When I did roll out of bed, I watched Alice's Wonderland Bakery while eating breakfast. Alice and Fergie compete to see who can make the best potato recipe in "Potato Potahto." They discover that their recipes have very similar ingredients, and it may be related to the page that was torn out of Cookie years ago. "Hattie's Inside-Out Cake" is the first he's ever made for Dad Hatter's big tea party. His friends think it needs more decorations, but Hattie finally reminds them that it's what inside the cake that counts.
Checked my schedule next, which for some reason, took a while to appear. Perfectly normal hours. Only one early day, and it's the regular four-hour Wednesday. Nothing else earlier than 11 or later than 5. I do work Friday this time, but that's to be expected on Easter weekend. Not only did I get my birthday off, but I took it as a vacation day. I apparently still have a few left.
Went downstairs to try that recipe I bought the oatmeal and dried cranberries for yesterday. There's a recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies in Kit's Cooking Studio that is really good. It does require a lot of butter, but it also works well with whole wheat and regular flour and makes a lot of cookies. Since I bought them for snacking this week, I replaced the raisins with dried cranberries. Oh, yum! They couldn't have come out more perfectly, chewy on the inside and golden on the outside, and they smelled amazing.
After I put everything away, I watched Adam Adamant Lives! on YouTube. Adam learns that blackmail is "More Deadly Than the Sword" when he travels to Japan to learn who has taken incriminating photos of a British politician. Georgina follows him, and is promptly captured by geishas and their bosses who have even worse things in mind for the photos and Adam.
Soon as the episode ended, I went down for a nap. I had no other plans for today, and the weather was so lousy, there wasn't a whole lot else to do. Besides, I'm still dead tired. I went down at 4:30 and didn't really get up again until past 6:30.
Put on Match Game '73 during dinner. McLean Stevenson was a total nut during his first week. He bent over to kiss a contestant and claimed she stole his capped teeth. He'd run down to the lower desks and kiss Richard instead of the contestant. On Friday, he was naked from the waist up except for a bow tie. Gene loaned him a jacket, then another one when he claimed the first was itchy. Richard made a crack about getting McLean to the Largo, a strip club in LA.
Returned to Adam Adamant Lives! after that ended. "The Sweet Smell of Disaster" reveals Adam to be wary of a new laundry detergent that comes with a certain lovely-smelling blue carnation. Turns out he's right to be concerned. The carnation makes anyone who buys it addicted to the soap...and gives the advertising company control over the people who buy it. Georgina joins the company to give out carnations while Adam explores their headquarters to find out what their real end game is.
Watched the peculiar Australian animated fantasy The Magic Pudding at The Roku Channel next. I'll go further into this one tomorrow at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Finished the night at YouTube with Cinderella: Frozen In Time. This is actually Dorothy Hamill's last-ditch attempt to revive the Ice Capades in the mid-90's, with one full-length story and no vaudeville acts. The story has more in common with British pantomime than Disney. Cinderella has a goofy guy friend named Buttons, the stepsisters are played by men in drag, and she and Buttons are lost and attacked by spirits after the ball. Lloyd Bridges narrates the network special as a mysterious old man who tells the story to a pair of ice-skating kids. It's sweet, charming fun if you have kids who love princess stories or figure skating.
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