aKathy's What's for Dinner 7/9

I made some seasoned chicken tenders in the air fryer last night and they turned out fine. So tonight, I will make more. Also, will be making ground turkey to go along with white rice and veggies for dh.

I have one summer squash plant and have had 3 squash from it. There are currently 3 more, but some little bastard has taken a bite out of one of them. 😡

jeremysgirl I'm glad you're starting to feel better. I'm excited for you and your weekend away at the beach. It's going to be amazing, I'm sure!

karenlou every time you mention your eye injections, my feet go all tingly and I do a little shudder!   Not sure why my feet tingle, but anyway...

I am jealous of all of you who are having to put on the cooling. I'd prefer that to having to put on the heating! 

Speaking of heating..... in order to reduce our gas and electricity bills, which are exorbitantly high, I don't have the heating or cooling on during the day. Instead, in winter I just rug up with extra layers of clothing, and a heat pack if necessary. DSO has the heating set to come on in the morning when he gets up, and it automatically turns off at 8:30am. Then he turns it on when he gets home, and it goes off automatically at 11pm. But as soon as he goes to bed, which is usually between 8:30pm and 9:30pm, I turn it off then just rug up again.

Anyway, last week he moved the portable electric heater into my home office, and he has been turning it on at 6:30am, so when I go into my office at 9:30am, it is toasty warm. It's very thoughtful of him. But.... it defeats the purpose of me trying to save on gas bills, if he's turning an an electric heater for three hours. I want to tell him please don't worry about turning the heater on, but I don't want him to think I am not grateful for his thoughtfulness. (And honestly, sometimes it's really nice to walk into a warm room!) 

So this morning I walk into my home office, and the heater was NOT turned on. My stupid brain said "Oh good, he didn't turn it on today." Then a split second later my brain said "Oh, what have I done to upset him, that he didn't turn it on today?!" 

Oh yeah, dinner.....

I had a ridiculously busy day at work on Tuesday. My boss is away, so I had to attend meetings for her. And I am having to do a lot of work for our New Zealand team, because they have no-one trained yet to do it themselves. I also had to run a training session with the NZ team. So for five hours straight, from the time I logged on at 9:30am until 2:30pm, I was on Teams calls/meetings non-stop. Then I had to actually do some work. I didn't log off until 8:30pm!

DD came over for dinner, which she had to cook herself. I was missing a few ingredients, which I had planned to go and buy at lunchtime, but didn't get a lunch break. And then when she started cooking at 6pm, we realised that the recipe was actually a slow cooked recipe that needed three hours! Anyway, she made do with what we had, and cooked a very nice chicken satay dish for us all, bless her. I ate in my office, and didn't even get a chance to catch up with her before she headed home.

I decided that this morning I was not going to log on a minute earlier than 9:30am. When I checked my work mobile phone, I saw a couple of missed calls and emails from one of our big customers, from 6:50am onwards. Oooops! So then I had to send a grumpy email to the logistics team and my customer service team (who were all copied in on the emails from the customer) saying that in the future, if they see an urgent email before I log in at 9:30am, they need to &%$#ing action it!! Well, I didn't actually type &%$#ing in my email, but I think they could sense my annoyance and read between the lines.