Library Selection Policy - its kind of a big deal.

I'm writing my paper for class, well taking a break from writing my paper for class, and am in need of some motivation to keep going. I finally found my angle so I know what to ramble about it's just the motivation to put the ramblings on paper that I'm lacking. Even though it's not really paper, more like 'on screen' and then upload it/submit it.

Aaannnd since I'm going through my notes that means more Library Goddess-isms.
- LG: "Who, When, What, Where and then we have another Who...ish" about citation
- LG: "That's why there are 800 books named 'Frog'!!.......I don't know where that example came from." since you can't put a copyright on a title
- LG: "The URL from hell." giant URL that I'm grateful we didn't have to copy down on paper
- LG: "You don't go up to the grocer and say, 'What the heck? Where are the beans?!'" I really wish I could remember what that was an example for. I think something about not having something in the library that we should have or something to that effect.
- Presenter: "Why do we collect statistics? Anyone?" *silence* "Okay!" that was funny. absolute silence. Reminded me of a few classes in college. Although that was usually the point in the lecture where the professor would either scream and do some weird gesture or jump on a table and just yell "hey!" Both took place in religion classes actually. The table yelling was from New Testament and the gesture was "Chicken Man!" when we were learning about Barak (thanks BFF) in Old Testament.

But I should be writing about censorship and gift policies!

Instead I'm jamming out to the Grey's musical episode soundtrack - now available on itunes - and cracking up everytime I hear Justin Chambers or Chandra Wilson sing. Not cause they're bad, they're actually quite good, I just can't see their characters singing. Or Sloan. Or Cristina. Or Meredith. Lexie sure. Maybe even Izzie. Actually, from the soundtrack, Ellen Pompeo and Chyler Leigh sound excellent. I'm impressed.

Selection policies are the backbone of every library! They can make or break you!

You know how sometimes there are random lyrics or quotes that come to you randomly during the day and just don't go away? Or is that again just me? All day I've been saying "You can call me Travie Clause minus the ho-ho." Granted it is the best line of the song but that still doesn't explain why it's stuck in my head. Oh well, at least it doesn't have a Scottish accent. "It's like graveyard jenga down here." I'm gonna have to find that on Amazon, see if they make it somewhere here in the states I can get it shipped from. It was only one season. But they should have it somewhere online.
Another line out of nowhere, "And why this frenzied chlorophyll's orgy starts in Spring is no enigma!" Which, if you get that reference without googling it, means you're either a big fan of Michelle Pfeiffer or have far too much time on your hands. Random random random. I love it even though it was spectacularly awful. In fact it got horrible reviews, which apparently means nothing to me as I'm a fan of it and Bonekickers and numerous other movies/bands that I won't list because I should be writing about selection policies and peer libraries instead.

"That's not my name" the Ting Tings 2008

I can honestly say I was a fan before they got famous famous. But that's also true for Hey Monday, Neon Trees and La Roux. Which I guess makes sense if you listen to a lot of Indie music. Since that's apparently rising to the top. It's either that or Lady Gaga and her electronic world. She's not bad. I am a fan of Ke$ha and she's got some electronic backgrounds as well.

Okay okay, back to writing about the importance of diversity in formats and topics.

Watermelon Watermelon Watermelon

Went to church and watched M&J sing. You know how some people, not me cause I sing, but some people, when they have to sing in front of people, they instead just mouth "watermelon watermelon watermelon"?? while the rest of the group does the actual singing? We were teasing my niece because we could hear my nephew singing but we couldn't hear her.

Magwilde from Bonekickers is still haunting me. Every thought in my head comes out in a Scottish accent. "It's like graveyard jenga down here." Driving me bonkers. I should record that line and put it as my ringtone. Or when she says "Identify yourself creepy caller." That'd be a good ringtone too. I don't even know what my regular ringtone is set as since I have specific ones for the people who actually call me. Oldest sisters is Queen cause its her favorite, or one of her favorites, Brother's is Star Wars, Second Sister's is Scissor Sisters, Father's (since he's started calling me randomly, I think he's bored out of his mind or something) is "Takin' Care of Business", Mom's is "Swingin'" by John Anderson (previously posted here My Life in Closed Captions: take these broken wings and learn to fly...), BFF has Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock (from the Proposal look for Ryan Reynolds singing "It Takes Two" on Youtube), High school friends have "Hey Ya" because it was our basketball theme song since Freshman year, Extended family has the Mario Bros theme song which is also frequently in my head......and I think that's really all the people that call me. Everyone else texts and that's just some weird beep sounding thing. Oh except work people. Maybe I should change that to 9-5 by Dolly Parton.

But thinking of the watermelon watermelon watermelon thing brought me to some of those songs that you think you know what they're saying or you just mumble it because they're singing so fast you have no idea what's going on. You know those ones?
Here's an example:
"One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies

It's highly likely that I posted this during 90s week. In fact I'm pretty sure that I did. But it's a good song and it goes with my theme so I'm posting it again.

or this one:

"Cherry Cola" Savage Garden

Not actual video but its the song that matters.

And right now they don't sound so fast. But when you're trying to sing them at karaoke in front of a bunch of people that completely changes.


Alright, now that I have my angle for my big paper, hooray!, I can go to bed and worry about the rest of it tomorrow. It's actually a big big angle so suddenly I'm not so worried about the 4 pages single spaced plus 1 page of intro. It's the citation in APA that's throwing me off. I'm used to MLA and it shouldn't be that big of a deal but it's still frustrating.


here's a bonus just for you...

Ryan Reynolds in the Proposal. Fantastic movie.

High School Never Ends

Just watched "Body of Proof" with Dana Delaney as an M.E. It's like a combination of "The Closer" and "Rizzoli and Isles". Amusing actually. She's got the personality of Brenda Lee Johnson and the abilities of Maura Isles. Looking forward to the next episode, on Sunday this time then back to Tuesdays.

