Called Uber after that for my grocery store trip. No trouble with them, at least, not here. Waited 7 minutes for the driver to come, 10 minutes for them to go home. Once again, the weather helped. It was sunny and warm, at least warm enough to melt more of the ice and snow. It's getting a bit easier to climb around, though there's still a lot of snow around.
The Westmont Acme was pretty busy when I arrived. It's still too messy (and my knee is too sore) for multiple grocery store trips. Restocked apples, clementines, yogurt, cookies, probiotic soda, coconut milk, and sliced chicken. Grabbed a slice of red velvet cake on sale for a treat and a bag of blue corn chips to go with lunch. I'll turn the strawberry cake mix and white chocolate chips into cookies for Valentine's Day next week. Found a bag of bagels on the clearance rack for lunch next week, too.
When I got home, I put everything away and had a quick lunch while watching Jivin' In Be-Bop. I go further into this low-budget review featuring Dizzie Gillespie and His Orchestra at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
I had a harder time getting a driver at 2:45. I went through two Uber drivers before one came in 10 minutes. Got me to the school just in time. The one going home thankfully took slightly less than the 14 minutes indicated on the app.
Actually, the trouble today was in the cafeteria, before we went to the library. I love reading to the kids, and they love bringing their books to me. Trouble is, they tend to attract a crowd, and my knee isn't up to five kids jostling to see the artwork on it. I stood up to read The Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians, and Clifford's Puppy Days: The Smallest Snowman so they could all see the pictures and not squash me in the process.
Everything else went fine. I only had 7 kids at my table today, and there were 25 all together. My group did very well in the bathroom. Other than some jostling at the door to the main hall, I was rather proud of them. I do wish two "best friends" hadn't spent all their time giggling and looking at toys during snack time when they should have been eating. They were the last ones done.
Things mostly went better in the library. Enough kids had left by then that there were a few dancing, while the others played with magnetic tiles or colored with me. Impressed by one boy's superhero comics and another's rocket ships, I explained my own artwork of Once Upon a Time In the Land of WENN and Captain Victor, Man of Power and the importance of using their imaginations to tell stories.
Watched Match Game Syndicated and had dinner when I got home. They started off finishing the week with Fred Grandy and Phyllis Diller (the latter wearing a very bright and rather unique purple hat). Robert Walton and Judy Landers made the next week a pleasure to look at. There were more jokes about a sweet young man with glasses and curly hair from Wisconsin, who was funny and cheerful even when he didn't win.
Switched to Remember WENN next. Hilary takes over WENN's proto-Love Connection dating show, "You've Met Your Match," to make Jeff jealous. After a mix up with ribbons on chocolate boxes, she ends up with a bruised Scott instead. Jeff tries to flirt with Betty to make Hilary jealous, but it backfires in the worst way possible. Not all of the matches turn out badly. Maple is thrilled to finally get to know Victor, Mr Eldridge and Gertie always enjoy each other's company, and Eugenia and Mr. Foley have so much fun on their date, they're late getting back!
"And If I Die Before I Sleep" gets really wild when Betty and the cast perform her 54-hour blending of Shakespeare's Italian-set plays on the air to break a record. Victor, Scott, and an ailing Maple discover there's chicanery afoot when the man from the newspaper sent to watch their feat (John Ratzenberger) and the nurse who came with him (Marceline Hugot) turn out to be more interested in sabotaging the broadcast than watching them break the record.
Finished the night with more Original Gold and more Rupert Holmes. There's some real classics on the third disc of this RCA Sessions record set, especially if you're a fan of crooners, R&B, or girls' groups. We get the Shirrells' "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?," "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price, "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen" by Neil Sedaka, "Twist and Shout" by the Isley Brothers, "I Saw Her Again" by the Mamas and the Papas, "One Fine Day" by the Chiffons, and "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips, among others.
Holmes wrote the book and some lyrics for the 2008 stage musical Curtains after John Kander's long-time partner Fred Ebb died during its development. I wasn't a huge fan of this murder mystery about a musical-crazy cop (David Hyde Pierce, who got the show's only Tony win) who figures out the person behind the killing of a no-talent star when I first picked it up in 2008, but it's grown on me over the years. I'm especially fond of Pierce and understudy Jill Paice's "A Tough Act to Follow," "It's a Business" for hard-nosed producer Debra Monk, and "Thinking of Him" and "I Miss the Music" for the songwriting duo who have broken up, but are reconsidering their relationship (Karen Ziemba and Jason Danieley).
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