Ruth!

As previously mentioned, my pet jumping spider's name is Ruth. More on her in a little bit. 

First, for breakfast, a brotein bar.

Then, for lunch, a brotein bar.

For dinner, we determined that it was a good night for a frozen pizza. I think we may be becoming a little too dependent on these things.

Notice how most of the toppings are skewed to the right. Oh well, that'll be Sidney's half...

Being a nice person, though, I at least attempted to redistribute the toppings more evenly about the pizza.

I had half of the pizza, but since this wasn't enough carbs, I added a piece of left over garlic bread.

I also had a salad, again obviously to offset the carbs. Pay no attention to those sneaky carbs in the salad itself.

A little later, an interesting cloud drifted by our house. Pretty neat.

But not long after that, it cleared up and made way for a nice sunset.

To celebrate the sunset, I had a cookie!

And I had some milk, because cookie.

Oh, I should also mention that I was in the mood for some ice cream. So I had some ice cream, which is basically just like frozen milk, so.

Now, back to Ruth. She's my little pet. I toyed with other names, like "Spiderbro", for example, before settling on the more mature "Ruth." I figured that when it involves someone else's name, I shouldn't bro it up too bad. Ruth is still slightly bro, though, since it's related to sports. But ain't she a beauty???

It is now my responsibility to nurture Ruth while observing her every move. While this is not entirely possible, it is also my responsibility to observe her and eventually write a paper about her. Ruth, you are a superstar in the northeastern Kansas jumping spider community.

National Burger Day!!!

Heck yes! This is a National Holiday that I can get on board with! Granted, it's a UK thing, but no matter! Technicalities matter not when burgers are forecast! 

But first, and for the second day in a row, I remembered to have breakfast! This morning, I shared breakfast with my beautiful pet jumping spider Ruth. 

Why Ruth, you ask? Great question! First, not being able to actually tell, I assume my spider to be female. Second, since this is a jumping spider, I decided to name her with the likeness of Ruth Beitia, the Rio 2016 Olympic High Jump gold medalist. Seems fitting to me, so there we have it.

Throughout the school day, I purposefully refrained from eating anything else in preparation for the burgers that were to come later. When I got home, Sidney was just about to leave for a babysitting gig, so I decided to wait for her. In the meantime, bad things happened. I spotted some old candy in the fridge and decided that it really needed to go. I started with some almond M&Ms.

I then had another plastic egg full of them.

Then I found some old Reese's cups that were had far outstayed their welcome. They simply had to go.

Then, I noticed some aging prunes and chocolate covered pecans in the cabinet, so I delighted in their eviction as well.

When Sidney finally arrived back home, I got down to business.

The burgers were mixed with chopped onions and an egg for binding.

For the assembly, I started out with toasted Hawaiian buns and spread a layer of Boursin on the bottom bun.

Then on went the Velveeta covered burgers.

Then I added some raw onions for flavor and texture.

Then I spread some mayonnaise on the top bun.

And that was it. Not too fancy, but not too basic either.

One thing is for sure, though, and that is that these things look delicious! Let's eat!

Oh, yeah, it's really as good as it looks. And if you're envious, sorry not sorry!

For dessert, I had another left over cookie.

I remembered to eat today!

As the title reads, I did in fact remember to eat before dinner today! Go me. I had a brotein bar for breakfast...

...and another for lunch! I'm on a two-meal roll!

I then stopped by Sidney's parents' house, where I found some soup and crackers. Of course I had to have some! I don't want to be rude, after all...

A little later, the weather decided that it didn't like the pristine (ha) condition my car was in, so it decided to take matters into its own hands.

Luckily, my car managed to escape without any major injuries.

But all was forgotten when dinner time came about, since we still had some leftovers from last night. I added a plum for some added sugar.

We also had some leftover sweets from last weekend. What would I choose?

Ahh, yes. A brownie all to myself is a rarity that must be taken advantage of, and take advantage of it I did!

Why do I keep forgetting to eat?!

Again it happens! Same story as yesterday, so again we fast forward to dinner. Today it was a bit more exciting than frozen pizza. 

Check that, much more exciting.

Today, Sidney and I made Fettuccine Alfredo with garlic bread, all from scratch (unless you count the bread itself, which we unfortunately did not bake).

But we made the Fettuccine Alfredo (with chicken) from scratch.

And we took said pre-baked bread...

...sliced it horizontally and spread some tasty butter and fresh minced garlic and parsley on it...

...and BOOM! Garlic bread!

I ended up with about half the pasta and a liberal serving of bread. Carb at me, bro!

To offset all the carbs, I had a healthy Caesar salad.

And to be really healthy, I had some more salad for dessert.

Don't mind that bread in there, it's only there to maintain the balance between carbs and healthiness.

Last First Day

Today was a reasonably momentous day for me. If all goes well, today will have been my last first day of undergrad. We'll see how it goes. Naturally, though, I was a bit scrambled in the morning making sure I had everything I needed for my one class of the day to ensure that going over the syllabus would go off without a hitch. Needless to say, after much unneeded scrambling, I completely forgot to pack any sort of food aka brotein bars. So, now we fast forward directly to dinner. 

Frozen pizza. Really, this is incredibly self explanatory. Have a look.

Before:

After:

Having not eaten all day, and with Sidney having already eaten food at some point today, I simply ate whatever she didn't. She had two slices, and I had the rest. I was a bit at odds with eating Pac-Man, but I was hungry, so he had to go!

From cutting board to plate:

And that was literally it. I ate 3/4 of a pizza today.

Let's Go Royals!!!

Today would be my last day of freedom as a child. I return to school tomorrow, and by the time this semester is over, I'll hopefully have a college degree and a job. With that, my parents and I would be spending this day at the Royals game. To hold me off until we got there, I had a chocolate covered pecan and a Brazil nut. 

Not just a regular old baseball game, today was KU day that the K. The first 4,000 fans got a complimentary KC Royals hat with the Jayhawk logo on the side. My dad decided to wear both this new hat and his old KU hat that he was already wearing in an attempt to emulate the deerstalker popularized by Sherlock Holmes.

It's not often that you see classic muscle cars driving around the warning track, but when you do, it's really cool!

We then headed up to our seats. On the way there, we made a slight detour for some food! I got a footlong Sheboygan brat (whatever that is) with onions.

I also got some funnel cake fries (whatever those are).

I was then a little disappointed to discover that there was a stand selling actual funnel cakes, but I didn't really mind all that much since the funnel cake fries were still good and a smaller serving.

It really was a beautiful day for baseball!

About halfway through the game, we made the long hike down to get some Dippin' Dots. We weren't going to make the same mistake as last time where we very nearly missed them all together. We were much more successful today!

Since Sidney wasn't at the game with me, I didn't get another ball, but it was still very fun! The Royals won 2-1 to make it 8 wins in a row!

After the game, we headed to Leo's for the best pizza ever. Seriously, ever. Only my opinion, of course, but really, ever. We ordered a large (16") deluxe...

...and a medium (14") cheese and bacon.

Since the cheese is what really makes this pizza so incredibly good, I wanted to keep it pretty simple. But of course everything is better with bacon, so I added that.

I ended up eating most of this pizza by myself along with several pieces from the deluxe as well. Given the sizes of these pizzas, how much I ate, and how full I felt (not uncomfortably so), I determined that I most likely could complete the 18" pizza challenge at Old Shawnee. Quinn, you in???