aKathy's What's for Dinner 10/28

Happy Monday!
Fixing pork chops, mashed potatoes and butter noodles for dinner.
Prayers for you scrapmaven.

Welcome to the new week!

Today is such a lovely day here sunny and not too cold. This morning I walked to the local party store to get everything I need for Halloween. I am adding a bit to my decorations each year and it’s so much fun. Last year I got my candy there as well - they had large packs of mixed mini bags of Trolli gummies (like Haribo, but scarier shapes and packaging) - but they didn’t have any today. I had to go to the supermarket anyway, so now there are very few multipacks of gummi bears and Trollis left there!

After I came home, I continued to work on my mystery shawl. There is another update from this morning on the Craft thread, when I finished Clue 3.

Dinner tonight is chicken thighs, probably baked with eggplant and cauliflower. I think I am leaning towards Middle Eastern flavours and will serve couscous with it.

I just picked up Walker from the doggy spa. He’s so clean, fluffy and smells super good! And he came home wearing a Halloween bandana. The groomer is so good with him and she only charges $45.00. Can’t beat the price.

I need to get the boys off the bus today but I’ll stay only until DS or DDIL get home from work.

Supper will be rechauffe stirfry and spring mix salad.

I am so sad to read of everyone's migraines lately. I have never had one. Sometimes I get a pressure like feeling in the front of my head but it's like a sinus headache, it's a bipolar headache really. It comes on when I am having a rough time.



I'm curious to see if anything happens this week. I am hoping somebody moves forward with something and that it happens quickly. I was in another meeting with her this morning and she got her wires crossed twice. My boss looked like he was going to be sick. I am sure he was thinking that I totally noticed and would be making note of that.



I had one meeting this morning and I have a task I must do this afternoon. Shouldn't take me very long. I'm going to make some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for Jeremy. I was so into finishing my quilt yesterday that I didn't get around to making cookies. So, I will make them today for him. Tomorrow I'm off at noon because I have to go have that allergy testing done. Wednesday is Esther's birthday. Sigh. I have taken the day off work as I have the past two years. I just don't know how it will go. Last year, I just spent a few hours looking at scrapbooks and remembering her and then baking her favorite, blueberry muffins. Then I was able to salvage the day and go on about my business. We will see how that goes this year.

Tonight I'm making corn and pinto bean flautas.

I am having thai leftovers for dinner. had my first cara cara orange of the season!! I love winter citrus.

this week, I really need to catch up with everything at home.. as we are leaving next week for 2 weeks in hawaii. going to mailbox and making cookies to send off today.. put away my scrapbooking stuff (I started my dd's baby book.. 35 yrs late but oh well).. so lots of little things to do.
once I leave next week, I will have only a few days at home til right before christmas, so cleaning the basement so I can fit the car in the garage.. going to goodwill.. just little stuff.

Happy Monday Dinner friends!

scrapmaven Sending good vibes to send your migraine on it's merry little way!

jeremysgirl I hope you have some resolve with your co-worker this week and I'll be thinking of you on Esters Birthday.

**GypsyGirl** I'm so jealous of your classes. I've done some ruler work and really want to make a barn quilt !! I'll text you Thursday mid morning for our meet up!

Speaking of the Quilt Show. I drive to Houston each year with a friend to another friends house in the Houston Suburbs. We go to the Quilt show and then sew the weekend away. We go visit her 3 or 4 times a year. I need to come back early this year due to a family gathering on Sunday, I told my local friend that I would drive separate on Wednesday evening. She calls yesterday to tell me she is going to ride to Houston with me and her husband will come pick her up on Sunday. I'm not sure why I'm upset, but for some reason I feel totally used. She just assumed she could make these plans and inform me of her plans. She said a few weeks ago that she would drive this time, since I've driven the last 4 or 5 times. I need to get over it, but for some reason it's eating at me, this friend is getting very brazen with her selfishness, she caused a LOT of drama at a recent quilt retreat we attended. I'm seriously starting to feel her friendship is hard work.

DH has been at the ranch thru the weekend and is heading home today.I'm thawing chicken breast, I'll add a veg and call it dinner. :-)

Wishing everyone a great day ahead!

Several years ago I bought a SewSteady table and the bonus gift was all the stuff to start ruler quilting.  I've never sat down and used it because I just didn't get it looking at YouTubes.   So I figured I'd give it a go and then if I don't enjoy it I can ditch the stuff with no guilt.   The barn quilt just looks like fun and since they provide everything it'll be much easier than doing it at home.   If it turns out well I have a spot outside my back door that I plan to hang it.  

Sorry about your friend.  You just never know about people.  Try not to let her ruin your weekend tough.   Looking forward to our Meetup on Thursday!

That could be me in the Raggedy Ann costume! I had that exact one!!! Somewhere there is a picture of me in that and my sister was wearing a black cat!! That is some real nostalgia!!

I worked last night and after a VERY busy day/evening shifts I was not bored, plenty of clean-up and tasks to get done. From work I went to my Retina MD for mt eye injection....both eyes stable on that front, so I am happy. I am also happy to now be on the six week plan.

Dinner will be sausage (broccoli rabe, garlic and cheese) with sautéed peppers and onions and cole slaw.

I leave Friday for my mission trip to Guatemala, So looking forward to it. This is the same group that went two years ago and they are a FABULOUS group to work with, lots of surgery to get done in a week, and we all worked so well together! 
Most of us are taking a side trip at the end of the mission to Takal....should be lots of fun

I woke up this morning determined to eat right, drink less, and exercise more, but that was 4 hours ago, and I was younger then and full of hope.

It’s 3:30 and there is a steak I can eat or I can hunt for something in the garage freezers. I have 4 vegetable species to eat with dinner. I will try to grocery shop tomorrow. I get so panic stricken when I am standing in line at the deli or if they are out of cream cheese. It’s not the end of the world. There is another grocery store beside the kids’ house. You can say give your head a shake. I get so terrified when I have to shop.

It poured torrential rain all night long. (I didn’t hear it) until I got up at 6:00 am. My advice is to not get up then if you don’t have to. It’s not fun.

Been a rough couple of days. Making some chicken parmesan for dinner - it's my comfort food! I have trouble when I'm stressed with my tummy acting up - between that and not sleeping, I'm just doing my best to make it through the day. Speaking of migraines, I had my first yesterday. My husband has them a lot, but I had the whole ocular craziness. I honestly thought I was having a stroke. I feel for those of you who have them regularly!

Aww.....that made me giggle. Haven't seen your fluff balls in a long time, but I remember their sweet faces!


cadoodlebug ....Ohhhh, I LOVE your meme!!! So many memories! I wish SO, so badly I had piks of our Halloweens in the 70's!



scrapmaven ....I wish we could hear you and your instructor sing the beautiful auria. Kinda amazed you went ahead with your lesson,
being on your 2nd (or is it 3rd?) day of a migraine. I'm thankful that even though my headaches can be brutal, they're not migraines.
They usually go away after wearing the ice cap, massage, and lots of stretching, Tylenol sinus meds and/or Sudafed, and Kratom. I'm pretty sure they start in my verrrry tight trapezius
muscles. And then, to make it MORE fun, they get worse if the weather is changing.


I enjoy PolarGreen12 's dinner descriptions, too. They remind me of the gourmet magazines/ websites I like to peruse, then I THINK I'm
going to make the recipes, but never do.


naby64 ---I DIED over your fun dinosaur costume, and the elephant one is sooo cute!