Got up at 8 a.m. and then did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Mother came over while I was on the treadmill and stewed tomatoes from the garden that were in the freezer to add to spaghetti sauce for lasagna tomorrow. She also made chocolate cupcakes and fruited Jell-o.
Once I was ready for the day, I spent time before lunch sprucing the house for company. Since we've had family visits on weekends several times since Thanksgiving and through the Christmas holidays, the house has stayed pretty well in order, so not much had to be done today. Hubbie helped by vacuuming the carpets, and mopping the kitchen and bathroom floors.
Following lunch, Mother and I planned next week's menu, and then Hubbie and I went to the WDCS for last-minute groceries for the weekend, as well as for next week's menu. While we were at the store, I decided to call Mother to be sure I was getting the right jar of applesauce that she had on her list. That's when I discovered I had a message from my friend in California. She'd left the message last Saturday, but I hadn't turned my cell phone on all week, so I didn't know about it. I had to laugh when my friend sang Happy Birthday to me.
I know, I know, it seems strange that I wouldn't have my cell phone on all the time like everybody else, but I don't use it constantly like most folks do. If I'm home, I use the land line, and if I'm not, I'm usually in a place that is inappropriate for cell phones anyway (like concerts or movie theaters). If I'm going to be away from home for any length of time I alert family, so they can contact me by cell phone. Otherwise they know, as do most of my friends, that the best way to reach me is on my land line.
When we got back from the store, Hubbie and I watched our favorite college basketball play to an amazing win. Yay!
For supper tonight, we had the week in review. Afterward, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I watched TV. Tonight, we watched a movie we'd seen before..."Reversal of Fortune," an R-rated film starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close. Irons won an Oscar for his role. The movie is based on the true case of Claus Van Bulow, who was accused and convicted of attempted murder in causing his wife Sunny's brain-dead coma. She died 28 years later, in 2008. The movie traces the case, including Van Bulow's success in getting two convictions overturned in a retrial.
I'm heartsick from the images of earthquake-stricken Haiti, and have wanted to make a donation. I just had not decided which fund to contribute to until tonight. During the news, Presidents Bush and Clinton made a plea for donations to their joint effort at www.clintonbushhaitifund.org, which will use 100% of the funds for the relief and recovery efforts in Haiti. It appeals to me that my small donation will go where I want it to, and not be diverted to "administrative expenses" of an organization.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday, January 15
Skipped my exercises this morning, so Hubbie and I could shop at a flea market for bottles, and then go to the grocery store for cole slaw makings, and to the barbecue shack for pork barbecue for lunch. I found several nice bottles at the flea market. A rack of seven nicely shaped bottles intended for oils was very reasonably priced, because two of the bottles are missing, which didn't bother me, since all I want is the bottles, anyway. I found another rack of four cute spice bottles for only a dollar, and two small jars for fifty cents each.
We decided to have barbecue sandwiches and baked sweet potatoes for lunch, so we wouldn't be overly hungry around 6 p.m., when we went to a "Night at the Museum" event. Refreshments at the event included little sandwiches, veggies and dip, pigs in a blanket, sausage balls, spicy roll-ups, and a variety of cookies for dessert.
This afternoon, before the event, Hubbie and I went downtown to the art gallery to help haul items for sale to the museum. The arts council director and one other lady, plus Hubbie and I, moved tables, draped bookcases with black cloth, and then set up art-for-sale displays on the tables. The art included ceramic pieces, raku vases, handmade jewelry, wood art, and stained glass items. Easels between the tables featured framed artwork.
After we got home from setting up the art, I went upstairs to my office and did a bunch of filing. If I'd do this more regularly, it wouldn't be such a chore. But just as with my e-mail inbox, I procrastinate at filing paper stuff, too.
Around 6 p.m., we went to the museum. I wasn't sure what the turn-out for the event would be, since it had been postponed from last week, but there was wall-to-wall people. It was a fun evening that included a very good Charlie Chaplin mime (played by a woman), who thoroughly entertained both children and adults. When we got to the museum, the mime was standing on a stool, frozen in a stance that included holding her arms out. She has to be in very good physical shape to do that. She is an artist-in-education from another state, who is working with kids in the schools here.
