Tuesday, September 15

Got up late this morning, but did a treadmill session anyway. Mother came over while I was treading and started a pot of split pea soup cooking. We won't have this until tomorrow, but we want it to sit in the fridge overnight to meld the flavors.

Before lunch, Hubbie and I ran our daily errands...to pick up prescriptions at the grocery store pharmacy, and to the WDCS for groceries we forgot yesterday. At the pharmacy, we learned that Mother's doctor had failed to FAX a prescription for her, so I called the nurse right then and there to ask her to have the doctor do so ASAP, since Mother's current prescription runs out on Thursday.

I wish I'd thought to pick up a package of vanilla wafers, because at the grocery store, I found bags of bananas for 39 cents a pound. They are ripe and need to be used soon, so I'd like to make a recipe of from-scratch homemade banana pudding (because packaged vanilla puddings have yellow dye in them, which I'm allergic to). Guess we'll pick up the wafers tomorrow when we get Mother's prescription.

After lunch, Mother and I continued working on the screen door cards, this time cutting designs from old Christmas cards to use as decorative elements. Then I typed holiday greetings for the insides of the cards. We'll finish working on this batch of cards during our scrapbook club meeting Thursday afternoon.

Supper tonight was spaghetti, green beans, and sliced tomatoes topped with cottage cheese. Later, we watched a movie..."The Neighbor," starring Matthew Modine and Michele Laroque. Rated PG-13, this is a romantic comedy about an artist, who lives in the apartment above a woman, who works in real estate. The man is having a hard time accepting his ex-wife's plans to remarry, and the woman is trying to convince herself that her fiance' is "perfect" for her. The man wants to attend his ex-wife's wedding (uninvited) with a date; the woman downstairs agrees to go under certain conditions...and, well, you can guess how it turns out. It's an entertaining enough movie with some comedic moments.