Switched to Super Password while making my grocery list. Got to see a bit of Marsha Warfield and Marty Cohen chatting with Bert Convy before I called Uber. My knee is still really sore. I think it doesn't like this cold weather. Besides, I wasn't getting a ton of groceries, but I did have a lot of heavy ones I wanted to get. Thankfully, they only took 7 minutes to pick me up and about 5 to arrive.
If you've seen the weather reports for the East Coast, I think you can guess that the Acme was mobbed today. It's not supposed to snow until early Sunday morning, but the temperatures are going to drop into the teens tomorrow. No one wants to be out when it's gale-force windy and literally freezing. I restocked oranges, apples, yogurt, granola, granola bars, and probiotic soda. Had online coupons for bakery cookies and Propel drink mixes. No 20 ounce Fresca, but I did get two of the Diet Coke With Lime. Thankfully, there were enough lines open that the 15 items or less checkout line was short.
Once I got home and put everything away, I switched to a more dramatic 80's cartoon while eating a quick lunch. In the first season of Jem, Jem and the Holograms are on vacation at a Colorado ski resort owned by a friend. They're shocked to discover the resort is in serious trouble. The Misfits and their sleazy manager Eric Raymond have been sabotaging it to help a friend of Eric's and his competing resort. The Holograms agree to a ski race with the Misfits to decide ownership of the resort. It becomes their "Last Resorts" when the Misfits sabotage that too, and Jem is trapped in a cave after an avalanche. That cave, however, contains something that could be more of a help to the resort than any concert ever could.
Took Uber to the school, too. I can sit at the school, but I'm not up to a bike ride, and it's gale-force windy anyway. Thankfully, unlike yesterday, the Uber going to the school arrived in 10 minutes and got me there right on time. The one I initially got going home canceled...but their replacement took a mere 5 minutes to arrive.
Things were definitely better today. For one thing, I had a small group, only 6 kids plus one boy I agreed to take because he was so enamored with playing daddy to one of the girls' American Girl modern line dolls, he didn't get up and run around quite as much as usual. The kids loved it when I showed them pictures of my American Girl doll collection. I even showed them my wrapped-up knee to explain why I couldn't chase after them like usual today. It helped that we only had about 20 younger kids all together. It was the head teacher's birthday. All of the older kids sang "Happy Birthday" for her during snack time. It was so sweet of them!
The head teacher had a surprise when we went to the library. Our Friday dance party turned into a disco dance party when she handed around glow stick bracelets for everyone. I did wiggle a bit when I went to sharpen colored pencils, but I mostly stuck with the kids in the back of the library who were coloring on a wide piece of paper, building with magnetic tiles, or looking at books. Like I told the two boys who were back there for most of the time, a quiet party can be just as much fun as a big, noisy one! I finished my picture of Betty, Eugenia, Hilary, and Maple from The Four Dancing Princesses and did stencil pictures of a butterfly and a pig. (Really more of a boar - we're out of pink colored pencils.) One of the boys did an amazing picture of a roaring rocket in his favorite colors. (He's going to be a great engineer someday, that one.) The other colored a picture of Spongebob Squarepants' pineapple house.
Watched The Price Is Right and Match Game Syndicated when I got home. Mary Ann Mobley's host hubby Gary Collins was the male ingenue this week, joining Debralee Scott, Betty White, an antsy Bill Daily, and in Charles' seat, Dick Martin. Debralee spent a good part of the week flirting with a handsome young man from New York with the accent to match. (Debralee herself had been born in North Jersey.)
Finally got my schedule at this point, too. It's...pretty much the same as this week with slightly more hours next Saturday. To be honest, I'd already planned on taking Sunday off. There's no way I'm going to get an Uber driver in the middle of a major snow and ice storm. The way my knee's feeling, I'll likely call out tomorrow, too.
Finished the night starting season 3 of Remember WENN. Victor explains to Betty where he's been "In the WENN Small Hours" and why he's turned up so suddenly. He's doing important government work, and she can't let anyone know he's alive...which proves to be a problem when first the rest of the cast starts trickling in from talking to the police, then sponsor Mr. Medwick turns up with explorer Cutter Dunlap (Malcom Gets). Betty and Victor do manage to head him off after they tell him the, er, strange things that have gone on while he's been out of the US, but Victor can't stay...and then drops a bombshell about just how well Scott Sherwood actually knew him.
Hilary Booth, meanwhile, is frustrated with her recent lack of roles that suit her considerable dramatic talents. She thinks she's found the perfect vehicle for her and Jeff when a budding playwright (Harry Hamlin) comes to her with his magnum opus. They convince their sponsors the Sweets (Louis Zorich and Peggy Cass) to fund their show "Prior to Broadway," but can't decide if it's a comedy or a drama. Betty's more interested in re-reading the letter of introduction Victor sent along with Scott, noticing that it sounds an awful lot like one of Scott's pet catchphrases...
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