aKathy's What's for Dinner 4/17

I got a slow start this morning ~ I slept almost 9 hours! I'll run a few errands then putz around the house.

DH has a dinner meeting at his golf club because they are drawing for match-play partners. I'll have Chinese Chicken Salad.

I keep trying to post but first I have to read all the posts and then I end up sidetracked on something else and never get around to posting.   So I’m trying EARLY today.

Last night I made tuscano soup for dinner. That former pea’s recipe, the one who was a baker in upstate NY, I think … can’t remember her pea name. Excellent as always.

Today we are going to a lunch event and dinner will probably be more tuscano soup.

DD is arriving on Saturday for a week but I’m leaving next Thursday for a crop. She will have the house to herself for a few days.

She did not prescribe a new med, but rather a doubling of two medicines I already take. One an antidepressant and one an anti-psychotic. So I was able to get off the phone with her Monday night and take the corrected amount of antipsychotic with dinner and going forward. Same with the anti-depressant that I take in the morning. So far, I feel pretty good (like I've got some momentum) and I'm sleeping again. I just went right now and picked up the new higher dosages.



I want to tell you as someone who has had hallucinations that it is very scary for the person having them. Please reassure him that he is OK when it is happening. And note that he might be even more sensitive to things going on around him that might feel chaotic (like hospitals). Just a tip from a person that's been there.

I have one more report to get done today but I'm close. So that's been good too. Work has been moving for me this week and I always do better when I am busy. Tonight I'll have dinner at my mom's house. I think she's just ordering pizza.

I feel great. I kept the eye-mask on last night which always helps me get better sleep.

Her pea name is Squillen. It's her Tri-tip roast recipe I use and think of her every time. I was sad when she left the board.

I would love for this to be a 4 day weekend. Oh the fun I would have!



I'm so sorry fatigue has been a side effect of your treatment. That husband of yours better get his dinner act together or we peas will be over there to get him!



Honestly, I would like to do the same. But Jeremy wants his kids to come for a visit. So we will make the big dinner.

Well, I don't feel like life has slowed back down yet. It will take me a week or so to get back to "normal". The good thing now is clients are now on my time versus me being on theirs. This was a strange season. In all of my 31 years of doing this the only one stranger was 2020. People would come in and want to discuss politics and tell us why they should or shouldn't file their taxes. It was really stressful on my employees. I will shut down all my offices next week so my supervisors can have a much needed week off.

I am sure I have missed so much on here. I hope everyone is doing well. Currently, DD is not speaking to me. She hasn't since the end of January. All over a text I sent. No one else had an issue with it except her. She doesn't realize it but her siblings are tired of her drama and about ready to cut her off. DH told her she can cut me off but she will not cut the DGD's out of our lives. She won't do that because she needs our help too much...

DH and I are headed to Costa Rica next Friday. I am so excited. I have so much to do between now and then. I would like to go shopping but if I don't I have stuff to take. The day after we get back, DH has a nephew getting married. It is an outdoor, formal wedding. Now for that, I have nothing to wear except a long dress I wore to a niece's wedding over a year ago. It might have to do.

I have sucked at eating proper meals the past couple of months. Time to get back on track.

cadoodlebug, today's meme cracked me up!   

Also, I always sleep with a sleep mask - it's made a huge difference in my sleep (both quality and length) since I started using one consistently about 2 years ago.

Yay naby64! You need some good things to happen for you!

Just got back from visiting my dad. He's doing much better today and knows he's been hallucinating but they seem so real. I have been in his shoes and had a month that I was hallucinating in the hospital. Hopefully, he'll be able to come home tomorrow.

If he is hallucinating, I would make sure there are no weapons, sharp knives, hammers, etc where he can get to them.

The day MIL asked me to sit with step-FIL so she could go to an appointment, she failed to tell me he was hallucinating. A few days before he died, we were there moving furniture to make room for a hospital bed and dh found a loaded and cocked handgun in a table right where he had been sitting that day (in addition to multiple other loaded guns throughout the house.)

Not to say your dad has that, but Id hide anything he could harm himself or others with