So...whats for dinner?
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I had leftover Rosa sauce (lots of cream) and added mushrooms before putting over pasta. I ate way too much. Even though it was 5pm, I still stuffed 5 hours later. Hope I can sleep.
Eric - so sorry to hear the illness is recycling. That's the same darn thing that happened to me for more than a month earlier this year,.
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Eric, I remember one summer I kept getting colds every two weeks, one after the other like railroad cars. Actually, there are over 100,000 strains of rhinoviruses, so it's not the same cold you just got over.
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Dinner last night was a bologna sandwich. My sister and I had the sad duty yesterday of cleaning out my mother's room at the nursing home. She died during the early hours yesterday morning. Her passing was peaceful and quick. My sister Michelle and I, who visited her on alternate days at the nursing home for the past three years, have been expecting her death but it's still a sad time and we will miss her. She was such a considerate person and was considerate again, in passing.
I was with my mother on Wednesday evening at the Spring Fling at the nursing home. And then again on Thursday when we went to bingo and she won two games. Going into her room yesterday to pack up her few possessions was quite an ordeal. I know Nance and Eric can appreciate my emotions.
Some years ago my mother made her own arrangements and paid for her funeral service. Now I won't be needing the airline reservations for a return in July to visit my mother and give Michelle a break.
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Carole: I'm sorry to hear about your mother but glad her passing was peaceful. Yes, it will leave a hole in your life. You have been a wonderful daughter. You will be in my thoughts.
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Oh Carole, I'm so sorry. I know how much you will miss her. My dad died a year ago last week and I think about him every day. I'm glad her passing was peaceful. (((Hugs)))
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carole - returned last night from my trip and clicked on this thread just now only to read your sad news. I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of our mom, your love for her shone through in your posts, sending you strength to carry you through.
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(((hugs)))
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Carole, sending hugs and sympathy your way in the passing of your mother, who was considerate even in that. How heart wrenching your clean out/ pack up task must have been; so glad your sister could share that with you. Now that that is done, hope you can move through your loss to focusing on happy memories. ((((hugs))))
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My sympathy to you Carole, and your sister. Penning the final entries in "Mom's Book of Life" is never easy.
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Carole, so sorry about your mom. Losing a parent is wrenching, losing a link to the past and adjusting the future. May her memory be for a blessing.
Dinner tonight (courtesy of a heating pad, CBD, topical rubs and lots of OTC pain meds) was pan-seared Chilean salmon, sauteed snap peas in garlic & ginger oil with sesame seeds, fresh tomato slices & basil, and nuked Thai basil-lime rice.Dessert was 2 oz. ea. salted caramel gelato and Jeni's "deepest darkest chocolate" ice cream. Bob (who had a steak for lunch) had my leftover eggplant parm & linguine and some of those snap peas. (My brunch was 2 scrambled eggs, a slice of bacon and a buttered crumpet with a tsp of cherry jam, plus a black coffee. Midday snack was a chocolate jelly ring and a cappuccino).
Not much time for bkfst tomorrow, as we have to feed the cats, shower, dress and get to the Lyric Opera House (in severe storms--thanks in advance, Lyft) for a 1pm matinee of West Side Story. (Larger cast than the orig, B'way production). So will probably nuke us each a mini sausage biscuit. Dinner will be at 5 in the opera house restaurant. Hope I wake up much less stiff in the morning than I did today. Can't afford to be hobbled much longer.
Feeding the cats is like feeding recalcitrant toddlers, except cats won't stay in high chairs till they're done. Heidi hates her prescription wet food, will nibble a few licks of it (sprinkled with her fave catnip) before paw-marking the floor around it & walking away--have to keep Happy from wolfing it down after his own wet food (asstd. Friskies patés he loves, but so does Heidi whom I've caught stealing it), and Heidi's food doesn't agree with him so he pukes it up all over the living room. I have to keep covering her dish up and re-offering it to her when she deigns to come into the kitchen, until she's eaten at least a tablespoon of it, and then I can safely discard it. Then Heidi tries to steal Happy's kibble instead of eating her own. (She actually whomps hin in the head with her paw). The vet thinks they're both obese at 12.5 lbs--she wants Happy down below 12 and Heidi as close to 10 lbs as we can manage. She ought to see all my friends' indoor cats. I figure even though Heidi had a kidney stone in 2017, at 14 she ought to be able to eat what she wants. If they both ate the same stuff (like before her kidney stone surgery), they'd stop trying to poach each other's food, and I could just practice portion control and play vigorously with them.
