Dolls on a Cold Day

Began the morning with breakfast and Care Bears and Cousins. This is the rebranding of the Welcome to Care-a-Lot CGI series with the Cousins added, the first time the Cousins had been used on TV since the late 80's. In the first episode, Harmony and Share are "BFFs" who always have picnics together. When Harmony doesn't have the time, Share takes little Cousin Cozy Heart Penguin instead. Jealous, Harmony takes Lotsa-Heart Elephant on a picnic. Every time they act jealous, a prickly bush grows up around them. When so many bushes spring up that they're trapped by them, they end up having to talk out their feelings.

Spent the rest of the early afternoon dressing the dolls for winter weather. Molly is snug as a bug in her plaid shirt and navy corduroys. I've never been able to find her oxfords for a good price, so she borrows Kit's. Sam is equally snuggly in her gray Buster Brown flannel school dress and black boots. Kit wears Rebecca's School Outfit with the blue and black sweater; she borrows Sam's black Mary Janes. Whitney wishes the lake would freeze up so she can go skating in Molly's blue and red Skating Outfit and Springfield Collection skates. 

Barbara Jean is terribly mod in a butter-yellow dress with pintucks and wide sleeves. Jessa normally doesn't like frou-frou, but she does love flamingos. She's in an aqua shirt with an embroidered flamingo patch and lavender netting trim, along with gray leggings, socks, and white and turquoise sneakers. Josefina wears a blue and red flowered empire-waist dress and black hat with flower trim I found her on eBay. Ariel gets Julie's orange tunic with the blue embroidered flowers, her corduroy gauchos, and her brown boots. 

Even the Cabbies are now dressed for cold weather. Dulcie borrows the yellow flannel dress with pink and green ribbon trim her sister originally came in and a crocheted baby sweater. Carrie feels a lot hipper in a blue and green winter jacket and pants from Build-a-Bear.

Watched Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood while I had lunch and got ready for work. The kids are all thrilled to play in the snow during a school day, but "The Neighborhood Snowstorm" gets too nasty for them to stay. Dan's parents are late picking him up, so Teacher Harriet plays snow games with him until they arrive. Even after his folks come for him, their heat dies and a pipe freezes and bursts in his room. Daniel and Margaret end up staying with Jodi and her family for a while until the heat is back on. 

Took Uber to work. Absolutely no trouble there! The one going to work picked me up in 10 minutes; the one coming from there got me in 3. No traffic anywhere or any trouble getting to and from the store.

I would have preferred to spend the afternoon outside, doing carts on a brisk, sunny day. I don't think it rose above the 30's today...and honestly, it felt nice, a little more like winter. However, I was the only bagger there until 6. The head bagger ended up in a register. I had to sweep the store, and I had to put away cold items and clean up messes that kept putting me behind with the carts. Even after the night bagger arrived, they'd call me to do those things and not him. Didn't help that we were really busy the entire afternoon between people stocking up after the holidays and people who saw snow in the forecast and panicked (even though we're mostly supposed to get rain). 

Got my schedule today, too. In good news, I retain the increased hours from this week and still have three days off. One day is still an early day, but that's the head bagger's day off. Thankfully, the latest I work this week is 6. Even that is probably pushing it at this time of year. I just wish they'd let me work floral again. I guess she doesn't need any help right now.

Did a little bit of grocery shopping before I went home. I mostly needed yogurt. They were having a sale on Dannon Fit & Light 4-packs with an online coupon. Found containers of in-house-made granola on the bakery clearance racks and thought I'd try them instead of cookies. Bagged apples are a really good price right now, too. Went with the honeycrisps that are usually beyond my budget. Needed tissues after all the dust I stirred putting the Christmas decorations away got to my nose.

Watched Match Game '79 while getting organized. A sweet older lady in nifty cat's eye glasses doesn't have much luck with a question asking about how bad the food on Nerdocrumbesia Arline is. The winner doesn't do much better with a nervous Patti Deusch answering "__ Done" on the Head to Head.

Finished off the night with classic comedies and action shows on Tubi. On The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, special agent Lee recruits mother Amanda to help him infiltrate a typical suburban neighborhood. The locals are saying "There Goes the Neighborhood" when it turns out a group of housewives selling hair dryers are doing a lot more than making gold-star sales. Amanda joins the group, only to discover they're suspected of being part of an arms smuggling racket. 

The Partridge Family learns a lesson in environmentalism when little Danny insists on singing with a whale to get publicity. His mother and a marine biologist (Bert Convy) remind him that whales are protected species for a reason. The scientist isn't happy when the guy who found the killer whale (Dub Taylor) he takes care of beached on his inlet demands fifty percent of the earnings from the song in order to use the whale. Mrs. Partridge uses the show's ABC connections and brings in none other than Howard Cosell (himself) to help shame the guy into giving his money to find out "Whatever Happened to Moby Dick?"