At various spots around the museum, local folks dressed in period costumes talked about their eras and the people who inhabited our town during that era. There was an 1800s covered wagon area, a horse-drawn carriage area, a 1940s canning kitchen area, a frontier home area, a Civil War area, an American Indian area, and others. At each, there was an item out of place...for instance, there was a bicycle tire attached to the back of the covered wagon, a piece of tin foil in the American Indian area, a 2010 calendar in the frontier area, and an airborne patch in the Civil War area. There were ten different areas, and participants were encouraged to list the out-of-place items on a sheet that was then entered into a drawing for a Wii door prize. We found all the items, but we didn't win the Wii. Likewise, we didn't win the flat screen TV at the end of the evening.
While the event was going on, a chamber music group from the local arts magnet school entertained.
Of course, as usual, we saw and talked to lots of folks we know. The event ended at 8 p.m., and we headed home. Since I ate very little at the museum, I had a bowl of cereal and some toast when I got back.
Then we watched a movie..."Vantage Point," a PG-13 film starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. In Spain, the U.S. President speaks to a crowd and is shot. Then there's an explosion that kills a bunch of people. This scene is repeated over and over, showing the event from the vantage point of various people...the TV control room, the security guard, the president, the terrorist, and various others.
We decided to have barbecue sandwiches and baked sweet potatoes for lunch, so we wouldn't be overly hungry around 6 p.m., when we went to a "Night at the Museum" event. Refreshments at the event included little sandwiches, veggies and dip, pigs in a blanket, sausage balls, spicy roll-ups, and a variety of cookies for dessert.
This afternoon, before the event, Hubbie and I went downtown to the art gallery to help haul items for sale to the museum. The arts council director and one other lady, plus Hubbie and I, moved tables, draped bookcases with black cloth, and then set up art-for-sale displays on the tables. The art included ceramic pieces, raku vases, handmade jewelry, wood art, and stained glass items. Easels between the tables featured framed artwork.
After we got home from setting up the art, I went upstairs to my office and did a bunch of filing. If I'd do this more regularly, it wouldn't be such a chore. But just as with my e-mail inbox, I procrastinate at filing paper stuff, too.
Around 6 p.m., we went to the museum. I wasn't sure what the turn-out for the event would be, since it had been postponed from last week, but there was wall-to-wall people. It was a fun evening that included a very good Charlie Chaplin mime (played by a woman), who thoroughly entertained both children and adults. When we got to the museum, the mime was standing on a stool, frozen in a stance that included holding her arms out. She has to be in very good physical shape to do that. She is an artist-in-education from another state, who is working with kids in the schools here.
At various spots around the museum, local folks dressed in period costumes talked about their eras and the people who inhabited our town during that era. There was an 1800s covered wagon area, a horse-drawn carriage area, a 1940s canning kitchen area, a frontier home area, a Civil War area, an American Indian area, and others. At each, there was an item out of place...for instance, there was a bicycle tire attached to the back of the covered wagon, a piece of tin foil in the American Indian area, a 2010 calendar in the frontier area, and an airborne patch in the Civil War area. There were ten different areas, and participants were encouraged to list the out-of-place items on a sheet that was then entered into a drawing for a Wii door prize. We found all the items, but we didn't win the Wii. Likewise, we didn't win the flat screen TV at the end of the evening.
While the event was going on, a chamber music group from the local arts magnet school entertained.
Of course, as usual, we saw and talked to lots of folks we know. The event ended at 8 p.m., and we headed home. Since I ate very little at the museum, I had a bowl of cereal and some toast when I got back.
Then we watched a movie..."Vantage Point," a PG-13 film starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. In Spain, the U.S. President speaks to a crowd and is shot. Then there's an explosion that kills a bunch of people. This scene is repeated over and over, showing the event from the vantage point of various people...the TV control room, the security guard, the president, the terrorist, and various others.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Thursday, January 14
Slept til 8 a.m. again, and then did my usual treadmill session and resistance exercises. Mother came over mid-morning, but we didn't do much.
After lunch, we went to our favorite electronics store to see what surround sound systems they have that would suit our flat screen TV. The owner of the store suggested that we should consider buying a particular top brand at a warehouse store. He has recently purchased this system for his own home and says it's the difference between night and day for clarity of sound compared to other systems.
While he has a less expensive system in his store, he wanted us to get a better quality one that we'll be more satisfied with. He said the system is easy to install, but that he'd be glad to come and install it for the price of a service call.
We plan to shop in a town that has a warehouse store next Tuesday, so we'll check out the systems then.
While we were in the other town, we browsed through a flea market that is near the electronics store, where I was looking for attractive bottles to put my bath salts in, and there were a couple that would do, but the prices were too high. The bottles had nice shapes, but they were just old bottles. I guess if a seller terms something "collectible," it places a greater value on it. Not to me.
