aKathy's What's for Dinner 5/27

Hi scrapmaven! I'm glad you had fun with DS and GF. I'm glad you like her too. That always makes it easier.

We were at a BBQ yesterday so I didn't really post. We tried to make it home before the thunderstorm. We didn't quite make it and got super wet coming in. So then I quickly put on my dry PJs and got into a good book. I was sucked so far in I didn't want to put it down last night. I had like 30 pages left and could not hold my eyeballs open so I finished it this morning over coffee.

I'll post a pic of the book. It was all about weight loss drugs. I'm at this very weird spot where my doctors are duking it out over them. My PC wants me to take them. My psychiatrist is completely opposed. And really who knows if the insurance company would approve it anyway. I'm just hoping the PC will quit harping on my weight when I tell her on the 14th that I've quit smoking. One thing at a time really.

Anyway, we will be having rechauffe beef stroganoff. I made it Friday night. I'm going to make some fresh pasta to serve it over. I'm going to veer from my favored semolina and try whole wheat.

Otherwise today is about the 4 loads of laundry I have, crochet, another book or two. Jeremy is golfing in a tournament with his friends near Ann Arbor so he'll be gone all day.

All of the studies excluded people with mental illness. They do work on satiety signals in the brain so they do alter brain chemistry. There have been reports of suicidal thoughts in some people since they've been being taken by the general public. The European version of the FDA is studying this right now.

I'm afraid they wouldn't work anyway. I've been taking Wellbutrin for years upon years off and on. It helps a lot of people quit smoking and has never offered me any kind of benefit like that. Either that or I'm afraid my brain would be quick to adapt and they'd stop working anyway. I mean the longest I have ever gotten out of a steady mental health med regimen is 3 years. My crazy brain adapts and insists it's just going to be crazy. 😂

I did the tetris game and got everything into my car plus a dress form and there is some room (not much) to spare. so now just a small bag and a garment bag and bathroom bag to go in the morning.

doing a small load of laundry.. going out to lunch with brother and sister in law--looked at menu.. very french, so will just have penn cove mussels again and small salad. probably have left over rotisserie chicken for dinner. probably another load to storage locker.

at least it is not raining today.. so that made loading easier.. though the ground had lots of puddles.

it will be sad driving away tomorrow. the house was finished about 40 yrs ago... just as we were married.

will. not post tomorrow as I will be eating snacks in the car.. radishes, popcorn, egg bites at starbucks.. carrots. then unload and put feet up. at least my kid at home is ready to help unload.

We made it safely to Minneapolis and are now eating dinner as it's 6:45 in Iceland. We'll spend the night with DS and head home in the morning. It will be good to sleep in our bed tomorrow night although most of the beds on our trip were comfortable.

It has been a rough weekend for me, On call saturday and called in for a "trauma stat" a motorcycle accident to start the summer off with a bang!!! Sunday was my usual 11-7 and I am also on tonight....so No cookouts or other such gatherings for me. I did send DH to his brothers in NH yesterday...No sense in both of us missing out.

My house painting continues...the gentleman I hired is doing an amazing job. Took him almost 2 weeks to scrape and sand, then power wash the house. He had it all primed in about 4 days. Started the painting on friday...and It looks amazing!!! I can't wait to see the finished product!!

Dinner tonight will be grilled steak tips, corn and a salad!!

Went out for breakfast after the memorial thing at the cemetery, and now I have no thoughts about dinner. 

Most of my people showed up, so that was nice. Those of us who have been exposed wore masks.

Picked up a grocery order on the way home, so at least I can figure out something and hopefully not resort to ordering pizza.

This morning DS & I planted all the flowers, herbs, & veggies we bought at the nursery on Saturday - we finished just before it started sprinkling. Then I made a quick trip to Lowe's to get a couple more small things to fill in that we hadn't found at the nursery (sweet red pepper, 2 more cherry tomato plants, and more basil). Anyway, it's all planted, looks great, and I'm beat!

We marinated chicken last night that we're going to grill (Barefoot Contessa's tequila lime chicken...mmmm). It has just a hint of jalapeno, which is about as much spice as I can generally handle. We'll have that with some rice and either veggies or a salad.

DH installed my two new LED swing-arm lamps above my project desk in my scraproom so I've been resting my back (from all the bending while planting this AM) and working on some paper crafting projects. I'm a happy camper!

My (long distance) BFF has been my BFF since grade 3 so for 49 years!  We have stayed in touch even though we haven't lived in the same place since we were 12 ... I visited her in Ontario last summer and she is coming here, with her husband, this July!  We can't wait!!!    

Before that, it had been over 20 years since we had seen each other