After I took the laundry downstairs, I spent the rest of the morning looking up credit unions, whom I suspect may be the only ones I could get a loan from at this point...and realized that I don't really know anything about buying a condo at all. I've never bought anything this big before. The biggest thing I've bought before this was a bike, and that cost about $300. I looked up phrases like "closing costs" and what needs to be done before you put money down. I thought you just got a loan and bought a condo.
Keep in mind that I'm doing this alone. I really don't have many people I can ask. Later this week, along with doing more research on buying condos, I'll look up local mortgage brokers - people who help loans and home buying for a living - in this area and see how much they cost and check their reviews. I just want out of the attic at this point. I was hoping to be out by early next year, but considering I was turned down by a major bank and Camden County, I'm wondering if I'll ever get out at all.
Listened to records from relatively recent animated and family musicals while I did research and put the laundry in the dryer. Trolls is probably best-known today for the massive hit "Can't Stop the Feeling," which is on here twice (in the film version and Justin Timberlake's smash single), but the soundtrack has other virtues. The kids in the after-school program love the medley "Move Your Feet/D.A.N.C.E/It's a Sunshine Day," but my favorite number is Poppy doing whatever she can to "Get Back Up Again."
Although The Garfield Movie isn't a musical, there's some pretty decent songs on the soundtrack. Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" and Dean Martin's "That's Amore" turn up in two of the most memorable scenes in the film, but the big hit was "Good Life" by Jon Batiste. Hannah Waddingham gets the hilarious declaration "I'm Back." Callum Scott's "Then There Was You" is also a lot of fun.
The live-action Snow White had a lot of problems last year, but its soundtrack wasn't one of them. The utterly adorable version of "Whistle While You Work" that had Snow White working together with the dwarfs and animals to clean their cottage is by far my favorite number. The lively opener "Good Things Grow" is my favorite of the songs written for this film version. Alas, Gail Godot isn't really much of a singer and does no favors to her song "All Is Fair."
Broke for a quick lunch and to rush out to the Thomas Sharp School. Lunch took longer than I thought, and I ended up being five minutes late. This was absolutely not a good thing. We had 26 kids today, 10 at my table, and they were all totally insane. Two of the girls and a boy hid under the table in the cafeteria, where they are not supposed to go. Two older girls kept trying to bother one of the boys, who was just trying to draw. I had to separate them all twice. The head teacher had to threaten to keep all of the boys who had been playing with magnetic tiles with staying inside to get them to clean up their mess.
It was just as crazy when we got outside. For one thing, though the sun came out as the kids ran around, it was still windy and chillier than it has been, probably in the lower 60's. There were still so many kids when we went out, it was quarter of 5 before they were allowed on the swings. They pushed each other and knocked each other over. Even when they did finally get on the swings, one of the boys accidentally let go when he was swinging high and ended up hitting the ground hard. He more had the wind knocked out of him than anything else, but the head teacher took him inside. The kids drawing with chalk on the concrete listened to "I'm Still Standing," "Swab the Deck," and songs from The Lion King, Moana, and Frozen.
I made a very brief stop at Dollar General for electrolyte drink mix sticks on the way home. When I got in, I had dinner and watched Match Game '73. Most of tonight's episodes were devoted to the only week featuring Pat Harrington, later of One Day at a Time. One episode from this week had Gene turn up in a gray checked suit with a pink bow tie that Pat and Brett (accurately) claimed made him look like half of a vaudeville team. This was also the episode where Pat said to Richard Dawson "that was more than Diana (Dors, his ex-wife) ever did for you." Richard, whose divorce from Dors had been difficult, to say the least, ruefully agreed.
Took a shower after the episodes ended, then made the bed and finished the night with other game shows featuring celebrity panels. These were some of the earliest game shows on television. If a game show in the mid-50's wasn't a big-money quiz show, it had a select group of well-dressed celebrities trying to guess who a person was or what they did for a living. In the case of Make the Connection from 1955, the panel has to guess the connection between two people. Hispanic bandleader Xavier Cugat and his wife, singer Abbe Lane, were the guests on one of the surviving episodes and gave the panel a lesson in playing Latin musical instruments. With Gene Rayburn hosting and Betty White on the panel, this show is just a tiny bit less formal than most of its ilk.
The 70's upped the comedy quotient. The syndicated I've Got a Secret from 1973 retained later host Steve Allen and gave Richard Dawson major exposure. The episode I have here with Don Knotts is pretty typical of the show as a whole. (And I learned something, too. I wonder if they still use that lady's recordings telling you the time over the phone?) Match Game was leaning heavily on wacky shenanigans by the time of this episode in 1978. Poor Richard's hand is crushed by a huge contestant, and he ends up whispering his answer to a very nervous Marcia Wallace.
Panel games were fewer on the ground in the 80's. Most of them moved too slow, and the celebrities proved expensive. Bert Convy and Bert Reynolds' Third Degree from 1989 attempted to bring back the "panelists guess what a person does." In fact, this has a lot in common with Make the Connection. Once again, the panel has to guess how two people relate to one another. It wasn't really all that exciting despite some interesting guests and barely lasted 8 months.
Kids had more fun with Figure It Out on Nickelodeon in 1997. This is basically Junior I've Got a Secret, with a panel of Nick teen celebrities (including Amanda Byrnes in the episode I have here) and a ton more slime. Summer Sanders is the energetic host.
Guess along with some of the wackiest celebrities on TV as they try to figure it out, make connections, and give related people the third degree!
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