Laundry Trouble

Began a quick morning with breakfast and more My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. "Marks and Recreation" has the Cutie Mark Crusaders starting a camp for "blank flanks," colts who haven't found their talents or their cutie marks next. One colt, Rumble, constantly causes trouble and refuses to get into any new activities. He claims the girls are holding back the other colts and forcing them into one talent for their whole lives. The Cutie Mark Crusaders know that isn't true...and they finally turn to Rumble's brother in the Wonderbolts to find out what's really bothering him.

Got organized to run errands during "Once Upon a Zeppelin." We get to know Twilight Sparkle's family when they all go on a free zeppelin cruise together. Turns out the cruise was arranged by con-man centaur Iron Will as a "get to know the princess" cruise, and it's filled with Princess-crazy Twilight fans. He even raffles off a fan joining her family for a day. Twilight agrees to the activities to keep her family and the passengers happy, but when she misses a natural phenomenon she badly wanted to see, she realizes how important her own happiness is, too.

Headed out as soon as the episode ended. First stop of the day was the Oaklyn Library for this week's volunteering session there. They were quiet, with two librarians and one man reading books on a couch. I looked over DVDs and picture books and moved on.

I was hoping to find a red skirt at Goodwill to dress as Little Red Riding Hood. No luck there. I didn't even see any DVDs or CDs (which they'd rearranged - the DVDs are now next to the books). They did have red velvet capes in bags I may go back for sometime later in the week.

Had lunch at Sonic. It was windy, a little humid, and still cool, though not quite as chilly as yesterday. Wind or no wind, I won't have too many more opportunities this year to eat outside. Enjoyed my burger, tater tots, and cherry limeade while watching cars go around to the drive-in window.

Rode over to the Acme after I ate. I did need some things this week. Had a coupon for Grainberry cereal; went with their multi-grain flakes. I won't be able to make it to the Collingswood Farm Market tomorrow, so I grabbed pears, apples, and this year's first bags of cranberries. Dug a mahi mahi fillet and two more of those salmon "burgers" out of the seafood section. There's a collection of Halloween or horror DVDs in the front of the store. I went with one I'd only vaguely heard of, The Halloween Tree. I'm not in desperate need of peanut butter, but the Acme generic brand's was a dollar. Restocked white beans, skim milk, yogurt, tissues, toilet paper, chocolate chips, canned pumpkin, muffin papers, and Parmesan cheese.

My schedule next week is pretty similar to this week, only with later hours on Saturday and slightly more hours on Sunday. I'll still be able to see the 1 PM Eagles game with Dad and Jodie and hit the Farm Market next week. Slightly less hours, but still decent for this time of year.

Quickly ran another My Little Pony episode while I put everything away when I got in. Pinkie makes her best pal Rainbow Dash pies for every occasion (and non-occasion) she can think of in "Secrets and Pies" because she thinks she likes them. To her shock, she discovers that Rainbow has been giving them away or getting rid of them. Rainbow doesn't really like pies, but has been pretending to like them to make Pinkie happy.

Rushed out to the laundromat to get that done around 4. I went at the wrong time. There was only one washer left when I came in...and of course, ten minutes into the washing cycle, the washer and the one next to it just stopped working. The lights went out. I didn't have my phone, but a lady who was also there called the manager. The woman who used the machine next to me had overloaded it, and the circuit breaker on it kept shutting down. The manager finally let my much smaller load finish out and moved the other woman's to two machines. It should have taken me 40 minutes, but it took almost an hour and a half.

Once I did finally get home, I did some writing. Richard calls out his Merry Men. The youngest, Gary Burgoff, is thrilled to see his former teacher Charles again, to the point where he almost knocks him over. Once Charles recovers his breath, he reveals that Lord Skutch is coming through with treasure they could give to the peasants...but Richard suspects it may be a trap.

Switched back to the Ponies while having a quick leftovers dinner. "Uncommon Bond" was the last episode on the Season 7 set I hadn't already seen. Starlight Shimmer is thrilled when her old friend Sunburst visits Ponyville. She's hoping to recreate their old childhood games with him...but he seems to bond with every one of her friends but her! It's not until she briefly transforms them into fillies that she begins to realize that they may have changed, but they can still find ways to connect as adults.

Ended the night with Waiting for Guffman. Tiny Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a musical about its history entitled Red, Hot, and Blaine. Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest), a director from New York, has taken over the show, and he proceeds to turn it into the biggest spectacle within his price range. He gathers a motley crew of wannabe performers, including a dentist who wants to be a comedian (Eugene Levy), a pair of travel agents with show business aspirations (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara), and a pretty Dairy Queen worker who hopes this will be her ticket out of town (Parker Posey). Corky's thrilled when he manages to corral New York critic Mort Guffman to come see the show, giving the cast hopes of hitting Broadway...but no matter where they end up, this is one show that'll be nothing less than memorable.

Guest probably puts in his best performance in one of his own mocumentaries as the over-the-top, lisping Clair, who manages to inspire his motley crew of performers despite his eccentricities and his driving the "musical director" (Bob Balaban) crazy. If you enjoyed the other Guest films, you'll want to make the trip to Blaine and see this one as well.