Life Reimagined

I got caught up finishing Life Reimagined, on thriving in mid-life, this morning, and was late getting moving. Good thing I wasn't supposed to be eating, because I didn't really have the time for breakfast. I had just enough time to write in my journal, get dressed, and rush off to Collingswood Family Medicine for my doctor's appointment.

When I went to check in, the receptionist said I had made my appointment early and wasn't due until next month...but I really needed a physical for work. And yes, that went fine. Not only am I physically fit to deal with kids, but I told Dr. Jessica I felt a lot better. I love taking care of the kids, and even if I don't get on the summer camp program, at least I know that I am capable of finding a job, have new skills, and have made new friends. In fact, I'm not sure I even want to work behind a desk anymore. I need to be around people, to find my purpose helping others. I can spend quiet time behind my desk at home. I did get a needle for blood tests and will be having my mammogram in July, but other than that, I'm in good shape. 

Treated myself to two soft pretzels and a cheesesteak-stuffed pretzel from A&A Pretzel Shop on the White Horse Pike for lunch. Watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse while I ate. Mickey is surprised to learn that the story of "Mickey and the Enchanted Egg" is unfinished when Goofy and Donald bring said egg to the Clubhouse. The egg hatches into an adorable baby dragon. They try to bring the dragon back to its owner, Wizard Pete, but he thinks they stole her and keeps trying to keep them from his tower.

Switched to I Saw the Light while eating a quick lunch. I go further into this 2015 biopic with Tom Hiddleston as tragic country legend Hank Williams at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

I Saw the Light

Worked on editing before lunch. "The Master" (Seldon Sentry) scolds his three most prominent men - King Charles of Weepla, Mayor Kurt Holstrom of Yorkalia, and Pruitt - for not capturing the King of Thieves and allowing the Rebel Society to find their black crystal factories. Pruitt orders the Black Knight Sir Johnathan Arnold to find out who's been leaking information to the Rebel Society...which Victor Comstock finds rather humorous, considering he's the one who's been doing it.

Meanwhile, Jeff brings Betty and Mackie to the melting pot that is Brooklania, a bustling, slightly seedy section of Yorkalia. Mackie delivers Scott's coded messages to Maple LaMarsh, owner and principal performer at the Buttery Inn. She ignores Jeff's flirting and almost turns them away, until Mackie gives her the book and Betty reveals she's a Guardian-in-training. Betty adds that she intends to hit up the large library nearby to do more research on the Guardians and find out where the remaining Guardians and talismans are hidden.

Thank heavens it was cloudy and cool for most of the day, but never rained. I was able to ride my bike to the Thomas Sharp School. I even saw the kids looking for butterflies with their class outside when I arrived. We had so many kids today, there were too many to take to the playground right away. In fact, we didn't get them outside until the last hour. We had to wait until some had gone home to unleash them on the small playground. I read them Leo the Late Bloomer after snack time, and they watched a simply animated version of The Gingerbread Man and short videos on numbers and the alphabet that encouraged them to move along. Coloring had suddenly become very popular. There were at least 10 kids crowded around the crayons, scribbling masterpieces, before we finally got out.

Finally put on one of the more traumatizing episodes of Remember WENN when I got home. "Who's Scott Sherwood?" Betty would like to know herself...and so would Rollie Pruitt (Johnathan Freeman), the miserly accountant who first darkened WENN's doorstep during the Christmas episode. Turns out he's figured out what Scott's up to with the Memorial Fund and has him fired. The others end their shows in support of Scott. Betty's not sure he's worth their efforts, especially after she catches him in an even more damaging lie about how he arrived and his real relationship with Victor Comstock...

Watched Match Game Syndicated during dinner. I came in just as Bart Braverman briefly took over as host when Gene got tired of the complaints. Honestly, Bart sounded more like a race track tout than a game show host reading a question. The next episode is lost, so alas, we never do get to find out how the nice old man contestant Irv does. 

Finished the night with Remember the Golden Days of Radio Volume 1, one of the two Golden Days of Radio records I picked up from the Mt. Laurel Library earlier this month. It's a collection of some of the great moments of radio in the 30's and 40's, when it was the only at-home entertainment. Jack Benny hosts the wrap-around sequences. I knew about the comedies and sitcoms like Fibber McGee and Molly and The Fred Allen Show already, but other segments were less familiar. Not being a fan of TV soap operas, I'd certainly never heard the radio ones, making the segments of The Romance of Helen Trent and Ma Perkins all the more interesting. Heard familiar commercials, too, including one of the earliest radio jingles for Pepsi.