The last day of January, already. The month passed quickly, although, after all that happened, I can't say I'm sorry to bid it goodbye.
Slept late this morning, until around 8:30. After breakfast, I went to Mother's house to help her take a shower, and throw a load of laundry in the washer.
Back home, Hubbie and I went for a walk around the neighborhood. I thought it would be a mild day for a walk, but because it was overcast and windy, it was pretty chilly.
As usual, a variety of dogs came barking out to greet us, though they were not a threat at all. They followed us for a way down the road, grew bored, and returned to their homes.
At home, again, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house while I was getting ready for the day.
Later, after a soup and sandwich lunch, we ran errands. Mother went with us this time, so she could shop for Valentines at the greeting card shop. From there, we went to the post office, to the newspaper office to drop off the word search puzzle contest, to the bank, and to a grocery store/pharmacy, where we picked up prescriptions, and a few food items. Mother stayed in the van while we shopped.
Funny: on the parking lot of the grocery store, a shopping cart escaped the cart wrangler and went careening down the sloping pavement, gathering speed in the wind as it went. Several of us stood there watching, mouths agape, fully expecting to see the cart slam into a car. But, just as it arrived at the cart corral, it turned, and as if guided by an invisible hand, neatly nestled itself into another cart.
Our last stop was the WDCS. Again, Mother waited in the van while we shopped. We only needed a few items, so she didn't have to wait long for our return.
At home, we relaxed. Mother snoozed, and I went outdoors to snap a photo of crocus in bloom, which I posted to my social network page. Because we are having an uncommonly warm winter, the crocus and jonquils are blooming early. Forsythia is beginning to bloom, too. Hope the weather doesn't take a downturn to freezing that kills these first signs of spring.
Later, I heated the leftovers from yesterday's pork roast dinner. I prefer roast and veggies fresh from the pot, but it's pretty good the second day, too.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward. Then, we turned off the TV, and spent an hour in our own activities: Hubbie finished a novel he'd been reading, and I measured, pinned, and hemmed a pair of pants from a fleece wear set.
Back to TV, we watched the 1995 movie, "First Knight," from the Encore Channel. Starring Richard Gere and Sean Connery, this movie is about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Then we watched our favorite college basketball team as they played to a win. I'd recorded the game on DVR.
We missed our local newspaper this evening. Our paper carrier put a note in the paper last night telling his customers that he was to have a surgical procedure today and would not be able to make his delivery rounds. So we can expect to get both today's and tomorrow's editions tomorrow.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Monday, Jan. 30
Up at 6:30 to get ready to go to water aerobics. Chilly this morning, but I noticed I couldn't see my breath...a good sign that the day would warm later. And it did, into the 60s, though not as warm as in the central and southern parts of the state.
The pool was chillier than we ladies like, but I got used to it pretty quickly. Around 19 of us showed up. There was no real news today, except we might not have a session Friday, if a substitute can't be found for our regular lifeguard, who has to be away that day.
Back home after the session, and once I was ready, and once I was ready for the day, I spent the rest of the morning reviewing the lesson for today's session with my student.
Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house after lunch, and she, Hubbie, and I worked to put a pork loin in the slow cooker...Mother prepared the onions and carrots, Hubbie peeled and quartered the potatoes, and I browned the meat and seasoned it, and put everything in the slow cooker with a can of chicken broth and a can of beef broth.
At 2:30, I met my student. While I was gone, Mother clipped coupons from Sunday newspaper inserts to be sent to a granddaughter, who is diligently using them to save money on groceries and incidentals.
Today, the student finished the last lesson of the book, which included learning the use of "early, late, and on time," the expressions "I'm in a hurry," and "Hurry up!"
She read the last story, and answered questions about the story. Then we began a comprehensive evaluation to learn where her strengths and weaknesses are. She is doing extremely well, but her weakness is in not quite comprehending the use of "what, where, who, when, how, and which." So she has difficulty transforming statements into questions.
I assigned review work for her to do at home, and will re-test her on the material at our next session. I'm hoping we can complete the evaluation next week, because she's due to be traveling to Venezuela soon, and will be gone for a month.
