That's what Diana Ross said.

Okay, can't have another hour and a half long post like last night's as it's far too late for that and I need to be sleeping as of right now.

Staff meeting in the morning and it's generally a good idea to be coherent during those.

Today went from frantic to fantastic.

So, I got stuck in my parking lot - again - this time I was able to reverse my way through it. Which freaked me out but then at least I was awake. Then when I get there the security guard is like, "whoa, you look nice today" cause I had dressed up for class afterward.

You know it's bad when the security guard notices. I was tempted to say it was laundry day except tomorrow's gonna be more of the same.

Speaking of class - it was awesome. We got to tour the capitol library and see the secret passageways.

This was another one of those frantic rushing things cause I made it all the way there then realized I'd left my homework in my locker so I had to go all the way back to work and then all the way back to the capitol. The amusing part of that being that I was running and I passed these people on the bus stop on the way to grab the homework from my locker and then I ran passed them to get back to the capitol and the looks on their faces were priceless, like, "wait, didn't you just go that way?"

Glad I got there early, otherwise I'd be screwed but I've already got tomorrow's homework printed and sitting in my car so I'm ready.

Here's some history for you I picked up today. Originally the capitol was in Omaha but then it was moved to Lincoln however, they didn't want to move the capitol's library to Lincoln so a bunch of people went there in the dead of night, loaded up all the books, put them in a wagon and brought them to Lincoln.

Four days later - yeah, a whole four days - some dude notices and goes to the Mr. Boss Man asking "Where's the library?" "It's in Lincoln." "Bring it back."

Seriously? The library is gone and it's not noticed for four days?

Afterward I headed out to see the boyfriend. We watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang -with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. Totally random and jumped from point to point but it was interesting.

Much like Downey Jr. himself.



I'm wondering how much is improv vs. how much is scripted in any of his films.

Scale of Awesome rates it in the 6.5ish/10 area. Not too bad but not awesome awesome.

We also watched Sister Act and now all of those songs are stuck in my head.

But now I'm back, I won't tell you what time, just that the stop lights were flashing - they do that in a small town after midnight so you can go straight through, I mean check both ways first obviously. And I got to stay later cause the boyfriend is working days this week, training on a new machine. Should be nice to get to sleep normal hours. But we're gonna hit up the hockey game this weekend and relax cause we both have it off.

So just two more days.

"Paris? Turns out this humidor's pretty Francy."

Alright, sleep now.

Clip of the day:

"what're you gonna have?"

Song of the night:

i feel like i post oh maria all the time so you'll Follow Him this time



and you know both of these movies are 10/10 - goes without saying. even the boyfriend was quoting them.

seems she forgot all about the library like she told her old man now...

First off let me say I don't know who Rhonda from North Carolina is or if she is, in fact, the skanky whore you claim her to be, but how the heck did you get to my blog by typing that into Google?

It's making me re-evaluate my postings.

Okay, got that off my chest. We're good.

Today I was totally proactive.

I was so proactive I kicked proactive's ass.

Ninja of awesome, I'm telling you.

I'm still just in this sort of giddy shock mode that my ideas are actually being considered for stuff.

Usually when I suggest things they get shot down immediately so it came as a surprise to me today in our "teen experience" meeting (with my newest awesome library friends go here) that the two big ideas that I threw out in front of seasoned veterans actually got approved.

But the problem with having the ideas and them being accepted by your supervisors is that you become in charge of said ideas and have to put them into action. 

Which is fine. 

While I'm used to sitting back and watching the action in front of me, not stepping up when I should because I don't like conflict, I've decided it's time for a change.

I'm being proactive. 

That's what the Library Goddess is always preaching about in classes so I'm taking a stand for my teens cause I think they're important and if I don't stand up for them who else will?

They're my responsibility and I want to make things worth their time. 

Anyway, the meeting this afternoon was about Summer Reading Events, Teen Tech Week, some lunch time school visits, and the fact that chocolate cupcakes are awesome. 

Okay, that was mostly a side note. 

