Friday, April 17, 2015

     Today was a movie day.  Yesterday was a nasty weather day.  It was cold and snowy most of the day, so I called the lady I was supposed to go over to see and help her price her mother's crystal, and I cancelled going over to her house for today since the weather was supposed to be awful again today.  I left my time of going over to Judithmary's later until today to see how the roads will be.  Well, I decided to sleep in, waking up early at 8 or 9am, but then talked myself into going back to sleep until 1130a,.  When I was awake, I looked outside and it was beautiful weather, but the roads still looked snowy and icy.  I let it go and called Judithmary, seeing if still wanted me to come over.  She said that it was too cold out to do the flowers like she wanted and we will meet next week.
     Since I no longer had obligations for the day, I talked to hubby and we decided to go see a movie.  There is a new movie that just came out, Disney's Monkey Kingdom.  It's about a troop of monkeys and one in particular.  A young female monkey that is the lowest of the class of monkeys.  She gets to eat last, what the others don't want.  She is lowest on the totem pole and when the monkeys eat in the fig tree, she only gets to eat what lands on the ground.\
     In the movie, the young female knows her place in the troop and is resigned to the fate.  But along comes this young male stud and he entices her away from the troop for a little while.  Then the young male stud tries to fight the head of the troop and is driven away.  6 months later, the young female has a baby boy from the young stud.
     Anyhow, the story goes on and there is a great storytelling narrative about how she struggles to survive and support her son.  There is downs and ups, war and human interaction.  In the end, she and the young stud, who came back a year later and takes over the troop, are a happy couple and she is in the higher ranking monkeys now.
      After the movie, hubby and I stopped at the store and picked up some chicken to make chicken strips for dinner with honey mustard dipping sauce.  Yum.  And after dinner, hubby and I decided to watch Star Trek: First Contact on VHS.  And since hubby had to take the UHaul truck and go back to Denver at 630am, it will be an early night.