Back home, the pork roast was done, and Hubbie and Mother were plenty ready to eat it, since they'd been smelling it cooking all afternoon. I hurried to make gravy, while Hubbie and Mother set the table. The roast with veggies was delicious, served with individual cups of applesauce, and leftover jellied cranberry sauce, and Chinese beets.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward. Then I turned off the TV, and Hubbie and I engaged in our own activities...he read his novel, and I worked the word search puzzle contest, got some snail mail ready to go out tomorrow, paid bills, etc.
At 7 p.m., we turned the TV back on and watched the evening news and "Wheel of Fortune," that I'd recorded on DVR, followed by a 1979 movie western, "The Legend of the Golden Gun." A young farmer, whose farm is burned down, and whose family is killed, meets a runaway slave, and they join forces to fight the legendary guerrilla, William Quantrill. They go in search of a legendary gunfighter, who can teach the farmer how to shoot a special gun that fires seven rounds. He's to use the seventh round to battle evil.
The pool was chillier than we ladies like, but I got used to it pretty quickly. Around 19 of us showed up. There was no real news today, except we might not have a session Friday, if a substitute can't be found for our regular lifeguard, who has to be away that day.
Back home after the session, and once I was ready, and once I was ready for the day, I spent the rest of the morning reviewing the lesson for today's session with my student.
Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house after lunch, and she, Hubbie, and I worked to put a pork loin in the slow cooker...Mother prepared the onions and carrots, Hubbie peeled and quartered the potatoes, and I browned the meat and seasoned it, and put everything in the slow cooker with a can of chicken broth and a can of beef broth.
At 2:30, I met my student. While I was gone, Mother clipped coupons from Sunday newspaper inserts to be sent to a granddaughter, who is diligently using them to save money on groceries and incidentals.
Today, the student finished the last lesson of the book, which included learning the use of "early, late, and on time," the expressions "I'm in a hurry," and "Hurry up!"
She read the last story, and answered questions about the story. Then we began a comprehensive evaluation to learn where her strengths and weaknesses are. She is doing extremely well, but her weakness is in not quite comprehending the use of "what, where, who, when, how, and which." So she has difficulty transforming statements into questions.
I assigned review work for her to do at home, and will re-test her on the material at our next session. I'm hoping we can complete the evaluation next week, because she's due to be traveling to Venezuela soon, and will be gone for a month.
Back home, the pork roast was done, and Hubbie and Mother were plenty ready to eat it, since they'd been smelling it cooking all afternoon. I hurried to make gravy, while Hubbie and Mother set the table. The roast with veggies was delicious, served with individual cups of applesauce, and leftover jellied cranberry sauce, and Chinese beets.
Hubbie accompanied Mother home afterward. Then I turned off the TV, and Hubbie and I engaged in our own activities...he read his novel, and I worked the word search puzzle contest, got some snail mail ready to go out tomorrow, paid bills, etc.
At 7 p.m., we turned the TV back on and watched the evening news and "Wheel of Fortune," that I'd recorded on DVR, followed by a 1979 movie western, "The Legend of the Golden Gun." A young farmer, whose farm is burned down, and whose family is killed, meets a runaway slave, and they join forces to fight the legendary guerrilla, William Quantrill. They go in search of a legendary gunfighter, who can teach the farmer how to shoot a special gun that fires seven rounds. He's to use the seventh round to battle evil.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Sunday, Jan 29
Slept really late this morning, until around 8:30 a.m. Skipped my exercises this morning. Decided we needed a day to just basically veg.
Washed a couple of loads of laundry, programmed the DVR for the week's shows, and did other mundane things during the morning. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 11 a.m., and we had a lunch of leftover soups from yesterday, with a choice of chicken salad and pimento cheese on crackers.
Then we spent the afternoon watching movies: "Last Man Standing," from the Lifetime Movie Network, and "Toy Story 3." The LMN movie was about a suburban housewife who is a former special-ops agent. She has been hiding a secret from her past, but now it has caught up with her, and her husband is kidnapped. Naturally, she has to rescue him, using her special-ops training. Watched "Toy Story 3," because it was recommended as a must-see. It was an enjoyable movie, though Hubbie and Mother snoozed through most of it.