And I'm waaayyyyy behind on my Greys but I will watch the musical episode cause I'm stoked. Sara Ramirez has an amazing voice - I'm not gonna overload you with spoilers and all that as you may be fans as well. She actually has an EP out now. Loving her version of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" check it out on itunes.

So, I was going to post "Bliss" by Muse but watched the video and since he's falling down this big hole that looks suspiciously like the one Darth Mall fell into when he died I decided it was morbid and depressing. And I'm staying away from morbid and depressing since I've already overloaded you with two of those videos this week and it's only Tuesday.
Insead, have some fun with Bowling For Soup. Love this song, major anthem actually.

See, it's only disturbing, not depressing or morbid. And it's true really.

have a good night.

If you can't work this equation then I guess I'll have to show you the door.

Slept in 'til 12 today. Was freakin' awesome. And shocking since Dad thinks sleeping in is 8AM. Which it's not, btw. But he was in his room napping and watching TV so I got to sleep in while Mom was in town.
Now I'm back at my apartment with the feeling that tomorrow is going to be nonstop since I work in the morning and at night and between the shifts I need need need to get my homework done. Like done done. Not like planned out done like I have right now. Although I'm still choosing between peer libraries to compare our policy against. And our policy seems pretty strong so I'm having trouble finding a weak point. Maybe my coworkers will have suggestions or ideas. They're all super smart.
Yet another place where I feel a bit like comic relief. Although my favorite patron says that I'm apparently a media expert because I was able to name a movie by just a slight description even though he searched for hours in our catalogue just to find it. My brother says that too. A couple of years ago we went to see this Mark Wahlberg movie "Max Payne" which you've probably never heard of but on the way back in the car he was rambling on about this movie that he couldn't think of the title but that it had came out the year before and it was just a one word title. I asked if it was "Traitor" and he was shocked. Said the same thing Favorite Patron said. So I've got something going for me if this whole library thing falls through.
That's another thing people keep asking me about is the library thing. I like both my jobs. I'm getting the degree because I want it and I think it's the smart thing to do. I like my class and my classmates so I don't mind it but everyone is all asking me what I'm going to do with the degree. Nothing. I don't want to be a supervisor. Sometimes I enjoy being just comic relief. Like Space Cadet says, you don't have to take anything home, once you leave work you leave work. Then just have to show up the next day. Although that was the same conversation where she called me dirt. Or no, she's dirt, I'm below dirt, "mining for minerals" because I have no power. But now I get to call her on it all the time. "She called me dirt!"

And we're done with the chicken fried rice (Friends), moving on.

"Say You'll Be There" by the Spice Girls

Here's your pop, gets stuck in your head all day song as promised.
I have no idea what's going on in this video either but at least it's not morbid with corpses and caskets. I do enjoy Emma's random surgical looking gloves though.

"I'll give you everything on this I swear just promise you'll always be there!"

Soy un perdedor

Does anyone else have this quirk where you hear an accent and then it's almost mandatory that you talk in that accent? Or is that just me? I think it's just me. You should have went to "New In Town" with myself and Amber squared, I couldn't stop talking in a Minnesotan accent for hours. They were laughing so hard and I was going bananas. My worst fear though is that everytime a foreigner comes in and asks for something and I answer that I'm answering back in that accent. Because that would be awful and awkward. But there's always that feeling like after they walk away where I'm like, I didn't do it did I?
Anyway, it's freakin' Magwilde and her Scottish accent that's been driving me bonkers. Even though it's a British show and she's supposedly a British archaeologist. Or maybe she's a Scot who works at a British University. It only lasted 6 episodes so they didn't explain that much. But yeah, Bonekickers, despite its awful reviews and thus its cancellation, it's really not that bad. Kinda cool actually with them talking about Excalibur, Joan of Arc, WW2, Knights Templar, the True Cross, Boudica, etc. But I'm a nerd.

Okay so this is one of those headspace songs that's completely anti-HeeHaw which of course was the first thing I got sucked into watching when I walked through the door. Give the man some free time and he gets a whole list of videos I'm supposed to watch while I'm here. And today's was hysterical, like these twin brothers were singing some song and I couldn't get through the thing with a straight face. Awful. I mean the song was okay but not the brothers with their feathered hair and their dancing with tamborines and guitars. I'll have to find it and link you to it cause seriously. I'd like to see you get through it with a straight face. But he's dad, so there will be plenty more tomorrow.
Back to the headspace, it's "Loser" by Beck, and this video is almost as morbid and disturbing as yesterday's She & Him. I could make a week out of morbid and disturbing music videos but I don't think it would end well. So I'll try to leave it as these two and post some sort of annoying, Pop, stuck in your head all day, jam out song instead.


Oh right, Awesome day at work, we have this cataloguer who works upstairs a few hours a week and right before opening she yelled, "Let's take 'em down!" Jumpstart to a very fast and quite frantic day. There wasn't a lot of time to sit down but I've found that's been happening a lot lately, maybe it's cause summer is approaching or something.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully be able to sleep in, and not wake up at 12AM thinking its 12 PM then freak out and start getting ready for work just to realize its still pitch dark out so I'm not actually late. Which is another quirk as of late. So yeah, hopefully not that for tomorrow, I'm aiming more towards sleep or like naps. And watching TV. and working on my paper due Saturday cause I probably won't get a lot done during the week.

"I'm a driver, I'm a winner. Things are gonna change I can feel it."

25 peppers to 1 salt

Apparently pepper is healthy for you whereas salt is unhealthy. So, when sprinkling something with seasoning it is better for you if you choose pepper over salt. Who knew? So she did 25 pepper shakes and 1 salt shake. Awesomeness.