After we got back home, I went upstairs to my office computer and cleaned out old e-mails. I really should do this daily, but somehow it just builds up until it's a major task by the time I move some of them to folders, like some letters from friends that I want to keep and review, business e-mails that I need to refer to from time-to-time, and e-mails that contain snapshots of grandkids and great-grandkids.
Supper tonight was Salisbury steaks, with leftover mashed potatoes, canned spinach (for Hubbie and me), and canned Lima beans (for Mother, who doesn't like spinach).
After that, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I settled in to watch TV, including our favorite college basketball team, as they played to a loss. We began to fear that they would lose by a wide margin, but in the last minutes they caught up to within four points before losing by a mere two points.
After lunch, we went to our favorite electronics store to see what surround sound systems they have that would suit our flat screen TV. The owner of the store suggested that we should consider buying a particular top brand at a warehouse store. He has recently purchased this system for his own home and says it's the difference between night and day for clarity of sound compared to other systems.
While he has a less expensive system in his store, he wanted us to get a better quality one that we'll be more satisfied with. He said the system is easy to install, but that he'd be glad to come and install it for the price of a service call.
We plan to shop in a town that has a warehouse store next Tuesday, so we'll check out the systems then.
While we were in the other town, we browsed through a flea market that is near the electronics store, where I was looking for attractive bottles to put my bath salts in, and there were a couple that would do, but the prices were too high. The bottles had nice shapes, but they were just old bottles. I guess if a seller terms something "collectible," it places a greater value on it. Not to me.
After we got back home, I went upstairs to my office computer and cleaned out old e-mails. I really should do this daily, but somehow it just builds up until it's a major task by the time I move some of them to folders, like some letters from friends that I want to keep and review, business e-mails that I need to refer to from time-to-time, and e-mails that contain snapshots of grandkids and great-grandkids.
Supper tonight was Salisbury steaks, with leftover mashed potatoes, canned spinach (for Hubbie and me), and canned Lima beans (for Mother, who doesn't like spinach).
After that, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I settled in to watch TV, including our favorite college basketball team, as they played to a loss. We began to fear that they would lose by a wide margin, but in the last minutes they caught up to within four points before losing by a mere two points.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Wednesday, January 13
Slept late again, til just after 8 a.m., and then did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. I really should start getting up earlier in the mornings, since water aerobics will be back in session next Monday. But I probably wont.
Hubbie gave Shih Tzu a bath this morning, but I didn't accomplish much after my exercises. After lunch, we went shopping. Our first stop was at the grocery store that carries the brand of cottage cheese I like, and this time they had it. From there, we went to the greeting card shop, where I used three coupons. Two of them were for getting three 99-cent cards for a dollar, so I chose six.
Hubbie took those to the cashier while I continued to shop. But the cashier would only let him use one of the coupons. So he said, "Fine. My wife is still shopping, so when she's finished, she can use the other coupon for three cards." Which is what I did. Now, how much sense does it make to refuse to take the coupons together, but agree to take them separately just minutes apart from the same couple? Nowhere on the coupon does it say a person can't use two of them at the same time. All it says is you must purchase three cards with each coupon. Oh, well. The points for all the cards will be credited to my account.
I also bought a couple of scented reed diffusers, for my own use or to use as gifts. I applied a $5 birthday gift coupon to those. The store sent me the coupon enclosed in a birthday card. I still have a $3 coupon that needs to be used at that store by the end of January. We noticed today that they have cleared the greeting card racks for Valentines, so I think we'll use that coupon for Valentine cards.
From there, we went to the newest pharmacy in town to get extra heads for Hubbie's electric toothbrush. I'd gotten a $5 coupon for the brush heads when I purchased the toothbrush on sale Thanksgiving Day. However, Hubbie failed to take down the information from his toothbrush as to which brushes fit it. So we'll have to go back for those.
Then we went to an everything's a dollar store, and on to the WDCS for a few groceries and incidentals. We were back home by 3 p.m.
This evening, Hubbie treated me to dinner out and a movie for my birthday. We went to a popular restaurant on the river, and then saw "Sherlock Holmes" at the theater. At the restaurant, I had grilled tenderloin pork with Caribbean sauce, and a baked potato. This dish is sweet, with a bit of heat (honey and hot sauce?). Hubbie had the tenderloin pork with the house barbecue sauce, and baked potato. The meal came with salad and rolls.
