Bento #57: Near-death Bento, Attempt II

leftover rice, grilled teriyaki salmon, and blanched spinach (approx. 450 cal)

a very simple box to try to ease back into the bento-making groove wheeee

w-welp a lot of things sure have changed since my last post orz

for one i um passed my second assessments which means i can officially bout now

i'll be debuting either the 14th against burlington (unlikely) or on the 21st against NHRD (definitely)

freaking out aaaaa

and um i also officially hit 70 lbs lost \o/ just a few more to go aha it'll be weird getting used to not counting again haha

b-but the semester's over and i'm getting back into the vacation-y groove

at least until summer courses start on the 16th

sigh

but hey um lunchtime's back?

i'm calling this near-death attempt II because i'm gonna take it on the same bike ride i took when i smashed myself to smitheroons last summer

w-wish me luck aaaa

Bento #58: BENTO ON WHEELS

skates all pimped out thanks to shauna yeahhhhh \o/

s-so i've been really bad about keeping up with this blog and thinking of new things to cook orz

it's getting to that point in the semester where i go to class and then basically want to pass out in bed afterward but i can't because i have homework and skating and blah blah

i'm trying thoughhhh

l-like today even though i was late i still cooked

DANGER ZONE

we sorta got homework to do a daily chore on our skates and well i sometimes do the dishes on wheels and i try to do the roller derby workout with them on on most days we aren't skating 

but i'm not falling on my face every four seconds anymore even if my apartment floor is slanty (nothing like roller skates to figure that out) soooo i figured why not try handling hot pans and knives on roller skates

i mean what could possibly go wrong

surprisingly nothing

so um um tl;dr i know my cooking is a little less impressive lately but give me until the end of the semester and i'll get back on track like i was last summer i promise

Bento #56: Curry Beef Bento

Steamed rice, sweet-potato-beef curry (mmmm S&B), and an apple.

I feel like using punctuation today. WOAH okay breathe i'm kidding

s-so tonight will be my first contact practice now that i've passed my assessment

i'm kinda nervous but i got hit at get skool'd and i lived so i'm also kinda excited

i probably won't pass my next level before our first bout against the killah bees on april 10 but still it's one step closer and i'm So Assitedddd

and hey even debuting halfway through the season is better than never at all hee;

p.s. u-um does anyone actually care about my derby stories or should i just focus on the food aaa i don't have a recipe today just make s&b curry and put it on stuff i don't knowww /flee

Bento #52: Group Process Bento

Steamed rice, sesame teriyaki chicken, carrot kinpira, and grapes.

SO MUCH FOR POSTING SATURDAY AND OR SUNDAY HUH

s-so um as some of you may be aware i'm working on becoming an RA on campus next year

i'm really excited about it

and uhmm WELL on sunday i had to do the first step toward getting the job which is group process

basically you go make up a pretend program you would put on for your residents and get observed doing some RA-type things and they then decide if you can get an individual interview or not

soooo i did a program on what i like to think i'm good at

I forgot how to draw since high school I KNOW THERE'S AN EMPTY SPACE THEY 

DIDN'T NOTICE SHHH

so i cooked up a bunch of different little things that could be made in a res hall kitchen and fed them to my group of observers while i explained nutritional benefits and then made a which-of-these-things-has-more-calories flash card game to fulfill the educational requirement

winner of the game would win a bento set or something 

aaaand i got my interview aaa i'm so nervousss i have to call today and make an appointment for friday

then we don't find out until valentine's day

thankfully the great derby social is the 12th and 13th so i have a lot of skating and buying and socializing to take up the time and ease the SUSPENSE

INCREDIBLE SUSPENSE also carrots

Bento #51: Higgely-Piggely Bento

Grilled rice ball, carrot kinpira, turkey, veggies, and fruit; approx. 225 cal

well sort of a grilled rice ball i sorta tried making one and then it fell apart in the pan and so i kinda half fried-rice'd it and then made a rice ball out of the fail rice and um LOOK I MADE KINPIRA

it's not as stupidly cold today just dreary and snowy i wish it would be sunny so i could take nice picturessss

aaand well my 10:00 class got cancelled so i guess i should go eat this thing and play ragnarok

i mean

work on my c++ homework

p.s. we have a facebook group now! and a little widgety thing on the right there 

p.p.s. like ussss

Bento #50: 50th Bento! Also COLD AUGH

Leftover steamed rice and seafood-and-spinach stir-fry (approx. 350 cal)

sssoooo i pretty much froze my face off on the walk to campus this morning


on the bright side: have a new bento box for the blog's 50th bento

bunniiiiessss

it's another donburi and it is the cutest thing

BUNNIIIIIESSSSS

and now it is full of lunch and i can't think of anything else to say i know this blog can be riveting sometimes

oh well thank you marisaaa <3

c-can i go back to bed now?

Bento #48: Aquarium!

BENTO FROM HELL leaked all over my favorite tokidoki bag 

grumble grumble

s-so on sunday the derby damez went to the new england aquarium \o/

it was kind of a blast 

i got to the pub too early and actually ran into another skater at the works while i was getting a bagel to kill time (I'M SO BAD WITH NAMES HNNGH I'LL HAVE THEM ALL DOWN SOON I'M DOING BETTER) which was funny but she wasn't going on the trip sadly

BUT aside from a lot of stops on the way and death ann almost blowing up having to pee on the way to alewife we made it and it was very fun

bubble teeeeea it's not tea stop but it's better than nothing 

which is what i get here

i don't have a lot of pictures of the aquarium partly because it was dark and my phone does not take the best pictures and partly because we were being given a lovely tour by the lovely leah (as seen gesturing conversationally in the photo above- she works with the sea turtles how fricken' cool is that) and i didn't want to miss anything

but i do have pictures of the improv everywhere no-pants subway ride we ran into

CALLED IT BEING A FLASH MOB

b-but i don't like to brag <3

'we forgot our pants' YEAH RIGHT 

Bento #45: Last Day of Classes!

