1101 some like it hot

After the dim sum, my parents took me back to SBCC. Ed was giving me a ride to Eric and Jennifer’s to wrap and fill shoeboxes for the Operation Christmas Child project that my lifegroup was doing, but we didn’t have to be there until 1:30pm, so we made a short stop at Starbucks for some refreshments. It was a hot day.

Liz knew I was limiting my caloric intake, so she said a frappucino was okay as long as I ordered it “lite” and without whipped cream. I did and it was good!

We made our way to Eric and Jen’s place without incident. I decided to take the wheelchair to avoid the falling incident that happened the last time (see the 8/4/08 post). I ended up twisting my bad knee and it set my therapy back one month because it hurt when I put weight on the leg. I didn’t want to take the risk.

There was food, so I asked Caroline to make me a plate. She put on sushi with a lump of wasabi on a plate, and added some teriyaki chicken. Then she saw some salad, and put that on, but the greens partially covered the other items. When I was given the plate, the food looked good, so I put a forkful of salad in my mouth. The salad was very tasty, so I took another forkful of the salad. What I didn’t know is that I also picked up the lump of wasabi.

As the salad was in my mouth, I remember thinking, “Gee, this dressing is a little grainy.” It wasn’t until after I swallowed that I realized there was wasabi in it. All of my sinuses cleared and I was told that my eyes were watering. I like wasabi, but it just caught me by surprise. Too bad it doesn’t count towards the daily servings of fruits and vegetables that are recommended.

According to Jen, we wrapped and filled 36 shoeboxes. Correction. I should say that Liz, Ginnie, Jennifer and Wendi did the wrapping and I was at the table with Ed, Steph and Caroline, trying to fill the wrapped shoeboxes by age range. That’s when I found out that toothpaste has a warning to “keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age”. Strange, eh?

Eric and Rome kept track of Justin. Or was it the other way around?

We kept at it until Ed had to leave for the Westside Volleyball at West Torrance High.