"Sherlock Holmes" is a twist on the usual...the Holmes character, played by Robert Downey, Jr., is as much brawn as brains, a real action hero, as he fights a mysterious evil man and his cohorts, who threaten to take control of the world. The evil man was hanged for witchcraft, but somehow returns from the grave to continue his killing spree.
It's an entertaining movie, but gads it was frigid in the theater! Even with our coats on, Hubbie and I still had cold hands and noses. And the fact that the movie takes place in dark, foggy, rainy, cold London didn't make us feel any warmer. Only six of us attended this movie tonight.
We were back at our nice, warm house by about 9:30 p.m.
Note: yesterday around suppertime, a neighbor came to the door to ask us if we have a chubby Chihuahua dog...they found one dead by the side of the road, and they were going house to house to try to find its owners. I hate that someone has lost their beloved pet. We figure the little animal darted out of its house, without its owner knowing.
Hubbie gave Shih Tzu a bath this morning, but I didn't accomplish much after my exercises. After lunch, we went shopping. Our first stop was at the grocery store that carries the brand of cottage cheese I like, and this time they had it. From there, we went to the greeting card shop, where I used three coupons. Two of them were for getting three 99-cent cards for a dollar, so I chose six.
Hubbie took those to the cashier while I continued to shop. But the cashier would only let him use one of the coupons. So he said, "Fine. My wife is still shopping, so when she's finished, she can use the other coupon for three cards." Which is what I did. Now, how much sense does it make to refuse to take the coupons together, but agree to take them separately just minutes apart from the same couple? Nowhere on the coupon does it say a person can't use two of them at the same time. All it says is you must purchase three cards with each coupon. Oh, well. The points for all the cards will be credited to my account.
I also bought a couple of scented reed diffusers, for my own use or to use as gifts. I applied a $5 birthday gift coupon to those. The store sent me the coupon enclosed in a birthday card. I still have a $3 coupon that needs to be used at that store by the end of January. We noticed today that they have cleared the greeting card racks for Valentines, so I think we'll use that coupon for Valentine cards.
From there, we went to the newest pharmacy in town to get extra heads for Hubbie's electric toothbrush. I'd gotten a $5 coupon for the brush heads when I purchased the toothbrush on sale Thanksgiving Day. However, Hubbie failed to take down the information from his toothbrush as to which brushes fit it. So we'll have to go back for those.
Then we went to an everything's a dollar store, and on to the WDCS for a few groceries and incidentals. We were back home by 3 p.m.
This evening, Hubbie treated me to dinner out and a movie for my birthday. We went to a popular restaurant on the river, and then saw "Sherlock Holmes" at the theater. At the restaurant, I had grilled tenderloin pork with Caribbean sauce, and a baked potato. This dish is sweet, with a bit of heat (honey and hot sauce?). Hubbie had the tenderloin pork with the house barbecue sauce, and baked potato. The meal came with salad and rolls.
"Sherlock Holmes" is a twist on the usual...the Holmes character, played by Robert Downey, Jr., is as much brawn as brains, a real action hero, as he fights a mysterious evil man and his cohorts, who threaten to take control of the world. The evil man was hanged for witchcraft, but somehow returns from the grave to continue his killing spree.
It's an entertaining movie, but gads it was frigid in the theater! Even with our coats on, Hubbie and I still had cold hands and noses. And the fact that the movie takes place in dark, foggy, rainy, cold London didn't make us feel any warmer. Only six of us attended this movie tonight.
We were back at our nice, warm house by about 9:30 p.m.
Note: yesterday around suppertime, a neighbor came to the door to ask us if we have a chubby Chihuahua dog...they found one dead by the side of the road, and they were going house to house to try to find its owners. I hate that someone has lost their beloved pet. We figure the little animal darted out of its house, without its owner knowing.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Tuesday, January 12
Slept late again, til 8 a.m., then did a treadmill session and weights exercises after breakfast. Once I was ready for the day, I did this and that around the house. Mother came over around 11 a.m.
After a lunch of leftover chicken noodle soup, Hubbie and I ran errands. First, he dropped me off at the beauty shop for my appointment, while he went to pick up prescriptions for Mother at the pharmacy. Interestingly, I learned today that my hairdresser's birthday was Monday, a day after mine. In all the years that she's cut my hair, this is the first time we realized our birthdays are so close together.