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Joyce - good to hear from you and know you're back safe in the North - even with the delayed summer weather.
I was going to make beef stroganoff but I was too hungry when I finally got home from the store. Late lunch was two handfuls of Spanish Peanuts left in the can, a piece of watermelon from the personal size melon I was cutting up for the fridge and some hunks of a French baguette. The watermelon is only just OK, but I'm not surprised this time of year and it was only $0.99. So supper will likely be California Roll.
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Evening meal was sloppy joes on homemade burger buns, corn( not on the cob!), green salad with a selection of specialty oils and vinegars for dressing. ( auto correct is so interesting, it wanted to replace vinegars with congrats???)
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Tonight was a crockpot pot roast, tomorrow will be French dips with the leftovers.
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Carole, I’m also sending you hugs and caring thoughts as you cope with the loss of your mom who was so central to your life. She sure had a wonderful, devoted daughter in you as you cared for her in so many ways. I hope you find peace in this process of grief. And how touching that she was considerate in her death as in her life.
Life has been pretty busy here, with some boring meals at home and some interesting restaurant meals while visiting my stepmother in CT this weekend. I will post a pic of my unusual Friday night dinner choice that was quite delicious albeit not low in calories...shrimp with a pineapple cream sauce.
For the past three months I’ve been serving as the family point person to communicate with and support my SIL as she slowly comes to terms with my brother’s last days. I then deliver selected news about him to my relatives and close family friends who are concerned yet feeling helpless given the 3000 mile distance. It’s been complicated and challenging for a variety of reasons, and at this point I am feeling better that hospice is involved, so he is getting the comfort care he needs. Lewy Body Dementia is such a very cruel disease. He is unable to digest food now or drink water. We will be heading back to CA for a memorial service for him in June, as it looks now. I’m so glad we visited him in Feb when he was much more cogent and physically more able to ambulate.
Meanwhile, here...DS2 and pregnant DDIL2 have been dealing with her persistent strong contractions and medical interventions as felt needed by the OB. Fortunately, she has maintained the pregnancy and will be induced probably next week if their sweet pea doesn’t arrive independently before that. She is a perfectly complete and “weighted” baby now, so our earlier worries have abated. We look forward to meeting this longed for baby!
Meanwhile, DDIL1 just had neck surgery to replace two cervical herniated discs. We were shocked to learn about this, but it came up rather quickly after PT was doing nothing to relieve her neuro symptoms that impacted her own surgical work. I am hoping she rests a bit after this, but they live a fast lane life, so our advice is irrelevant! Oy!
We haven’t been down to visit my step-mother for many months so we were determined to see her this weekend when we were all free. She is such an amazing almost 92 year old, whose cogency and active lifestyle puts my tired self to shame. We had a wonderful visit, had some fun dinners out, a trip to her nephew’s tree farm, and a long ride to the town where our grands attend school, which she was interested to see. We stopped at Tarrytown to have dinner at a restaurant we recalled enjoying on our way to NJ last year.
On Friday evening we ate at one of her neighborhood Italian restaurants where I had a really unusual shrimp dish with a pineapple, sun dried tomatoes and rosemary cream sauce over spinach linguini. Really tasty!
When we arrived home tonight, (after a 3 1/2 hour drive that is usually 2 1/4 hours) DH announced he really wanted pizza for dinner, which I thought was perfect! The pizza from a restaurant that makes great Italian food otherwise, wasn’t great, with way too much corn meal on bottom of crust...but then, I also did not have to cook it!!!
Before heading to CT, I made some Two Ingredient bagels for my step-mother, which were amazingly delicious. Has anyone else made this recipe with self-rising flour and plain Greek yogurt? Also made some banana muffins that included “roasted bananas” and several add ins. Fortunately, neither of those returned home with us!
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Cataract surgery today, waffle house big breakfast afterwards. A friend is bringing meat loaf for dinner. Yay!
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Nance - we'll be sending you good vibes. Hooray for someone else bringing dinner!!
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My mom was diagnosed (post mortem) with "Non Lewy Body Dementia". Hopefully her 30+ year participation in a brain-dementia study will hopefully be of use.......
Dinner here, too, has been kind of boring. We are finally starting to feel better from whatever was "going around"....even though it took almost 2 weeks.
I've been slowly painting, but with the dizzy part, I've kept both feet on the ground while doing prep work.0 -
Dementia is such a cruel disease, as everyone who deals with it, already knows. Sometimes I wonder if Job was actually taking care of someone with dementia....
