Shopping, Football, and a Play

We slept late this morning, finally dragging out of bed around 8 a.m. I hit the treadmill after breakfast, and by the time I was ready for the day, it was nearly 11 a.m. Mother came over, and we all went to the WDCS, where we shopped for incidentals and groceries. Mother doesn't shop very often, so she had quite a list of things she needed to pick up. Usually, she sends her list with us, but occasionally she feels that she needs to do her own shopping so she can use accumulated discount coupons, read labels, and compare prices of the products she wants.

Since we didn't get back home until around 1:30 p.m., lunch was delayed until about 2 p.m. Hubbie and I ate our lunch in the den, so we could watch our favorite college team play football (I'd recorded the game on DVR). We knew our young team would likely lose, and they did, by a wider margin than we feared. But this week, they at least made some very nice plays and showed much improvement from last week's dismal and downright embarrassing effort.

This evening, we went over to the college to see a community theater production of "Jekyll and Hyde." The actors did a good job with their parts, but as usual, we had difficulty hearing some of them, partly because the theater has poor acoustics, and partly because the actors' voices didn't project. The Jekyll/Hyde actor, though, was appropriately thunderous and dramatic. However, the set flats were a bit wobbly, particularly when Mr. Jekyll attempted to enter or exit the door from the drawing room to the lab.

The audience was scant tonight, but those of us who were there appreciated the effort the actors and production staff put into the play. Hubbie and I were involved in several productions years ago, so we know how much work is involved to mount a show on the limited budget that a community theater group can scrape up.

After we got home from the play, I made a recipe of hot chocolate from scratch. I used dark cocoa, Splenda sugar, and skim milk, and topped the hot drink with miniature marshmallows, which tasted better than the fat-free mixes in envelopes that use dry milk and regular sugar.