aKathy's What's for Dinner 7/11

Supposed to be upwards of 111° today and, of course, DH is playing golf. He took two bottles of Gatorade and should be finished by about 11 when it will be 95°. I'm making a quick run to Costco when they open at 9 to get a rotisserie chicken so I'll have it for Chinese Chicken Salad tomorrow. Tonight will be salmon burgers.

ntsf sorry the game didn't turn out well for you and your DH.

Good morning! I guess those window guys are getting an early start again today? Will you be able to rest a bit scrapmaven?

I am trying to decide what to do for dinner. I have two choices, basically I could make a tofu pad thai (this is what I want to do) or I could do another mixed veggie pasta (which I feel like BTDT). I keep trying to tell myself that it doesn't matter either way because I'm going to be throwing some produce out. Still, it hurts my heart to do so and so I'm trying to figure out what would create the least amount of waste. But we are leaving tomorrow afternoon, so I really have no choice. (If this was a dinner thread vote, and I'm totally not saying it is, I'm campaigning pretty hard for the pad thai.)

I had only one meeting today, this morning. As soon as I saw the audit period, I knew no federal funds had been used and so we had nothing to report. It took like 5 whole minutes. And I swear to you, everyone literally cheered for me solving the problem so quickly and easily. What a way to start the day! I've got my laundry going so I can pack. Today feels like an early start to a good weekend. No complaints. I swear I will laugh in the face of adversity today. I am determined.

Pad thai, pad thai, pad thai...just saying...lol.

No plans for dinner yet.  We will only be 80 but the humidity is in the miserable range.  Yuck.
And I don't want to eat or cook.

Glad your neighbor is alert scrapmaven
And thinking of you **GypsyGirl** and your DH

If only they were local! But if I ever get to Colorado Springs, it will be one of my first stops!

That is hilarious! Did you ever make it again? Is the tofu recipe much different?

Good Morning!

It's been a morning of technical issues in the office. I am not a techy so I am a bit frustrated.

scrapmaven I am so happy to hear your neighbor is awake.

jeremysgirl pad thai sounds delicious. DH would never eat it but I am all in.

I started purging my closet last night. It is a disaster so I have to complete that task after work today so I can walk thru it.

Dinner is meatloaf and hopefully fresh corn on the cob.

It has been a long, hard day for our family.
Last night, about 6:30 pm our time, DDiL texted to say they were at the hospital with her mum, who was going into kidney failure. They made the difficult decision of moving her to palliative care, and the doctor said he felt they were looking at 12-24 hours. DS rang this morning - they had taken the girls in to say goodbye to their Nonna, but nothing much had changed. I’ve just had another message from him that she seems to be in her final hours. He’s home with the girls; DDiL is with her dad and siblings keeping vigil. Please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers.

I started the day at the doctor, getting blood tests done and getting documentation I need for my surgery. Then this afternoon, the doctor from the oral clinic called to say that - after talking to other doctors - they have decided to do an ultrasound on the lesion in my cheek and could I please come in sometime next week. He knows about my other surgery and said that is the priority right now and whatever they decide to do with the cheek problem can happen once I’ve recovered from that.

Dinner tonight is going to be burgers. I saw three patties in the freezer over the weekend and all I needed to pick up at the grocery store were buns and fresh tomatoes. It is also very quick, which I need right now.

scrapmaven - at this point, I am totally asymptomatic. The doctor I saw said if anything, this could affect my speech, but I haven’t noticed any difficulty with that, except for my usual issues with switching between languages!
I really feel for my DDiL right now - losing the baby last week and now her mum on top of that. Lucia is fortunately too little to really understand - DS says she just keeps asking for mummy every time she wakes in the night. Sophia sort of understands that nonna is very sick and will be going to God in heaven soon, but she has always found it hard to say goodbye, even just for family visits and she just couldn’t say goodbye when she went in earlier. Luckily it is school winter break there this week, so she can stay home.

I'm sorry I didn't make that clear. Yes, there will be veggies no matter what. It is simply a matter of WHAT veggies will get used and which will get wasted.

Ahh, gotcha! It seemed odd that you wouldn't add veggies to the pad thai.😁
I vote for Pad Thai anyway because the last time we tried to order from our Thai place, they were closed for vacation. I think Im going to choose that for dinner tomorrow.

Happy Thursday everyone!
I am fixing stuffed cheese ravioli and garlic knots for dinner.
If everyone could say a prayer that my eye appointment goes well tomorrow I would appreciate it.
I went last Saturday and was diagnosed with 2 different cataracts in my right eye and 1 in my left eye. Had to go back after 2 hours to pick up my new glasses and couldn't see out of them at all. The fitting lady argued with me that I wasn't looking through them right. I finally pulled my old glasses out of my purse and could see just fine with them. She checked the prescription on them and compared with new one and sure enough they are alot less strength. Of course eye doctor at this point was gone for the day. I paid over $200 for my new glasses. So called Monday to discuss with them and they said to try wearing the new ones and adjust to them. I tried them on Sunday several times and couldn't use them. They said call back Tuesday when Doctor would be in. So called Tuesday and they said they would speak with the doctor and call back. They then called back and told me that I needed to try them on again and call back. So at this point my husband asked to speak to eye doctor and they said he would call us. We waited all day and finally at 4 pm we called back and they told me it sometimes takes up to 2 weeks for people to get used to wearing and being able to see out of their nee glasses. We said that can't be true we have always been able to see right away with new glasses. They said I would have to redo the whole appointment again if I wasn't happy. We booked a different place that will exchange my glasses and fix this hopefully.

No there’s one closer that one is over an hour away. They’ve now added a fourth tornado let touchdown about 30 miles Southwest of here. Thank God no one died even the person who had a tree fall on their cars. They were driving. Lots of tree damage not a lot of people without power but lots to pick up


sueg I am so sorry for your daughter-in-law. Prayers that her passing is peaceful and without pain.