1/6/2014

weekly update 1/6/2014

It's time to get back into my walking routine. I haven't been out much through the holidays, but I know if I don't get back into it soon, I'll abandon the exercise totally. So I was out Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday it rained, and Friday was DH, so there wasn't time that day. Then I took a couple of days off because I was just too lazy. I'll have to try harder this week.

New Year's Eve not a big holiday for me. 2013 wasn't that great and I have no expectations that 2014 will be any better. But I stayed up, watching college football and reruns of the Twilight Zone, until midnight. Then I walked over to the building in the development that faces the marsh, and climbed to the third floor landing with a glass of champagne in my hand to see if I could watch the fireworks along River Street, about 12 miles away. I actually saw 3 different sets of displays, but they were all very distant. That's about as festive as I could muster.

On New Year's Day, Anne Nedd and I went to the movies. We saw The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It was ok, but not memorable. I love Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, and Kristin Wiig is from Rochester, so there was that, but the story was pretty lame. As if that wasn't enough, I ventured out again on Thursday to see American Hustle. I had heard that is was good, and I love Amy Adams. This movie was by far the better of the two. I probably won't see two movies for all the rest of the year, but it was a good way to spend a couple of rainy, yucky afternoons.

Donna came back from spending her holidays in Maine with family. She arrived in the late afternoon on Thursday. We went out for burgers and to catch up on what we both missed while she was away.

There's been a lot of football on tv. There were college Bowl Games on during the week, and they were fun. And this was Wildcard week-end. Keeping in my true form, I picked only 1 winner correctly. It's lucky for me that I don't put money on these games, and this is the reason I don't buy lottery tickets.