Hurried out to Sprouts soon as the episode ended. I wasn't going to have time to hit the Acme today, but I did have time to pick up things here. I got coconut milk, sparkling water, soda, and dug whole wheat flour, sugar, oats, and regular flour out of the bulk bins.
Just barely hurried home in time, dropped everything off, and hurried back out. Even with all the rushing, I was still fifteen minutes late for work. On one hand, it was the same deal as yesterday with slightly fewer kids. We had 17 children stuck in the cafeteria all afternoon because it remains cold and windy, despite the sunny day. I colored with some children, worked on magnetic tiles with others. One of the teachers had just set the kids watching the Green Eggs and Ham show on Netflix when I was let go early.
I decided I deserved a treat after what had been a very long week. I rode back into Oaklyn but past where I would normally cross the street, down to WaWa. Got a snickderdoodle smoothie, which was basically a cinnamon sugar cookie smoothie topped with cookie crumbs. Not bad. Very sweet, and it did taste like cookie, which is what counts. I stopped at Family Dollar to see if they had something; moved on very quickly when I saw that they didn't and it was busy.
Put on White Christmas when I got home. I go further into the classic musical with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Rosemary Clooney at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog in one of my first entries from December 2018.
Switched to Match Game Syndicated during dinner. Bob Barker continued to appear on the show through 1980, even after it left CBS. His last week had him between Betty White and Dallas ingenue Charlene Tilton. He and Gene spent almost the entire week drooling over Charlene, to the annoyance of Brett and Charles. On one day, Bob gave one of the only right answers during the entire episode and got a standing ovation for doing so. The next day, his seat broke and sank under the table, and the replacement they found him was too high. Betty White sank down with him in solidarity.
Got next week's schedule around this time, too. It's...identical to this week's schedule, two early days on Wednesday and Saturday, one late day on Sunday. On one hand, that should still give me plenty of time to make cookies, which was all I had planned for next week. On the other hand, I'm surprised I don't have more hours. We should be picking up next week as people start coming out of the malls and buying ingredients for their own holiday baking and Christmas dinners.
Worked on The WENN Nutcracker Suite. Betty overhears Mr. Eldridge and Gertie talking as she lays on Gertie's gingerbread bed. Mr. Eldridge sadly admits how bad Scott's curse is. He remembers nothing about who he is or was. He has no heart or mind, and can neither think, nor feel. He's merely a toy. Gertie explains that Jeff the Sugar Plum Cavalier is now a dancing wax doll on a music box and is in the hands of spoiled Princess Pirlipat, who rejected Scott after he was turned into a Nutcracker.
Finished the night with more classic Christmas variety specials on YouTube. Perry Como went to New Mexico for his holiday in 1979. This may have been one of his most unique holiday jaunts. Janet DeWitt, Anne Murray, and Greer Garson (who was living with her millionaire husband in New Mexico by the late 70's) join him to show off a chili pepper-eating contest, Christmas among the early New Mexican pioneers, and among the Pueblo Indians.
We went back across the country in 1982 for Andy Wiliams' Early New England Christmas. Dorothy Hamill is a pretty ice-skating teacher, Eileen Quinn of Annie is one of her students, Dick Van Patton runs the general store, and James Gallaway plays lovely flute tunes that sound like they could have come from this era. Williams joins Hamill's students for their school pageant, tries to get Patton to help him find the perfect Christmas gift, and gets into the community spirit at the town's Christmas Eve dance.
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