. It was huge! It called for three cups of ketchup. I rarely have ketchup at home because the places I order food from always offer it for free. Since I was buying some, I decided to get a bottle of Heinz and a bottle of Hunt’s, because I’ve been curious for a long time about the difference. Here are my findings:
Hunt’s: smelled like vinegar, was quick to come out of the bottle, and tasted sweet. It reminded me of tomato soup.
Heinz: smelled like vinegar, was thicker, and tasted sharp and salty. It made me think of french fries.
In the end, I don’t think I would be able to tell which of the two I was using if I just got it from some restaurant. But Heinz tasted more familiar. Maybe more of the places I usually eat at use Heinz.
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Posted by Brad on March 10th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
I went to the grocery store yesterday to get ingredients for a recipe. It called for pork and beans. I stood in the bean aisle for quite a while searching. I needed four one-pound cans. Nothing like that existed. There were 15 ounce cans of pork and beans, and there were seven pound cans of pork and beans. The rest of the beans were called “baked beans” or “beans with bacon” or “beans with chipotle salsa”. Where the heck were the pork and beans? I just got some 15 ounce cans. I hope it’s okay that I’m four ounces short on the pork and beans.
I also got an indulgence while at the grocery store: I bought cut flowers. I had to get some oriental lilies. I LOVE them. Their smell makes me happy. Their price usually puts a quash on the whole thing, but yesterday I didn’t care. They were worth their eight dollars, by golly! They’ll last for a week or so. And one dollar per day isn’t so bad.
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