Weird Lunch Bag - Summer Edition: An International Lunch bag

Internationally speaking...

It says "Weirdo" in several different languages.  Google Translate is awesome! 

The languages I used are (in no particular order):

• Spanish
• French
• Icelandic
• Arabic
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Urdu
• Hindi

-Stay weird, my friends.

Weird Lunch Bag - Summer Edition: Welcome to Summer

We have another summer class for Marie, which means another summer time lunch bag.

I like the sun

"Welcome to SUMMER"

-Stay weird, my friends.

Weird Lunch Bag - Summer Edition: You are falling under my power.

Look into the spinning vortex of words.

It says:

"Look into the spnnning vortex of my words.  You are getting sleepy.  You are slowly falling under my spell.  You will repeat after me, "I am falling under the spell of the lunch bag.  I will give dad twenty dollars."

I will let you know how Marie reacted later.

Until then,

-Stay weird, my friends.

Weird Lunch Bag - Summer Edition: Nobody expects the Weird Lunch Bag

It's a special SUMMER edition of the Weird Lunch Bag Blog.




Marie is taking a summer babysitting class and she needed to bring her lunch and, of course, I'm not going to let the opportunity for a weird decorated lunch bag slip by.

"Wait...
What is this???

OMG!!!

It's another
Weird Lunch
BAG

Were you expecting this?  I wasn't, but then nobody expects the Weird lunch bag!!!"

The bag was already labeled with her name on the other side, so I decorated her bag and placed it with the other kids' bags.  She didn't bother to turn it around because she though her mother had made the lunch, then a little later that morning she came to me and said, "I'm such an idiot!", indicating to me that she saw the decorations.

We both had a good laugh.

- Stay weird, my friends.

A surprise lunch bag for the end of the year.

I decided to buy a bag of mixed "fun size" candy and put it in a special End of the School Year lunch bag so she could give it to her friends. 

Here is one side of the bag:

And here is the other side:

The whale is saying, "See you next year."
The cat is saying, "Meow!  Have fun this summer."
The ostrich is saying, "Go on vacation!"
The robot is saying, "You're weird!"
The sun is saying, "Get an awesome tan."
The butterfly is saying, "Sleep in, dude!"

I hope all of Marie's friends enjoyed their End of the Year candy. 

- Stay weird, my friends.

It would seem Marie and I have a fan base

Last Friday and again yesterday, Marie's friends sent me a couple of notes about my lunch bag decorations.

The note from Friday:

They like me.  They REALLY like me!

"The lunch bags are so weird and random!"
"Yes!"
"OMG the lunch bags are so darn awesome! I Luvvve them!"
"I love them :)"
"They is amerzing"




 The note from yesterday:

Apparently I'm known as "Marie's Dad".

"Dear Maries Dad,
I just wanted to
say that I'm a fan
of your lunch bag
art skills. 
They are so fab.

-Ashleigh 
Maries BFF"

Thank you, Ashleigh and all of Marie's friends for your kind words.  Rest assured the weirdness will resume at the beginning of the new school year.  Until then...

Stay weird, my friends.

The last lunch bag of the school year

Maire has 3 more days at her school, but they are half days, so today is the last day of the 2015-2016 school year that she will have a lunch bag.  I thought it would be appropriate to reflect and reminisce on her lunch bags that I've decorated.

 

"Marie, It's the last day of school where you will have a lunch.  Lets look back on previous lunch bags and reminisce on the weirdness"

There are 4 panels each showing a different bag from the past.

• Panel 1:  "Remember the poems?" and it shows a drawing of a bag saying, "Roses are red.  You're weird".
• Panel 2:  "Remember the jokes?" and the drawing shows a bag saying, "What did the ocean say to the shore?"
• Panel 3:  "How about the rainbows?" and the drawing shows a bag with a rainbow on it.
• Panel 4:  "Who could forget the dragon?" and the drawing shows a bag with a dragon on it.

At the bottom it says, "So many lunch bags.  So much weirdness.  Just remember one thing as summer approaches..."

The note inside the bag:

"Stay weird, and enjoy summer!"

The Weird Lunch Bag Blog will go on hiatus over the summer and resume at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year.  Until then, stay weird, my friends.

I coudn't think of anything...

"Greetings Marie and Friends.
I couldn't think of anything
weird to write on today's bag,
so here's a picture of a dragon
riding a unicycle. "

-Stay weird, my friends.

Snoopy and the Hitchhiker's Guide

Snoopy and the Hitchhiker's Guide.

I used to draw a lot of Snoopy when I was a kid.  I got away from it, but I've always been able to draw Snoopy quite well, so I thought it might be nice on Marie's lunch bag today.  I'm also a HUGE Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan and it was the first thing I could think up for Snoopy to say.

Marie gave me a huge smile when she saw this:

"TIME IS AN ILLUSION.
LUNCHTIME, DOUBLY
SO."

- Stay weird, my friends.

She's a lot of things...

Marie... she's a lot of things.

It says:

Marie

"You're great.  Your awesome. 
You're cool.You're smart. 
You're amazing. 
You're marvelous.

but most of all...

You're Weird!"

-Stay weird, my friends.

A hypnotic lunch bag

Background:
So for the past few years, if I had a series of questions to ask my kids, I would always add in the additional question, "Will you give me $20?" just to see if they are paying attention.

Example:

Me:  Do you like your teacher?
Kid:  Yes.
Me:  Is she really nice?
Kid:  Yes.
Me: Does she make class fun?
Kid:  Yes.
Me:  Will you give me $20?
Kid:  No, Dad!

So it has become this running gag, that I decided to put on her lunch bag.

It says:
"Read the following out loud"
(and repeat)

I am getting very sleepy. 
I am under dad's spell. 
I will give dad twenty dollars!"

She still won't give me $20.  I guess I will have to keep trying.

-Stay weird, my friends.

A very weird question

What would YOU do?

"Hey Marie!

If you're driving down the road
on a motorcycle and a monkey
in a wheelchair breaks in
while you're rubbing chocolate
pudding on your cat's legs
and he starts violently beating
the rubber chick with a
barbequed (sic) dog's tail,

What would you
DO???"

Background:
When I was in high school, some friends of mine and I thought it was funny to come up with a bunch of "stupid" questions that made absolutely no sense. (We also had some stupid answers for these stupid questions that were equally nonsensical)  We wrote them down and they were sort of an inside joke between us.  This was one of the more... uh... creative questions we came up with.

Marie smiled.

-Stay weird, my friends.

Rainbow lunchbag

Its in color this time.

I thought I would color her bag today.  She smiled when she saw her bag this morning:

"WELCOME!
To your
RAINBOW
LUNCH BAG!!!"

Stay weird, my friends.

A rambling sort of lunch bag.

I went on... and on... and on...

Today's message:

"I don't know what I will write on your lunch bag today.  maybe I'll write another epic poen, or perhaps a funny joke.  Perhaps I'll draw a picture that will bring a smile to both the faces of your and your friends.  I'm not exactly sure.  Am I rambling?  If I'm rambling please let me know.  some people can just go on and on and on and on, but not me!  I can stop writing whenever I need to.  I don't see the point of continuing to write a lunch bag message just for the sake of writing.  I mean rambling on about nothing is pointless, don't you think?  Oh my!  I seem to be running out of room."

Stay weird, my friends.