aKathy's What's for Dinner? 8/4

I met up with a friend today to visit a local yarn store. I bought a really nice pattern, but not the yarn they recommended - it would have cost nearly €300 for my size! I know I am at the top end of the size range, but even in the smallest size, it would have been over €200! I am sure I will find something more in my price range somewhere else - I remembered why I don’t shop there very often.
We got some good news this morning. Our little Sophia now has a baby cousin - a little girl born Sunday afternoon. Her dad is my DiL’s younger brother and they live only a couple of suburbs over, so the two little girls will grow up together.

Dinner tonight is chicken curry. With our weather deciding to be winter again for a few days, we are having a break from grill and salad. Not sure what sort of curry - I need to look in the pantry and see what curry pastes I have available to me.

Late lunch with a friend after our annual "boob squeeze". Precautions in place and apparently we cannot stay for results which is fine. Before my breast reduction 10 years ago, I always had to have more pics taken.

Not sure where we will go..maybe Red Robin, maybe Pi Craft (you 'make' your own pizza) or Carabbas. Our inside seating is still at 50% and we'd eat outside but it's raining.

Raining here again which makes me feel sluggish. Hopefully it ends soon.

Saw the bats the other night flying around our house but we didn’t see where they exited from. I’m panicked they’re going to get down in the main house and bite me when I pee in the middle of the night.

Probably making shrimp tacos or shrimp with pasta, kale & lemon. I have the stuff for both.

jeremysgirl I’m just so happy for your son.

scrapmaven, it's looking like I am getting my craft room back.  I honestly have been so preoccupied with thoughts about DS and DD this morning that I haven't given a single thought to the craft room.  But it would be nice.  My DD was quite angry this morning when she heard her brother's news.  She yelled at me pretty good about how I babied him (I didn't, she's always been the squeaky wheel and if anything he got ignored for her bigger fires), how he'll be right back here in a matter of months, and how she'd rather live in a cardboard box than come move back in with me.  So...it seems like nearly everything in my life, there's both a good and bad outcome.  I'm not letting her get me down.  He deserves to be celebrated.  And he is going to be.  I'm going to help him out as much as I possibly can.  He earned this.  He is light years ahead of her mental health wise. 

Tonight's dinner was supposed to be a teriyaki marinated steaks with pineapple salsa.  But I fell asleep last night on the couch without taking the steaks out.  They are thawing, but I don't think I'll have time to marinate them the way I want to.  So maybe we will get takeout this evening and have the steaks tomorrow.  DS wants to go driving so I think I'll spend my evening doing that.  

It is hand-dyed silk/wool from Switzerland. It was really pretty, and it is for a sleeveless top with a cardigan to match, so more yarn needed than for a regular sweater, but still. I've had a look online and found an English silk/wool (same composition, and looks really similar) which is less than half the price. Still not cheap - silk is an expensive fiber - but reasonable.

Hi Everyone!

This morning we have been dealing with the hurricane coming up from the Carolinas. We’ve had strong winds and tons of rain. But luckily, we still have power and no other issues like what New Jersey, Delaware and down close to Philly are dealing with today. 

scrapmaven Enjoy your infusion. 

jeremysgirl Congratulations again for your son. Hopefully your DD calms down soon.

teddyw We have tons of bats that fly around here at night. I don’t like them either. 

cadoodlebug Love the meme. 

christine58 Good luck with your mammogram.

bklyngal62 I am sorry that you don’t feel well. I hope you start feeling better this afternoon.

 I am planning to have chicken with rice, corn and salad for dinner. But if we lose power, it’s cereal. 

I am planning on cheeseburgers, mini tots and cottage cheese for dinner.
Root-beer float for dessert.

We are enjoying the break from hot and humid weather for this week, come the weekend and it will be back.  
Loving having the windows open.

I'm headachy today, I think it's the weather. The birthday dinner was a success; we ended up making French fries in the air fryer, which mom loved! She got lots of flowers from my sibs and nieces, she said it looked like a "funeral parlor."

Tonight, I'm not feeling particularly inspired. We've got leftover tacos al pastor, so maybe we rechauffe them. They were deliciously spicy!

Tribe I am exhausted. I cannot sleep and I was able to get off all my sleeping meds but I can’t sleep. I am frustrated.

Tonight’s dinner could be anything. I will have to go to the store later but don’t know what to get. I am trying to cook healthier and I have a meal planned with nothing processed and my dad wants boxed Mac n cheese to go with the dinner. I am trying really hard to eat better. I have lost 7 lbs and my clothes are looser. I am burning out. He is starting to do some stuff himself which is great.

It's a fend for yourself night here. I know there is grilled chicken and burgers so the only thing I might "make" is a plate of raw vegetables.

Hi gals! Dd picked up her chromebook and SENIOR class books today. My baby is a senior 😫😭😭😭😭

I got later to pick up my new custom made graphite knee/leg brace. Woo hoo!

I am fixing left over IP chicken with sauteed vegetables and left over pumpkin spice muffins.

How awesome!!! She's almost there! Before you know it, she'll be fleeing the nest too.