Sunday Dinner, May 31, 2009 & Update On Lamar

Howdy, all. I'm sure you've guessed what the entree for this week's Sunday Dinner is, if you've paid any attention to the graphic to the left.

Homemade meatballs and gravy, rice, and flat Italian green beans and purple hull peas from the freezer.

I'll make the meatballs and cook the peas and green beans tonight. When I get home from church Sunday afternoon I'll make the gravy and cook the rice while everything else is reheating.

That's it for our Sunday Dinner menu. What are your plans/menu for Sunday Dinner this week? Share your plans in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.Not much else to report around here. I'm going to hit some highlights in a listing format because most of these things don't bear expounding upon.

**I'm typing this in a hurry because I need to get this posted so I can cook our Saturday Supper. My niece and nephew gave us some catfish from their freezer several weeks ago. This afternoon I got it out and put it in some water in the sink to thaw for our supper.

Imagine my surprise when it began thawing and I realized that our fish had become squirrel! Change of plans and menu for tonight. Instead of fish we're having fried squirrel and cream gravy and some macaroni and tomatoes.

Still good, but I had to readjust my taste buds because I had them all geared up for catfish.

**Now for the update on Lamar's eye, although it isn't much of an update.

There's not really much to report. Lamar's eye is no worse and not much better. At times he says he can see a bit better, but then his vision becomes just as bad as it ever was.

We're still waiting to get an appointment with a virologist/infectious disease specialist. The doctor we're waiting to see is on vacation until Monday so it will be sometime after that.

Lamar feels fine otherwise, just can't see well with his left eye and still on 3 different eye drops and prednisone by mouth every day.

**It's getting hot and was already humid, just typical weather for May in Arkansas.

**I got a paper cut opening an a piece of mail earlier. It's on my right thumb, which is also my mouse hand and space bar operator on the keyboard. I hate paper cuts, they seem to hurt worse than almost any other kind of cut.

And to add insult to injury, it turns out that the mail isn't even ours. It had our address on it, but the wrong name. Of course I didn't realize that until I'd already opened it and cut my thumb on the envelope flap. Naturally.

**After further review at my checkup on Thursday, my doctor decided to put me on a statin for my cholesterol. Although my total cholesterol was good for most people, since I'm also a diabetic she wants to lower my total cholesterol to less than 100 points, and also wants my triglycerides lower too.

**She also added another blood pressure med to the one I'm already taking. I'd been on the same BP med for 25 years, literally, but my dyazide was beginning to lose it's effectiveness for me and my BP was ever so gradually creeping up.

So she put me on Hyzaar and added Norvasc, which I've taken in the past. Hopefully they'll bring me down below 120 over 80. She'd like it to be around 110 over 70, which is my normal reading when it's properly controlled.

** Vacation Bible School starts in 2 weeks! If it's like past years, it will be hot, loud, and tiring, but oh so rewarding and worth it. I'll be keeping records again this year.I think that's it for now. I need to go start my supper and also make my preparations for Sunday dinner tomorrow.

I wish you all a wonderful and blessed Sunday. May God bless you with all you need and enough to share.