Birthday Bento

Today is my dad's birthday. Since I'm a broke student and I suck at buying gifts for people anyway, I decided a couple months ago that I would make my dad a bento lunch for his birthday. However, he went out for lunch today with my mom, so I told him I would make him lunch for tomorrow. He's at my sister's dance recital right now, so I took advantage of his absence by putting together this bento lunch ^.^

I'm actually quite pleased. In my original sketches, I had gyoza and lumpia and fried rice included in the bento box, but we don't have gyoza or lumpia and I don't have all the ingredients needed to make fried rice on me...

I'm so bad at planning for things.

Nevertheless, I hope he likes it ^.^ Happy birthday dad!

American Bento

This week, I planned on bringing a bento to lunch every day at school.

But I only brought one on Wednesday.

I've honestly been so busy and so stressed out lately, I have no idea how I even managed to get a bento prepped the night before. My main source of stress is generally school, but recently the company  has been the big thing that's getting to me. My eye even started twitching! Well, it feels like it's twitching. But when I look in the mirror, it's not. It's sort of like a fluttering in the eye...my dad said he had something like it before and his optometrist told him it was stress-related.

Anyway, this week's (only) bento was an Americanish one. According to Josh it doesn't count as "real bento," though. Fine. Whatever. I'll do better next week, JOSH. On the topic of Josh, there is also another person in my company who likes bento. Well, I don't think she's ever made one before, but she has a rilakuma bento box. She (Evelyn) told us that she's always wanted to bento, but doesn't know how or something. SO NOW WE CAN ALL BE A "BENTO SQUAD" (according to Josh) ONCE THIS COMPANY IS DONE. (Like actually, it's taken up all of our lunch breaks and weekends, this is insane. I don't even know if I'll be able to do Bento again next week...

However, I would like to make a big thank you to everyone who reads this blog :) I would make bentos regardless of this bentowithbenefits, but you guys motivate me to actually get off the couch and post and try to make better lunches c: Thanks for your support ^.^