Road to the Library

I spent most of the morning online. I wanted to do some research and look over prices for the American Girl modern collection. Mainly, though, I wanted to check if my tax refund had come in yet. Nope! And not only that, but it looks like it won't be through until Monday as of now. Darn. When I got off, I had a quick lunch of bean-vegetable soup.

I didn't get out to the Haddon Township Library until past noon. It was a nice day for a ride, cold, but sunny and windless. The sun was melting the remaining snow in some places. Many sidewalks were still covered, including the ones in Newton River Park. I rode on the street, watching the sun sparkle off the thick ice patches on the river at a distance.

Once again, the Haddon Township Library was busy with people returning media they took out during the last storm. It was a testament to the recent bad weather that I once again managed to get all of the kids' DVDs but double copies on the shelves, for once. Did even better with the adult titles, shelving everything, including the non-fiction, and clearing out a bunch of kids' and foreign titles. I didn't take anything out this week. I didn't want to get caught with media that would be late due to weather shutdowns, and my schedule usually picks up in February. Not to mention, I have plenty of movies I haven't gotten to at home yet.

My only stop on the way home was at Dollar Tree. I badly needed sponges. I bought the regular ones for the dishes and foam ones to wipe off my dry erase board. I picked up cards for Dad-Bill and Jessa's birthdays (February 9th and 12th, respectively). I grabbed a bottle of vinegar.

Headed straight home after that. When I got in, I didn't even put everything away before I packed up a very full laundry bag and headed out again to the laundromat. It was past 4PM by then. The laundromat was busy, but I did get a drier and a washer quickly. Channel 6 news and several families and elderly people droned in the background while I read Chicken Soup For the Soul: Find Your Happiness.

When I got in, I started dinner, then put the laundry away. Ran Road to Utopia as I ate and did my chores. The fourth movie in the Road To... series, I figured this was appropriate for now as one of my few movies with a snowy setting. This time, Bing and Bob are two vaudevillians in 1890s Seattle who decide to head to Alaska to seek their fortunes and avoid the cops. (Well, Bing does. He has to trick Bob into it.) They steal the beards and clothes from two hoods in order to get off the ship...and are mistaken for the hoods when they land in Alaska. They've also taken a map to a gold mine that has a lot of people very interested them, including Skagway Sal (Dorothy Lamour), whose father originally owned the map.

Not a bad entry in the long-running series. I have no idea why Robert Benchley's narration was there - it's more annoying than anything. Otherwise, this is fun for fans of the series, the stars, or action/historical epic spoofs.