I had to go outside with the dogs. Sharon is getting banjo lessons, the teacher is allergic to dogs and that seems to make the dogs more anxious to greet him.
The dogs are quiet if I'm out there with them, but are extremely noisy if they are stuck outside "unsupervised".....so I was out weeding the lawn...using an all metal framing hammer (like a claw hammer, but with less curve to the claw part). The "claw" part is good for levering out the tap root.
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Carole, so sorry about your Mom. Its hard to say goodbye, but you and your DS did all you could. Hugs.
Lacey sounds like you have your hands full again. Prayers that all go well for the pregnant ones.
Nance heal fast.
We are beginning to watch the grand children 2 days a week. Im glad my DH is retired, because Im not sure I could take them, if we couldnt tag team it! LOL.
Supper tonight was pulled pork. They had some good sales, so cooking 5 lbs or 10 isnt any different. So 10 lbs of pork went into the oven and turned out amazing. More smudges on the cookbook page! LOL. Dinner for many nights. I wll freeze some, serve it on Thursday for supper when my DD2 and DGD1 and 3 will be over for supper. Im trying to decide whether Ill send her home with enough for another meal, or selfishily keep it for ourselves in the freezer. LOL.
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The littles we are sitting for.
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Nancy, here's to clear vision. Was amazed how "blue" the color blue actually was. Bob remarked it was like seeing in 3D again.
Lacey, so sorry for the imminent loss of your brother, and the way it's happening.
West Side Story was great. The Puerto-Rico themed dinner afterward in the Opera House's restaurant was a salad, lobster deviled eggs with saffron aioli, and choice of either coconut shrimp in island-fruit curry or skirt steak with chimichurri & plantains. (We got both and shared).
Saw The Who last night at the Hollywood Casino Amphiteatre (formerly First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, formerly the Tweeter Center, formerly the World Music Theatre) in far SW suburban Tinley Park. We had pavilion seats but still froze in the 50F cold and howling wind. (I wore a t-shirt under a denim jacket under a hooded leather parka). Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey were gobsmacked at how cold it could be in Chicago in "almost f---in' JUNE!" At one point, Daltrey had to don a down puffer jacket during the set. Couldn't understand (still can't) how someone could pay $200 for a seat and drive 50 miles each way just to keep getting up and going to the concessionsto get another beer (in the freezing cold). The concert was amazing nonetheless. Didn't have dinner till after I dropped Gordy off (he had thawed pork chops he needed to cook) because I wanted to get home ahead of the worst of the storm.
Today? It hit 83, even here by the lake. Used my gas grill for the first time since Oct.--grass-fed ribeye, Caesar salad, brown rice-black quinoa blend.
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Lacey, I'm sorry about your brother. His story is certainly a sad one.
Joyce, I hope your mother can continue to enjoy some quality of life as my mother did right up to the end.
Eric, I'm glad you're feeling better. We all forget how miserable it is to be ill until we experience illness and promise ourselves we will be grateful when we return to good health. How soon we forget to be thankful for feeling good.
DH and I travelled to Hayti, MO, on Tuesday and then on to Decatur, IL, yesterday. We're staying a couple of days with his sister Bonnie and her husband. Bonnie has battled amyloidosis, a rare disease with some similarity to cancer, for eight years and is now on oxygen 24/7. Her life and her husband's revolves around medical care.
Last night we had dinner at their country club. I had a Caesar salad with slivers of steak and enjoyed it. Dh had one of the "specials" on the Wednesday menu, a hamburger steak with sautéed onions and selection of sides. I'm feeling fat and bloated and am determined to lose some of the weight I've gained during the past several months. Being a lapsed WW'er hasn't worked out well.
I think we will be going to a Mexican place for dinner tonight. I see a taco salad in my future.
Tomorrow we plan to resume travel to MN with the hope that the weather has improved by the time we get there.
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Forgot to say to Nance that cataract surgery brought an improvement to my life with better vision. I had the surgery in my late 50's. The world seen with clarity was amazing.
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Safe travels Carole, and I hope the weather is good for you. We've had some scary stuff here. A tornado hit the state capitol of Jefferson City (too bad it didn't hit our corrupt legislature) with significant damage but no loss of life as of yet anyway. We've had some of your colder temps too Sandy with nights in the 40s, but all in all more warm days than not.
I'm excited that I can see as good without glasses in my new eye as well as I can out of the old eye with glasses (If that makes sense). But until I get the other eye done in two weeks, everything's blurry with glasses. And that's my excuse for any typos in this post.
Tonight is shaking beef, a couple of (small) spring rolls and maybe some soba noodles.
