A Little Bit of a Marshmallow World

Began the morning with breakfast and The Busy World of Richard Scarry. Everyone in Busytown would be saying "Fill'er Up, Scotty!" if Scotty could get gas for his filling station. The tanker bringing it broke down. Huckle and Lowly help Mr. Fix-It find a way to tow it without gas. Cucumber the photographer returns to solve "The Niagara Falls Mystery" and save the falls from a maple syrup-obsessed beaver. Deputy Flo gets more help than she bargained for when a "Helper's Helper" saves her and Sergeant Murphy after they're trapped in a cave by a rock slide.

Since I had a lot of groceries I wanted to get home later, I called Uber. They took 11 minutes to arrive in the morning, maybe because it was almost lunch time. I just got to work on time at the last minute. Despite getting out by 4:30, the height of rush hour, the driver going home arrived in 4 minutes. He did hit a little traffic on Nicholson, but both got me where I was going in five minutes.

Though we were slightly busier than yesterday, we still weren't overwhelmingly busy. The weather may have scared some folks off. We had snow squalls for the entire afternoon. It remains cold, too, though not quite so biting thanks to the wind having died down. I had less help, too. The head bagger either got caught up doing things inside or would get dumped in a register for someone's break. She did get the outside trash, but I did all but one sweeping session and gathered carts. Thankfully, the snow wouldn't actually stick to anything until I was on my way home. 

Had a lot of grocery shopping to do, too. Restocked soda, yogurt, blood oranges, apples, and granola bars. Dug cookies and bagels for cheap off bakery clearance shelves. Picked up orange soda and vanilla cake mix to try making a creamsicle cake later this weekend. Found bags of "sour" dried cranberries and nut butter-stuffed dates at the clearance racks in the back and thought I'd try them. 

(I did try the almond butter dates before the Uber driver came. Oh, yum! Perfectly earthy and chewy, and just sweet enough. I might have to get more of these before they're gone.)

Went straight into I'm Not There while changing and looking for jobs on Indeed. I go further into this unusual biography of Bob Dylan at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

Cult Flops - I'm Not There

Watched Match Game Syndicated while I ate dinner. The week with Elaine Joyce, Dick Martin, and George Kennedy continues. Brett and Charles mainly spent it bickering and teasing her about her not-priceless jewelry that was stolen in New York. 

Finished the night with rock albums that were somewhat related to I'm Not There. Dylan's far from the only musician who has tried to make a fresh start several times. One of the first albums I bought on my own was Double Fantasy, John Lennon's massively popular 1980 comeback. I heard the huge hits "Watching the Wheels" and "Just Like Starting Over" all the time on the radio as a kid, but my favorite songs here were his sweet "Beautiful Boy" and bouncy "Dear Yoko."

"I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" was one of the major hits on the Monkees' second album More of the Monkees. The Monkees themselves were't fans of the lousy shot from a JC Penney ad used on the cover or of some of the more bubble gum songs used. "Stepping Stone" and "I'm a Believer" were the big hits here. I also like Davy's "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow."

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits was one of the albums that came with the original box of 65 records that Dad gave me back in 2006. I wouldn't have pegged my first stepmother for a Dylan fan, but some of his most famous songs can be found here. In addition to the songs heard in the movie, we get "Rainy Day Woman," "Blowin' In the Wind," "It Ain't Me, Babe," and "Subterranean Homesick Blues."