Bryanna picked me up promptly at 10 AM. We ended up at the Collingswood Library, which while about the same length of time from Oaklyn, has a teen area that isn't used when the kids are in school. As I thought from our chat on the phone, she is much younger, probably in her 30's, and a new recruit at Abilities Solutions...but that may be what I need right now. I want someone high-energy and fun who knows about newer jobs and online opportunities and will neither retire anytime soon, nor leave because her insurance is too high. Between the two of us, we applied to 27 jobs today. Most of them were customer service phone representatives that I'm not sure I could do. I'm not all that great on the phone, or talking to people period, but at least it's something.
Bryanna dropped me off at the Westmont Acme next. I had grocery shopping to do. I mainly restocked yogurt, bagels, Kind bars, cocoa powder, and Slice soda here. They were having a good sale on several laundry detergent brands. I couldn't reach the last of the Persil, so I ended up with Arm & Hammer. Walked up the hill past the two fast food places, the Westmont Diner, and the Haddon Township Library to the Westmont Plaza after I finished there to hit Sprouts. Bananas, bulk brown sugar, dried cranberries, and breakfast cookies were the big things on my list here. They had SunSips, another new type of stomach-friendly soda, buy-one-get one. SunSips come in peach, a flavor I hadn't seen with any other brand, so I thought I'd try that. Grabbed a Zevia on sale, too.
I hadn't had lunch at the Westmont Bagel Shop in ages. They were busy at quarter after 1 with couples and older people on their lunch breaks. I had my Diet Pepsi and my favorite spinach and fetal omelet with a toasted chocolate chip bagel. Ate everything but some of the roasted potatoes while listening to standards like "Mack the Knife" by Bobby Darin.
Considered walking home, but for one thing, I had way too much to carry by that point (including the laundry detergent bottle). For another, my right knee was absolutely killing me. It's been hurting like heck a lot lately. I have no idea if it's part of the peri-menopause, or if I re-aggravated it somehow. For another thing, though it was mostly sunny, it was also gale-force windy again and a bit chillier. The Uber driver arrived in 7 minutes and once he found his way to Cuthbert, had no problems getting back to Oaklyn.
Put my groceries away, then spent the rest of the afternoon watching Madam Satan. I go further into this truly bizarre early talkie disaster musical made by none other than Cecil B. DeMille of the later biblical spectacles at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Switched to The Price Is Right next, then Match Game Syndicated. They started off a truncated week featuring Clifton Davies and a pair of very dissimilar singers, Gail Farrell of The Lawrence Welk Show and Paul Williams. A World Trade Center comment caused the first episode of this week to be pulled from the rotation on GSN, and it remains lost even on Buzzr.
The last hour went straight into another truncated week, this time with comedian Freeman King and in her first appearance, bubbly comedienne Betty Kennedy. Gene apparently made a racial comment towards King that keeps the second-to-last episode of this week off the air nowadays. Too bad. King was a little dull, but Kennedy had so much fun, she'd turn up a few more times during the syndicated run.
Finished the night with more from The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. The hot jazz of Fletcher Henderson's "The Stampede" and Red Nichols' "Dinah" gives way to the smoother big band sounds of Benny Goodman's earliest hits like "Body and Soul" on the second disc. Billie Holliday croons through a gorgeous "These Foolish Things," while Ella Fitzgerald claims "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and Count Basie and His Orchestra stomp through the "Taxi War Dance."
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