AKathy’s “What’s For Dinner?” 10/10

Hi destined2bmom! Thanks for starting the thread while our dear scrapmaven is away.

We ended up eating coney dogs last night. I think I was just the living dead yesterday. I was so tired from not sleeping well and getting up painfully early and yet I was wide awake and my brain was on alert which is what I was trying to accomplish by going off one of my meds. Rest assured my psychiatrist knows. And the thing we were shooting for was lifting some brain fog for me. But then I didn't have the drowsy effect of the medicine to put me to sleep. I slept much better last night and feel great today.

I only have 4 days of work this week and then I'm on vacation. The thing with camping is that there is a lot of work leading up to it and after it, but the vacation itself is super laid back. So this whole week I will be busy with prep work.

We will have that broccoli cheddar soup tonight and I will make the pretzel sticks like I said I was going to last night.

dh got up at 4:30 am and out the door at 5:30 am. I got up and made coffee and packed the cooler. he will make it north of seattle late tonight.

I might just make teriyaki chicken and stir fried cabbage. I can have the chicken.

mostly cleaning the house today.. getting ready for my cleaning person coming tomorrow.

Good Morning! Good Luck scrapmaven!

It's a BEAUTIFUL day here. Probably one of our last warm days. Wishing I wasn't at work. I do get to leave early but it's for my PT appointment. Then I'm going to the grocery store.

Enjoy your day at home destined2bmom.

Baked yams sound so good cadoodlebug. Might need to add some to my grocery list.

Glad you are feeling better today jeremysgirl. We camped a lot growing up. I really didn't appreciate how much time and effort my parents put in to it.

Dinner is rechauffe. Don't have as much as I thought I would. We had more people over last night than I was expecting.

Good morning! Still working on unpacking boxes here, though the pile is getting smaller. Down to the book boxes and other stuff from the living & dining room shelves. Trying to purge as I go, but having to be stealth about some of the things. After DH changed his mind on getting rid of a set of dishes from the 70s that we haven't used in 20+ years, I'm not taking any chances! The movers are supposed to come by this afternoon and pick up the flattened boxes and paper. Have tried to give them away, but no takers. Once the empties are gone, that will free up more space.

Dinner tonight will most likely be soup for me. Having some dental work done in a few minutes (mostly replacing old fillings) and not sure how sore my mouth will be.


Update:   After waiting for almost 30 minutes, they have rescheduled my dentist appointment for next Tuesday.  Apparently there were issues with the patient before me.  Annoying to be rescheduled after waiting, but most annoyed that I actually got dressed and put on makeup for nothing!  So dinner will now be some of the tenderloin tips that we grilled last night.  

Thinking of scrapmaven!

Have fun preparing for your camping trip jeremysgirl ... I spent many many years doing that ... don't miss it AT ALL!   


I'm just waiting for ex to show up so that we can finally go through the boxes and bins in the basement.   

I'll be donating or throwing out all of my scrapbooking supplies ...

Have to purge a bunch of Christmas decor but I am definitely keeping my two foot tall stuffed Costco reindeer.   


My dd's are coming over for dinner tonight ... we will order in ... we will decide what when they get here    

Good Morning

It's a chilly one here, it was 29 degrees when I woke up this morning. The snow is inching its way down the mountains, and we have snow in the forecast this week.    Dh ran the mower on Saturday and picked up the rest of the leaves, so I guess we are ready for winter.

Yesterday my sil and I cleaned out her parent's bathroom drawers and cabinets. My fil has been gone 6 years and all his bathroom stuff was still in there!  My mil had so many lipsticks, it was kinda cute! She loved a good colored lip!    Our next project will be the closet, I was a little surprised that my sil is ready to get rid of my mil's clothes. We are waiting to do the big stuff after my other sil spends a little time at home (seattle) and comes back up here.

Dinner tonight is Kalbi pinwheels on the grill, some type of potatoes, and a nice salad.

What do you guys make with pesto? I bought a big container at Costco but haven't used it yet.

I just cooked some rice and will make fried rice with it tonight. With pork. Because I’m still trying to get rid of pork.  And lots of veggies. And the boy will be happy.

Wishing scrapmaven well, wherever she is.

I don’t do camping, either. If there’s critters, plus no indoor plumbing and no Wi-Fi, I’m out. Actually, any one of those is a deal breaker for me. 

I like pesto cold as dressing on pasta salad. I use red peppers and grape tomatoes. Parmesan. And toasted walnuts. Delicious! It's my most requested BBQ dish.




We have a camper so I'm not sleeping down on the ground with the critters (a tent would never fly with me). And we do have a water tank and an shower/toilet (but we don't use it, we go to the bathhouse). And there is Wi-Fi at the campground we are going to. Electricity too. There's no way I'd camp without all of that. I like to cook over a fire though.

I wish our camper was road worthy. I'm very envious, jeremysgirl!

We'll have chili tonight, to use up the lingering tomatoes.

We are complete opposites!    

I "camped" in a long trailer with air conditioning and all the other comforts of home and still hated it!  Too much packing (for kids and adults), cooking, cleaning, repeat, over and over all "vacation" long!  No rest for mum!   

I'm so glad to be done with that nonsense!  I'm an "indoor kind of girl!"    

I never really enjoyed camping growing up and we had a camper so we weren’t roughing it. Just didn’t enjoy the whole campground thing.

A friend and I used to do a girls trip to Key West every year. One year we went out to the Dry Tortugas and spent the night. Tent camping at its finest. There was a total of 10 of us that night and it was magical. Now that is a camping trip I would do again.

Hello everyone ! Hope all is feeling well.

I finally felt up to sitting up get on my laptop. Surgery went well on Tuesday, Thank God. Had therapy on Friday and again today. This after pain is killing me but I'm praying this will take the pain away that I have been going through.
I haven't been able to keep much in my stomach but will try to eat a small McDonald pancake for dinner. That stayed down this morning.

I'm so glad to finally hear from you! I'm glad your surgery went well and I'm sorry you are in so much pain. Hopefully it is getting better. I hope you can't have a little to eat tonight. ❤️

I hope you feel better each and every day and I hope you can find something to eat that will stay down