Switched to Netflix for Scrooge: A Christmas Carol. I go further into this animated remake of the 1970 live-action musical Scrooge at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Hurried off to work after Scrooge ended. Today was the Acme's big employee party, and there was tons of food! Someone ordered sausage stromboli from Tu Se Bella's, and there were ham, prime rib, and chicken empanadas. Sides included macaroni and cheese, pasta salad, broccoli bacon salad, maple-glazed carrots, green salad, and green beans with bacon. My cookies were joined by bakery sugar and oatmeal cookies and real home-made marshmallows covered in powdered sugar. I had an empanada, a slice of stromboli, the broccoli bacon salad, maple-glazed carrots, a ton of cookies, and Diet Pepsi.
Work wasn't really much of a problem, either. It was harder to keep up with the carts during the first half of my shift, when it was busier and I was doing the sweeping and the carts. The afternoon bagger arrived at 2 to take over the sweeping and help me with the carts. I was in and out without a fuss.
At least it felt festive inside and out. It snowed here last night. There was only about an inch or two on the ground, just enough for it to feel like the first day of winter, and none of the streets or sidewalks. It was bitterly cold, though, and the frigid wind blew something fierce.
Tried to make that candy when I got home...but the filling still hadn't solidified. Turns out it required baking chocolate or good chocolate bars. I didn't think it would matter if I used chocolate chips. It's all chocolate. Apparently, there is a difference. I had to throw it away. I think I'll drop making candy for a while and just stick to cookies at Christmas.
Spent the rest of the evening watching tonight's Match Game marathon after a shower. No less than four Match Game regulars have birthdays this month. Match Game Productions saluted the one closest to this weekend, Elaine Joyce. Perky, sexy blonde dancer Elaine pretty much ran the gamut as one of the premiere ingenues on the series, starting in 1973 and ending with an early week of The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour in 1983. She occasionally appeared with her dancer husband Bobby Van, including the one time she sat next to him in '73. She gave an answer to what Batman and Robin are that was so sexually charged, the episode is now banned from the airwaves.
In the later syndicated years, Gene would often call Elaine out to show off her fashionable and very early 80's collections of belted tunics and thick sweaters. She mellowed out once she had her daughter Taylor, and did it even more after Van died tragically of a brain tumor in 1981. Taylor turned up on the show twice during its last two seasons, once to let her mother show off her adorable Polish dance costume, again the next season hiding under her mother's desk from Great-Uncle Gene.
Elaine may have had a reputation as a ditz, but she frequently won people money, especially in syndication. At least twice, she won people $10,000 on the Star Wheel. She could also be counted on for some creative answers, along with frequently feuding with Brett and Charles, who tended to talk over her and tease her.
Salute the blonde bombshell of game shows with this wacky birthday bash!
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