Movie night

Jacque, Dustin, and I went to Koolau Theater tonight to see The Sorcerer's Apprentice, starring Nicholas Cage. He's an actor we enjoy seeing and on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate SA a 7.5.

Bottom line: we had a fun time.

The end of Diet Soda and Aspartame

Dayle has been complaining of having dizzy spells for the past week.  This is similar to what happened to him a couple of years ago. The possible solution:  stop consuming aspartame, the sweetner used in diet sodas and "low cal" foods. 

Dayle has been drinking bucketloads of diet soda over the past fews, so that is going to stop.  Fortunately, he is okay with drinking heavily diluted skim milk (a glass of water with a splash of skim milk in it).  Yuck!  But he is perfectly fine with that.

Blood Drive, a success!

Our ward's Elders Quorum  hosted the folks from the Blood Bank of Hawaii today for a donation drive held at the Waikalua chapel in Kaneohe.

I was able to donate a pint, which is good for me because I occasionally get rejected (deferred is the term the blood bank folks use) due to higher than acceptable blood pressure.

The goal was 40 pints and though we came up short with just 34, the result was still good given that only 50 people had signed up to donate.  Usually, only half the people who sign up show up