We could certainly tell that our ages are eons apart, though, when, following my haircut, I put on my coat, slung my handbag onto my shoulder, and waltzed toward the door. Before I got very far, my hairdresser asked if I'd paid her. Well, no, I hadn't. Embarrassed, I quickly whipped out my checkbook. Sometimes, I think I'm losing it.
Hubbie was waiting for me in the parking lot, and we went to a dollar store to buy ingredients to make hand cream and other beauty products like the ones we learned to make at the Extension Homemakers crafts extravaganza in October. I've enjoyed using what I made at that event, and decided to make more.
Back home, I did some more household chores, and then spent an hour or so at my office computer. At 5 p.m., I went to an arts council meeting that lasted until about 6:15.
After a supper of leftover autumn stew, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I watched a movie..."Bottle Shock," a PG-13 film starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, and Dennis Farina. Based on a true story, it is a lighthearted look at the 1976 blind-tasting showdown event in Paris that pit California's wines against French wines, with a California Napa Valley wine taking first place. Entertaining movie.
After a lunch of leftover chicken noodle soup, Hubbie and I ran errands. First, he dropped me off at the beauty shop for my appointment, while he went to pick up prescriptions for Mother at the pharmacy. Interestingly, I learned today that my hairdresser's birthday was Monday, a day after mine. In all the years that she's cut my hair, this is the first time we realized our birthdays are so close together.
We could certainly tell that our ages are eons apart, though, when, following my haircut, I put on my coat, slung my handbag onto my shoulder, and waltzed toward the door. Before I got very far, my hairdresser asked if I'd paid her. Well, no, I hadn't. Embarrassed, I quickly whipped out my checkbook. Sometimes, I think I'm losing it.
Hubbie was waiting for me in the parking lot, and we went to a dollar store to buy ingredients to make hand cream and other beauty products like the ones we learned to make at the Extension Homemakers crafts extravaganza in October. I've enjoyed using what I made at that event, and decided to make more.
Back home, I did some more household chores, and then spent an hour or so at my office computer. At 5 p.m., I went to an arts council meeting that lasted until about 6:15.
After a supper of leftover autumn stew, Mother went home, and Hubbie and I watched a movie..."Bottle Shock," a PG-13 film starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, and Dennis Farina. Based on a true story, it is a lighthearted look at the 1976 blind-tasting showdown event in Paris that pit California's wines against French wines, with a California Napa Valley wine taking first place. Entertaining movie.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Monday, January 11
Slept late again, this morning, until around 8 a.m., and then did a treadmill session and resistance exercises. Mother came over after that and put color in my hair in anticipation of getting a haircut tomorrow. Mother has opted out of getting hers trimmed, since she says her hair is too thin to get it cut every month.
Other than that, I didn't accomplish much beyond doing some laundry before lunch. After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to a grocery store to get cartons of cottage cheese, but there was none; to a grocery store pharmacy to pick up a prescription, as well as lasagna noodles and Mozzarella cheese; to the bank; to the health store for salt-free seasoning; and to the WDCS for a few groceries. I also looked for clear plastic back protectors for wire earrings, but there were none. I'll have to check later this week for the back protectors and cottage cheese.
Back home, Mother and I organized scrapbooking and card making supplies before stashing them away. We'd dragged everything out Saturday so Sis could find what she needed to make a couple of screen door birthday cards, and decided that since it was all out, it was an opportune time to get it better organized.
If the weather holds (higher temp like today), our scrapbook club will meet next week, so Mother and I will need to plan a few pages beforehand. But until then, we needed to clear the living room for my second birthday party next Sunday, when my children and their spouses will be here.
After that, I programmed the DVR for movies this week, and read the Sunday newspaper, as well as our town's daily edition. In our local paper, I learned that a lady who has served on both the community theater board and the arts council visual arts committee with me lost her house to a fire last Thursday morning. She lived alone, but, thank goodness, she is unharmed. I'm sure the members of the board and committee will individually and collectively do whatever we can to help her.
I know what it is to lose everything in a house fire, since it happened to me many years ago, when my family was very young. As is always the case with house fires, the most difficult material possessions to lose were family photos and heirlooms. But the fortunate thing was that we were all safely away from home when it burned.
Supper tonight was chicken noodle soup. I know that seems strange after having fried chicken yesterday, but we wanted a warming meal, and soup is best for that. Besides, chicken noodle is the easiest of the soups to make. We had the soup with whole wheat mini bagels.
