No Movie Tuesday

There were only two new movies out this week: Watchers about four goofy guys who formed a neighborhood watch group and some movie about teenage dancing raves. I don't think so.

Instead, Mom and I went to WalMart and I got some paperwork done at home before we left for Flash's lesson. In the morning I watched the Olympic show jumping, the last of the 3 day eventing. I missed the dressage but I watched all of the cross country event.

Old Timey Movies

Mom dug out our old family movies and projector today and tonight Dennis threaded the film and we watched about 4 of them. The only room dark enough to show the movies was our bedroom, so we gathered there this afternoon after dinner. No popcorn.

Pine Valley Days

I was sorry not to be able to participate with a booth at Pine Valley Days this year, but I was just not up to it. We did go to see what was going on in the morning. It was hot. I wrote about it on Flash's blog.

Dennis accompanied me to the neurologist yesterday morning. I'm happy to report that the neurologist agreed that it wasn't worth staying on Plavix if it was causing me all the muscle and joint pain I've been suffering. She said to stop Plavix for a month to see if it was the culprit or if we have to investigate further. I am very much relieved.

After the doctor's appointment, we drove over to Fiesta Island to see how it is these days and if it would be a good place to take Flash. I was surprised to see how large a place it was and how clean they keep the beaches.

Then we went to the Fish Market for lunch. Nice day.

This morning Dennis surprised me with a plan to take Flash to Fiesta Island. See Flash's blog to see how it turned out. Tonight Mom came over for an antipasto salad dinner. We watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics in London while we ate dinner.

I left the house at 6:15 this morning, headed to Rancho Bernardo for an MRI. It's a long trip so I listened to an audiobook on my iPod. It's a really good story called The Kitchen House. I'm really enjoying it, which is good because I have to go to La Jolla tomorrow for an appointment with my neurologist. I feel weird even having a neurologist.

My goal is to see if I can somehow get off Plavix, which I suspect is causing all the muscle and joint pain I am feeling. I can barely walk anymore; even sitting in the movie theater is painful. I was supposed to have a booth at Pine Valley Days this Saturday, but I begged off. If it's not Plavix, it could be Amlodipine, my blood pressure medicine. They both have the same side effects, although it is rarer in the blood pressure med.

Yikes. How did it come to this?

Movie Tuesday

Yesterday we saw Dark Knight Rises, the new Batman movie. In all fairness, I fell asleep during part of the movie (about the time I ran out of popcorn) so when I say I didn't care for it, you'll have to take that into consideration. What I did see was hard to understand, ugly and violent. And what happened to Robin? I guess I should have reviewed the previous Dark Knight movie before I went to see this one. Oh, well.

Another hot day

It was almost as hot today (97) as it was yesterday (103) except it was muggy, too. The kittens were out most of the day. Their door was open so they could go in and out. They're getting quite confident now.

Dennis fixed a vegetable spaghetti dish for us tonight; Mom came over and had her pasta with marinara sauce. Then we watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's getting to be slim pickens on Apple TV.