Gotta love family. My aunt and uncle moved here into this like awesome house, it's seriously impressive. We all went out to dinner then came back for a tour of the house. Lots of people. But awesome house. I'm super jealous. It was funny though because they were talking about how much stuff they had and then they were like, "the only thing worse would be moving your parents." Because seriously, my parents have a lot of stuff. Model trains, old cars, beanie babies, beer mugs, who knows what else is in that basement. Madness. They're never moving. We won't let them. Seriously.

Irony is that I was just talking about my aunt and uncle today at work. They live in Iowa. I used to go over to their house and play pool then go to Adventureland and all that. Ride all the roller coasters. Fun times. My uncle used to go on all of them with me, we liked to be in the front. I would like scream at the top of the hill going down and he would just put his hands up, haha.

After dinner/house tour we went back to my sister's house where I was foosball champion yet again. Undefeated, take that! Soulja Boy and The Chad totally dominated.

Today was a good day at work, short day actually so I mostly boxed up donations instead of working more on my project. Maybe Space Cadet will be there this week to help again.

Quotes of the day:
Uncle: "Where is your food?"
Aunt: "We ordered an ostrich and they had to go find one."
It took a while for our food because they were like out of whatever so we had to reorder. But it was funny because he couldn't hear what she was saying anyway because we were yelling across to the other side of the room. There were a lot of people at the table plus the game on.

Me: "You shocked the grapes?"
My other aunt and uncle have grapes in their garden but apparently they moved them or something and they're not doing so well so my aunt was like, "Yeah, they're in shock." Grapes? Really? Sad day.

Magwilde: "It's like graveyard jenga down here."
Bonekickers, they found a tank buried with dead bodies inside.

There are more quotes, mostly Austin Powers quotes from foosball or "Listen Plastic Man" from Red which I would say to Joe when he was snarky.

Music rec: "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here" She & Him

Although I did laugh hysterically at 1:02 this video completely and totally freaks me out. Seriously. And I love Zooey Deschanel, I think she's fantastic, as is the song. But what the?

Tomorrow means work 'til 6 then head to the farmhouse to take stuff to the parentals and stay over. Catch up on my DVR. Possible relaxation. Or being forced to watch HeeHaw reruns. Which really is the opposite of relaxation. Dad and his DVR. Crimeony.

"It's not a secret, why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf."

"Who buries a tank?"

Bonekickers. It's actually not that bad, even though it got terrible reviews. It's actually kind of amusing at times. Hooray for the BBC. "Result!"

Made some more progress on my jP project with Space Cadet. We're basically going through and making sure they're all ours which takes forever since our name isn't on all of the spine labels so you have to open them up and look in the back. First we did Z-P, today was started on A-E. Basically we started at the end because neither one of us wanted to do the B's. Berestain, Brown, Bridwell, Bourgeois, Bemelman. But I got sick of going backwards so I braved the wild and started at the beginning. And I found one that wasn't ours, almost did a dance! I think I did do a dance actually. But we're trying to get it all sorted before summer reading starts because after that starts it would be hopeless with all the kids going through all the time.

Now I'm headed to my sisters to reclaim my title as foosball champion and watch basketball. I fell behind on my bracket, I hope Duke picked it up last night or I'm toast. Oh well, NC and KS are still in it. I think. Like I said, behind.

Song for the night "How Long" by the Eagles

my dad would be so proud.
it's been stuck in my head so Tada! Here's the live performance from the CMA's in 2007.


"Rock yourself to sleep..."

Stars, golden stars!

There was this professor in college who gave us this assignment that wasn't really followed up on, it was just in the syllabus and not mentioned in class so when we showed up for class that day she was like, "did anyone write the paper?" and a few of us raised our hands and she replied, "Stars! Golden stars!" then moved on. It was hysterical. Didn't even collect the papers. I think it was like a one page essay or something so not that big of a deal but it was hilarious and that line has just kind of stuck with me.

Today was fantastic. The day actually started on a high note, my Glee-loving boss and Space Cadet said I deserved a gold star for shifting books - we had this big hole in the 613 section aka health and wellness so I moved books so there wasn't a gap, and like every freaking book fell on me cause I'm a klutz and I could just hear everyone at the desk giggling with every book that fell on me. But I got to show off my handywork today to Space Cadet since it's finished and my Glee-loving boss literally stuck a gold star on my forehead. I felt special. But I moved it to my nametag since I had this weird feeling that this would be the day when someone like my sister would come in just out of nowhere and be like, why is there a gold star on your forehead?

Then at the other branch, Boss's boss's boss told me I did good yesterday at the meeting. Almost jumped for joy but held it in as that would probably be unprofessional. Anyway, got to see my favorite patron and we talked about going to the derby in a couple of weeks then had a lot of fun with my coworkers. They're all great, I love the staff at both places really. They are a major reason I love my job. Jobs.

Quote of the day
- "I'm too mellow to be one fellow. Shoulda been a dozen," (favorite patron).
- Then of course there was an interesting conversation about dresses and cowboy boots that I won't repeat. Gonna be a fun wedding, I'm stoked.

Music rec for the day - Maroon 5 "Harder to Breathe" 2003

Since I'm on kind of a Maroon 5 kick, cool video as well.

Think I'm gonna catch up on my missed shows from this week, I love Hulu it's fantastic. Not sure if they were new though, I did get to watch Castle which was hilarious, special guest star central seriously. So basically just going to have to see if Harry's Law or NCIS was new. I know Glee wasn't. And I think I missed Bones for a couple of weeks now so will have to look into that. Yay for a slow and relaxing night, that's new.

"Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe..."

You are the only exception...even though I haven't met you yet.

Or maybe I have...hmmmm, the possibilites.

Time: 8:09 PM
Location: Couch
Attitude: Elated. Amused. Excited.

