Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!

Slept late this morning, until around 8 a.m. Didn't exercise today. As soon as I was ready for the day, I checked on Mother. She was sitting on her couch, and seemed in good spirits. But she confessed that she still has trouble walking without getting woozy. And she still has very little appetite. If she's not much improved by tomorrow, I'll be calling the doctor.

For Father's Day, I treated Hubbie to a steak and shrimp dinner at a local steakhouse. I had a chicken and ribs combo. I ate one rib and half of my chicken. Brought the rest home, along with some okra an a couple of rolls to have for supper later this evening.

Touched base with Mother, who said she'd eaten half a bowl of soup for lunch, and was ready for a nap. I checked on her again mid-afternoon. She said she was feeling better, but she was still getting dizzy...mostly when she stood in one place for very long.

Watched a movie this afternoon..."My Life in Ruins." Rated PG-13, the movie stars Richard Dreyfuss, Nia Vardalos, and Alexis Georgoulis. It's a romantic comedy set in Greece. An American tour guide, who is not very good at her job, eventually finds that underneath the scruffy, long-haired, bearded tour bus driver (Georgolis) is a hunk of a man. It's a cute, lighthearted movie, and the scenery and Greek ruins are stunning.

Followed this with a decidedly "down" movie, called "The Killing Room." This 2009, R-rated, film stars Nick Cannon, Timothy Hutton, and Clea DuVall. This is a psycological thriller, in which four strangers are recruited for a scientific study. They are placed in an sterile white room and handed clipboards of lengthy forms to fill out. The forms ask questions like: in the case of a catastrophe, who would you save first...yourself or others. But real experiments are soon conducted on the unwilling participants to test the breaking point of the human mind and find out how far they will go to survive. The movie is supposedly based on the CIA's "MK-Ultra" mind-control experiments of the 70s.

Note: today, Hubbie received a very touching Father's Day tribute from my son...a video of Brad Paisley singing "He Didn't Have To Be," about a stepfather's love for his stepson. It brought tears to Hubbie's eyes. He has always been very good to my kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids, treating them like his own.

Around 8 p.m., I checked on Mother again. She'd eaten another bowl of soup, some crackers with peanut butter, and a slice of lemon pudding cake. So her appetite is increasing. But the dizziness persists.