Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Dinner tonight is left over tri tip that will be cut up into cubes. I am making oven baked brown rice, when done I will add the tri tip and some sauted veggies. Since hubby doesn't like gravy...I will make gravy just for me. A salad with sunflower seeds, tomatoes, green leaf, onions and cucumber and feta cheese.
Have good evening, almost 2 pm here so got to get going on dinner.
What we are having is hamburgers. Since we weren't sure how I'd be the day after cataract removal, and since Pat is home today, we scheduled him to make his famous burgers. I know it involves beer and fresh mushrooms, lettuce, tomatoe, and Swiss cheese but I'm happy to leave the details with him. :)
(I'm doing fine. I could have pulled a dinner together, but I don't mind a little break.)
helpontheway, do you leave the skins on your potatoes?
looking squarely at fukishima japan here ..
dont build nuke reactors on the beach front --
not really . ikes pistons are barking like the hounds of h*ll or something .. ive ridden my dad on ike , my sons , and now their kids . ike represents a longer stretch of history than the republic of taiwan ..
jeanne , the shrimp salad does sound good . i have a couple of monstrous cans of sardines in tomato sauce . i should rip the label off of em before i find out what kind of polluted , punjab , lagoon they came from i s' pose . theyre from the dollar general store . its a good bet they didnt come from under the icelandic shelf or the coast of norway ..
Now that my sister and her friend left I have to resume cooking only for two. Dad was great on eating leftovers of the recipes I tried and wouldn't make again. He says the food at the assisted living place is good but he isn't a fussy eater to begin with.
im gonna boil some chicken this evening . fell on my face after 4 hours of woodcutting today but wth ? a freakin marathon is only 4 hours long . my " want to " is a megalomaniac ..
I was just thinking ... I got a whole new loaf of bread. What can I do to it - to make dinner? I smiled when I read LadeeM's dinner. Aha! I still have an unopened can of chunky peanut butter. Nah, I don't feel like eating that. Most likely I'll scramble eggs and salami sandwich, with a dash of tabasco on the meat.
" just a car " . thats an attitude that only a former caregiver would exhibit . its interesting how we learn to discern what we can or cant control and what really matters in the grand scheme of things .
i need to reconnect with my aunt but poa and aps are squaring off for a date with a judge and a court appointed conservator and poa isnt going to cooperate with me in any capacity or even communicate with me right now . poa's ass is in a jam and of course its eveybodys fault but hers .. delicate terrain for me at the moment .. i dont want to be in anyones business -- just hang out with my aunt ..i wouldnt be financial poa for someone if i were ordered to . numbers aint my thing . i get a different number every time i count my nads ..
looks like ambien for dinner for me this am .
Jeanne - I'm glad that the air bag didn't inflate (since you didn't mention it.) What a coincidence, isn't it? You and the other driver are neighbors and his line of work. That can always be your common thread of discussions on future meetings (at grocery store, etc...)
The guy who hit me turned out to be a neighbor that I hadn't met. We got to talking and he was expressing his regret. I said that my husband died a year and half ago and he had dementia for 10 years before that, and my perspective has changed a lot. Just a car is something to take in stride. It turns out he is a caregiver in a memory care unit, and is in school to become a nurse! So we talked for quite a while.
Insurance has set me up for repairs, without running around getting estimates, and has authorized a rental. I'm going in for cataract removal before the crack of dawn on Monday so there will be a little delay in getting everything started. But it is just a car.