Today flew by pretty fast, mostly cause I was all over the place. We were pretty busy. The meeting with my boss's boss's boss went well thankfully. She's pretty awesome and everyone was able to be there so I'm actually thrilled, plus got all my questions answered. Now I can find a peer library's policies and compare for the paper, then I'll be done with it. Well, I have to physically write the paper but I have most of the stuff planned out already so it won't take too long. But it was fun, meeting with coworkers and talking about work stuff which is totally new for me. Plus they called it my "stomping ground" so that made me smile.


Quotes of the day:
- "....or at least eat cheese...." friend about mice, long story
- "You said it in one sentence, they said it in four..." meeting about library policies
- "I'll take a side of manic any day." an even longer story

Songs of the night: I'd post the songs that were stuck in my head all day but I don't want to get them stuck in yours aka "Yeah, yeah the jury...yeah, yeah the jury...." which is from a play called the Trial of the Big Bad Wolf. I was in kindergarten and was a jury member. It was an all female jury and we fawned over the wolf because he was so charming. Now everytime someone talks about a jury or says the word "jury" that comes to mind and goes on repeat.
First up Paramore's "The Only Exception"


and on a completely opposite note you get Michael Buble's "Haven't Met You Yet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJmKkU5POA
which you're gonna have to actually visit youtube for since it won't let me embed it. sad day.

Plans for tonight:
Making food without burning anything (i say it as a plan being all optimistic instead of listing it as just an idea)
Watching Bonekickers which I got from the library.
Then sleep. Lots and lots of sleep.


have a good one.

yeah yeah the jury.......yeah yeah the jury......yeah yeah the jury.....the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth....yeah yeah the jury......yeah yeah the jury....

take these broken wings and learn to fly...

I love Tuesdays. Broken up day, go in in the morning, work for three hours then run errands, take a nap, clean more of the apartment, go back in to work then come home and crash. I'm diggin' in. Just thought I should mention it.
Tomorrow will be a longer day, 9-5 then a meeting with my boss's boss's boss. Serious stuff. With a few members of my class to talk about our selection policy and its history. Totally gonna look like comic relief. Again. In front of my boss's boss's boss. No pressure. But I get to see my friends at the other branch, who I feel like I haven't seen in forever even though it's only been since like Friday.
Yes, I'm a nerd. Deal.

I feel like I should post this since I'm on a Maroon 5 kick and I love Glee.

Diggin' the whole pounding the table thing. Was stoked to see them do Maroon 5. Is it me or are there different Warblers in every episode? Like I know the council. And that blonde one, I think his name is Ryker or something. And then the dude that does bass. But everyone else looks new to me, and far too similar to Blaine.
And I'm sorry but I totally love Mercedes' "Hell to the No" song. Was totally crackin' up the whole time. "Loser like Me" is cool as well.
And hooray for Pink! I totally screamed...big fan of that song.

And yes it is mandatory that I post this song. Because I love it.

We attempted it in high school but it wasn't as good as Kurt and these guys' version. Yay Beatles.
And all I can think of when I see Kurt in this outfit is Johnny Cash as the Man in Black. I'll spare you the spouting of "Cocaine Blues" lyrics. Probably not appropriate anyway. The benefits of older parents is growing up listening to artists like Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, etc.

Speaking of childhood music, here's a favorite:

1983 John Anderson's "Swingin'" was kind of a family song. Ask the older sisters. Pretty sure we have some interesting/embarrassing/blackmail material recordings from them... "phone.....pie.....fry.....garden hose...."

"I've seen the future and its name is Marco"

Time: 8:58
Location: Couch
Attitude: Tired

I've learned that there is no such thing as a normal day. Or a normal schedule. Every day is different, or turns out different than planned. I like it, it keeps things fresh. I'll never get bored. That's new.

So, the awesome weekend-o-relaxation is over and it's back to work for me. Today was sort of a random schedule, 9-10 as one thing 10-11 as another 11-12 back to the first thing then 3-8 as the second thing. Fun times. But the weekend was worth it, got to see the BFF and catch up - she puts up with all my crap, what more could I ask for really? Plus got to watch a lot stuff I had checked out which is good cause everything comes at once so it's been building up.

Tonight is Castle - "Richard Castle you are neither trained nor professional" - I love that Lanie is a soap opera junkie, that's fantastic. Yikes, special guest star central! Was that Jane Seymore?!
Tomorrow I'll catch up on the rest aka Harry's Law, Glee and all that - if it's new, I'm behind on life, woops. Will look it up tomorrow.

Music Rec:
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins "You Are What You Love"

love it, she's actually pretty good live

It's a mad mad world...and the Vengabus is coming.

Or a mad mad rush in the library. Serious business today man. Lots of patrons, not as many workers. Never a dull moment. Ever. But that's the fun part, cause there's stuff to do instead of just sitting around.
Contrary to popular belief: Libraries, not so quiet. Or slow. People are everywhere, all the time.
But it's Friday! And I have the weekend off! The whole weekend! From both places! I think that's a first since like Christmas. Major shocker. But I love my job. Jobs. So I have no problem admitting that I'm likely turning into a workaholic.

And, in the spirit of Friday I'll hit you with a party anthem.

I love this video because it's so random. The hippie bus, dancing on a cliff, The Village People, Elvis? Awesomeness.
And yes you probably know the song from the Worlds of Fun commercials. But I know it from the Saltdogs games cause they play it every time we score.
And my fondest memory of this song, I say fondest with a sarcastic tone, was when we were up like 4-0 and every time it played my sister-in-law would yell, "Who sings this song again?" and I would yell back "The Vengaboys!" Every time! I was like, what is her problem? Did she forget already? See, my siblings and myself go every year to a Saltdogs game in August to celebrate birthdays, preferably on a Wednesday when it's dollar hot dog night, and yes there is drinking. So it took me four scores to figure out she was testing my coherency. Yes I was sober. And yes it was still the Vengaboys who sang the song.

I'm actually very excited for this weekend since the BFF is coming over and crashing at my place. That means watching movies, eating good food, staying up late, sleeping in late (if she'll let me, freakin' early riser), and general relaxation.

