The Eagles Ground the Jets

It was dull and gray outside when my eyes fluttered open. I rolled over to check the alarm clock...which said 7:51. Yikes! I had to work at 8! I rushed around as fast as I could without waking up anyone downstairs, got dressed, and grabbed a couple of whole wheat chocolate chip cookies on the way out. I was fifteen minutes late to work, which honestly could have been worse, given my rushed exit. I told them I'd stay an extra fifteen minutes to make up for it. 

It's probably just as well that I did stay the fifteen minutes. While it wasn't busy when I got in, by noon, the lines were getting much longer. I did the carts in the morning, then switched to trying to do returns after another bagger came in. I did manage to clean up a broken salsa jar and sweep spilled sugar, but they kept tossing me in the register. 

Hurried out as soon as I could and went straight to Dad and Jodie's for the Eagles-Jets game. Jessa was the only one there besides Dad and Jodie when I arrived, but she did bring her puppy Midnight. At one point, we took Midnight outside to meet Jesse and Dana's dog Nala. Nala is larger, sleeker, and a bit older than Midnight...and very playful! They kept jumping and circling each other and getting tangled in each other's leashes. 

Midnight also got to meet Onyx, the huge, fluffy black dog who lives next-door. Onyx was far less playful and more curious. She probably wondered what this little fluffball was doing sniffing her! Onyx wasn't a running girl. They mainly just sniffed around each other.

Mark got in not long after we came back inside with Midnight. Finley and Rose arrived around halftime. Finley loved Midnight! She chased him around the kitchen, tossed his little tennis ball and watched him attack it, and learned how to stroke his back. While they played, we enjoyed Jodie's delicious and hearty Chicken Tortellini Soup, French bread with butter, and Caesar salad. TJ and his new boyfriend brought a creamy pumpkin pie from a local farm, and there was peach loaf cake left.

The Eagles, for once, were as good as the food and company. The Jets couldn't touch them. They never even scored until the fourth quarter, and then they missed the 2-point conversion. They finally flew right past the Jets 31-6.

Went straight into Fairy Tale Blank when I got home. Once again, it begins with a Match Game panelist reading. Charles Nelson Reilly is reading a book of Swedish fairy tales at his desk when Brett Somers finds him. She teases him, but he says he's getting stories for his drama classes to act out. They're discussing how dark the stories are when Richard Dawson and producer Ira Skulch come in arguing. Skulch says that he's trying to get people to pick someone besides him in the final round. Richard claims he can't help his popularity or that the contestants trust him to give the right answer.

Finished the night with Pear-Apple Pancakes for dinner and the 1952 revival cast of Pal Joey. Gene Kelly was in the original 1940 version, about a dancer who becomes a gigolo to a bored rich woman who offers to finance his own nightclub while seeing another girl on the side. Neither critics nor audiences knew what to make of that story in the early 40's...but by over a decade later, they'd become sufficiently cynical enough to be more accepting of the dark story. Soprano Vivianne Segal retained her original role as the rich woman, but dancer Harold Lang took the title role here. He's no Kelly, but he does manage some decent performances, including "You Mustn't Kick It Around." Segal's best moment is "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."