VOLCANO HEAT!!!

On a trip to DisneyWorld some years ago, we visited Mickey's House, which was a new attraction then, and in the kitchen, the cartoony lop-sided old-fashioned stove had three settings for the oven: Low -- Medium -- VOLCANO HEAT!! It was like living in Mickey's oven today.

Yes, I was indoors mostly, but just the brief trip outside to get home and then do an errand or two wiped me out. I rescheduled physical therapy; no point in doing that today.

Otherwise, I'm having cable-box problems and getting no help from the cable people, who said the dreaded words "We'll have to send a technician." Bullshit to that. Maybe it'll work tomorrow. (My cable box turns itself off at 5:45 am and will not go back on for love or money. It wasn't working yet when I left for school at 7:00, although K said it came back on by itself later.)

My new thing, in the meantime, is that I'm looking into the idea of the Bento Box, which is kind of a lunchbox used in Japan, although that's a very general description. You can get an idea of what it is here. Roughly, it's using a set of nesting boxes or containers to pack a healthy, balanced lunch that is also somewhat artistic. I found lots of websites about Bento for children, which I guess is how they're often used, making bunny sandwiches and so on, but adults use them, too. I'm trying it first using a Rubbermaid-like system that I got after school today, but if I can pull this off I'll get a better set that I found on a website I can't link to right now, but I will post it for you if it works. I just finished making my lunch for tomorrow, all in a nice little box. Instead of a sandwich, I made two little wraps with tortillas, one with turkey and swiss and one with ham and swiss, and cut them so they look like sushi. I have cheddar cheese cubes and crackers, and in one of the extra little compartments hummus, and melon chunks in the other. It's supposed to be relaxing to prepare your food attractively, not to mention the food is better for you/me than a lot of the other stuff you/I eat. All I have to do in the morning is put the freezer pack in and decide what bag to use to carry it.

So that's lunch for tomorrow; dinner tonight is anybody's guess. I'd rather not eat than go out in the heat to get something. K's taking a little nap, so I guess we'll decide what to do when she wakes up. I'm thinking anything that's not hot.

WATCHING THE GOLDEN GIRLS :: ENTRY #1777