aKathy's what's for Dinner. 7/22

Copying this from my 7/21 post because clearly I'm incapable of reading the date... 🙈

Hi friends! Long time no chat. Sending everyone love and hugs!

tmarschall If DH had gotten that job in '24, we could've met up for coffee! Oh well. Life goes on, right? He's still been upset about the fact he didn't get the job last week, and he's been missing his mom who passed in '18 and his grandfather, who passed away 20 years ago this month.

On the plus side, he just got offered a different interview for later this week! (Like, literally offered the interview this morning and it's on Thursday.) It is not exactly the position he has been looking to move into, but it could lead to something in the future. And it gets us out of this area - we've been in the DC area for over a decade, and we're ready for a new adventure.

Dinner this week is burrito bowls.

Have a great week, and know I'm thinking of all of you if I don't check in!

I'm dragging a bit. Nose still a little stuffy. But that can't be the real reason behind what I've got going on. I went for a walk yesterday before I posted and then I ate something for lunch and then laid down on the couch. I could not sleep, though I wanted to. I just can't nap. So I forced myself off the sofa and DSD and I went shopping. We went all the way across town to the mall because I had a gift card for that bookstore. I bought books. Jeremy's sister gave me a gift card to Hobby Lobby (I know, I know) but rather than let it go to waste, I bought kitchen stuff for Jeremy's oldest daughter who will be moving into her own place soon. And then I hit up Wholefoods since I was way over there. I hadn't been in since going plant based so it was interesting to walk around and look at the things. I did the grocery shopping I needed to do there and then we came home. I had been looking for a particular cookbook. But I didn't find it. I got home and unpacked the groceries and Jeremy had forgotten to pick up my medicine on his way home. So I headed out to the pharmacy and stopped at the B&N on my side of town. They didn't have the book I was looking for either. But...they had the three additional cookbooks put out by the Bad Manners people (I had two of the five) and so I took the birthday money Dad gave me and bought all three of the cookbooks! All the running kind of perked me up. So I came home to make dinner and then cleaned up the kitchen.

This is why I think it's depression. Because I feel better when I get up and moving. My friend and I will be walking on our lunch hour today.



Why is there always so much stuff to do before and after a vacation? I hope you have a good time with your friend.

sueg sounded this morning like Baby Enzo is starting to do better. I'm glad. May it continue.

I'm making a dish tonight with rice, eggplant, green beans, tomatoes and chickpeas. Lots of garam masala seasoning. Yum!


Here's the cookbooks. I had the two on top and I bought the three on bottom yesterday. These cookbooks are the bomb naby64

It's another cool, cloudy rainy day here ... not normal for this time of the year ...

This weather does not help my motivation at all ...

I will leave soon to pick a few thing up at the grocery store ...

Then I will do pretty much nothing!   

Oh, I need to clean and descale my Keurig!

I haven't even thought about dinner ...


Continued positive thoughts for baby Enzo!

Glad you are feeling better jeremysgirl!

Best of luck to your dh rymeswithpurple!

Don't work too hard. You deserve to play too!



They are all plant based. No animal products. And these guys gave me my favorite burger and my favorite burrito.

prayers for baby Enzo sueg

Enjoy your new cookbooks @jeremeysgirl

Good luck with your dh's job hunt rymeswithpurple

Rainy and stormy here today so staying inside - ok - I was staying inside anyway, it's a Florida summer AND I have a sore on my foot that I'm babying (I see the podiatrist tomorrow)

Dinner is a spinach and cheese crescent roll thing - I think the original recipe was for appetisers cut into small triangles but I've always made it as bigger squares for dinner. We have cherries as well.

Same!



I'm so sorry. Gah, I know it's your church and your job. I just wish you could easily move on from there.



Never do this. Take your time off. You earned it.

Here's what I wanted to share. I've done three of these now. The Conquerer Challenge. You pick walks of varying lengths and then do your normal walking or other exercise counts also. This is my most recent. The Van Gogh Challenge. I can't wait to get them all up on the huge bulletin board in my home office. They are heavy duty like a real race medal. This one opens and looks like a painting easel and comes with tiny little prints.

The prices vary from challenge to challenge. I think the next one I'll do is the Great Sniffari. You walk your dog and even they get a tiny medal.

