We've been eating a lot of delicious foods here. Homemade pizzas with chicken, bacon, mushrooms and olives with alfredo sauce. Yummy Italian soups with turkey Italian sausage, raviolis, spinach, and zucchini. This week we're going to do corned beef grilled sandwiches on sourdough, and pork loin roast, and homemade beans (we always have some sort of bean at the ready for burritos).

Other news on my front, but it isn't really mine: an old friend of mine from college has published his first novel. The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney by Christopher Higgs. Mine is on order. Yours should be too.

I started watching "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia." Alll's I can say at this point: JACKED. UP.

I got a few books from Barnes & Noble (the best corporate bookstore) that I can't read yet because I'm knee-deep in the memorization process (I was recently cast as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and she talks A LOT). But I'm really excited about them. The first one on my to-read list is The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta. I don't know if you remember from a blog way waaay back, when I read Little Children and then watched the film version. I picked this one up because it's about a person who's against teaching abstinence despite being abstinent herself. It just sounded like such a familiar tale...I had to get down on that.

That's all I've got this morning. I'm not going to wish anyone but my daughter a happy V-Day because I think it's a ridiculous capitalist holiday (and that opinion has nothing to do with being single - I've always hated it). Plus, I'm now under orders to make scrambled eggs with sourdough toast, so I don't have time!