aKathy's What's for Dinner 11/04

Today will start with AquaFit then this afternoon I have Creative Crafters where we'll be making small Douglas Fir wooden blocks holiday décor. I hope mine turn out as cute as the host's picture!

We might have gumbo for dinner. Fall turned into winter way too fast!

Well I'm glad you are feeling better, however, it's annoying it's still persisting a bit.



I'm hoping my week is too.



Me too. I'm taking a four hour shift tomorrow driving people to the polls. I'm going out to a suburb and it will probably most likely be elderly people. Our city bus system lets people ride for free so they shouldn't need me inside the city. In the morning I will go for blood work and then vote myself. I should be back home by 2 pm tomorrow so I'll have the rest of the day to myself.

I don't know what's for dinner. My only meeting today was cancelled. Things have slowed right down for me. I like that so much prior to the holidays. I'm going to do a quick run to the library. I've got a bunch of books to drop off and only one (a cookbook to pick up). I have some books I bought at the bookstore right now to read. I just hit this weekend 44 books which was what I read last year. I don't set goals so it doesn't really matter at all. But I thought it was kind of nice I exceeded last year.

I forgot to add that we are supposed to get big storms and possibly tornados today. Being this far south, we'll probably just get some good thunderstorms and Oklahoma and way North Texas will face a bigger threat of tornados.

I'm hunkering down on the couch with my dog and will enjoy the weather from inside as I don't have any place i need to go today/tonight.

Happy Monday everyone @
We are spaghetti with meatballs and salad for dinner tonight.
Working on packing for vacation tomorrow, going to enjoy a few days in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg to see the Christmas lights and then spending the weekend in Kentucky having Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family.

Glad your headache is better scrapmaven , but with it was nonexistent.

sueg staying home and being cozy while knitting sounds wonderful, sorry it's because you still have that darn cold.

Cancel cancel Tearisci we have had enough tornadoes over the weekend up here. The sirens went off Saturday at 4am till almost 530am. No more I'm done!

Normal workday here for me. I'm making chicken Verde enchiladas for dinner with Mexican rice and elote corn.

Oh no! Stay safe. It seems like it is a particularly bad year for them. 

Y'all!! I've missed you. It's been a whirlwind weekend. I had some things to do Friday, Saturday was spent birthday celebrating with our ODS, and Sunday was shower day for YDS' bride to be. AND I spent Saturday night, 7pm to Sunday 3PM with my mother. When I say I didn't understand the no contact thing with moms, I do now. My the time I went to bed Saturday night I was almost in tears. I tried several times to converse, add something to the conversation and there was complete shutdown as she interrupted and went on with another rabbit trail of a story. Then Sunday morning just before leaving the house for the shower, she wanted to bring up the election and who she hoped would win. I said mother, all I will say is DH and I do NOT discuss politics in this house for our own very good reasons. However, if you vote for that person, you are voting against your granddaughters, your medicare and your social security. She just looked at me. "So, let's just let it go." Well, if Harris wins, she will be as terrible Pres as she was a VP. I just lost it. I told her in no uncertain terms the VP has no power to set policy. Just as Pence did not, just as Biden did not, just as Cheney did not. That was just all Bull&*%t talking points from the only news she watches. It was loud and my DH heard me. I think she looked like she was going to cry. I did not care in the moment, I had to leave the room. I went to the bathroom and shook for about 5 minutes. Tried not to cry as I didn't have time to redo my makeup. After about 10 minutes she was eating skittles and talking about dogs. Afterwards, I found out from DH that she said my brother would have to clean up and empty out her apt after she died because I wouldn't come over. Well, my sister in law would have to as my brother as dementia and just lays in bed all day. Couldn't be further from the truth. He has bad days due to a bad back. I had planned on a week's vacation to clean out the utterly stuffed from Southern Accent magazine apt. She also told my DH that all he does is sit in his office and watch TV. Why hadn't he filed for disability, social security, etc. He could probably get $1000s of back draw. Of course, he said he didn't tell me any of this to make me mad( but I was PEA livid), to not contact my brother and relay any of this(which I am still forming what I should say). He is already very pulled back from letting her into their lives. This will be the tip over I should think. Oh, and she is spending Thanksgiving with us. I know it is not the solution but there will be drinking and possibly other imbibing. Whew, thanks for that vent. I need it in writing to remember it all.

Dinner tonight is a kale/pasta salad from Sam's. It is soooooo good. If your Sam's has it, you should definitely try it. And now, I will go back and read everyone's day.

Big hugs naby64. Let me tell you the solution I'm implementing: Thanksgiving table for 2. I don't care if everyone else is offended. I'm having a *nice* holiday. Your mother is a pill.

This is part of the reason we have switched from going to her side of the state for the past several Thanksgiving, is due to her and my brother's thoughts on politics and guns. Don't get me started on that one. My niece is gay and I think everyone knows except for my mother. I believe N is waiting on her passing to fully be out, so to speak. My brother has called me, my DD and my N looney libtards. How do you call your own DD that? Trying not to defend him but other than that he is the biggest teddy bear and defender. Both of us would go to the death mat to protect the other sibling. Always have been. But I don't need to be around the other toxicity, nor does my very well educated on all the subject and can go toe to toe with anyone on all things politics. She will not hold her tongue any longer. So we have been doing Thanksgiving with a few close family members and we all laugh and have the best time. It works out very well for us. With my DD getting a new house, she thought it would be nice to invite her grandmother. Well, it is too late to put the horse back in the barn and it will be after the election so I am hoping things just won't be discussed. 

And for my mother, well, she hasn't always been this way. I do think there is projection of dementia. I won't even go into the things she said about my father fighting cancer in 2008 and how she was angry at him going through chemo and radiation when "there was no hope at the time of his diagnosis". And all the things she said about money after that. That came up Saturday night also. So for now, I would appreciate all the prayers, positive thoughts and whatever other joo-joo can be done. My DH is very worried about me at this point. He has called me twice already this morning to check on me. 

DH and I made a trip into the city to have a chicken sandwich from our favourite take out restaurant. They have a special on Mondays. We needed another reason take the drive so decided to grab some groceries as well. Home now and I can’t get my walk in due to rain so I’m snuggled in the recliner with my book.

Supper will be grilled striploin steak, baked potatoes, grilled asparagus and Caesar salad.

Have any of you ever ordered beans from Rancho Gordo? I just picked up their cookbook at the library and I have to say, I'm intrigued to try some of their beans.

**GypsyGirl**, I hope everything gets sorted for your DH and you don't have to bring him home before he's ready.

I have several friends who were at the Quilt show and have been posting lots of pictures. One of my sorority sisters from LSU owns a quilt shop. The quilt you posted was great!

I have a ratty wedding ring quilt that is at least 80+ years old. Our dog chewed a hole in it when he was on my bed when I was a kid. I often wonder if a quilter would like to have it to maybe restore parts that don't have holes. I hate to throw it away.