Monday, March 14

Was awakened last night (wee hours of the morning, really) to lightening, thunder, and heavy rain. Fortunately, I was able to fall right back to sleep again, though. Slept on until 8:30, though...my body hasn't adjusted to the time change.

Hubbie was already up, though, and had called our automobile dealership repair shop in another town to find out when he could take our van up there to get the air conditioner fixed. It has been out for several weeks, and the repair shop had ordered necessary parts, but then the only guy who is able to fix it at that shop suddenly became very ill with blood clots. He was hospitalized for a week, and then has been at home recuperating ever since.

With predictions for very warm weather by the end of this week, we knew we couldn't wait any longer to get the air conditioner fixed. The dealership advised Hubbie to take the van up there in the morning, and they'll engage another repair shop to fix the unit, and provide Hubbie a loaner car until ours is fixed.

So he's to deliver the van very early tomorrow morning in order to be back before noon, when Mother and I have a haircut appointment. Our only other vehicle is a truck, which Mother has trouble getting into and out of, so we really need a car.

Br-r-r...what happened to spring? It has been downright cold all day today.

Did a treadmill session and resistance exercises after breakfast. Mother came over while I was getting ready for the day and worked on her jigsaw puzzle, which she finished this afternoon. I spent the rest of the morning doing this and that, including calling the scrapbook club members to remind them of our Thursday meeting.

After lunch, I worked on my lesson plan for tonight's meeting with my Literacy Council student. Around 4 p.m., though, she called to say she would be attending a Literacy Council "Talk Time" meeting tonight...this is an informal gathering of beginner and advanced students for the purpose of interacting with each other, using whatever English language skills they have learned. I encouraged her to attend a session last Monday, because I was otherwise engaged, and I guess she liked it so much that she wanted to go again tonight. She's to meet with me next Monday, though.

Later, for supper, we had leftover pork roast and veggies. Mother went home afterward, and Hubbie and I watched the 2009, R-rated movie, "Not Forgotten," starring Simon Baker. The 11-year-old daughter of a widowed, but remarried, man (Baker) is abducted from a Texas border town, where the family lives. He searches for her in the barrios and bordellos of Mexico, where the mysterious religion of La Santa Muerte is practiced. Lots of plot twists and turns. We'd seen this movie before, but had forgotten (no pun intended) the plot.