the Week Highlights in Pictures

Sooooo.... every family has it's nuancies and character traits as a whole. My family... particularly the role my papa plays in the family has an entertaining quality to it. he likes jokes. and he is known for "running to the store" (a tool store for sure) and actually going out for an hour or two for donuts and coffee, but of course he never says that's where he is headed too. He's the fella who buys every corney thing in the Cracker Barrel gift shop and giggles like a school boy when he plays a prank on someone. He's known for his infamous "he who smelt it dealt it" philosophy. He's favorite color is brown and his favorite publicaion is The Reader's Digest.

One year (i think it was 2002) after Christmas, everyone in the family started to recieving there very own year subscription to Reader's Digest. nothing was said... we all just started getting one out of nowhere. It was papa. Apparently, he got something in mail and decided since he loved it so much... we would all probably love it too. but he didn't tell anyone... he just sent them to us. He's that kinda guy.

This year... papa struck again. Two days ago, in the evening, a big ole box arrives. so we open it up and low and behold... we all (even tom) have snuggies. If you have not seen the mini-info Commerical you must. you really must. Basically it creates a problem and then solves it with the snuggie... it's info-merical awesome. I instantly began jumping up and down like a little kid yelling "there Snuggggies!!!!" I ran for the camera to document the momental occasion.

I think they look like something that Star Trek:New Generation would wear. or a little "monk-ish" all the same: how can you not love the randomness of the gift that comes from a fella like papa?

Yep. Tom was doing the robot here, actually we both were but somehow when my brain sent this message to my face it came out more "monster" than "robot"... so i edited myself out.

so tommy has become obsessed with Japanesse culture. the flame was ignited back in the fall when we went out for the last time with the Hattons to the Chinness Buffet. they have a sushi bar and i am quite fond of sushi. I encouraged tom to step out of his comfort zone and at the very least try a california roll. he did and found he kinda liked it. then when he started working at kroger not too long ago, he noticed that this store has a full time sushi guy and what he says "is the most amazing looking sushi". So that fanned the flame. This weekend all he could think about was sushi. so he began researching it wanting to know more about the art. and if you tom at all, you know that once he starts with the wiki, he just can't put it down. he'll follow link after link until he's absorbed everybit of info he can and usually ends up on some site that has NOTHING to do with what he started out as. and so this is how he came upon the "Bento". And so he decided that he wanted to take his lunch in a bento box japanese style. So he researched until he found a cost effective little bento box. A blog recommended one of the Ikea food savers. So on our trip downtown yesterday, we picked up aforementioned food saver a.k.a. Bento Box. This morning the man was so excited to use it and pack a lunch for himself at work. That i think he got up at 4 am (he had to be at work at 5:45) just to cook rice for his lunch so it could be a proper bento box. Part of the idea of the bento is that it is asthetically pleasing..... keep this in mind. he's was so cute (in a manly kinda cute way, of course) that i had to take pictures. come to find out... so did he! :D