Desmond had his surgery. Anyone who sees me on facebook should already know. I was so bored at the hospital, I was updating facebook every 5 minutes it seems. Hope I didn't bore anyone.
I have to be at the MOSI tomorrow for a Back To School Thingy. Representing the pedatric dental office where I work.......I volunteered.....must have had a bad day that day or someone drugged my coffee. It's like waking up after you have slept with someone and realizing "OMG this was a mistake". Kids get on my nerves and I hate crowds. There's supposed to be thousands of visitors there tomorrow.
So if anyone happens to be at the MOSI, stop by booth #7. Third floor of the Main Building. I will bore you to death with "don't put your baby to bed with a bottle, Start flossing at age 3 blah blah blah. It's like reciting the abc's to me. I just say it and not think about it.
I leave Thursday for N.J. Spending a few days with friends from my high school graduating class of 1982. Looking forward to getting away with Bob, and spending time with people I havn't seen since June of 1982. I got married and moved to Spain. Most of my friends went on to College or working. I lost contact with quite a few.
I will post some pictures of the event. We are meeting for drinks with a few classmates at DiPaolo's Italian Restaurant the night before the big bash, in Penns Grove, New Jersey.
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It was a little Italian Deli where they made the pizza's right in front of you. You could get pizza, cheesestakes and subs. For dessert, Pizzelles, Italian cookies, Cannoli. My dad worked with the owner when he was working at Dupont. It was family owned and run. I have bought sandwiches there so many times, I can't even begin to count. It was the only place we got our pizza and cheesestakes. Most of the time we bought our subs there, sometimes Pheffers in Carneys Point, New Jersey. They both used Prioli's rolls.
Prioli's was a small Italian bakery in Penns Grove, NJ that sold round rolls, long italian loaves and smaller sandwich rolls. You could also get sub sandwich rolls. I tried and tried to get my dad to buy the place when it was for sale but he said he didn't like the business part of running a business. He would just go in and bake or cook and be happy. So I suggested he just buy the recipe and open a place in Virginia when they moved there in 1983. He could have someone to manage the business end and he could bake. He said no.....years later I heard him say, "I should have bought that recipe for Prioli's. We can't get a decent sandwich roll down here." I reminded him of what had said.
We went to our favorite little Italian place for dinner tonight. Pizza Mania in Wesley Chapel, FL. It has the best pizza, subs, steak sandwichs. The owner is from NJ. I was thinking about how much I missed my dad's cooking. He was a great cook and would spend hours in the kitchen stirring, mixing, baking. He would make his own sauce for Spaghetti every Sunday. He would start it at 8:00 a.m. and let it simmer all day. He would fry or bake some pork chops and put in the sauce. By the time the sauce finished the pork chops were so soft and soaked in the sauce. His Spaghetti and Meatballs was the best.
Dad is doing much better. Eating better, walking better. Just so much better. We moved him from Kentucky to Virginia the last weekend in July. We hired an ambulance service to transport him so they could moniter him. He did well during the trip. My sister was there when he got there to get him settled in. She's been there almost every day since. I wish I lived closer. I am planning on driving up for Thanksgiving so I can spend it with my dad. I havn't spent one with him in years. I think the last one was 1982. They were still living in New Jersey.
I love reminising about my life in Penns Grove. There are some great memories there.
