Listening to: Still the same shuffle as yesterday
Reading: Ransom Julie Garwood
Weather: 60 and sunny – This is November??
Trivia: Who were Baby Ruth candy bars named after?
Although popular scuttlebutt says they were named after baseball great Babe Ruth the candy bar, created in the early 1920s, honors President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland's daughter, endearingly referred to as "Baby Ruth." The trademark was patterned exactly
after the engraved lettering of the name used on a medallion struck for the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and picturing the President, his wife and daughter baby Ruth.
Cool word: quandary (KWON-duh-ree), noun - A dilemma; a difficult or uncertain situation. "Jane found herself in a real quandary when she realized she had
two different dates for Friday night, neither of whom she really wanted to go out with."
Shoe Show
Today was the chorus performance at the "Shoe Show". This is a little gathering put on by one of the local Salvation Army Chapters (Troops?) The purpose is to raise money to buy shoes for kids in the area. It’s a worthy cause.
I have the worst time not laughing through it.
I blame it on the devil who sits on my right shoulder and whispers in my ear. Note: the nuns always said that the devil is on your left shoulder and that your guardian angel is on your right shoulder.
These little Salvation Army people get up and preach, and sing hymns and then we sing a variety of songs throughout. They only charge two bucks a head for the audience, so they don’t make to much money on this, as there are only fifty or so people in the audience. And the average age is seventy-two. (I’m not exaggerating even slightly.) Everyone is so sincere about this whole thing.
And evil me can only picture "Guys and Dolls". I keep hearing the strains of "Follow the Fold" and keep hoping that someone will jump up and start confessing and singing "Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat." I may go to hell for this.
We’ve done this show for the ten years that I’ve been in the chorus and well before that, as my mother has even performed at this show and she’s been gone from the chorus for about fourteen years.
I always sign up to do this performance, I think it’s a wonderful cause and one of the few things that we donate our services to, but I just tend to be so irreverent.
The good news is that I made it through the whole thing without laughing even once.
I am still aching all over and have no idea why. I wish I had some other symptom like a cold or a fever. Not that I want to be sick. I just want something to attribute this feeling to. And I want to feel normal.
I’m looking forward to television tonight. It’s the final installment to the Sarah Plain and Tall trilogy. Not only do I teach that book to the kids, but I know the author, Patricia MacLachlan and her children. They were kids who were in my shows when I taught in Northampton. Her son John was part of the crowd that hung out in my apartment when they had no where else to go. He was one of the most interesting kids I ever met. Very creative and bright. Last I heard he was studying monkeys on some island off the coast of Uganda.
I remember how excited we were when they announced that the book had won the Newbery Award. If you haven’t read Sarah Plain and Tall or the second book Skylark it would be worth the time and effort. No matter what your age. I’m not sure when the third book is going to be released. I’ll have to check on that.
I could also start writing a report tonight……
Nah……
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