Church hot dishes in my neck of the woods (west Texas) generally had crushed potato chips on them. Mind you, that was 50+ years ago.

I made a hot dish this morning! Flying to Florida for a few days leaving in the morning and I had 4 zucchinis in the fridge that needed to be cooked. I made a cheesy casserole with them which I will freeze in a few containers to pop out as side dishes as needed. I have a bunch of keto meals in the freezer that I made to have on hand when I don't want to cook. Grocery stores are not nearby so I am not always stocked. I do have lots of farm stands and egg stands around so that part is easy.

eta: now that I have been all productive I am sitting down to watch The Umbrella Academy. I rewatched the end of S3 earlier.

I thought non-tot hot dish was a thing but I have not actually experienced it in the wild, as it were. That’s fun to say either way. Tot-topped hot dish or not-tot hot dish.

Eta and now that I have read the recipe - I would use canned green beans instead of blanching fresh, but that's just how I roll. Sounds pretty tasty!

Now I would like some tater tots, whether by themselves or on top of a casserole dealie.

I think there may also be hot dish with like, hash browns on top? But I am from a casserole place not a hot dish place

To my knowledge I've never had a 'hot dish'.

Happy Both Aims!

I got back from lunch today and the academy trainer asked me if the team lead and talked to me and I was like ..um noooo?

Our store manager "no longer works here". I have no idea what happened. I know the district manager (except she has a different title) and the store manager didn't get along. For the most part I liked my ex store manager. and after hearing horror stories about some of the managers (including the store manager that drove off 2 management teams including a bunch that transferred here) I'm worried about whoever is new.

And during remodel.

But M made it to his appointment, got an extended prescription for the anti anxiety meds and is going to make an appointment with a therapist.

I'm not sure if this is a California thing, but it seems to be that all anyone is officially allowed to say about someone leaving for any reason is that they are no longer employed. We had a sales director (Walmart specialist, coincidentally, who is our #1 or #2 customer, neck and neck with Amazon) who was suddenly let go in the middle of the day a week or two ago and we (everyone who worked with him at all, certainly my whole department) are INTENSELY CURIOUS as to what happened but nothing has leaked out except a vague reference to our code of conduct. My boss had been on the phone with him in the morning and a couple of hours later got an email bounceback with "not with the company", it was that sudden. This has, of course, meant upheaval amongst the salespeople as another sales director is going out on maternity leave as well so shuffling everyone around to cover all the customers adequately is messy

Hooray for anti anxiety meds, for sure!

Everywhere I've worked it's just "s/he no longer works here" which means they were terminated. I guess it's just a way to say it without saying anything concrete. When I got a text from my supervisor at Belk the day I came to an agreement with worker's comp I texted back "I'm sorry I can't , I no longer work there".

We aren't supposed to talk about it or her but of course people were and I guess she wasn't handling the stress of the remodel well which included taking it out on lower management people so ... who knows.

Along with M's appointment today Mom brought Lovey all the way back to our vet for a second opinion and Lovey will lose his other eye. She has an appointment Monday at 7:30 am (It's about an hour and fifteen min drive, I told her she can come over here for a nap after). And it will be the same cost of removing his other eye so both eyes will end up being just under the price her vet quoted for removing one eye.