Dusted the rooms, filled a bag with clothes I didn't want, and got the Valentine's Day cards together while watching Scott Joplin. I go further into this 1977 biography with Billy Dee Williams as the "King of Ragtime" at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Headed out to have lunch and run errands on the White Horse Pike after the movie ended, starting with dropping all the cards in the mail box. Thank heavens it wasn't freezing anymore. It was cloudy, windless, and in the 40's, perfectly normal mid-February weather. I don't know why I thought the clothes donation bin was behind the Family Dollar. It's behind Dollar General. Since I was down that way, I had a quick lunch at Dunkin' Donuts to finish that gift card one of the kids gave me for Christmas. The turkey sausage and egg sandwich and mini-hash browns weren't bad, and the brownie batter donut was a bit dry, and the "brownie batter" thin and messy. The hot chocolate was really sweet and creamy, though.
I went home to take out the trash and wait for Uber. No trouble there today. The driver to work didn't even take four minutes to arrive. The one going home took 10 during rush hour. No traffic, no trouble getting there.
The kids were a lot wilder. If they weren't battling colds and sniffling, they were battling cabin fever. I don't think any of them have been outside to play since the middle of last month. Two of the littlest girls got so crazy after lunch, throwing rubber food everywhere and running all over, they were kept in the cafeteria instead of joining the rest of us in the library. Two older boys were even worse in the library, arguing, yelling, pointing fingers, breaking magnetic tiles, and building too-tall skyscrapers and letting them fall and make a mess. Two more girls ripped the paper one of the teachers taped to a table for stenciling so badly, we finally gave up, removed the paper, and gave everyone regular sheets of paper to color on instead. At least we managed to get them together enough to help clean up and get everything back to the cafeteria before I left.
On the other hand, I had 10 kids at my table, and they did clean up quickly when we went to the bathroom early. They were a little crazy in the bathrooms, but I got them back with no trouble. Two of the girls even gave me (or my arms) a big hug.
I read inside for a little while when I got home, then went out to dinner with Jessa around quarter after 6. We ate at the Philly Diner in Runnemede. This is the huge chrome diner and sports bar with the massive panels on top that the bus passes on the way to the Deptford Mall. Their food was pretty tasty, too. Jessa had a gyro. I had a crab cake sandwich. We both had fries, cole slaw, pickles, and chicken orzo soup. My sandwich was so gigantic, half the crab cake ended up on the plate, but it was really tasty. The coconut cake I had for dessert was even better.
Since we were in Runnemede, Jess drove us to the shopping center next to the Acme. She wanted to show me a store that sold closeouts and overstocks, but it was closed by 7:30. We ended up a few doors down at Dollar Tree instead. I just got a birthday card for Jess, freeze-dried strawberries for a recipe I wanted to make later this week, and a Zootopia bag. Jessa got notebooks and cards.
Finished the night after a shower with the third CDs from two of my favorite series. Unsung Musicals covers shows that closed on the road or had such short runs on Broadway they were never recorded. On the third volume, the second is represented by two lovely songs from short-lived musical versions of popular plays and books, "Reveille Sun" from Here's Where I Belong (musical East of Eden) and "Simple Words" from Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (musical Teahouse of the August Moon). We also have "Nothing To Do With Love" from a show called Personals that definitely sounds like it was written by the creators of Friends, the hilarious teen lament "At the Same Time" that was from the first attempt at a musical Freaky Friday, and two songs from a musical version of It's a Wonderful Life that has yet to play Broadway, its title number and "In a State."
Lost In Boston gives us numbers cut from hit shows, or ones that at least made it to Broadway. The third album kicks off in high style with one of my favorite cut numbers, the hilarious "Mama's Talkin' Soft" from Gypsy. There's also another funny teen lament, "You Don't Have to Kiss Me Good Night" from The Music Man, the touching soliloquy "Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10" from Sweet Charity, "Travelin' Light" from Guys and Dolls, and two dropped songs from the troubled Seesaw, "Big Fat Heart" and "Pick Up the Pieces."
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