So, I hope you all enjoy yours as much as I'll enjoy mine. Have a good one.

"Lackey's making a name for himself!"

Totally dominated tonight at foosball. And it was on their table! With Soulja-boy as my defender and The Chad as my goalie, we were undefeated. Beat my brother in law and sister with M on my team, that was like wicked sweet. And I took on M&J by myself, which was kinda funny. But yeah, Soulja-boy and The Chad and then I had 3 lackeys that occasionally scored but not enough that I gave them individual names. Oldest sister has all of people named, as does Mandy so it's kinda funny. But I came in and dominated. Got some good quotes too, aside from the title.
M: "You stole my happy!" she yelled at her dad when she lost, it was hysterical. She's too smart for her own good.
J would do a dance every time he scored, "Bubby put the ball in the hole!!"

Anyway, worked then dinner and foosball plus watched basketball. My bracket is still in pretty good shape, aside from the Vanderbilt loss, that's gonna set me back. But still picked Duke to win, even though they're not my favorite they're still gonna win it. Then vs. Kansas in the final. NC and Florida are my other 2 final four. We'll see how that goes.

And say yes to more Maroon 5. This is in my top ten most listened to songs on itunes. It's actually number 6 which is impressive with how many songs I have. 331 times since 2008...hmmm...
Won't Go Home Without You


Tomorrow means work plus finding parking, ugh freakin' circus. Then BFF will be here for the weekend. Hooray for relaxation!

Have a good night.

Are you sure you want to forge the river?

Name that video game reference.

Got off early today then came home and cleaned. Shocker. Me being productive after work? Never. So this is new. And probably won't last. But at least my apartment is clean...er. I'm being OCD about it again, but it's bigger than I thought it was. I'm doing it one room at a time, I'm finished with the living room and the kitchen, next is the bedroom, bathroom and closet. Yikes.
I borrowed some of that dusting spray stuff from my sister, I think she was shocked. It's not that I'm a slob. I'm actually pretty neat, but it takes a lot of motivation for me to like scrub and dust and like clean clean, you know? Well, I've had the motivation. And got more today! I thought the whole bug thing would be over by now! Nope. Apparently they plan to continue giving me crap until it gets old. Which, in a library, could possibly mean forever. I'm toast.


Okay, here's another shocking statement. Congratulation Sarah, you're right. Save this post you won't hear/read it again for a very long time. But Maroon 5 does, in fact, rock. Seriously. Here's my new favorite.



Think that's all for tonight, kinda exhausted from all the cleaning. Gonna shower, watch some more SVU and then crash. These library dvd's are kickin' my butt, they all come in at once!!
Tomorrow means work then family then more cleaning then sleep. Hopefully in that order.

And yes, I did forge the river frequently. Paying that dude to do whatever it is he did so that we didn't drown was always expensive and I only remember not making it like once. Oregon Trail. If you didn't get that by now.

"Every time I wind up back at your door....."

A night for mashups - blame the Ides

Beware the Ides of March....ps happy birthday smo!

Quote of the day:
Me: "Hey marks not dead right? I had a nightmare he died just making sure its just a dream."
Mom: "He looked alive an hour ago"
Me: "K good just checking"
You know you're off to a bad start when you have to text your mom in the morning to check if someone died.

Time: 8:27 PM
Location: Couch
Attitude: Amused...and tired...but mostly amused

Luckily the rest of the day was better. I've started these projects at the smaller branch, I went through all the jnonfiction and opened like every book to make sure it was ours because the bulk of them don't have it written on the spine. And we have a lot. So it took more than one day. But I found 11 that weren't ours, 1 in transit since 2009. Today I started on the jfiction. Tomorrow I will finish that and start on the jP's aka picture books aka the most we have in any section. And they're tiny. Should be fun. Cause I'm crazy. But everything looks all shiny and pretty!...for like an hour... Then kids come and that's all gone. I feel like I should take pictures to document that at one point it was all pretty and shiny.

Songs of the night...hmm... I'm feeling like a mashup, maybe two.

DJ Lobsterdust is awesome at these mashups, this is my favorite because it's soooo random. UNK vs. Avril Lavigne vs. Toni Basil...seriously? But it works! and it's sweet, you gotta check it out.

I love 2:24 just because you're not expecting it after watching everything else so far... haha. even the videos are mashed, it's awesome. and yes, i do love the "girlfriend" video by avril lavigne. it's fantastic. you should check out the full version if you have time.

I posted this one a while ago but I'm posting it again cause I think it's worth it.
DJ Earworm 2009 "Blame it on the pop"

pure awesomeness. he has one for 2008 and 2010 as well you can check out here
http://www.youtube.com/user/djearworm?blend=1&ob=4

short day tomorrow, woohoo! then i can finish season 1 of svu which i have out and its due like soon. i'm working on it. awesomeness so far.
also got registered for my next class, gonna be reading alllllooooot of young adult books but it'll be worth it.

aannnd i'm out.

Creepy Crawlers Chaos

You know when you see bugs and you get that feeling like they're all over and you get all itchy? That was me today, and my coworkers didn't help, just kept talking about the bugs, mean. It was disgusting so I came home and took a shower then started cleaning my apartment, not like my mother is coming, throw everything in the closet kind of cleaning but like OCD style cleaning.

Tomorrow is split shift, gonna go grocery shopping between then take a nap. Yay naps. Think I'm gonna sleep now.

Music Rec - "We Used to be Friends" The Dandy Warhols

love this song, you probably won't but at least listen through to the refrain, its worth it.

Pretty Fly for a White Guy at War over Groove is in the Heart and the Fancy Rockafeller Skank 90s Music Week Day Seven

"Yes I said amped!" Mike and Molly
Catching up on my DVR, I love the dumb sister. Fantastic.

