Angels In the Sunshine

Began the morning with breakfast and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. "Daniel's Babysitter" is Prince Tuesday, who keeps an eye on him when his parents go out for the night. Dan is worried, then upset when Tigey goes missing. Prince Tuesday plays jungle with him, helps him find his favorite stuffed toy, and reminds him that no matter how long they're gone, grown ups come back. Likewise, "Daniel Goes to School," but is worried when his father has to head across the street to the Clock Factory. He assures him that he'll pick him up at the end of the day. Good thing he has lots of fun ways to play with his friends to distract him.

It was so late by the time I got downstairs, I called Uber. They came in 11 minutes, but I called so late that I was late to work. That was the only trouble I had with Uber today. I almost missed the one going to Thomas Sharp, but they did arrive in 9 minutes. I was so tired by the time I finished at Thomas Sharp, I called for a ride home...and was glad I did when the driver arrived in less than 2 minutes.

I started off in the floral department for the first hour, helping the manager rearrange glass globes filled with water, bright-colored roses with glitter on them, and fabric butterflies. They pulled me by 10 AM. Turns out there had been a mistake. The head bagger was supposed to work in the floral department. I was disappointed, and it didn't help that we were busy and I had a hard time keeping up with the carts at first. 

Not thrilled with my schedule, either. Once again, I work an extra weekday because the head bagger will be cashiering or helping the floral department manager. This time, in addition to Wednesday, I work Friday. I'm also going to be working early all week. The Sunday morning bagger took the day off again. 

Soon as I finished, I changed into regular clothes, bought a Hint apple water on clearance, and headed out. Stopped at WaWa for money first, then headed two blocks down the Black Horse Pike to the Black Horse Diner for lunch. Like I told the man who seated me, pancakes were calling my name. And their pancakes were enormous, the size of the plate, and tasty and fluffy. Good thing I only asked for two! I also had scrambled eggs, pineapple juice, and iced tea. I enjoyed my lunch and listened to the chatter of the mostly elderly people around me.

I got to the Thomas Sharp School very early. The kids were still running around on the blacktop. Some of them even waved to me and said "hi" as I got organized. I ended up going for a walk down to the train tracks to avoid distracting them. It was too nice to hang out anyway. The weather couldn't have been more perfect. It was sunny, breezy, and wonderfully warm, not too hot or cold. Gardens are bursting into bloom now. I even saw the first roses of the year. You'd never know we had such a rough winter by looking at how beautiful the greenery is.

I'm glad I signed in early. We had 24 kids today, 7 at my table. My group went to the bathrooms first, so we were pretty much in and out. Once again, it was after lunch when they got crazy. Two girls hid under a table and refused to get out. They're not supposed to be under the tables at all. Others ripped the paper taped down for stenciling. 

I was just glad we got them on the playground early again. It was too nice for them to be in the cafeteria anyway, especially after they spent most of the winter inside. They chased each other with a big fuzzy spider toy (that got thrown over the fence and a teacher had to retrieve) until there were few enough that they could get on the swings. I gave the kids pushes, even the ones who were capable of swinging on their own, and made sure everyone got a turn. The others danced to "Zoo" from Zootopia 2, "I Like to Move It," "I'm Still Standing," "Dance With Me," the themes from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bluey, and PJ Masks, and songs from The Lion King, Moana, Moana 2, Trolls, and KPop Demon Hunters. One of the older girls joined us later to toss a basketball with the kids. They were down to 2 younger kids and 5 older ones when I finished.

Put on The Price Is Right when I got home. I came in just in time to see a lady miss "One Away" by one number. The gentleman after her did a bit better, but the lady was the one who won the big wheel. This was a rare episode with two themed Showcases. One was "Discovering the World"...Disney World, that is, with tickets to Walt Disney World in Orlando and Tokyo Disneyland in Japan. The other one was themed around things people needed to get on track after being lost or injured. This included a jukebox and a sailboat. The lady with the trip package overbid. The other lady got her boat and some great music.

Let it continue into Match Game '91 while I ate dinner. They finished out the Soupy Sales week with Sally Struthers announcing that she was going to be doing a voice on the new ABC puppet sitcom Dinosaurs. (Incidentally, Sally was the voice of the younger sister Charlene.) They jumped around a lot after that, finally settling on a week with Tom Parks of Not Necessarily the News and Dana Fleming stuck between whiny Charles Nelson Reilly and Brad Garrett and his goofy impressions.

Finally finished out Charlie's Angels after Match Game ended. In "One Love, Two Angels," Kelly's shocked that she could be a millionaire's daughter when the owner of a hotel fortune (Ray Milland) is convinced she's the child he lost years before. His greedy nephew (Robert Reed) has his own reasons for wanting Kelly to be the real deal. Kelly, however, is not convinced. She insists that lawyer Bill Cord (Patrick Duffy) check and reject his research. Things get messy when first the millionaire is poisoned, and then Bill dies mysteriously after having fallen for Kelly and Kris. The two women have to settle their differences in order to find what Bill learned that ended up killing him.

And I believe that's the last episode I hadn't watched. For all the camp, this is still a fun show. The first two seasons in particular are a little darker than I remember from catching this occasionally in re-runs during my childhood. I know everyone remembers Farrah Fawcett and the ladies'...assets, but to be honest, the show got more interesting after she left. I thought the second season was the best as they navigated Kris' arrival. The scripts were better, too. They started to get goofier in season three. While Shelly Hack and Tanya Roberts weren't horrible as Kate Jackson's replacements, the magic wasn't really there with either of them. Weird scripts in the last season (including that male bodybuilder episode) didn't help. 

If you love the show, check out the first three seasons to get a better idea of the set-up and situations. The remaining two seasons with Tiffany and Julie are more for major fans of this or other 70's crime capers.