aKathy's What's for Dinner 10/25

My ex-husband continues to be the stereotypical Japanese salaryman drinking and smoking himself half blind. My money had to be my own. It does piss him off when I travel.

I used half of the filling today in an enormous pie 🥧. I have plans for the rest in galettes. It will keep about a week or so in the fridge. If I'm not goibg to use it I will either make a pie and freeze the whole thing, or if I don't have time ti make pie dough, I will line a pie plate with plastic wrap. Pour filling onto plastic and wrap up once frozen, pop it out of the tin and place in freezer ziplock in freezer. Then when I'm ready to make a pie, I can peel off the plastic wrap and slide the frozen puck of filling into the pie crust, top crust or crumble. and bake. It will need additional bake time if I want to go right into oven, or it can defrost in the crust in the fridge and bake for the regular time.

So I have a big problem. None of my clothes fit. The big clothes are Lululemon pastels. The smaller clothes are too small. I don’t have a dress yet and I am going out for dinner tomorrow to the place we had the kids’ wedding. I went to a club last night in yoga pants. We are all women and forgive everything but what am I going to do?

My older DS - Sophia's dad - was totally into Egypt and dinosaurs as a kid, and he is passing the love onto the girls! They have been to 3 touring Egypt exhibitions this year, all slightly different. One was in Sydney and we made a family holiday of it at easter, one was in Melbourne, where they live and the 3rd in Canberra, where younger DS is.

scrapmaven - I know someone recommended Purl Soho for knitting tutorials, but another I really like is Very Pink Knits on You Tube. She has a whole series (10 videos I think) for beginners, including some she has done in slow motion. One thing I would definitely recommend is finding videos in the same style you knit - are you 'English style' (hold the working yarn in your right hand) or 'Continental' (working yarn in left hand)? It's a lot easier to follow someone who makes the same hand movements that you do, at least as a beginner.

Update on the meeting yesterday:  The meeting went well, especially when the case manager started off with the fact they had requested an extension until Oct 31 that morning.  I also spoke at length with our BCBS case manager and while she cannot guarantee they will pay the extension, she feels we have a good shot based on DH's stay of 104 days in hospital. If insurance does not cover the extra days we have agreed to pay the cost. However, I have faith that the cost will be approved.  

They are still pushing home care as the next step but after much discussion with DH and DD, we are probably going to have him transferred to a skilled nursing facility.  The PT/OT times will be less with either option, but we will look into paying out of pocket for additional sessions.  Has anyone ever done that successfully?   I have talked to two that are both much closer to our home and come highly recommended.  Fingers crossed that one of them has space for him next week!  

Thanks to everyone for all their messages of support, and the thoughts and prayers.  It has meant the world to me.  




Thank you for responding!  Helpful information for sure!   We are currently talking to a couple of SNF facilities.  The team at rehab is encouraging home care over SNF but while we would love to have DH back home, it's just not going to work for us right now.  Once he is able to at least walk with a walker, then we will bring him home.    I am glad to hear you were happy with SNF care for your MIL.   If we come up with more questions I'll be sure to ask.   We aren't using Medicare as DH is still fully employed and we are fortunate to have excellent medical coverage.