Supper was more soup with sandwich makings. I accompanied Mother back to her house afterward, and helped her take a shower. Threw a load of laundry into her washer before I returned home.
Spent the evening watching more TV, including an episode of "Downton Abbey," from PBS. Men are returning to England from war (WWI) broken, battered, and dying. Downton Abbey is being used as a convelescent hone. Dramas play out among the servants, as well as among those they serve.
Washed a couple of loads of laundry, programmed the DVR for the week's shows, and did other mundane things during the morning. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 11 a.m., and we had a lunch of leftover soups from yesterday, with a choice of chicken salad and pimento cheese on crackers.
Then we spent the afternoon watching movies: "Last Man Standing," from the Lifetime Movie Network, and "Toy Story 3." The LMN movie was about a suburban housewife who is a former special-ops agent. She has been hiding a secret from her past, but now it has caught up with her, and her husband is kidnapped. Naturally, she has to rescue him, using her special-ops training. Watched "Toy Story 3," because it was recommended as a must-see. It was an enjoyable movie, though Hubbie and Mother snoozed through most of it.
Supper was more soup with sandwich makings. I accompanied Mother back to her house afterward, and helped her take a shower. Threw a load of laundry into her washer before I returned home.
Spent the evening watching more TV, including an episode of "Downton Abbey," from PBS. Men are returning to England from war (WWI) broken, battered, and dying. Downton Abbey is being used as a convelescent hone. Dramas play out among the servants, as well as among those they serve.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Saturday, Jan. 28
What a great day we had today! Eighteen of us gathered for lunch, including Son and Daughter-in-Law, Daughter, two granddaughters, a granddaughter's male friend and his son, a niece, and seven great-grandchildren.
Lunch, of course, was four kinds of soup: chicken noodle, 11-bean, potato, and split pea, and a choice of sandwich makings: ham and cheese (American, baby Swiss, and muenster), chicken salad, and pimento cheese, with a choice of breads: wheat rounds, white, wheat bread, or hoagies, as well as crackers. Dessert choices were chocolate cupcakes, peach cobbler, sweetened sliced strawberries (locally grown and frozen last spring), and ice cream.
This was a birthday gathering, and I was excited to receive a gift card to my favorite hobby store from Son and Daughter-in-Law. I shop at that store every time I'm in a town that has one. It's my favorite store.
I was also delighted with a gift Daughter gave me...a little bear that plays "Wind Beneath my Wings." That happens to be one of my favorite tunes. I set the bear on the fireplace insert, where it seemed to delight the kids, who, every time they passed it, squeezed it's paw to play the tune. Even Mother was enchanted by it, and squeezed the paw whenever she passed by it.
My very thoughtful kids always seem to know exactly the right things to give me.
The gifts I gave paled by comparison...gift baskets containing homemade chai tea, cans of dark chocolate cookie straws, and colorful mugs. I gave a granddaughter a framed photo of Great-Granddaughter that I snapped last summer while at camp. Great-grandchildren with birthdays received their favorite gifts...cash. Each of the ladies present chose tubes of hand cream from a popular intimate apparel shop...using $10 coupons and buying it on sale, I had accumulated quite a few tubes of it.
While family was here, Son also fixed the fluorescent light fixture in my office, after he and Hubbie went to a home improvement store to buy necessary supplies. Hubbie estimates that Son saved us about one hundred dollars by doing this job for us. I consider that another birthday gift. He also helped Hubbie hoist the large, wooden nativity scene into the storeroom closet. Thank you, Son!
Thanks to Granddaughter's friend, too, who helped Hubbie put the large, boxed Christmas tree over the rafters in the garage. We take advantage of strong guys whenever they're available.
After enjoying an afternoon visiting, some of the family headed home. Daughter and Niece stayed a while longer, and joined us for a repeat-of-lunch supper, before leaving around 5:30. Around the same time, Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house.
Then we watched our favorite college basketball team play to a nail-biter loss. This was a noon game that I'd recorded on DVR.
Then we watched a Lifetime Movie Network feature called, "Caught in the Act." A Tennessee housewife discovers she has a knack for detective work, when she investigates her own husband's infidelity.
