Up around 7:30, and did a treadmill session, but got distracted and forgot to do weights or resistance exercises. Mother stayed home today, as she usually does on Thursdays, and Hubbie went to a Master Gardener meeting at 10 a.m.
Once I was ready for the day, I did this and that for the rest of the morning, including making a meals/food/supplies list for an upcoming camping trip; deciding on gifts for two granddaughters who have birthdays at the end of May and first of June; selecting birthday cards from my personal stock for various family members; and printing material to take to a Literacy Council tutoring session Monday.
Hubbie returned home around 11:30, and after a sandwich lunch, we ran errands...to the Caring Hands Hospice office to drop off the puzzles and audio books that I'm donating to their fundraising yard sale Saturday, and to the WDCS for a few grocery items.
At the Caring Hands office, there were two tables spread with various foods and desserts, and the coordinator prevailed upon us to indulge in cheesecake. I chose a slice of chocolate, and Hubbie had a slice of the regular flavor.
Back home, Hubbie went into the yard to work, and I did a few household chores. For supper, I heated leftovers for Hubbie and me...ribs from Sunday, mac and cheese from last night, rolls from Sunday, and fresh salad.
Right after supper, I buzzed Mother on the intercom to see if she wanted to join me in going to a high school/junior high chorale concert of Broadway tunes. She did. The concert was at 6 p.m., so we had to rush a bit to get there in time.
The fine arts building at one of the colleges was packed. We had to park a short distance away, but Mother was up for walking. The only seats left were in the very last row, which was fine with us.
Glad we didn't find seats a few rows down, because the 500-lb. man who plunked down directly in front of Mother at the high school cafetorium where we watched the play "Music Man" last Saturday night wedged himself into an aisle seat tonight. We were a few seats over from the aisle, so he didn't block our view at all this time. This man and (I assume) his wife spent the entire concert passing a cell phone between them, upon which they played many, many games of tic-tac-toe.
Before the concert began, the chorale director asked that everyone silence their cell phones, and not exit the auditorium during the concert unless absolutely necessary. So, of course, cell phones rang, and only Grand Central Station could rival the amount of exiting and entering that occurred.
Several groups performed, and the chorale director apologized that so many students were not in attendance...seems 30 or more were absent due to ballgame obligations. Also, graduation ceremonies for another school were taking place at the other college, and some students were attending that event.
Therefore, one group had a complete lack of male voices, which changed the dynamic of the music. But overall, the concert was enjoyable. They performed numbers from popular Broadway shows and movies, like Mary Poppins, Phantom of the Opera, Lion King, Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, Annie, South Pacific, Grease, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, and Camelot.
The concert lasted two hours, so it was after 8 p.m. before we got back home. Hubbie and I spent the rest of the evening watching the 2006 Lifetime Movie Network movie, "The Secret of Hidden Lake." A woman returns to her hometown, where her father has been injured in a supposed deer hunting accident. But she soon suspects it wasn't an accident, and she begins to uncover hidden truths.
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