aKathy's What's for Dinner 6/6

I graduated 58 years ago today ~ 6/6/66! Today is also the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. 

Yesterday’ Hand and Foot card game was awesome. My partner and I amassed over 14,000 points to our opponents 7,000 points. Then we had to get into our hot cars which were sitting in 101-degree sun. Dinner will be Sloppy Joe’s.

Today will be spent running a few quick errands then working on my vacation photos again.

Today’s photos are from our free day in Copenhagen. DH and 7 others were doing a bicycle tour of the city. I opted out which DH said after-the-fact was a good choice for me. The 3-hour tour lasted 4-hours and they were often in traffic.

Here’s a group picture of the riders.


DH and I walked around in the morning before the 1PM tour and ate lunch near the bicycle shop. Then I made my way back to the hotel which was quite a distance away. I got in about 18,000 steps that day!

While walking with DH in the morning, I snapped this photo of the "Painted Ladies Houses". I think our tour director called them that, I don't think it's the official name.



While walking home from the bicycle shop, I took a detour and found the historic Post Office that burned a few weeks before our trip.

My psych wants me to do intermittent fasting. But I can't because of my blood sugar. I did tell her last time (March) that I was contemplating a WFPB diet and she was supportive of that. Honestly the past 6 months, I feel better mental health wise than I've felt in 6 years. If I hadn't felt this good, no way would I have even attempted to quit smoking. As far as I'm concerned it's now or never. I need to seize the opportunity while I feel good. I will meet my psychiatrist end of the month. I'd like to have something to report to her instead of just saying, "I'm fine." LOL!

Good evening all.
A quiet day for me. My cleaner was in this morning, then I walked to the shops - this week is a shop each day for dinner type of week, as we missed our big shop on the weekend, and I've had school and medical appointments to fit in.

scrapmaven - I have just had a call from the clinic I was at yesterday. They have me in for an MRI at the start of July, and I have the phone number of a neurosurgeon to call in the morning to set up an appointment, but it sounds like I am already penciled in with her for next Wednesday. The young assistant who rang me spoke English, which was nice and the surgeon has an Icelandic name, so I am hoping she speaks English too. My German is fairly decent now, but all the medical language would be difficult enough in English, let alone in my second language.

Dinner tonight is tandoori marinated chicken thighs, from yesterday's market trip, which DH can cook on the grill. There will be a salad and I am also going to attempt to make home made naans.

Chloe is willing to try (and usually likes) anything.  She is not picky at all.  

I have to keep a spirit of curiosity about things.  As long as I can play it out in my head like it is a big experiment that I'm trying, I do better. And I think that I did a lot of work around my size, I think it's easier because losing weight is absolutely not even my focus.  It may be a happy accident, but it's not even my focus at all.  

There are a lot of myths about protein and carbohydrates in regard to diabetes that I've been studying.  Animal products can really screw with blood sugar.  I did a very deep dive into protein lately.  But I'm keeping an open mind.  I just need to fully commit, can't do thinks half way and then try to isolate half results. 

dinner tonight is kielbasa, potatoes, and a variety of vegetables. Plus I'm going to try to turn the fairytale eggplant into a dip

I'm hoping the neurosurgeon can give me some answers next week, even if we then have to wait for confirmation from the scan. The man who called also suggested I could ask my GP to see if I can get the MRI somewhere else sooner - part of the reason for the waits is that it is at the university teaching hospital, which is currently overloaded. I also feel that if they felt it was urgent, I'd be getting in more quickly - that is generally how things work at the major clinics like this one.

Not sure who you are cruising with, but I took a bus tour after my cruise (ended in Boston) of the city of Boston.  It was fantastic!  I would love to go to Boston to visit and explore a bit more.  I took this tour as it included going to Logan plus it used up time before my later flight in the day.

@quiltz: The cruise line is Norwegian. Since we are arriving in Boston the day before, we will definitely have some time to explore. We also get into port early in the morning in the last day but we don’t have our flight times yet so not sure how much extra time we will have then. I’ve never been to Boston so I’m excited to see the city.

ntsf: Thanks for the suggestions. The Freedom Trail sounds perfect since both my friend and I love to walk!

check out the nps website for. more info.

Had to work late today so I picked up dinner. We are having brisket, potato salad and coleslaw.

just to update the tribe--my daughter in new zealand started her first week at work.. and has her final test of college this week. I have faith in her.. but stressful times!! she is an accountant in auditing.

I got the notice that last week was 161% higher than the week before. Maybe because we were on a difference continent.

I am horrified!    .  

I am super suspicious of leftovers and will only eat them the next day ... especially meat ... I'm with your DSO!

You are posting so obviously you don't have food poisoning!  

Be careful girl!


I worked today ... grade 7 ... one class was completely out of control ... not subbing for that teacher again!

My mum came over for dinner ... Calgary has had a MAJOR water main break today so lot's of water restrictions ... gave me an excuse not to cook because we aren't supposed to use our dishwashers often ... we had Subway!