Work started out totally quiet. It didn't pick up until around 11:30...and then, it was unusually busy for a middle of the week and middle of the month day. Maybe people were trying to avoid the cold, cloudy, windy weather. It showered a little bit around noon, but didn't do a whole lot else. I had a hard time gathering carts around noon. It was slowing down a bit when I left.
I originally planned on going out to lunch or getting pretzels, but between the rain picking up by the time I went home and my phone being almost out of juice, I just ended up going home. Watched Alice's Wonderland Bakery while I ate. Everyone gets together to celebrate the anniversary of "Alice's First Day In Wonderland." Cookie is so mortified when she loses the recipe for Wondercake they baked on that first day, she decides to retire. Alice joins the Cheshire Cat on Memory Lane to piece together her memories of that first day and figure out where the recipe might have gone to.
Chase is also having a chaotic time in Barkingburg during Paw Patrol. His attempt to protect the Princess' crown turns into "Mission Paw: Quest for the Crown" when spoiled Sweetie the pup steals the crown and frames Chase. The others have to find him and prove who the real culprit is.
The rain had slowed down by quarter after 2, but I wasn't taking chances. I called Uber again. This time. they arrived in 5 minutes and took less than five minutes to arrive at the Thomas Sharp School. I joined another arriving teacher and just went in a bit early.
It's probably a good thing I did. We had over 30 kids today...and needless to say, no one went outside. The pre-schoolers ended up in the library. That actually ended up working out surprisingly well. There were lots of books to read to them, and we brought in colored pencils and construction paper, wooden blocks, and magnetic tiles to play with. They even could have been worse in the bathrooms. I thought the kids might get a kick out of my drawing Captain Victor, reporter Betty, Shadow Man Scott, and Lunar Lady Maple from my upcoming Captain Victor, Man of Power stories. Started Eugenia and Foley from the next story I have planned, The Four Dancing Princesses, but ran out of time to finish them.
It wasn't raining when I got out, just cold, windy, and damp. I walked home. Needed to stop at Dollar General on the way anyway. I was originally going to buy an egg timer to help me get to bed earlier, but they didn't have one. I did get triple AAA batteries there (I'm almost out of those) and a Coke Zero.
Worked on Maplepunzel after I got in. Maple and Scott both hug Betty the deer in a show of solidarity, while Hilary recalls how they appeared in the hovel after the smoke cleared, and what it had been. Scott asks Jeff how he got trapped in the mirror. Pavla lured him to Prague Castle after he found out she and Pruitt were the ones who destroyed Hope Springs. She forced him into a marriage to save his brother Victor and their men, then used the same mirror magic to hypnotize him, take his voice, and bind him to the mirror as a silent slave. He's trapped in the Mirror World. Hilary can see him, but she can't hear him or touch him, and he can't speak to or touch her.
Finished the night with dinner, a shower, and Serenade. I go further into this melodramatic Mario Lanza vehicle from a James M. Cain book at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
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