Leahs Cafe

In the last two years, in fact, in all those years as a bachelor, the big boy often just had some junk food, coffee or skipped the first two meals of the day totally! By dinner time, he would be so hurry, he would have eaten a horse, if it’s available!

A combination of heavy dinner at odd hours and  then late night snacks in front of TV. Are you even surprised he put on back the 30 pounds that he lost in the first two years of our marriage? Since he wanted to lose weight without Ephedrasil hardcore and stay healthy, we thought bring lunch to work might help.

As a start, we got a food container from Walmart, it’s not strictly a Bento box, just a plastic container that has two compartments.

The first day, I cooked a little extra during dinner and have the leftover Ginger Onion Chicken to go with the rice. Cut some celery and tomatoes for some extra fiber. It’s good that the big boy loves vegetables! He just put the vegetables on a plate and reheated the rice and Ginger Onion Chicken in a microwave.

The next day, there was no leftover from dinner because he cleaned up all the Steamed Asam Catfish we had for dinner. So, I made him two slices of Peanut Butter Sandwich with Blueberry Jam, egg rolls and  cut half an apple.

It went on well for the rest of the week except for one day he came back with the lunch unopened as he was too busy that day. It’s cold in the morning, my brain might be still trying to defrost, in a blur, forgot to take pictures of his lunches! I prepared most of the food at night, some days the lunches were all packed, he just have to take them out from the refrigerator and go.

I went on to purchase a Clickety Click three-tier Bento box from Ebay for about $7 including shipping.

Thought the yellow Monkey who says “My name is Mink, I like to read the fantasy story. I am very excited when I read” is so cute, though the big boy is not totally impressed with a monkey lunch box. He thought it’s for the little boys, not a big boy like him.:-)

We bought a pair of GE washer and dryer off a co-worker of the big boy. The co-worker just recently moved in with the boyfriend, so they were trying to get rid of the extra pair of washer and dryer quick and cheap. The pair were at least $900 when they were bought new from the store 9 months ago, we got them for $200, it’s a good deal, isn’t it?

The washer worked just fine, but the big boy found out we only have electric hook up at the laundry room in the basement, and the dryer needs a gas hook up! Alas, we have to sell the dryer and get an electric one. We listed the gas dryer on Craiglist.com yesterday, to sell it for $150. We got a couple of people called  or emailed to inquire immediately, one guy suggested we trade with his 3 years old electric dryer (he just moved into a house that has no electric hook up, only gas hook up), another guy is going to come by this Saturday to look at it and may take it right away!

If we manage to sell the dryer for the asking price of $150, that means we only pay $50 for the washer! It’s quite a crazy experience, isn’t it?

Today is the big boy’s day off from work, we decided to go for garage sales. We started with no anticipation of what to expect but ended up loading and unloading the backseat and trunk three times. We found a bunch of stuffs we need for the kitchen and household, at really good prices. We paid $0.25 to $1 for individual items or $0.50 to $5 for a box of miscellaneous stuffs! We spent about $70 in total for everything we hauled home!

2 Vintage blue cornflower Corning Wares, an Anchor oval pan, a Pyrex square pan, a Pyrex rectangular pan, and a Pyrex casserole.

2 dinner sets. Each set has 24 pieces. Both are unused, still in the box!

8 jars, different shapes and sizes. (They are good for storing food and my fruit enzymes projects.)

A set of unused 12 drinking glasses, 4 wine glasses and some miscellaneous drinking glasses.

14 crochet and craft books.

78 spools of threads and other sewing supplies.

3 boxes of fabrics.

A rocking chair.

A clothes drying rack.

A rice cooker, a crock pot (slow cooker) and a food processor.

2 steam irons, come with fabric starch and  “Magic sizing“.

A winter coat, a huge bag of sweaters and cardigans.

The estate sales is at the house of an old woman who has moved into nursing home. Her daughter engaged an agency to conduct the estate sales. It’s amazing to see what one can collect in her lifetime! Looking at the boxes and containers full of stuffs. it’s obvious that she was a collector of many stuffs! She also never throw away all her children’ stuffs. They were tones of wooden toys, sport equipments and even a pool table at the basement. I bet she would have kept the Soccer Goals at the basement if her children used to have them!!