Monday, January 4

Had trouble going to sleep last night, so I slept late this morning. Hubbie was already up by the time I came downstairs at 8 a.m.

After breakfast, I did a treadmill session and weights exercises. Once I was ready for the day, I did lots of nit-picky chores, mostly setting the house to rights after the holidays. Mother stayed home this morning, basically doing the same thing that I was doing here.

For lunch, Hubbie and I cut up veggies for chef's salads. We added pineapple chunks, mandarin orange slices, Craisins, and pecans, as well as deli turkey and cottage cheese. It was very good served with flat bread crackers and hot tea.

Mother came over after lunch, and we planned the menu for the week. Then Hubbie quartered two heads of cabbage to be boiled. We had some of it with our supper and the rest went into the freezer. Mother took care of the cabbage while Hubbie and I ran errands...to the bank, to the pharmacy, and to the WDCS for groceries, where we shopped for Mother as well as ourselves.

Supper was leftover blackeyed peas and Parmesan potatoes (again, and for the last time), and of course the cabbage, plus yeast rolls.

Mother went home after that, and Hubbie and I settled in front of TV. We started with a movie called, "Shutter." In this 2008 PG-13 film, starring Joshua Jackson and Rachel Taylor, a newly married couple move to Japan where the husband, who is a photographer, has a business opportunity. Upon arriving, a woman runs out in front of the car the wife is driving and is hit, but is no where to be found when the police arrive. After that, strange ghost images appear in photos that the husband and wife shoot. Creepy plot twists.

The second movie we saw was, "The Glass House," rated PG-13. A teen and her 11-year-old brother lose their parents in an auto accident, and then they go live with the parents' best friends, who turn out to be not the ideal guardians.