Saturday, January 30, 2021

Calm at the End of Work

Began a beautiful, sunny morning with breakfast and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Daniel has to be "Calm at the Clock Factory" when his father takes him, Katerina, and O the Owl to see where he works and how he puts clocks together. Dan Sr. takes his son and Prince Wednesday to the library for Storytime. They can act silly outside, but in the library, they need "Calm at Storytime," or they can't hear O's uncle X reading the newest Tigey the Adventure Tiger book. 

Worked briefly on writing after breakfast. Goodson intends to have his men take Charles and dump him overboard, too, for attempting to blow the whistle on him. Gene demands that he takes him upstairs, preferably yesterday.

Was jolted out of my "zone" by a knock on the door. Jodie went out to breakfast with her Aunt Colleen, but the side entrance to the other side of the house tends to swell in winter, and she couldn't get in. I let her through, and she thanked me by driving me to work. Apparently, she needed to get grocery shopping done anyway.

Anyone who's seen the weather reports for the east coast can probably guess that we were a madhouse for most of the day. We're only supposed to get 3 to 5 inches of snow at press time, but that's still more snow than we've seen since mid-December. I went outside to help the afternoon bagger with rapidly-vanishing carts, only to be dragged inside to take customers and bag. And then, after break, I was sent outside with at least three or four other baggers to deal with the dwindling carts...and this time, remained there for the rest of the evening. Frankly, by the end of the night, it slowed down to the point where we barely needed two baggers outside, but I didn't feel like dealing with the lunacy inside, either. 

Even after all that, I had my own grocery shopping to do. Took advantage of online coupons to pick up grapes, eggs, Parmesan cheese, and Turkey Hill ice cream. There were good sales on chicken, too - grabbed a pack of breasts and another of thin-sliced breast. Found a container of shrimp for a good price. Had a Rewards coupon for free frozen vegetables. Restocked honey, white and brown sugar, yogurt, oranges, bananas, butter, milk, oranges, and carrots. 

Once I got home, I quickly watched the first half of The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour while putting everything away and having dessert. For some reason, Gene decided to pretend he and the panelists on the upper desks were in Venice while waiting for those in the lower tier to finish writing their answers for a question. There were even jokes about someone falling overboard and the rest of the set "cutting across the Canal" when it came in.

Finished the night online after a shower with Puss In Boots. I go further into the 1988 version of the fairy tale with Christopher Walken as the title character at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog. 

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