I woukd have loved that! Wishing him the best of luck. Academic searches are a beast. Just know neither of you will ever be able to reason things out about him getting or not getting a position. He could be the most qualified candidate on the planet and not get it. There are a million factors that go into an academic hire. And even with the best efforts to legitimately reduce bias in the process, they can still be crazy. I'm on a search committee right now. We had hoped to wrap it up in mid May as I reallllllllly needed to have at least part if ny summer on a total break from school related functions. It is STILL dragging on. The antic start date is Aug 1st! Not happening. We are ready to wrap up our oart by Fri and then the Dean will make her choice from 2 we out forward. But her mother also just passed, so it's unclear if the Assoc Dean will step in or it will wait til she returns. And that's not even about the turmoil within the committee...some serious bad behavior, one person replaced with another, candidates withdrawing, it's a lot. And this is generally not the time for academic searches to still be in the thick of it. Faculty searches start in the fall for hires for the next fall. Candidates usually know by about March. We had an unusual situation with a position open due to termination so we are struggling to find someone who hasn't already been snapped up. Staff is different...I don't remember what kind of position your dh is looking for. He may have more flexibility/options at this time of the year if he is staff. The good news if he is staff is that the calls will go out soon for this year. The bad news, they won't start til Fall 26. Wishing you both the best of luck...I hear you wanting like heck to move. I was the opposite. I had a set geographical location and you can't just expect job in your field in your town. You have to go where the jobs are. Which is why I have an hr and 29min commute, despite there being a campus of ny school just 15 min from me. People ask why I dont just transfer. Its not like working retail....their social work faculty is full. No position available. I keep my ears and eyes open but I'm likely here for the duration. Its been 7yrs I. December.

Well, I talked myself out of finishing up at my mother's assisted living. Maybe Thursday. Now Im focused on getting ready for my houseguest tomorrow. Some sprucing up, new curtains, couch cover and pillows and rugs. Declutteribg...it is never ending. I will never be able to sit and have a cup of coffee in my sleek zen home, even though my anxiety would love it!

I have class tonight. Please keep my students in mind. I had one find that her 38yr old son passed, perhaps of an undiagnosed medical issue. She is fighting her second round of cancer and he had moved in to help her. And another student has had a close family member picked up by ICE and they are struggling to believe able to talk to him, get representation, etc.

Wishing everyone well, still thinking of Baby Enzo and hoping fhe continues to improve quickly. I was in an incubator for many weeks (9? 10?) bc I was so early and tiny. I can't imagine how hard it was to want to hold your baby constantly and not be able to. Sending good thoughts, sueg.

Another gorgeous day here - sunny and 25 C. We are doing a whole lot of nothing but sitting on the deck. We get up every so often to get a snack but that’s about it.

I did have an eye dr appt that I had to go into the city for this morning. It was my yearly diabetic eye check and everything was fine for another year. I stopped at Walmart and got the fixings for chicken fajitas for supper. It will be a quick supper and then off to grandboy #1’s baseball game.

I was up and out early for a dental appt. I chipped a crown last week…darn Skinny Pop popcorn. No more pop corn for me😕
Thankfully it was an easy fix that only cost me my 100 dollar deductable .
DH is at the dentist as we speak getting a new bridge made….That being said I am making potato leek soup for dinner as I don’t think he will feel like eating much.
I have some crusty bread I took out of the freezer that I will heat in the oven to go with.

Rhymeswithpurple…I feel your pain…DH does not have dental insurance…his choice…so I will be paying the three grand for this bridge…that wasn’t done properly by his now retired dentist.  Thank god mine was an easy fix on a crown that is 30 years old!!

karenlou Ouch! I told DH that if it's offered as an individual option whenever he gets a new job, he's signing up for their dental plan too. He's on my insurance right now because the benefits are much better compared to what he had when he was on his own once we didn't work for the same employer. Definitely was the right call when his position was eliminated there in 2020.

teddyw Thank you! I know I'm biased, but DH is one of the most caring and hard working people I know. He wants the students he works with to do well. He was complaining to me earlier that someone wrote an email to a student telling them to Google something instead of just providing the direct link on their website. It annoyed him so much.