They talked about their ideas for Summer Reading which is when I dropped the bomb about library golf. 

See, I'm thinking this could be epic. Set up a few holes on 4th, hit the ball into the elevator and ride with it down to 2nd, go through the biographies, around the music library, through the nonfiction stacks, passed YA and the language area, down the stairs, through adult fiction and ending in youth services. 

I'll put my TAB kids in charge of the holes - giving them a chance to design and build their own to match with the area it's located in. For instance, while going passed the travel section we could build an Eiffel Tower out of the books to hit it through. 

I'm thinking it will be more like croquet than golf cause we'll be hitting it through something and not into a hole. 

We can add books about oceans for a water hazard and books on the desert for a sand trap. 

Anyway, they loved it. As does BossLady, it's SuperWoman that's still apprehensive but I'm on it. So is one of my supervisors from the meeting too apparently she saw SuperWoman in the parking lot and yelled something about wanting golf at the library before driving away. 

It's on. 

EPIC!

See, I think it could be epic and I think the kids will be excited about constructing the holes. 

But we'd keep it 6th-12th grade for participants as it would be for the Teen Summer Reading program. Anything younger and things could get out of control. 

And we'd use wiffle balls. 

wifell balls? 

wiffell balls? 

wiffel balls? 

No idea how to spell that. I'd Google it but I can't move my arms. Carter is laying on them so all I can reach is the immediate keyboard. Not even the mouse pad. 

HA! 

Snuck my arm out to take the picture but now I can't put it back so I have one arm under him and the other over him. 

This isn't going to work. 

Oh, now he's mad and sulking in the corner of the couch cause I made him move. 

I'll pay for that later. 

Where was I?

Oh, it's apparently spelled "wiffle" which was my first guess but it's still giving me the red lines underneath it which constantly question my sanity. 

Here is someone's interpretation of library golf in case you're interested - though ours will look much different cause my kids are more creative. 

Anyway, so that was one idea for summer reading, another possible is to make masks but I haven't decided on the types yet. Our theme is "Beneath the Surface" though one of my supervisors basically said "screw the theme and go with whatever" which I was glad about cause I had no idea how to tie golf to digging except that golf has holes but we weren't hitting things into holes, anyway, so yes masks and I found these SWEET STORM TROOPER MASKS that you can make our of milkjugs. You gotta check them out, go here 

I have a feeling I'll be buying a lot of empty milkjugs. Too bad I won't have Fearless Leader around to remind me with the *invisible milkjug dance*

The first year she and I were in charge of the Food Drive we did this change collecting thing in milkjugs and she planned to buy the empty ones after work if she didn't forget so I did this weird invisible milkjug dance thing - don't ask me to repeat it I don't remember how it went - and then texted her after work *invisible milkjug dance* *invisible milkjug dance* and it worked cause she remembered them. 

Anyway, the second big idea that they approved was for Teen Tech Week. I was thinking it'd be fun to do like a "check in @ your library" cause ALA is big on anything that includes the phrase "@ your library" in fact I'm pretty sure they have that phrase under copyright but anyway, they'd have a week to go around to all the branches and check in on Facebook/talk to a staff member who puts a temporary note on their record/initials a score sheet (this part is still a work in progress) and then whoever visits them all by the end of the week gets a candy bar. 

Alright, I should crash. On to the music. 

Fun Fun Fun - The Beach Boys

i know that version is awful, but i had to post it just because of the voice crack during the "wild goose CHASE now"

Wrote a song about GADE

On Youtube it often played

Next year was sci-fi

Watching little aliens fry

It's been in my head all night as We Didn't Start the Fire came up on my ipod on the ride home. 

Cantrell’s quarter game

Collecting trash is so lame

If you build it they will come

It you burn it they will run

If you have no idea what I'm talking about scroll to the right and click on the top video on the video bar. 

Or just go here for the lyrics and explanation: No tubing, too much bank, Tankety-tank-tank

Meet Delayed...Reaction. For those of you who don't already know us. 

