ok, so i drove over to harrodsburg to buy carryout chinese this evening.......hot and sour soup, spring rolls and shrimp lo mein.....ooooh, ooooh, ooooh.....i just love the stuff.......i have treated myself to chinese a lot lately, mostly because i look at my own cooking so much during the day that i cannot look at it again at night.......i brought home a vegetable lasagna, which is perfectly good to eat......but i could not bring myself to warm it back up.........

i have started the last book club book...a biography of john adams.....this book is a stretch for me.....as it relies heavily on volumes of adams' letters...every other paragraph is a direct quote......it gets hard to pay attention......however, both adams and his wife abigail seem quite interesting as people....both well-read in latin and greek...and in clasical authors like cicero and homer.......abigail's mother opposed their marriage, as she did not see adams as good enough for her daughter.......his father was a farmer whilst abigail's father was a harvard-trained pastor......adams himself went to harvard at the age of 15, and graduated at 19......a timetable usual for the era.......that is all i know for now.......aside form the obvious...that adams went on to be the 2nd president of the united states, and that he would correspond with jefferson regularly after they both left office, and that they both died on the same day July 4, 1825....adams' last words were....'...jefferson still lives....' how do i know this? i have been to monticello several times, and this story is told each and every tour.........it is interesting trivia......adams also kept a diary.......not quite as interesting as blogging.......many of his entries were short and vague.......Christmas day.1767 ..spent the day thinking.........obviously it was abigail who did all the work, so that adams could do nothing but think.......