musial awards

before i started watching some christmas specials on DVD i noticed what was on TV, it was the musial awards from st. louis. hadn't heard of such an event before. of course it honors stan musial, and was recorded a month earlier. i saw the tail end of it, albert pujols got the lifetime achievement award. sounds like the venue is downtown near the hockey arena, so of course not far from busch stadium as well. this is something i will try to find on my next visit. i sent a text to a friend who lives there and spoke of my findings. i watched all four specials on my list, the annual viewing of frosty, rudolph, the grinch, and charlie brown. there was bonus episodes with the first and fourth, a later version of the two. with the former it had john goodman playing frosty, and the latter it had the hallelujah chorus from handel's messiah. was trying to find 'yule log' but was unsuccessful. in the morning there was shopping to do. i did some searching online in advance, wanting to know when all the stores would be closing early for the holiday. i went to aldi first, usually it is not the first stop. then i went to cub foods, hy-vee, and target. i had hoped to stop at just the first two but i wanted some more egg nog and cub was out. so was hy-vee, but i still got 2 items at there. besides egg nog at target i also got some hawaiian rolls. i was getting grumpy by the end of the hy-vee visit, as expected it was busy. this is why i try to go there on fridays. because holiday or otherwise, saturdays tend to have more traffic. i stayed in after going to target, as there is still a wind chill advisory in effect. the Fox-plus channel has church services on sundays so i can watch on TV. in the mail was two more christmas cards, including the one from Fox-9, saying they liked the 'peanuts' card. on the 'movies!' channel i found 'stowaway', with shirley temple. during my walks i found 65 cents. i also made it to the liquor store and got a can of michelob, and this week drank the can of pabst with dinner, so there still are 5 beers waiting.