So, went to The King's Speech with Mom and awesome sister-in-law for Mom's birthday. It's mad snow out there now. We didn't have a scraper so I pulled a Macgyver and used a cd case, in bare hands it was super cold.

Here's the last day of 90s music week with the bonus honorable mention list.
Hope you had a great one, I enjoyed it!
1. "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" Offspring 1998


2. "Rockafeller Skank" Fatboy Slim 1998


3. "Fancy" by Reba McEntire 1991


4. "War" Rush Hour 1998


5. "Groove is in the Heart" Deee-Lite 1990



Honorable mentions:"Losing my Religion" REM
"Walkin' on the Sun" Smashmouth
"Just My Imagination" The Cranberries
"Meet in the Middle" Diamond Rio
"Daddy's Money" Ricochet
"Papa Loved Mama" Garth Brooks
"I Like It, I Love It" Tim McGraw
"You Ain't Much Fun" Toby Keith
"Whatta Man" Salt-N-Pepa
"Believe" Cher
"Macarena" Los Del Mar
"She's So High" Tal Bachman
"We Like to Party" Vengaboys!
"Let's Get Loud" J-Lo
"Head Over Feet" Alanis Morissette
"Run-Around" Blues Traveler
"Lovefool" The Cardigans
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" Deep Blue Something
"All For You" Sister Hazel
"Someday" Sugar Ray
"Istanbul" They Might Be Giants
"If You Can Only See" Tonic
"One Headlight" The Wallflowers

My Own Worst Enemy is Out of My Head - 90s Music Week Day Six

It was nineties night at the Derby, seriously. I got some inspiration for my next post. Final score Maxines 93 Omaha 62. So, kind of low score for the Maxines but acceptable as its a rivalry. We'll take the win. There was less cowbell than last year, which was appreciated. Last year the ORG fans were like blasting us out with the stupid cowbells so our friend yelled "check out the scoreboard!"

Quote of the night: "I'm a chair dancer."
"What?"

1. "My Own Worst Enemy" Lit 1999

I actually kinda like the video, it's humorous.

2. "Out of My Head" Fastball 1999

You had to know there were ending up on here sometime, right? Good song.

3. "That Don't Impress Me Much" Shania Twain 1998

Major memory with this song is listening to it repeatedly on the way to like I don't remember which vacation it was, maybe yellowstone or something, but we played it on repeat, and my cousin and I would like sing it out and Justin was going nuts cause we would point to him at the "Just in case" line.

4. "Hail Holy Queen" Sister Act 1992

Cause I posted something from the sequel already, here's the turning point in the first movie. Reverend Mother is pissed... I totally jam out to this one every time.

5. "Blue" Eiffel 65 1998

Awesome song.

Loved today, got to sleep in, had fun class with the library goddess, hit up the derby with some friends, was excellent.

Everybody has So Much To Say about Army Spice and Summertime Blues...now Roll to Me - 90s Music Week Day Five

Fun day today, worked then hung out with friends and family. Relaxation, hooray! Got to watch my niece and nephew act in their school play, and not to be bias or anything, but they were totally the best. Just saying, totally stole the show. My nephew was the bad guy, got to wear a suit and a monocle, so cute! My niece was in cahoots with her brother, which was hysterical, but they were both awesome. Oldest sister says nephew takes after me. I called him a stud. Then asked if that made me a stud. She said sure.
Tomorrow is class then derby then sleep! Cause I need sleep. Which is what I will be doing right after this is posted. Hope you all have a good weekend.

Same template as previous days

1. "So Much to Say" Dave Matthews Band 1996

Awesome, so sad I missed them when they came to NE, this is my favorite of theirs.

2. "Roll to Me" Del Amitri 1995

Not exactly the best quality but its the song that matters. But first can I say, um what the? Can someone explain this video to me, seriously?

3. "Summertime Blues" Alan Jackson 1994

Remake but still classic.

4. "Army Spice" Spice World 1997

Just because I can. Love this scene. Yes I'm a fan, get over it.

5. "Everybody" Backstreet Boys 1997

Yet another weird video, but i'll go with it. And yes I'm posting this because I got flack for posting Nsync. Here ya go ya canteloupe.

I'll give you Shoo-tanoo!

If you Write this Down I'll Be There For You and Buy You a New Life because I'm Jealous(y) and I Want You Back - 90s music week Day Four

Not a good day for Team Awesome. But we still rock. And derby is Saturday so life is good.

Think you've got the template down by now, if not, scroll down a post.

1. "I Will Buy You a New Life" Everclear 1997

love it.

2. "Jealousy" Natalie Merchant 1995

song is still frequently in my head. mostly because i sing it when i see it. awesome song.

3. "Write this Down" George Strait 1999

So you'll remember what I forgot to say. I had one of those moments today. Still haven't remembered what it is I was gonna ask her. He really is the king of country.

4. "I'll Be There For You" the Rembrandts 1994

Did they sing anything other than this song? Did they have to really?
Love this song, and the video. Friends is 3rd in my top 5. Quote something I'll tell you the episode.

5. "I Want You Back" N'Sync 1998

I'm trying really really hard not to laugh at this video.....
It's not working.
But I totally still jam out to the song. I was more of an N'Sync fan than a BSB one, sorry BFF and favorite Aussie, it's true. I did like "Everybody" but other than that, N'Sync all the way! haha.

An Unbelievable Barbie Girl whose Favorite Mistake is to be Never There while they Say a Little Prayer 90s Music Day Three

I think I used the word "Cheeseball" to describe myself about 50 times within 5 minutes. Sad day. I'm filling out this reviewer profile thing to be put on the website and I've filled it out and deleted it like 3 times already because I feel like a total cheeseball. Ramblings and Recommendations on here is one thing, on there I have to be all professional and sound smart and all that stuff. It's like a fulltime job. Which technically, it is. Black in the Crevices people, Black in the Crevices. My Life in Closed Captions: "I'm just coloring in the chicken feathers."

