Wednesday, January 6

I got up around 8 a.m. this morning, but skipped my exercises so I could get ready to take Mother to her 10 a.m. appointment with her ophthalmologist. Mother is healing nicely, the doctor said, and so she was given a new appointment for January 28, at which time she'll be examined and given a prescription for new eyeglasses.

Otherwise, we spent this cold, lazy day watching DVDs. We started with one I bought for a dollar at a silent auction, and I'm glad I didn't pay more, because part way through it, the disk quit working. We threw it away. We enjoyed what we were able to see of it, which was a recording of a Branson show.

The second feature was the musical "Into the Woods," starring Bernadette Peters. In this two- and-a-half-hour show, several fairy tale characters interact in a plot that weaves the stories together, and Little Red Riding Hood, Repunzel, Cinderella, Jack (of the Beanstalk), etc., learn that "happily ever after isn't always happy. " This 1991 film is unrated, but is not aimed at children.

Supper tonight was cheeseburgers/turkey burgers on whole wheat buns, with baked potatoes and no-salt canned whole kernel corn.

Afterward, Hubbie escorted Mother home to make sure her door opened. Then we settled in to waste more time watching TV. The first movie we saw was called, "Held Hostage," that I'd recorded on DVR from the Lifetime Movie Network. Masked men break into a woman's home, hold her and her daughter hostage, and then in the morning tape dynamite to their legs and demand the woman rob the bank where she is the manager, or the daughter dies. Based on a true story.

The second movie we saw was, "Australia," a PG-13 film starring Nichole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. A prim woman travels to Australia from England in the late 1930s to join her husband, but finds him dead when she arrives. She and a cattle drover the husband hired, along with a strange crew, set about driving the cattle across the hostile landscape. A cute boy, known as a "half cast" (an Aboriginal child fathered by a white man), wins the woman's heart, and she vows to take care of him. This movie is long at two-and-a-half hours.