Busy, busy day ahead of me... Not too busy to watch, just for a few minutes, the sun create steam as it dries the roof outside my office window. Nice.
Tonight I'm hosting book club. I'll make three different kinds of pizza: sausage and peppers; carmelized onion, feta and mozzarella; and pizza Marguerite (crushed tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and basil), and a salad. I couldn't host the night we discussed my pick, John Grisham's Playing for Pizza and we met at a restaurant, so I offered to host tonight for my friend, Donna who chose Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I must confess I didn't read it. I tried, I really tried, but it was like swallowing glass shards. I'll try to get to Spark Notes this afternoon. (Yes, an English teacher using Spark Notes :) SAY NOTHING!!)
I have a lot of cleaning to do before I start cooking. Daughter, baby and nanny are not here today so I can do this unimpeded.
About Me
- KathyA
- I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.
7 comments:
Mmmm, you pizza sounds delicious. Hubbie will not eat pizza, so I haven't had any in two or three years. I'll have to get one just for me.
Have fun at your meeting tonight!
Your pizzas sound wonderful!
I have to confess, I tried to read a Jane Austin novel, Emma, last year and I couldn't do it either. And I'm an English major! I tried to decide why they were so hard to read, because I know they are so well loved. I have "seen" all of them as movies or on Masterpiece and love them. But as I read I tried to "see" the story and realized there was no description of what anything looked like. I need a mind movie when I read. I found myself trying to remember what the characters and clothing and setting looked like in the movie! I finally gave up!
LOVE LOVE LOVE pizza! Enjoy your book club tonight. Don't worry, I won't tell your former students about your cheating. ;)
~Purp
I'm coming to your house for pizza! Sounds wonderful.
I don't do well in book clubs because I never read the kind of books others read.
Also, I have to be in the right mood to read a book. The book assignments never hit the mood I'm in. Later I may be interested in that book but not at the time I need to be.
Have a good eventing.
Got any regular old everyday pepperoni pizza?
Uh, and beer? Gotta have beer, right?
And, you're hosting a book club meeting on the night of the NFL draft? That's just crazy right there! haha ;-)
Oooo... oooo...ooooo (waiving hand franticly).
I read Playing for Pizza.
Well... sorta.
Actually I listened to the Audio Book version while I traveled to Indiana to teach.
Really enjoyed it. Hope you did as well.
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I'm so jealous that I'm not eating your pizza. I mean that in all seriousness! I had cereal for dinner and used the last of the milk, meaning, no cereal for breakfast. Wah. I'm sure your meeting will be great. Your guests are in for a treat!
I just couldn't read Pride and Prejudice for my bookclub. Like shards of glass too.
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