Sunday, Jan. 2

Today is the anniversary of my brother's birthday. He would have been 67. We lost him to an automobile accident when he was only 21 years old.

Slept late this morning, until around 8 a.m., and then did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Hubbie began taking the ornaments off the Christmas tree in the living room while I was exercising. Then he put color in my hair in anticipation of a haircut appointment on Tuesday. While we were doing these things, Mother worked on her jigsaw puzzle.

Once I was ready for the day, Mother and I gathered peripheral decorations...those on top of the China cabinet, and on various tables, as well as wreathes, wall hangings and the like, and boxed them to be stored.

I also did the usual Sunday things, like programming the DVR, and washing several loads of laundry, including the Christmas table clothes and dish towels.

For lunch, we had leftover pork roast, potatoes and gravy, and various week-in-review veggies. Mother and I continued boxing Christmas decorations afterward, and then Mother went home around 2 p.m.

Hubbie and I settled in to watch the 2003, R-rated movie, "The Missing," starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. A woman (Blanchett) raising her two daughters in the frontier southwest wilderness loses her elder daughter to Indians intent on selling her and other captive girls to Mexicans. Her estranged father, who left her family when she was a child to go live with Indians, comes back to help her find the daughter.

Later, we watched the 2008, R-rated movie, "Betrayed," starring Christian Campbell, and Alice Krige. A woman and her child are kidnapped, and their lives are threatened unless she can provide her captors with information for transferring money belonging to a crime syndicate. She learns her husband is complicit.

Then we watched the 2009, R-rated movie, "Chicago Overcoat." An aging hit man's and a washed up detective's lives become enmeshed when the hit man agrees to one last job before retiring to a new life. This was a premium channel movie. The DVD of the movie requires a region-specific or multi region DVD player, so it is not sold on my favorite book/movie/music website.

While the movies were playing, I completed a monthly report to the Literacy Council, and reviewed the lessons I want to cover with my student tomorrow night.