Quotes of the day:
"I'm gonna go all tea party..." (supervisor choosing book about history of america during staff meeting this morning
"Cream of whatever...no chunks." second sister describing hospital food

Day Three
1. Awesome rock song (probable crossover with pop category)
2. Cool pop/rap song (probable crossover with rock category)
3. Mandatory Country song - since that's what I was mostly listening to in that time of life.
4. TV tie-in - soundtracks and all that
5. And a yes, I did listen to this song and do continue to when it comes up on my ipod, I don't care if it makes me a total dweeb.

1. "Never There" Cake 1998

Love this song.

2. "My Favorite Mistake" Sheryl Crow 1998

While I'm not wild about the video I am about the song. It was my favorite for years but got edged out of its top spot by Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody" which I already posted during favorites week (another 90s song) so I won't double post it. Even though it's fantastic.

3. "Unbelievable" Diamond Rio 1998

Another old favorite. I love all their stuff, my family actually has our own lyrics to "Meet in the middle", maybe I will post them later in the week.

4. "I Say a Little Prayer" My Best Friend's Wedding 1997

Haven't seen this movie in forever but this is the best part by far.

5. "Barbie Girl" by Aqua 1997

Aw the flashbacks. Mostly ones of high school, me and Smo laying in our neighbors bunk beds listening to this song on repeat even though the neighbors weren't in their room. I mean, they were originally. But then they left. And somehow we ended up staying. It was a long time ago, we actually just talked about that this weekend. "How did we get there?" "Why did we stay?" I just remember one of the upper classmen walking by, seeing us and going, "This isn't your room..."

And she's out!!...for the night.

Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss Can't Be Wrong - 90's music Day Two

Time: 2:30
Location: Couch
TV show on in background: Law and Order SVU season one, woohoo library dvds!
Attitude: Tired, and some dude is drilling something nextdoor so I can't nap. Mean.

Day Two, let's get started.
1. Awesome rock song (probable crossover with pop category)
2. Cool pop/rap song (probable crossover with rock category)
3. Mandatory Country song - since that's what I was mostly listening to in that time of life.
4. TV tie-in - soundtracks and all that
5. And a yes, I did listen to this song and do continue to when it comes up on my ipod, I don't care if it makes me a total dweeb.

1. "Phantom of the Opera Song" Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 1999

Think this is a fanmade video but it works.
I actually learned about them from my younger cousin when we were going somewhere like years and years ago. And since then I got my even younger cousin hooked on them as well. They do remakes of all sorts of songs, Dolly Parton, Billy Joel, Elton John, Dixie Chicks, they even cover Rocky Horror! "Over the Rainbow" is good as well as "Ghost Riders in the Sky", actually they're all good. Hope you check them out.

2. "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" Spin Doctors 1992

Pop-ish rock, I'm going with it.

3. "Sold" John Michael Montgomery 1995

This has an extended "let's dance around like idiots" segment at the end. Hysterical.

4. "You Don't Own Me" First Wives Club 1996

and yes I know the dance.

5. "Amish Paradise" Weird Al Yankovich 1996

I'm thinking he needs to make a comeback. Haven't heard anything out of him since "White and Nerdy" - another awesome song. I also enjoy his polka songs, the horoscope song and of course "The Saga Begins" aka the Star Wars song.

Rendezvous then I'm through with you - 90's music week Day One

Time: 8:39 PM
Location: Couch
Attitude: Amused

Woohoo, 90's music! I'm a fan. So, I'm making a week out of it. Deal.
I'm taking the week to post some of my favorite 90's music. Since there is so much of it you might be overloaded a bit. To be fair, it was ten years of awesome music...and some not so awesome music. I'll try to cut it down to 5 songs per post. Yes that is cut down.

Okay, Day One, I'll hit you with the template.
1. Awesome rock song (probable crossover with pop category)
2. Cool pop/rap song (probable crossover with rock category)
3. Mandatory Country song - since that's what I was mostly listening to in that time of life.
4. TV tie-in - soundtracks and all that
5. And a yes, I did listen to this song and do continue to when it comes up on my ipod, I don't care if it makes me a total dweeb.

Okay, let's get started.
1. "Inside Out" by Eve 6 1998

Big at the time, they had some other good ones as well, "Promise", "Anytime" and "Here's to the Night"
2. "One Week" Barenaked Ladies 1998

Used to totally try to keep up with them, it's a lot easier now that I know all the words, haha.
3. "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" Travis Tritt 1992

Flashbacks.
4. "Oh Happy Day" Sister Act 2 1993

Look closely and you'll see young versions of Lauren Hill and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Plus Whoopi in a habit. Awesome. Love this movie.
5. "Wannabe" Spice Girls 1996

Yes I do love the Spice World movie as well. Favorite girl band growing up. Seriously.

okay, end day one.

You Drive Me Crazy 'til I'm Shattered

This weekend was a bit like madness - awesome one minute and the next total crap. Yesterday I actually got "all-hail"d by a coworker, she fake bowed and everything, it was amusing. Apparently I'm the go-to tech geek when virtual services has the day off. That was one of the highlights. One of the lowlights? Coworker calling in sick and us running the whole main library with a 4 person team. Let's put it this way, there was never a dull moment. Ever. Because there was no downtime. But at least the day flew by. And my supervisor came through unscathed. Barely. Felt bad for him, he was so stressed, but he pulled it off grandly.

So, to go along with the whirlwind of a weekend, I give you Shakin' Stevens!
Am I so weird to know this song? My partner in Delayed...Reaction knew it too but from when he was overseas. So we did it for karaoke a while ago...wow...karaoke, haven't done that in a while. Add that to the hobbies favorites week post. And killing plants. Not that it's my favorite but it's definitely been a hobby lately.
Anyway, here's "You Drive Me Crazy" by Shakin' Stevens.

