aKathy's What's for Dinner? 12/12

When we arrived at Crazy Rummy yesterday we found out one of our Newcomer's members had passed away that morning. I wasn't as close to her as some of the other gals but I will miss her.

Today will be errands and this afternoon I will go help another gal bag desserts for our Newcomer's luncheon tomorrow. 125 desserts! She makes amazing goodies and has provided the desserts for the past 3 luncheons.

Dinner will be pizza, we ended up having Teriyaki Chicken last night.

Happy Tuesday!
We are having steak, green beans, diced potatoes, macaroni and cheese.

Good Morning !

Cleaning the Texas room and addressing Christmas cards is on my to do list today. Might have to go get a few groceries as well.

For dinner we will be having enchiladas with rice and beans.

Good morning!

I'm back at the hospital today with the parents. My dad will be released today after his final dose of his anti-viral. Mom will probably be here for a few more days before they release her to rehab.

Not sure what dinner will be tonight- probably take out!

Ugh. I need to find a way to complain to Amazon directly. Once again, my package was left outside my front door, in the rain, despite me being at home. I have filled out the 'tick the box' form they provide, saying my delivery instructions were not followed and my parcel was left at my 'safe place' (which it isn't - I have never told them they can leave things by the front door) when I was at home. I just feel that my feedback is obviously not getting through.

Hi friends!

It's 12:47 and I'm ready for a nap! DH had a work potluck today, so I was up at 5:15 helping him make meatballs. He always does meatballs and homemade sauce. And it was an adventure even making sure we could do them. Our crock pot has the snap-on handles to ensure safety when carrying it. Which is great...until he cleaned it a little too aggressively and something snapped off inside and he didn't feel comfortable having the inner heating mechanism to a piece of plastic inside.

So I ordered a new one from Target during my work day yesterday, and went to pick it up last night. Got it home, and we were wiping down the outside and getting ready to put the other pieces in the dishwasher...only to find a baseball sized dent on the outside part and well, we weren't about to use that!

So out I went again, to a different location to return it and I told him that I'd just get whatever they had (I'd gone to a different location the first time because the closer location didn't have what we wanted in stock).

Fortunately, the girl working the returns counter was lovely and I got a full refund back to a gift card; and then I went to an actual cashier to pay for my new one (the same one, which apparently wasn't in stock?). I explained the situation to her and asked if I could pay and then step to the side to open the newly purchased one to confirm nothing was damaged. She understood completely and apologized again for the trouble. No issues with this one, and now we have a spiffy new crock pot (it's blue - super pretty!). I think the cashier was also surprised I asked if I could take a look at it because she said most people just open it in the aisle where they are... I'm not that much of a jerk. I was annoyed, but not so much to do that!

Oh, and dinner this week is a new-to-us recipe: chicken fajita casserole (https://urbancowgirllife.com/low-carb-chicken-fajita-casserole/). I always get a little nervous trying new recipes with DH, but he wants me to double it for next time, so I'd call that a winner, winner chicken dinner! (Okay, maybe I do need that nap...)

I'm in line at the post office which will open soon. I'm 3rd with about 30 people behind me. Glad I got here 20 minutes early. ETA: quick and easy ~ so glad to have that done!

DH and I went into the footy to have lunch with his buddy. His buddy’s wife was having knee surgery this morning and he was putting in time. After lunch FH and I went to the mall and I grabbed another small gift for each of my boys. Now I’m done.

We had clubhouses for lunch and I didn’t eat half of mine. DH had a quarter of his left so he gave it to me and now I have 3/4 of a clubhouse for supper. I’ll add a salad to go with it.

DH believes that he has a sciatica issue. He’s had some numbness in his leg before and dr sent him for an extra of his back. The X-ray showed squishing of a couple lower vertebrae. Dr told him to keep active. Today the leg is numb but it comes and goes. Anyone ever deal with this?

My inside decorations are finally up. We even put a star on Walkers crate.

Happy snowy Tuesday!
 
It really looks like Christmas around here. With all the snow and dark days (sunrise at 10:30 sunrise at 3:30) My Christmas lights twinkling, Christmas music playing. Life is so cozy!

Dinner tonight is BLT's with chips and grapes. 

I still haven't had time to bake anything but I did get my canned and boxed food cabinet cleaned out and reorganized. I hope I have time to work on a cute Christmas puzzle and a fun craft project.


cadoodlebug sorry to hear about your friend that passed away. 

I had to go into the office to work (boo!) so that means it's DSO's turn to organise dinner. He bought chicken enchiladas from Costco. They were really nice.

Just wondering what a Texas room is or if it’s an autocorrect.

Marina I didn’t see your post yesterday. I hope everything is ok.

scrapmaven I hope all those appointments are helpful.

Big hugs christine58 what a nice way to remember him.

destined2bmom I’m trying to work out the kinks in my greenhouse cabinet. I’m waiting for 2 more things to “finish” it. Today I came home to a puddle of water in it. I switched the humidifier to a smaller one that I have but apparently it puts out too much water.

sueg Amazon drives me insane. They delivered a package of mine to my neighbor. While they were delivering it they called me Very odd. The phone wouldn’t answer. I call the # right back. It directs me to their online service. I then get a text with a picture of my package on their porch. I figure they’ll see it’s not theirs and put it on my porch. The wife doesn’t speak English and the husband acts offended when I speak to him.he clearly grew up in the states so I don’t know why he acts that way. Dh is never home and has never met them.
Package is not on their porch a couple hours later. Week goes by no package returned. I online chat Amazon who tells me to go look for it. Knock on their door a few times no answer. Contact Amazon who says they’re refunding me. Week goes by. No refund. I go over to my neighbor’s when there’s a bunch of cars there. They open the door and there’s a mountain of Amazon boxes & packages. Person shows his phone saying he can’t understand English but he grabs my exact package from the 30 or so immediately and gives it to me.

So far dinner is chips and salsa. Maybe cereal later.

Good evening! Still at the office. Waiting on the last client to leave so I can get out of here.

My goal is to finish my Christmas cards tonight. I only have a few to go.

Tearisci I am sorry to read about your parents. It's hard having aging parents.

Marina I am so sorry about your friend.

christine58 that is such a sweet way to remember your dad.

Not sure what DH is fixing for dinner. Guess I will be surprised.

It is all my town. There are over 300 members and some have been with the group for decades. You don't need to be a newbie to join. With so many activities, there is something for everyone. They just started a hiking group and they went on a 9 mile hike the other day. I just got back from bagging the desserts. There were 8 of us so it only took 30 minutes! Then we talked for another 30 minutes.