Saturday, February 13, 2016

Warming Up the Weekend

It was sunny but very, very windy when I got up this morning. I could hear the wind howling as I put on a couple of Valentine's Day specials during breakfast. Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers has an Elmer Fudd-like Cupid spreading love among the Toons in a series of segments from various shorts. Bugs insists he's meddling, until he gets shot with Cupid's arrow himself.

Winnie the Pooh and the Hundred Acres Woods crew learns a lesson in friendship in Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You. They find Christopher Robin making a valentine for a girl he likes and automatically assume he likes her more than them. Owl tells them he's been bitten by the "Smitten" bug. They go looking for the "Smitten" to change him back to normal.

"Un-Valentine's Day" is an episode of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Thanks to the overwhelming amount of valentines Pooh sent the year before, Rabbit cancels the holiday all together. Pooh, however, gets a pot of honey on the big day. This leads to cakes flying, Piglet making massive hearts, and Rabbit putting on a romantic play for Christopher Robin that goes comically wrong. But who did send the original pot of honey?

Work was busy to steady all afternoon. While some customers got a little ornery, it wasn't anything like last weekend. My relief was on time, and there were no really major problems. I picked up cereal (Life was the only thing on remotely a good sale) and a birthday present for Jessa - a stuffed Beanie Baby owl - on the way out. (The owl was amazingly cheap, only $1.49 - it must have been a Halloween item that got mixed in with the Valentine's Day toys.)

When I got home, I spent the next hour or so working on the story. The evil Lady Sylvia wants Kathleen to give up the stories she's written to get Darren...and her own story, her memories. Kathleen won't do it, but she's worried about Darren...

Headed to Dad's around quarter after 6 to celebrate Jessa's birthday. Jessa wasn't there when I arrived, but Khai (already in his pajamas) was, along with one of the neighbors and their kids. They weren't there for long, but Joe and Jessa showed up with Joe's three kids. Alexa, a good friend of Jessa's, showed up later.

Jessa requested fondue for dinner. We had chicken and beef chunks in hot oil and bread and a vegetable tray in cheese. It was so tasty. Dessert was a box of tiny tarts and cakes from Desserts By Design. (Joe had to hold Jessa's number candles when they were lit, since they obviously weren't going to fit in tartlets and little cakes.) It was all very tasty. In addition to the stuffed owl (which she loved), Jessa got a new laptop from Jodie and Dad.

I spent a lot of the night watching Khai run around with Joe's two younger kids, Little Joe and Dannica. We drew hearts and Pac Man and the elder Han and Leia from Force Awakens on a huge cardboard box that the kids used as a spaceship all night. When they weren't trying to figure out how two boys could fit in one long but fairly slender box, they were screaming and chasing each other. I alternated between watching their antics and warming up by the roaring fire in the office/living room area. Headed home after we all finished dessert.

Incidentally, yesterday's snow dusting was already melting by the time I left for work around noon. The wind blew the rest of it away.

Oh, and in honor of Valentine's Day tomorrow, here's a rare Disney Channel special my sisters and I watched every February in the 1980's. Like Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers, it's a series of segments from various shorts. No real plot, but the narration that links it is pretty cute, and there's some nice music, too. I always thought the ballad "Disney Girls" was written for this special. It wasn't - it's an old Captain and Tenille song.

From Disney With Love

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