Diorama Diet
In my life just when everything’s going okay a diorama interferes. Today outta NOWHERE one of my children had a diorama project. Everything is always due tomorrow.
This relates to my diet because instead of a balanced meal I ate a bowl of canned corn while trying to represent the lifestyles of a basilisk lizard and a penguin.
Instead of calculating my points I pondered how to depict a rain-forest and Antarctica in a shoebox.
Instead of working on my core strength I pondered the best way to affix a plastic lizard to said shoebox.
Do you think they will ever tire of The Diorama in the school curriculum? And why is it that the damn kids always wait until the day before? Why do my kids come to me at 10 pm and tell me they need brownies for a bakesale tomorrow? Huh? Thnks, I feel so much better now.
I found a new diet for you! (Daresay it would make a horrible diorama, though.)
Now, if I only knew how to put a link in a comment box…
http://phdwithninekids.blogspot.com/2008/05/if-only-theyd-had-this-in-gift-shop.html
What the Hell kind of diorama is this? The lizard isn’t eating the penguin?? Where’s the overabundance of red paint for penguin blood??? I demand a do-over!!!
BTW, a bowl of canned corn for breakfast sounds pretty good.
Ain’t nobody get’n fat eat’n da corn! It comes out the other end WAY too recognizable to have lost any calories along the way!!
I, too would like to know more about the significance of said penguin and lizard – TOGETHER??? Is the penguin teaching the lizard how to surf the wicked ice waves? Or is the lizard teaching the penguin how to sell car insurance? I MUST KNOW!!
Mental P – Girl you know it’s true.
Kalynne I LOVE the tape worm diet and honey if I could buy it I would. I’ve got no shame or sense. I love your site too.
Luna and Angela – I had the corn for dinner. And the assignment was to choose a warm blooded and cold blooded animal from a list. You had to have both. THEN depict their respective environments, diets, and surprising facts. It wound up lookin’ like worlds colliding. They really don’t relate to one another EXCEPT the conclusion is that the warm blooded creature lived in cold climate and the cold blooded creature sells insurance.
(or maybe it’s the penguin teaching Bill the Cat THHTHPTT!! (yes I LOVED Bloom County – Opus RULES!)
Sorry, big diorama causes blog diarhea.
Oh geez, I despise the diorama projects…they totally get in the way of bloggity-blogging.
Your’s turned out great though!
Angela wrote, “Ain’t nobody get’n fat eat’n da corn! It comes out the other end WAY too recognizable to have lost any calories along the way!!”
Ang, I don’t believe you’ve ever seen this photo on my food blog …
YES! I remember looking at that a while back. Gross but true!
I think there is something wrong with me because I actually like doing these projects. Except the kids are supposed to be doing them. I have to resist the urge to take over.
Tootsie – I too am a closet crafter. I enjoy working with scissors and smelling the glue and markers (esp. rubber cement and sharpies!!)
I have a photo of myself as a child holding my barbie diorama….plastic grass, toilet paper roll trees. I can’t remember what the hell it was supposed to depict – but I was proud.
this post gave me flashbacks.
ID FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE DIORAMA DISASTERS of my youth!
Tootsie and Angela I’m an awful mess as a crafter. I have ambitions to do cute things and it always turns into a hot glue gun tranny mess. I am envious of your skills. Truly.
MizFit I’m sorry to scare you. I in a low grade panic for the entire episode as well. But I do think panic burns calories so there’s that.