Lunch, of course, was four kinds of soup: chicken noodle, 11-bean, potato, and split pea, and a choice of sandwich makings: ham and cheese (American, baby Swiss, and muenster), chicken salad, and pimento cheese, with a choice of breads: wheat rounds, white, wheat bread, or hoagies, as well as crackers. Dessert choices were chocolate cupcakes, peach cobbler, sweetened sliced strawberries (locally grown and frozen last spring), and ice cream.
This was a birthday gathering, and I was excited to receive a gift card to my favorite hobby store from Son and Daughter-in-Law. I shop at that store every time I'm in a town that has one. It's my favorite store.
I was also delighted with a gift Daughter gave me...a little bear that plays "Wind Beneath my Wings." That happens to be one of my favorite tunes. I set the bear on the fireplace insert, where it seemed to delight the kids, who, every time they passed it, squeezed it's paw to play the tune. Even Mother was enchanted by it, and squeezed the paw whenever she passed by it.
My very thoughtful kids always seem to know exactly the right things to give me.
The gifts I gave paled by comparison...gift baskets containing homemade chai tea, cans of dark chocolate cookie straws, and colorful mugs. I gave a granddaughter a framed photo of Great-Granddaughter that I snapped last summer while at camp. Great-grandchildren with birthdays received their favorite gifts...cash. Each of the ladies present chose tubes of hand cream from a popular intimate apparel shop...using $10 coupons and buying it on sale, I had accumulated quite a few tubes of it.
While family was here, Son also fixed the fluorescent light fixture in my office, after he and Hubbie went to a home improvement store to buy necessary supplies. Hubbie estimates that Son saved us about one hundred dollars by doing this job for us. I consider that another birthday gift. He also helped Hubbie hoist the large, wooden nativity scene into the storeroom closet. Thank you, Son!
Thanks to Granddaughter's friend, too, who helped Hubbie put the large, boxed Christmas tree over the rafters in the garage. We take advantage of strong guys whenever they're available.
After enjoying an afternoon visiting, some of the family headed home. Daughter and Niece stayed a while longer, and joined us for a repeat-of-lunch supper, before leaving around 5:30. Around the same time, Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house.
Then we watched our favorite college basketball team play to a nail-biter loss. This was a noon game that I'd recorded on DVR.
Then we watched a Lifetime Movie Network feature called, "Caught in the Act." A Tennessee housewife discovers she has a knack for detective work, when she investigates her own husband's infidelity.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Friday, Jan. 27
Up at 6:30 this morning to get ready to go to water aerobics. It was chilly enough this morning that the sliding door on the van was frozen shut, though there was only moisture on the windows. Hubbie had gone out earlier and cleared the windshield and back window, but failed to wipe the side windows or the side mirrors. So at the end of the driveway, I hopped out and used my gloves to wipe the windows. Didn't discover the mirrors were wet until I was already on the road. Had to totally rely on the rear view mirror inside the van. Everything turned out fine, though.
The water in the pool was still a bit chilly, but okay once I was in it. The talk today was of men's wear and children's wear shops downtown that are closing after many years. Both are owned by the same folks. I have to say that in the 31 years I've lived in this town, I have only visited the men's shop once. I found the prices too high, so I didn't return.
Someone also said that the owner of a shoe shop downtown is looking for a buyer for her building, so she can retire. She owns not only the shoe shop, but the storefront next door that houses the arts council. Worrisome.
Back home, I enjoyed a couple of cups of hot coffee to warm me up, and then I went to Mother's house to help her take a shower. Threw a load of laundry in her washer before I came back to our house.
As usual, it was nearly noon before I was finally ready for the day. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and we each had a different kind of soup for lunch...Ramen noodle for Mother, 11-bean for Hubbie, and split pea for me.
After lunch, Mother and I made a batch of chicken salad for tomorrow's gathering. Mother chopped onions, celery, pickles, apples, and grapes for the salad, and I added Craisins and walnuts, salad dressing, and spices. Everything in the salad is chopped large enough that folks can remove what they don't like or want.
Then Hubbie and I went to the WDCS for grocery items for tomorrow. Back home, I made a peach cobbler. Spent the rest of the afternoon putting together token gift baskets for birthday honorees. I'm playing catch-up for those who had birthdays in October, November, and December, and anticipating those with birthdays in February.
