AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 08/25

Today has been miserable, weather wise, which has actually been lovely - cool and drizzling rain nearly all day.

As usual, we went to church this morning. Today's priest has been away since mid-July, so knew nothing of my recent surgery. While we were cleaning up up after Mass, someone asked me how I was going in front of him, so he asked what had happened - his face when I said I'd had a brain tumor was a sight!

After that, home, lunch and an afternoon and early evening of football - our game was the mid-afternoon kickoff and has just ended - with me knitting away in between the exciting bits.

Dinner is steak and vegetable kebabs. Dh is cooking, as I'm not going out in the rain to do it.

We are in for a heat wave this week and it’s already started. I went for a walk early this morning before the sun got too hot.

DH is ATV riding with his buddy but it will be a short ride today. I’m just chilling with the dog.

Supper will be grilled marinated steaks.

Ooh leannec I am sorry about your migraine. I have got to say that I think the pop culture stuff of the 80s was probably the worst decade in history. The music? Yuck. The fashion? Yuck! The hair? Double yuck. I don't ever want a repeat of that God awful decade.

sueg truthfully I think you will get a lot of people shocked when you tell them you had a brain tumor.

scrapmaven you reminded me I need to make my mammo appointment too.

Thank you all for the kind words yesterday. I had a long day so I didn't come back and update. But my day with Wendy was...weird. She scrapbooked for about an hour, said she didn't feel well and needed to lay down, and she napped on her couch pretty much the rest of the time I was there. I did get almost all the way done with my Mammoth Cave photos before I ran out of adhesive. Good timing though because I needed to go anyway.

I met my dad for dinner. I really should do that more often. I told him I would too. I actually had a nice time. He listened and gave his thoughts about Chloe. He was supportive of me. I told him that my mother isn't talking to me. He said this is like a repeat of what happened with my brother. I didn't see the parallel before but he was right. My mother needs to constantly be the hero. And in order to be a hero to a person suffering, someone else has to be the villain. Sigh. I guess sometimes dads do know what they are talking about.

I told him about our plan to move to Ludington. And I told him that the only thing holding me back is that I'm afraid Chloe will feel like I abandoned her. She has some real abandonment issues. Because of her dad, but she tries to paint me in that light too. He told me I need to go. He said she needs to learn to take care of herself without me having to take care of her. He said she's grown and me and Jeremy did our job and now it's time for us to live our lives. I wasn't expecting that.

This afternoon I am sitting at my dining room table scrapbooking the photos from my camping trip to Tennessee in 2022. I was kind of on a roll.

We are making shish kabobs for dinner. Chicken for Jeremy and tofu for me. I need to go get the stuff marinating.

I’m cooking today! I decided to give DS the day off. We will have ziti with chicken and broccoli (and lots of garlic).

I’m also cooking a pot roast with carrots, green beans, potatoes and mushroom gravy. I have a young coworker who lives alone, far from any family, and enjoys a home cooked meal. I’ve shared sauce with meatballs and a boiled dinner with him in the past. I will probably bring some to my friend whose husband has terminal cancer, if she wants some.

Hey now, what's wrong with 80s music?  

Fashion had some challenges but it was the decade that I embraced everything from overalls to shoulder pads. I'm not sure big hair will ever make it back given that it now makes me think of fundamentalist religions with women in their prairie dresses. 

I love this availability.   

Glad to hear the migraine is better, leannec.

So thoughtful of you to be feeding friends/co-workers, KelleeM.

Your dad came through with some great advice, jeremysgirl.

It cooled off beautifully the last couple nights, so the weather was lovely for walking this morning. It is heating up now, but I doubt we will have to run the AC at all today which is my perfect sweet spot temperature wise.

DH is on a roll in the kitchen. He has been dehydrating plums and used some to make his "who needs a recipe, just toss in a bit of this, bit of that" muffins that are never the same twice. Now he has moved onto preparing Greek burgers (mix of ground beef & lamb plus a bit of this, bit of that) to grill later. I will add Caesar and Greek salads to the table and we still have some tzatziki made earlier in the week that needs to be finished.

Happy Sunday!

I graduated in 1985 so I'm all about the 80s. I was a new wave/goth girl and still mostly like EBM and synth forward bands.

Today was a fun day. My sister, mom and I all went and had our hair done. Our hairdresser comes in for us on Sundays so we have the whole place to ourselves and we drink mimosas and have snacks. It's just an-all around fun girls day. The only downside is that she's about 30 minutes away but the salon is next to a Papa Murphys so I get a pizza every time I go. We don't have them in my town and I love them. Got one for the parents as well so now they have dinner covered for tonight.

For the rest of the day, I might progress further in my video game or I started Emily in Paris last night so I may just binge. Laundry is done and I'm ready for the week so I just plan on chillin' for the rest of the day.

I hope you all have a great day!

Seriously delicious dinner. I marinated my tofu in a honey ginger sauce. I put zucchini, yellow squash, red and yellow peppers, and mushrooms on mine. Delicious.

And Jeremy? Well his were the chicken. Haha...

That yellow one is probably my oldest dish. The color is marigold. I got that platter and then it set off my fiesta collection.

Sounds like a great way to spend the day! Nothing like a girl-fest at the hairdresser!

I do agree with your dad on this now - we (collectively) tend to think/assume the we need to be in close call of our children - even as adults - but in reality we don't. They do tend to cope and even if their way of accomplishing something is different to ours, they do get there in the end.

DH and I had thoughts of immigrating in the early years of our marriage but never did and while I don't regret it I do wish we had done even just for awhile. 

If a move is going to make your life better, and Jeremy is on the same page then investigate and make an imformed decision - don't just write it off as a bad idea. Good luck on this venture. 

teddyw I am keeping everything crossed for your DD. ❤️

We had spaghetti with Italian sausage (GF spaghetti for DH). I unpacked boxes all day yesterday and got the kitchen mostly organized - there's still some things to unpack/put away but it's definitely getting there! I also made progress on getting a few things organized in other areas of the house. We have a long way to go though. Glad for the long weekend coming up so we can make more progress!

I was in college in the 80s and liked a lot of things from that decade (although not stirrup pants LOL). I have very narrow shoulders so I loved the shoulder pads trend, and my hair is naturally thick and curly so the big hair trend worked for me too.