Thursday, Sept. 30

Slept later this morning, though Hubbie got up at his usual time. Did a treadmill session, but skipped my weights exercises, because the phone rang, and Hubbie was out in the yard, so I had to run and catch it. It was a call from the dentist's office cancelling Hubbie's appointment, because the hygienist didn't show up today. I was out of the mood for weights exercises after that.


If we'd known Hubbie's appointment would be cancelled, we could have taken the camper to another town to leave it for repairs (and then do some shopping) today instead of tomorrow. And I wouldn't have had to miss a water aerobics session in the morning (the leader called to say aerobics will resume tomorrow).



We're a bit perturbed that the dentist's office can cancel an appointment on the day of it, but expects patients to give forty-eight hours notice if we cancel, or be charged a fee. I think Hubbie intends to pick this bone with them at his re-scheduled appointment.



Once I was ready for the day, I spent quite a bit time at my computer. Then mid-afternoon, I joined Hubbie downstairs to watch a movie. Mother stayed home today until suppertime, when she came over to join us in a leftover stew supper.



She went home again afterward, and Hubbie and I ran a few errands...to the post office to mail a letter to Granddaughter, to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for Mother, and to the WDCS for a few grocery items and to pick up a photo order. Unfortunately, the photo order was not there, though according to online info, it was to be ready by 3:30 p.m.



Back home, I checked the order again, and discovered an e-mail that stated it would be ready sometime between next Monday and next Wednesday. Is that what's called one-hour service these days?

Later, we watched the 2008, R-rated movie, "Frozen River," starring Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, and Charlie McDermott. A woman's husband abandons her and her children the week before Christmas, taking with him the payment for their new home. She has a job at a dollar store, but it's not enough to support her family. She meets an equally desperate Mohawk woman. From their border town between New York State and Quebec, the two smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen Hudson River. Of course, things go from bad to worse.