Headed out after the cartoon finished. This time, I cut through a quiet, dusty Newton Lake Park to the Westmont Acme. They were having really good sales on Kind and Made Good granola bars, and on Kind granola, too. Restocked yogurt, nectarines, blueberries, peaches, and soda. Treated myself to a slice of confetti cake for tonight's dessert. Found a bag of cheese bagels on the clearance rack. Bought shrimp for dinner tomorrow.
Hurried down busy Cuthbert Road to Sprouts. I didn't need nearly as much there. My treats here were vegan oatmeal raisin cookies marked clearance and lemon-raspberry dried mango slices. Picked up sparkling water and more Made Good granola bars, too. Stopped really quickly at A&A Pretzels on the way home to get a stuffed cheesesteak pretzel and two regular pretzels for lunch. (And discovered it's a good thing I did - they'll be closing for summer break for the next two weeks starting the 17th.)
When I got home, I had a quick lunch while putting everything away. Began the second season of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power while I worked. The first job for the newly-minted Princess Alliance is restoring "The Frozen Forest." The Whispering Woods were covered in ice after the battle in the season 1 finale. While Frosta does her best to try to be friends with Glimmer (to Glimmer's annoyance), Adora trains with Bright Hope and attempts to figure out how to control her magic. It's Bow who suggests they capture one of the attacking Horde-Bots to figure out what's powering it. He's the one who discovers that they run on First Ones magic...and that Entraptra is still alive.
Grabbed my bike and rushed off to the school after the cartoon ended. The kids were a tad bit calmer today, maybe because it's the second-to-last day of the session, or because they're aware that they got into trouble yesterday. In fact, after snack time, we all sat around in a circle and told the others our names, in the case of the kids our schools, and what our plans were for the rest of the summer. I'm just about finished with Hilary and the Beasts and will be starting Maplepunzel next, and I'm hoping to hit Atlantic City and see The Naked Gun next week and explore Philadelphia the week after.
The artists had yellow construction paper to draw on today. I did finally put my foot down about everything else. The scissors had already been put away, and anyway, I didn't want them making messes. No glue, no tape, no stapled books. The boys figured out how to make paper airplanes, while I drew Victor and Pruitt dueling while Maple and Betty look on in one of the novel-length stories I have planned, The Scarlet Comstock, on one side, C.J finding Scott bound to the hearth in C.J and the Beanstalk on the other.
I didn't like the look of the clouds on the horizon, so I had lunch at the Manor Bar two blocks down. They were only just starting to pick up for Happy Hour at 5 PM. I had a delicious chicken cheesesteak and thick, well-seasoned fries with tasty iced tea at one of their high, heavy wood tables. Listened to various games on the MLB Channel as I ate.
(Incidentally, this time, to my knowledge, it never did rain. It just stayed cloudy and humid for the rest of the night.)
Went straight home and into Don't Knock the Rock. I go further into another Alan Freed rock-and-roll B flick from 1956 at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Worked on Hilary and the Beasts while the movie was on. The days grow shorter and colder the closer it gets to Christmas. Hilary and Troll (Jeff) watch Betty and Bear (Scott) gather wood for the house, including the Yule Log, and Maple on Eagle's (Victor's) back flying back to the house with a bucket of fish. Hilary's glad that her sisters are happy, but she's worried about what will happen at the end of the year. Troll is, too. He bullies Bear because, thanks to Pavla's vicious magic, he's no longer suited for the job he'd held (manager and code-breaker) and is now utilized for his great strength instead. Troll tries to ask Hilary to marry him again. She tells him she'll think about it before taking their roses into the house.
Finished the night with CDs and records while I worked. Hits You Remember is a short but sweet collection of Roy Orbison's best-known songs. It starts with "Only the Lonely" and ends with "Pretty Woman." In between, we get "Candy Man," "My Prayer," "In Dreams," and "Love Hurts."
I thought Labyrinth was appropriate for the romantic story I'm currently writing. This peculiar Jim Henson fantasy from 1986 has David Bowie as the Goblin King, leading a teen girl (Jennifer Connolly) through a fantastic maze to find her baby brother. Bowie naturally gets the two big songs here, the sensual "Magic Dance" and the gorgeous ballad "As the World Falls Down." There's also some nice, dreamy instrumental music, notably "Into the Labyrinth" and "Underground."
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