Mother went home after supper, and Hubbie and I did the usual...watched TV. We saw "The Claim," an R-rated film set in the winter of 1849 against the frigid-looking but stunning backdrop of what is supposed to be the Sierra Nevada Mountains, though the movie was really shot near Calgary, Alberta. Three people arrive in the gold rush town of Kingdom Come...a woman and her daughter, and the leader of a railroad prospect crew. These three and the man who runs the town are the central characters in the film, whose lives interwine in unexpected, and sometimes tragic, ways. The film stars Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, and Sarah Polley. The R-rating is for brief nudity and sexual content, and violence. It's a harsh story about a harsh pioneering time.
Other than that, I didn't accomplish much beyond doing some laundry before lunch. After lunch, Hubbie and I ran errands...to a grocery store to get cartons of cottage cheese, but there was none; to a grocery store pharmacy to pick up a prescription, as well as lasagna noodles and Mozzarella cheese; to the bank; to the health store for salt-free seasoning; and to the WDCS for a few groceries. I also looked for clear plastic back protectors for wire earrings, but there were none. I'll have to check later this week for the back protectors and cottage cheese.
Back home, Mother and I organized scrapbooking and card making supplies before stashing them away. We'd dragged everything out Saturday so Sis could find what she needed to make a couple of screen door birthday cards, and decided that since it was all out, it was an opportune time to get it better organized.
If the weather holds (higher temp like today), our scrapbook club will meet next week, so Mother and I will need to plan a few pages beforehand. But until then, we needed to clear the living room for my second birthday party next Sunday, when my children and their spouses will be here.
After that, I programmed the DVR for movies this week, and read the Sunday newspaper, as well as our town's daily edition. In our local paper, I learned that a lady who has served on both the community theater board and the arts council visual arts committee with me lost her house to a fire last Thursday morning. She lived alone, but, thank goodness, she is unharmed. I'm sure the members of the board and committee will individually and collectively do whatever we can to help her.
I know what it is to lose everything in a house fire, since it happened to me many years ago, when my family was very young. As is always the case with house fires, the most difficult material possessions to lose were family photos and heirlooms. But the fortunate thing was that we were all safely away from home when it burned.
Supper tonight was chicken noodle soup. I know that seems strange after having fried chicken yesterday, but we wanted a warming meal, and soup is best for that. Besides, chicken noodle is the easiest of the soups to make. We had the soup with whole wheat mini bagels.
Mother went home after supper, and Hubbie and I did the usual...watched TV. We saw "The Claim," an R-rated film set in the winter of 1849 against the frigid-looking but stunning backdrop of what is supposed to be the Sierra Nevada Mountains, though the movie was really shot near Calgary, Alberta. Three people arrive in the gold rush town of Kingdom Come...a woman and her daughter, and the leader of a railroad prospect crew. These three and the man who runs the town are the central characters in the film, whose lives interwine in unexpected, and sometimes tragic, ways. The film stars Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, and Sarah Polley. The R-rating is for brief nudity and sexual content, and violence. It's a harsh story about a harsh pioneering time.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Birthdays
Sis made these two screen door birthday cards yesterday. One has a school theme for her daughter who is a middle school math teacher, and the other one has a garden theme for her daughter who loves gardening.
We had a good day today celebrating our own birthdays. I skipped my exercises in favor of relaxing with Sis for the day. For lunch, we had fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, and fried green tomatoes. We all took part in preparing the meal. Hubbie peeled the potatoes, which I mashed, Sis did the fried green tomatoes, and Mother fried the chicken and made the gravy.
After lunch, we watched a movie musical on DVD..."Godspell." This 1973 G-rated movie has a largely unknown cast (at least unknown by me...I only recognized Lynn Thigpen), but it is an upbeat film that is a colorful and amusing telling of the Gospel According to Matthew. The sequences take place at various spots around New York, including the roof of one of the Twin Towers, which is a bit disturbing. In fact, the Towers are the backdrop in the opening scenes, too. Of course, the movie ends on a sad note, with the crucifixion of Jesus.
Following the movie, we enjoyed slices of coconut cream pie, which Mother made this morning with fat-free, sugar-free ingredients. It was delicious.
Then we played several games of Duo, with Sis, Mother, and Hubbie winning two games each. I won one game. By that time, we were ready for a supper of cold fried chicken sandwiches, and a variety of desserts...Hubbie chose fruit salad and rum cake, Sis had a slice of rum cake, I had a fresh orange, and Mother passed on dessert.
Sis decided she needed to get on the road home after that, and left around 6:30 p.m. Mother went to her house, and Hubbie and I settled in to watch TV.
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