Tamagoyaki, veggies, riceball, and butter cookies leftover from my History Club 

yankee swap gift.

today is my last day of classes

one is already over

i just have to hand in a writing portfolio at two and i'm done with real work and on to makeup work

if i can just finish it fffff i need to redo like everything againnnn

at least i have delicious yums to fuel me except it's decorate-your-own-gingerbread-man at the dc today so i might just eat six of those \o/

Bento #44: Hamburger Steak, New Box

Hamburger steaks, rice, spinach, and way-too-good-to-the-point-of-being-

weird-for-December-in-New-Hampshire fruit.

s-so i got a new bento box for the first night of hanukkah <3

t-thanks mommm

p.s. sorry about the weird exposure in the main photo it's hard to get the right settings on a cloudy day;;

Say hi to little red <3

this box is actually perfect- it holds 530 mL which is just right for a middle-sized box (the light green one-tier holds 450 i think and the big two-tier red holds closer to 650-700)

plus unlike the other two-tier i have it has snaps instead of being held together with an elastic band which is Very Cool

and i haven't had a blue one before NEW COLORS I CAN REUSE SHIRTS AS BACKDROPS HOORAY

Bento #42: Late-Night Double Feature Be-ento?

Old leftover rice, tamagoyaki, quick scary melting cheesemouth aagh

whuuugh so uh yeah 24-hour musical GUESS WHAT SHOW IT IS

also guess how crappy a bento is possible when you're running out the door after four hours of sleep because you couldn't go home until three and danced the time warp a thousand and forty seven times

I'M SO STOKED YOU GUYS

TONIGHT AT TEN

BE THERE OR I WILL BE DISAPPOINTED

Bento #41 - MUSHROOMS THE SEQUEL

Steamed rice and mushroom sauce. All of the calories.

wow so um h-has it really been two weeks already


um um my bad


here is an old bento from sometime last week that i just never posted about because i'm lazy and awful and i'll be getting back on the ball next week i promise wah

Bento #38: BEARRRRR

Rice, nori bear, egg, cheese, and chicken teriyaki.

okay i can't take credit for this the bear idea totally came from e-obento.com

i'm too tired to say anything about this

but he was tasty

YAY SALEM TRIP zzzzz

Bento #37: Welcome to Chinese Foooooood

Leftover Chinese AWWWRIIIIGHT (approx. don't even want to know)

man this was tough i had to press like three buttons on the microwave

the things i do for this blog

at least i don't usually try to make my sizzler replacements too pretty

Bento #36: NEAR-DEATH BENTO

Ugly rice with black seasame, grilled chicken, cherry tomatoes from the garden

at home, baby cheese, and milk cookies.

i sort of just didn't make lunch today but here is what is actually the

first bento i made for this blog

onnnn the day i crashed my bike

My hand isn't this fat I swear it's just swollen as hell aha the next day I

thought it was broken it got so big orz

so that was august 18 and well there's a reason this blog didn't start until ten days later i couldn't hold a knife let alone do dishes or cook haha

got some pretty nice road rash on one shoulder too and one leg was basically completely bruise for a week or so

so now i have some pretty hand scars and an idiot story

THE MORE YOU KNOW

Bento #33: whoops

so i may have

totally just been so relieved to get out of my computer architecture exam that i

just ate basically my entire bento and forgot to take a picture

uhm

my bad?

it wasn't very interesting anyway orz

Bento #31: More Leftovers

Leftover seitan and broccoli stir-fry and rice and a tomato quarter

(approx. 270 cal)

oh god i have so much to do this week

didn't make a bento yesterday didn't really eat yesterday until dinner aaa

busy busy busy

also now that i look at it i own a lot of shirts with stripes don't i

Bento #23: Boring Rice Balls

Top tier: rice balls with umeboshi filling, sprout salad (approx. 175 cal)

Bottom tier: Nutella-filled strawberry, raisins, pickled carrots, cheese and

turkey (approx. 210 cal)

look! a background!

still though i'm the most boring on the days i have the most time to make things i think orz

to my credit though i did start out by trying to make a rabbit riceball and just failed it thoroughly

oh well HERE HAVE SOME YUMS

Bento #21 : Traditional Sicky Lazy

Steamed rice, tamagoyaki, boiled snap peas, and a miso soup ball.

woke up with a sore throat and dry sinuses and wanted soup

soup does not travel well

so i made a miso soup ball according to the directions at just bento

hot water costs 20 cents at the cafe on campus so this isn't so bad

should i start listing the calories for mine like maki does?

Bento #19: Flat-top Kirby

Kirby ham rice ball, chicken nuggets, omelet stars, and a cheese wheel.

so usually i'm like AW MAN WHAT SHOULD I MAKE FOR LUNCH and then i completely ignore people's suggestions but my super buddy matty flat-top said kirby and i said 'with a flat-top' even though i was joking but he got so excited i had to try

here is your lunch matty

everyone else stop judging me

Bento #18: lUnCHtimE ZOOm

Mr. Saturn rice balls with umeboshi filling, turkey hot dog (nOt PiGGy BOinG),

piggy jelly, peanut cheese bars, and broccoli.

aw aww baby's first kyaraben

i saw the walruses in luckysundae's photostream and also in yum yum bento box and sadly the first thing my little nerd brain said was MISTER SATURN

i will say that this took roughly forever compared to my usual throw-together-some-crap-and-run boxes but it was a lot of fun

i may have to try this again HMMMM

edit: i will never try peanut cheese bars again though asdghfffuuu