Eff off to dental issues.

Cant eat anything but broth and yogurt...

Eff off to perimenopause periods. First 1.5 days crampy. And just tired. I was remote working yesterday so could lay down on the office couch for a while with snuggle kitty for a bit, but I'm on-site today.  UGH.  Should be better in by the afternoon though.

Eff off to LOL - DH's comment last night..."You know I've asked about this before, but you know women runners and cyclists don't get their periods..."  OMG DH it's because their body fat is SO LOW their bodies don't make hormones correctly any longer!  Like anorexics.  I suggested that I could quit my job, or not, and train for 8 hours a day, meanwhile cut all food to just protein shakes and then my periods will stop.  I still don't think he's convinced that it's unhealthy.  WTH!?  This is a man who put off going to the dentist for a bad tooth (known since early JULY) until it was really really bad and he had an infection - and which I pointed out that people get SEPSIS from that and REALLY DH?  I need to just start printing out medical information for him rather than talk about it.

And, DH hates breakfast for dinner. When I met he and the SDs, none of them would ever consider breakfast for dinner - ever!  Wierd people overall as we know. But me?  I love it.  My favorite is perfectly scrambled eggs with a little paprika and/or parsley, served with a slice of toast (maybe some good cheese if I'm super hungry), a side of peas, and a glass of wine.  So satisfying.

No effs today. I am in gratitude mode. We had a scary week with DH's health -- no answers yet but he seems to be ok, or on the way to ok now. He's pretty proactive chasing down doctors and various tests.

Anything I can have for breakfast I can have for dinner. Grits casserole is a fav. French toast casserole is another one. But you can't beat pancakes and bacon. Add a cranberry mimosa or two!

New boss is in full on panic mode.  I've suggested a few other employees that work in different depts who know a tiny bit about what I do.  My current co workers want nothing to do with my job (can't blame them).

Meanwhile, new boss asks if my coworkers are taking/ training on my  tickets so he can get away with not hiring someone. 

Not bloody likely.  I warned my co-workers not to let mgmt dump on them like they did me.   They are in agreement.

22 more work days (including a couple days I'm taking off next month. )  

Of course there's still Chef's biz and the rental properties which is a full time job all by itself.  It will be the first time I haven't had two jobs pretty much since 1977.

Jus EFF off to insurance companies that apparently reprocess a bill over a year after the date of service and decide that on reflection they want me to have a payment obligation of almost 4 thousand dollars!

Contacted the provider.. they say the insurance company sent them a new accounting.

Contacted the Insurance.. they state the PROVIDER sent them new coding (which was as far as I can recall almost identical in amount.. so how the accounting ended up 4K off is beyond me).

I'm contacting my company's benefits dept to see if they can get this resolved so I don't have to pay this money.. again... well over a year since the date.. ins says the provider has up to a year to send info? but since the amounts were almost the same.. how is the outcome so different really?  both were hospital stays.. it's ridiculous.

Your pan-crepes look amazing! I am going to try some as soon as I buy bananas!

A day late

Eff-Off:  Interfering Sr. Leaders. My #2 is on vacation as well as two other of my directr reports. So... my two bosses, customer boss and direct boss, decided I needed help and sent the Roving problem solver to stand in. WIthout giving me ample notice nor with any communication of what I am supposed to do with the buy. So, I had him do a deep dive data analysison all of my key KPIs.  He found that we are near the top of the network, which I already knew, and that our data integrity is extremely strong.  He did find a work element that he thought we were not tracking.  We have been tracking it.  Though he did show me a mitigation step I was not familiar with.

Which led to a very entertaining communication with my customer boss.  I reached out to him requesting if he wanted me to do the extension that violated policy, as that boss has been demanding his whole team do, or for me to follow the policy.  HE asked me if I was suggesting that I violate policy.  I reminded him of his instructions to me and my counterparts in the region and I told him I had already submitted the extension per the policy and that it was in his approval que.  I had the extention request built and hit enter as soon as he asked if I was suggesting to violate policy. Again, the policy that he had expressly chewed one of my counterpart's ass for following and that he had directly instructed his direct reports to deviate from

So the unrequested support resource provided me with valuable information and also allowed me to back my customer boss into process compliance on something he had instructed me/us to violate policy on.  Now I know how to do it right.

F0rn:  Konjac noodles.  A life saver of variety in a low carb way of eating.  The current favorite is Trader Joes precooked seasoned chicken meatballs, Cacio-pepe sauce, mushrooms, and Konjac (Feticcine, Spaghetti, Rice, or Pene).  Penne is the current favorite but they are all good.  An easy and quick dish.

Brown the meatballs in some olive oil in a non stick pan on Med-high.

Add mushrooms and green onions for a few minutes.

Add sauce and bring to a simmer stirring periodically.

After draining, rinsing, and draining again, add Konjac to the simmering pan for a few minutes.

Great stuff, low carb, amazing flavors, very savory and satisfying.

On todays weigh in, DH was down 3#s this week, I was down 2.5.  She is down a total of about 25, I am down a bit more than 35.

On the way back from our weigh in this AM, we stopped at a shoe repair and I had three more holes added to my belt.

Have a great weekend STalkers.