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Nance, makes perfect sense to me! I well remember the time between cataract surgeries #1 and #2. However, I could continue to wear a contact lens in the non operated eye but it felt a bit unbalanced as the vision in the operated eye was so much clearer and brighter. The improvement is so immediate that I drove myself to the surgeon's office the day after the second surgery! Enjoy your bright new world (in a couple of weeks).
Carole, wishes for safe travels and good weather ahead.
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My grandmother had her cataract surgery in her late 80s. She was absolutely thrilled at the results.
I've been hearing/reading about the tornadoes. Stay safe everyone....please....0 -
Nance, I’m impressed with how well you are adapting to that “in between cataract procedures” period. I recall it to be a wacky time, and the obsessional drops routine was so consuming. The main memory I have of that process is that my vision “tone” went from sepia to antiseptic bright. When I mentioned it to the doc, he said that he has an 80 something patient who does not want to give up her sepia tone vision. I kinda miss mine....but decided to have the surgery to sharpen my night driving vision, since I drive frequently enough when it’s dark out.
I hope your trip is going well, Carole, and that everyone is safe from all the tornado activity. Such scary, crazy weather patterns!
We are heading to the lake as soon as I finish packing. DH just gave me the bad news that black flies are in abundance there....hopefully the association meeting on the beach will be short!
Last night’s dinner after spending the day planting flowers and doing a bit of garage clean up, was a piece of leftover pizza and a cup of red grapes and walnuts. DH heated up the pizza. I didn’t miss salad making a bit! I’ve made no plans for dinners at the lake.
Eric, I’ve never heard of non-Lewy Body Dementia. Will google it. I fully intend to discuss my concerns about memory ability (I am struggling to recall names these days) at my annual physical this month. Kinda scary, especially after witnessing what my DB has gone through.
I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend
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I re-read the report and I think that the "non" in the Non Lewy Body Dementia is meant to convey "It's a dementia but there was no evidence of Lewy Bodies" and the "non" part was put in at the end after many other possibilities were investigated.
I know the researchers were quite appreciative of mom's donation.
Regardless of the exact cause...dementia is horrible.
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Nancy, my ophthalmologist suggested I just remove the lens for the operated eye from my glasses, but I thought that'd look too weird, so I had a plano (non-Rx) one put in for those next couple of months before I did the other eye. After the second one, I simply went without glasses other than shades (which I did wear after I had a hematoma in the first eye in the week post-op, lest I scare little kids--I simply looked like I was dodging paparazzi); at 3 wks I was able to be refracted and my prescription adjusted (20/10 in one eye, 20/20 in the other, plus reading correction). Not for one minute did I miss my "sepia-toned" vision--it was a joy to see clearly again, especially faces and objects (like my guitar's fretboard) that were strongly backlit.
Last night Whole Foods got in its first shipment of fresh wild Copper River salmon--pricey but I could afford a small tail piece. Soaked a cedar plank for an hour and baked it on the grill over indirect heat. Snap peas and brown rice/black quinoa completed the meal.
Tonight Bob got home early; he declared we should eat early before tonight's predicted storms were to hit. He said his clogged sinuses were numbing his taste buds, so he wanted something spicy in order to be able to taste it (no objections from me). We went to Tiffin, our favorite non-veg. Indian restaurant along the Indo-Pak Devon Ave. strip. Had a mixed app plate (samosa, veg. pakoras, cauliflower, potato pattie, tandoori chicken breast and seekh kabab, plus pappadums, raita and chutneys). Bob had Mulligatawny soup (I passed on it, since I had a humongous tuna-on-kaiser sandwich for brunch). We shared the house special biryani (lamb, chicken, shrimp) and a poori (puffy tandoori bread). Dessert was kulfi (unchurned ice cream): "pista" (pistachio, the house special) for me and mango for Bob. Took the bus(es) home ahead of the storm (Bob walked the last half-mile instead of waiting for the second bus--even with the wait I beat him by 5 min.). We have quite a bit of leftovers. The waiter asked "medium spicy?" and we nodded--alas, it turned out to be almost mild. We used up all the green chutney. Next time, we'll specify "Indian spicy." We saw no non-Asians dining tonight, but Indians tend to have dinner very, very late. (We've been to a few Indian buffet banquets hosted by his colleagues--appetizers no earlier than 8:30 and entrees served at 10:30; by dessert time, past midnight, we were almost too sleepy to drive home).
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I'm sure you've seen the joke about the Texas Chili Cook Off Judge's notes. :-)
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