At 4 p.m., I started supper. Mother helped by putting canned biscuits in a pan, and cutting up American cheese for Ziplock bag omelets. I sauteed onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms, which I added to egg substitute, along with the cheese and spices.
Following the omelet and biscuit supper, we had helpings of peach cobbler with ice cream. Hubbie accompanied Mother back to her house afterward.
Note: Mother said she had her last meeting with her occupational therapist on Wednesday. I didn't even notice she'd stopped by, but apparently she told Mother that was the last session allowed by Medicare. If Mother requires anything else in the future, we'll need to get a doctor's prescription. Right now, though, we're agreed that Mother is doing fine, as long as she keeps up her exercises.
I turned off the TV for an hour this evening, and we did a few things to spruce the house for company tomorrow. When I turned it back on, we watched a 2010 movie called "Animal Kingdom." This Australian crime drama begins when a 17-year-old boy loses his mother to an overdose, and then moves in with his grandmother and uncles. Immediately, one of the uncles is killed. The boy gets caught between his notorious crime family and renegade cops. The film is inspired by a real-life crime family of Melbourne, Australia. Chilling.
Got an interesting card from one of Hubbie's nieces. It's a photo of her and her husband, with an announcement that they are expecting a baby in June. What's interesting about the card is that within the zero of the enlarged year 2012 is a sonogram of the baby.
The water in the pool was still a bit chilly, but okay once I was in it. The talk today was of men's wear and children's wear shops downtown that are closing after many years. Both are owned by the same folks. I have to say that in the 31 years I've lived in this town, I have only visited the men's shop once. I found the prices too high, so I didn't return.
Someone also said that the owner of a shoe shop downtown is looking for a buyer for her building, so she can retire. She owns not only the shoe shop, but the storefront next door that houses the arts council. Worrisome.
Back home, I enjoyed a couple of cups of hot coffee to warm me up, and then I went to Mother's house to help her take a shower. Threw a load of laundry in her washer before I came back to our house.
As usual, it was nearly noon before I was finally ready for the day. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, and we each had a different kind of soup for lunch...Ramen noodle for Mother, 11-bean for Hubbie, and split pea for me.
After lunch, Mother and I made a batch of chicken salad for tomorrow's gathering. Mother chopped onions, celery, pickles, apples, and grapes for the salad, and I added Craisins and walnuts, salad dressing, and spices. Everything in the salad is chopped large enough that folks can remove what they don't like or want.
Then Hubbie and I went to the WDCS for grocery items for tomorrow. Back home, I made a peach cobbler. Spent the rest of the afternoon putting together token gift baskets for birthday honorees. I'm playing catch-up for those who had birthdays in October, November, and December, and anticipating those with birthdays in February.
At 4 p.m., I started supper. Mother helped by putting canned biscuits in a pan, and cutting up American cheese for Ziplock bag omelets. I sauteed onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms, which I added to egg substitute, along with the cheese and spices.
Following the omelet and biscuit supper, we had helpings of peach cobbler with ice cream. Hubbie accompanied Mother back to her house afterward.
Note: Mother said she had her last meeting with her occupational therapist on Wednesday. I didn't even notice she'd stopped by, but apparently she told Mother that was the last session allowed by Medicare. If Mother requires anything else in the future, we'll need to get a doctor's prescription. Right now, though, we're agreed that Mother is doing fine, as long as she keeps up her exercises.
I turned off the TV for an hour this evening, and we did a few things to spruce the house for company tomorrow. When I turned it back on, we watched a 2010 movie called "Animal Kingdom." This Australian crime drama begins when a 17-year-old boy loses his mother to an overdose, and then moves in with his grandmother and uncles. Immediately, one of the uncles is killed. The boy gets caught between his notorious crime family and renegade cops. The film is inspired by a real-life crime family of Melbourne, Australia. Chilling.
Got an interesting card from one of Hubbie's nieces. It's a photo of her and her husband, with an announcement that they are expecting a baby in June. What's interesting about the card is that within the zero of the enlarged year 2012 is a sonogram of the baby.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, Jan. 26
Slept late, until around 8:30. After breakfast, Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house, where she diced carrots, onions, and celery, to be stewed with chicken. Once the chicken was simmering, I did strengthening exercises...stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights.
