aKathy's What's for Dinner 2/5

we had takeout last night. I have enough for dinner but dh does not. so I may end up making chicken something tonight.

snowed this morning.. and now the sun came out.. but it is super windy so not motivated to go skiing. also, still warm at 34 degrees.

so after a lot of cleaning yesterday..more a lazy day today. on thursday, my brother's cleaning person is coming over so we are very interested in having her clean on an occasional basis.. like when we leave town.

Happy Wednesday!

I'm almost done with my reporting for the month. We just changed project management systems at work and it's been a bit of a bumpy ride. Thankfully, it's the one I used in my last job so I'm pretty familiar with it.

My mom will hopefully be moving to rehab today. They had a bed for her yesterday but ended up giving it to someone else. She's very with it these days which is nice and hopefully the new medicine will help her not have episodes again. It's just nice to finally have some insight into possibilities.

I'll take my dad to see her this afternoon and then he can come over and have leftover spaghetti and meatballs with me.

Hope you all have a good day!

Good evening all
DH has just been in and out quickly before heading out to his next dinner appointment - his third this week! He just came home to drop off his car before taking the train into town. He has decided to cancel his trip planned for next week, which I am happy about. It is a three day ‘lockdown’ event - on an island, no phones allowed, I would have been given an emergency contact in case of anything major - and I have my neurosurgery follow up during it.
Nothing much happened here today. I went for a walk and have been knitting and now I’m here and waiting for it to be dinner time. Dinner is going to be rechauffe curry from last night. It was really tasty and I’m sure a day of flavour mingling will have improved it further!

scrapmaven - I’m glad to hear you have a six month plan and hope all works out.
**GypsyGirl** - you must be so happy to have DH coming home, even with the extra time and effort to prepare. I hope all goes well for you both.

Well I am just thrilled to have you back in much better shape than when you left us scrapmaven! A 6 month plan sounds awesome.

And good news that Tearisci mom is moving into rehab and **GypsyGirl** DH is moving out of it.

I am having a slow day today. I been doing bits of work as they are coming in and working. A bit on my Christmas mini book in the interim periods.

I ended up having vegan fish and tater tots for dinner last night. Tonight I promised Jeremy spaghetti with meatballs. Vegan for me. Regular for him.

We are just home from my besties MIL funeral. DH went with me although I told him that he didn’t have to. It was a very religious service with lots of hymns and scripture readings. I’m not religious so it was a lot. When we left, I told DH that I wanted him to play Luke Bryan music at my service.

No other plans for the day. I’ve made reservations at an expensive steak house for tomorrow night. We got a gift certificate from DS for Christmas and want to use it before Feb 15 when the Canadian “no tax” event will end.

Supper is undecided yet although there is some chicken left over from last night. I might make a salad with it.

Happy Wednesday everyone!
Working on laundry and hopefully starting a new book.
Fixing smoked sausage, sweet potatoes and olive herb noodles for dinner.

After a couple long weeks my dh is home!! Dinner will actually be cooked and eaten!! I guess my lazy dinners of popcorn, cashews, and apples are over!!

I think tonight we will have steak, salad, and a baked potato. I'm not mad about it!

Glad your back in your nest scrapmaven . Crazy that you endured that headache for so long and your Houston Dr. fixed it in three days! He really is a miracle worker!!! 


**GypsyGirl** Happy to hear that your dh will be coming home tomorrow!! 

Thinking of you naby64 .

Sorry your husband is under the weather karenlou. Hopefully he will feel better tomorrow.

Good to read that many with health issues are seeing improvement. I hope Mr Gypsy has a wonderful first day home!

I’ve been here at Mom’s house since Sunday, dealing with her rehab and move into assisted living tomorrow as well as looking after her house sale. The buyers had a septic inspection on Monday (I had to pay some one to dig up the frozen ground but I get it)

That night I noticed the house getting quite cool so went to turn up the furnace only to find it was set to 22 and reading 19.

I checked the furnace and did all the things suggested, the breaker was flipped and each time I turned it back on it flipped.

Called the service line and videod with them to try and trouble shoot and they could not figure out why there was no power.

Since overnight temps were above zero I decided to make it through the night with extra blankets and had a tech come out this morning.

I mentioned to him that it was kind of coincidental that there were likely people in behind the furnace yesterday with the septic inspection (the clean out is there) and low and behold, he found that the wire into the control box had been pulled out, causing the furnace to short. So, I believe someone accidentally did this trying to shimmy by the furnace unit but it’s a good thing I am staying here this week to notice or else we could have been facing damage from frozen pipes as we’ve gone back into bitter cold temps.

I’ve been packing and sorting for Mom’s move. Movers came today so I spent the day setting up her new home. She is in a studio suite, 2 large, light filled windows and high ceiling so it appears quite spacious. My brother stopped into the hospital to see her today and she was packing so hopefully this means she is looking forward to the move.

For dinner tonight I had Meals on Wheels lol. I cancelled mom’s spot when she broke her hip in Nov. I actually spoke to someone on the phone. They haven’t billed since but every once in a while a meal shows up on Wednesday . Someone’s list hadn’t been updated. I’ve called about 30 times since and the mailbox is always full. I’ve made a note to search for an e-mail to get this looked after. The sweet curry chicken was delish!

Not a single question!  Junior high kids are not very interested in "old people"!   



Love it!  I want country music played at my funeral too!  

Welp. Not much to report on my appt.

Probably just the change in temps screwing with me as they tend to do.

My NP does have a student nurse who I saw prior to seeing her. She made a comment about my immune system overreacting to things (seasonal allergies, recent asthma diagnosis, and my crappy pneumococcal antibody levels), so I'm wondering if that's something to look into.

Edit: My pulse was a little elevated at my appt, so I can always mention that when I go to the cardiologist in a few weeks, but that seems to always jump a little. It was also freezing today.

Dd thought maybe her amniotic fluid was leaking. I spent the morning getting a hospital bag together. I could not find a button down nightgown.
It ended up not being that. But they didn’t really give an explanation.

That took the entire day. I had frozen pizza.

Glad you’re back scrapmaven

I bet your Dh is so happy to be coming home tomorrow **GypsyGirl**

Hello all. I had rechauffe pizza for dinner (early) and now I just made half a sandwich with rechauffe chicken because it’s like 5 hours later and I got hungry again.

So glad to hear scrapmaven is feeling better, Mr. **GypsyGirl** is finally coming home, and teddyw’s DD’s water didn’t break. taylortroop, sorry you had to attend a funeral today. rymeswithpurple, hope you feel better soon.