SNOW! Happy New Year!!!

Dot Gets Spayed

Poor Dot got spayed Friday. I picked her up on Saturday and she was wearing this "loaner" collar which has to stay on for 5-7 days. An improvement on the typical E-collar (cone), but poor baby.

Movie Tuesday

We really liked this Tuesday's movie: A Theory of Everything, a fascinating look at the life of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. At 21, he received the news that he had a debilitating disease, ALS, and had only two years to live. Despite this prognosis, he marries fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde and goes on to have a family of three children while he pursues the question of Time and the theory of everything. At 72, he continues to live a remarkably productive life, far exceeding expectations. This is a movie to see.

Thanksgiving Revisited

We just had leftover turkey and fixings in the form of hot turkey sandwiches, mashed potatoes and the cranberries we forgot to put out on Thanksgiving. It was very good. Yum. Now we're watching How to Train Your Dragon 2 which we downloaded from Directv. Later we'll finish up the pie.

Otherwise, it's been a normal Sunday except I tripped over Dot and fell on my arm and butt in the dining room. Tile is very hard.

Right now Dot is chasing Flash around the living room. Hope she wears out soon.

Thanksgiving

We had a quiet Thanksgiving this year...only Dennis, Mom and me. We fixed a turkey breast in the crock pot and had mashed potatoes, broccoli, and hot rolls with it. Dennis cooked everything, which was a treat for Mom and me. We bought a berry and an apple pie for dessert.

Movie Last Tuesday

So last week we saw Jon Stewart's movie, Rosewater, depicting the arrest and imprisonment of journalist Maziar Bahari in Iran. We thought the movie was well done, if a bit slow at the beginning. Aside from the terrible ordeal of Bahari, the movie illustrates a slice of life in Iran that we ordinarily would not see.

Movie Tuesday

You probably don't want to see Interstellar despite all the excellent reviews (there are bad reviews also). I'll tell you why I didn't like the movie: The music is LOUD--so loud you can't hear what the actors are saying. It hurt my ears and I couldn't get over the morose music blasting and taking over the content of the movie. It shook our seats, which I imagine it was supposed to do to make it realistic. It ruined the movie in my opinion.

Science buffs will probably enjoy the movie for all the glitz, but I found the premise depressing. Earth is dying (remember climate change?) and a farmer (former engineer/pilot) flies a spaceship through a wormhole searching for a planet suitable for human life. There was some thought of sending people there to live, but ... well that's a spoiler.