Diggin' the whole dancing around in jeans thing. It's very George Michael. But I'm pretty sure he came before George Michael. The majority of Shaky's music came late 70's/early 80's. I think George Michael was more late 80's/early 90's.

Yes, I'm aware that this next song is nothing like the first one, but I said the weekend was madness so this post shall too be madness!
"Shattered" by Trading Yesterday

This is version two, the original version is just piano from 2:14 to 3:23, no vocal or guitar. Both are good but this is the one that came up when I searched therefore this is the one I'm posting. Love it, actually had it as my myspace song. Think it still might be my myspace song. Should probably check/update that sooner or later.

In other news:
-I attempted to watch the pilot of The Tudors but wasn't as enthused about it as I thought I would be. Everyone that I've talked to about it loves it, I just couldn't get into it.
-Thinking about doing another themed week, maybe best 90's music or 80's music or something. Thoughts?

Band of Gold

super tired so here's a music rec for you before i crash and burn.

random i know. but it was on my playlist tonight, i actually prefer anna nalick's version.
out for the night, early morning and long day tomorrow.

I'm talking to you Pam Smidley!

Okay, so I posted a link to this in my favorites week youtube post but it's been stuck in my head today so I figured I would post the whole thing this time.



"And she said Mama, why are there snowflakes? And I said Crystal, because of you."

You know it's not a good sign when you get not one but two calls from family at work. Today was not fun. But Smo is here so it's cool. We watched Hot in Cleveland season 1, some Boy Meets World, and now RED plus eating burgers and chinese, it's awesome. Now she's on the phone with another classmate here in town. Aww, the memories from high school.

Aannnd she's out of here.

Mayberry meets Star Trek

I'm a High-Tech Redneck. George Jones, look it up.

Time: 8:18 PM
Location: Couch
Attitude: Excited

Work today was fun, got to work with the QofA this morning which was awesome since I haven't seen her in like a week. Then I came back in tonight for two hours so I spent the afternoon cleaning my apartment/watching murder she wrote season 1 cause it was due like today/doing laundry/working on my project.
Almost finished with the project, I'll try to get it all shiny and published by late tonight or early tomorrow afternoon as it is due Saturday night. I don't want her going all "I'm disappointed" on me, I enjoy my 100 percent. Besides, no one else has posted theirs yet so I think I'm okay. Plus I researched this one like researched researched and interviewed my coworkers. I hope my chart doesn't suck. On paper it looks like a total disaster mess, but that's what the computer is for, to make it all shiny and pretty.

Anyway, I'm totally stoked now cause tonight Smo aka my high school roommate aka the Alex Munday to my Dylan Sanders (or my Helen Zaas, which if you haven't seen Full Throttle won't make sense) there are more of the "aka"s and "to my"s but I'll leave it there since she will be here in minutes. Anyway, totally stoked cause yeah she's coming to stay, woohoo!

Work tomorrow morning, then will spend afternoon/night with high school friends. Yowza! yes, that was a Bones impression Amber, I can hear Emily Deschanel's voice in my head. And recorded on my phone, cause it was hysterical.


Aaannd, I'm out. Have a good night!

This vampire bat, This inhuman beast...

She oughtta be locked up, And never released.
This song has been stuck in my head since this morning when Sensei asked a girl about her dalmation coat. I'm going bananas.



I love Tallulah Bankhead. And that they based Cruella after her. That's fantastic. The bad girl of show business back in the 1930s-40s, she was an all-around actress, theater mostly but also movies, radio, and tv. She was known for her deep voice (calling everyone "Dahling") and um, well, we'll go with "rebellious" personality. That's the nice way of putting it. She was kind of a bitch. But she loved to party and smoke and do drugs and drink - her last word was "bourbon" or "codeine...bourbon" to be more specific - and she had an on-going rivalry with Bette Davis, they hated each other. But she had some of the best one-liners.
When seeing a former lover for the first time in years - "I thought I told you to wait in the car."

-"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

-"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."

-"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

About Bette Davis -"Don't think I don't know who's been spreading gossip about me...After all the nice things I've said about that hag. When I get hold of her, I'll tear out every hair of her mustache!"

I've been a fan of hers for a while but watching that clip brought it all back.
If you have time you should check out her "Big Show" interview with Marlene Dietrich. Hysterical back and forth. I'll find it for you.
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

"Is this a dagger I see before me..." "THIRTY-TWO?!"
And don't ask about the dolls, I have no idea. I mean, obviously the redhead on the left is Tallulah, she smoked over a hundred packs a day.

Another one to check out is her duet with Jack Carson.
"Baby It's Cold Outside"

Hilarious.

Both available on itunes btw and my ipod, shameless plug.

But today was good. Got some ideas for my project due Saturday. The beauty of working with smart people. Not that it's rubbing off on me or anything, but they do give great tips. And Team Awesome was reunited for a few hours so that was exciting. Aka me and Girlscout. We don't get to work together very much so opening with her is always fun.
Tomorrow is halfday plus homework plus the possibility of going back to the white walls/sterylized equipment, but that depends on what mom and oldest sister have to say.

"Is that your age darling...or your shoe size?"

"But I don't feel like dancin, no sir, no dancin' today."

Okay, I'm being lazy today and just hitting you with a music rec. You've read my rambles all week I feel like I should give you time off.
Although I did go to the dentist today, no cavities, yay for a perfect record. We got to discuss my big red x in front of the desk moment when I got to fill out the forms. One of the questions was if I have ever had a reaction to novacaine. I should have put yes in big red bold letters.

Here's the Scissor Sisters' "I don't feel like dancin" which clearly he does because he dances during the entire video. But whatever. And if you like this one I strongly recommend you check out "Take your mama" which is another one of my favorites.

My second sister got me hooked on them one summer when we were camping. The video is a little bizarre at times but I actually immensely enjoy it. I think the stop action thing is kinda cool, plus his purple outfit man, that's just awesome.