It was noon before I was showered and ready for the day. After lunch, we continued in the kitchen. Mother diced more onions, carrots and celery for a recipe of potato soup. Hubbie peeled and sliced the potatoes, and I put the soup together.
Then Mother sliced onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms for a steak and peppers supper. She also diced bell peppers and mushrooms for an omelet supper tomorrow night. After that, she was ready to sit and relax. She's complained that she hasn't been productive enough, and feels useless, but I think she was satisfied she'd done plenty today!
When the chicken was done, we wrapped it in plastic wrap, and found gallon jars to put the broth and potato soup in for the fridge.
Around 4 p.m., I put potatoes in the oven to bake (Hubbie had washed them earlier). Later, I braised leftover sirloin steak from the restaurant in beef broth (Mother had sliced the beef earlier), along with bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms.
The beef and potatoes, with a side of leftover Lima beans and butter beans, and hot buttered French bread, made a good supper.
Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house afterward, and then I turned the TV off for an hour, while Hubbie and I made a big batch of chai tea.
We resumed watching TV afterward, including a 2004 movie from the Encore Suspense channel, "The I Inside." A young man awakens from an accident with amnesia. He thinks it's the year 2000, but it's really 2002. He begins jumping back and forth between the years, uncovering more and more of the mystery of his brother's death. His wife, whom he doesn't remember, tells him he killed his brother. He also has a girlfriend that he discovers was his brother's fiance'. Alternate reality movies aren't my favorite.
It was noon before I was showered and ready for the day. After lunch, we continued in the kitchen. Mother diced more onions, carrots and celery for a recipe of potato soup. Hubbie peeled and sliced the potatoes, and I put the soup together.
Then Mother sliced onions, bell peppers, and mushrooms for a steak and peppers supper. She also diced bell peppers and mushrooms for an omelet supper tomorrow night. After that, she was ready to sit and relax. She's complained that she hasn't been productive enough, and feels useless, but I think she was satisfied she'd done plenty today!
When the chicken was done, we wrapped it in plastic wrap, and found gallon jars to put the broth and potato soup in for the fridge.
Around 4 p.m., I put potatoes in the oven to bake (Hubbie had washed them earlier). Later, I braised leftover sirloin steak from the restaurant in beef broth (Mother had sliced the beef earlier), along with bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms.
The beef and potatoes, with a side of leftover Lima beans and butter beans, and hot buttered French bread, made a good supper.
Hubbie accompanied Mother to her house afterward, and then I turned the TV off for an hour, while Hubbie and I made a big batch of chai tea.
We resumed watching TV afterward, including a 2004 movie from the Encore Suspense channel, "The I Inside." A young man awakens from an accident with amnesia. He thinks it's the year 2000, but it's really 2002. He begins jumping back and forth between the years, uncovering more and more of the mystery of his brother's death. His wife, whom he doesn't remember, tells him he killed his brother. He also has a girlfriend that he discovers was his brother's fiance'. Alternate reality movies aren't my favorite.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Wednesday, Jan. 25
Today is Great-Grandson's birthday. Happy Birthday, Great-Grandson!
Up at 6:30 on this rainy morning to get ready to go to water aerobics. It seemed to take me longer to get started today, so I was late arriving at the college parking lot. Had to park quite a bit farther away than usual. Guess that was good for extra exercise, but I'm not fond of walking long distances in soggy weather.
The pool was topped off this morning, meaning that the water was even chillier than it was on Monday. But it was okay once I got used to it.
Our usual leader was not there, so a substitute was at the helm. This lady doesn't follow any set routine, but just makes things up as she goes along. I'm not crazy about this approach.
Back home, as soon as I showered and got ready for the day, I went to Mother's house to help her shower. Threw a load of laundry in the washer afterward. While I was doing this, Hubbie went to a fast food restaurant to get cups of chili for our lunch.
We had lunch a little early, around 11:30, because I had a haircut appointment at noon. Mother was supposed to go with me, but since it was such a wet day, I called the beauty shop and cancelled her appointment.
