TGIF
Steve is home today with what sounds like a cold trying to get him.
And I'm not letting him breathe on me.
The only plan for the weekend is the coffee shop tomorrow for bead group. With cooler weather for a couple days, I'm trying the Eat Like A Bear bowls instead of salad. Today, I tried her recipe for beef stroganoff.
It needs tweaking. It calls for a lot of sour cream ... it was way too much for me. I'm not huge on creamed things. And the plant-based noodles recommended kinda make me want to ... let's just say they're the wrong texture. It was good last night before adding the sour cream this morning so it has a good base and I'll just leave like that or way less white goopy stuff. And I'll probably just put it over cauliflower rice or something.
Tomorrow, I'm going to have chili over cilantro-lime cauliflower rice. On Sunday, the beef thai I love so much but instead of the salad, having it over coconut cauliflower rice.
I'm listening to a non-fiction audiobook: AGATHA CHRISTIE: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley. Read by the author.
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Published 2022; 428 pages.13 hours, 46 minutes. I like this historian. I've seen some of her TV programs.
Speaking of amazing women, I'm SO pleased that King Charles didn't waste any time making William and Catherine the Prince and Princess of Wales.
King Charles did a great speech today - how clearly he said H & M would "build their lives overseas". No more words needed to say where they stand from now. Not in the firm. Never again to be working royals. Perfectly said and done.
Have a good weekend
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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