Just before noon, I went to the shop. The shop is being re-done...the walls have been painted in three complementary colors, and the operator stations are now rolling units that look something like automotive tool units. Large, framed, floor- to-ceiling mirrors adorn the walls. I don't like them...they show too much of me! The ladies laughed when I shielded my eyes and walked sideways to the sinks, so as not to have to see myself.
Back home, Hubbie took the van to the shop, because the brakes were screeching. The problem was the brake shoes, which had to be replaced. Needed new tires all around, too, so the tab was pretty high. Always something.
No sooner had Hubbie come in the door than he discovered he'd forgotten to take the Red Box DVD with him, so he had to turn right around and drive to the grocery store. The grocery store is only a block from the auto shop, and it would have been more convenient to drop the DVD off after he left shop. Oh, well.
While he was at the shop, I grated white American cheese for a recipe of pimento cheese. Since Mother was disappointed that she couldn't come over to our house today to help with preparing food for a family gathering this weekend, I took the cheese, jars of pimentos, and salad dressing to her house, so she could it. Then, I came back home and baked a couple of dozen chocolate cupcakes.
I relaxed after that until time to prepare supper, which was baked potatoes topped with leftover barbecued pork chops, and sides of corn-on-the-cob, and a choice of Lima beans or butter beans, and slices of hot, buttered French bread. I fixed a plate of the food for Hubbie to take to Mother.
After supper, we turned the TV off and spent an hour reading our novels. Then we watched our favorite college basketball team play to a just-by-the-hair-of-their-chinny-chin-chin win. Since the game was not available on our cable channels, we watched it at ESPN3 on my laptop computer.
Up at 6:30 on this rainy morning to get ready to go to water aerobics. It seemed to take me longer to get started today, so I was late arriving at the college parking lot. Had to park quite a bit farther away than usual. Guess that was good for extra exercise, but I'm not fond of walking long distances in soggy weather.
The pool was topped off this morning, meaning that the water was even chillier than it was on Monday. But it was okay once I got used to it.
Our usual leader was not there, so a substitute was at the helm. This lady doesn't follow any set routine, but just makes things up as she goes along. I'm not crazy about this approach.
Back home, as soon as I showered and got ready for the day, I went to Mother's house to help her shower. Threw a load of laundry in the washer afterward. While I was doing this, Hubbie went to a fast food restaurant to get cups of chili for our lunch.
We had lunch a little early, around 11:30, because I had a haircut appointment at noon. Mother was supposed to go with me, but since it was such a wet day, I called the beauty shop and cancelled her appointment.
Just before noon, I went to the shop. The shop is being re-done...the walls have been painted in three complementary colors, and the operator stations are now rolling units that look something like automotive tool units. Large, framed, floor- to-ceiling mirrors adorn the walls. I don't like them...they show too much of me! The ladies laughed when I shielded my eyes and walked sideways to the sinks, so as not to have to see myself.
Back home, Hubbie took the van to the shop, because the brakes were screeching. The problem was the brake shoes, which had to be replaced. Needed new tires all around, too, so the tab was pretty high. Always something.
No sooner had Hubbie come in the door than he discovered he'd forgotten to take the Red Box DVD with him, so he had to turn right around and drive to the grocery store. The grocery store is only a block from the auto shop, and it would have been more convenient to drop the DVD off after he left shop. Oh, well.
While he was at the shop, I grated white American cheese for a recipe of pimento cheese. Since Mother was disappointed that she couldn't come over to our house today to help with preparing food for a family gathering this weekend, I took the cheese, jars of pimentos, and salad dressing to her house, so she could it. Then, I came back home and baked a couple of dozen chocolate cupcakes.
I relaxed after that until time to prepare supper, which was baked potatoes topped with leftover barbecued pork chops, and sides of corn-on-the-cob, and a choice of Lima beans or butter beans, and slices of hot, buttered French bread. I fixed a plate of the food for Hubbie to take to Mother.
After supper, we turned the TV off and spent an hour reading our novels. Then we watched our favorite college basketball team play to a just-by-the-hair-of-their-chinny-chin-chin win. Since the game was not available on our cable channels, we watched it at ESPN3 on my laptop computer.
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