Actually I'm pretty sure the *invisible milkjug dance* looked a bit like that. 

Anyway, we write songs at camp and then record them. 

Our original recording was better - we were physically at camp - and I have it somewhere but not sure where that somewhere is. 

But I'll upload it when I find it later. 

I'm sure when I'm not looking for it it'll turn up as things usually do. 

But that was a few years back. We haven't written one for a couple years. 

Now that he's all married and I'm pretty sure his wife hates me. 

Not that I can blame her, but that's a long story. 

Anyway, so today rocked because of a single meeting and I was reminded why I'm in this profession. 

Which is ironic because just last week I was questioning that very fact. 

But that's an even longer story. 

Like I said, taking a stand cause that's what the Library Goddess would tell me to do. 

If only it wouldn't have snowed then I'd have gotten to see the boyfriend tonight as was originally planned cause the rest of this week is crazy busy. Touring libraries tomorrow and the next day and then TRIVIA NIGHT on Friday. I'm stoked. 

And I have Donna clothes. 

Did I mention that last night? I don't remember if I did or not. But I found Donna clothes. Oldest Sister will be thrilled as she's the one that bought them for me in the first place, though I don't think that's what she had in mind at the time. 

I really need to quit rambling and sleep. I started this entry like an hour and a half ago. To be fair I did have a giant cat blocking half my keyboard. 

Writer's Block
Greta Stop!!

and the mutants over at table nine.

Took a night off yesterday as I didn't have much to say.

Not that that's changed today.

Slept in - only worked 12-4 - then got to lead a comps review. Well, the Library Goddess was technically in charge as we did it over speakerphone but I had half and she had half.

Except I'm not taking comps yet so I don't have the links. But they did so we were fine. It was a good group, pretty self-sufficient so it was fun.

After that Smo came over, she has class in town tomorrow so she's staying over.

We watched some Storage Wars and 2 Broke Girls after realizing that out the 26 people that graduated half of them are already married or engaged.

But that's huge cause like 2 years ago there were only 2 of us married.

To each other.

It's amusing to look back at those yearbooks and see how much people have changed.

Thinking back I wanted to teach high school English.

Now I sort of do.

I got the Teen Advisory Board and I work in Lit so I'm calling it a win.

No, I was in the ed program but dropped it after realizing how many hoops you have to jump through to get your degree. English was good enough for me and I'm glad I dropped it cause then I wouldn't be in the library world today.

I'm excited about the library world this week. Tomorrow is my night off so hopefully I'll be able to see the boyfriend, but Wednesday and Thursday I'm touring some sweet special libraries for class. Secret passage ways, ghost stories, etc. More on that later.

With these 2 online courses there's been some interesting stuff so far as well. We're working on this "story behind a story" project where you pick something in the news and then tie it with other links you think match so like if you were focusing on Sandy Hook you could talk about gun control, grief counseling, etc.

I'm thinking of going with the whole Obama thinking football is too dangerous. We do live in the center of Husker Nation where the majority of the residents are Husker fanatics - leaving out half my colleagues of course - but I'm thinking I can include stuff about concussions side effects, maybe statistics on injuries, talk about the history of football safety standards - the evolution of helmets and padding, etc.

We have to have 5 links and create a source ourself so you may be getting a blog entry on something of the like so I can link to it.

So here's your forewarning.

Don't know, it sounds fun and that's what I was going for. It's gotta be a national/international news thing that's relevant to our patron base. And really that's all I could think of that I found legitimately interesting.

I'll keep you posted on the progress I'm sure.

Alright, on to the music.

Watching The Wedding Singer so you're getting some 80's awesomeness.

You Spin Me Right Round - Dead or Alive

rockin' the purple jacket

I love this movie. Total 10/10 on the Scale of Awesome. Adam and Drew were great.

Grow Old With You - Adam Sandler

"NO WAY!"

he's actually a really good singer, especially in this movie. think he was a wedding singer in a past life.

one of my favorite drew movies.

and love them reunited in 50 First Dates

plus i totally saw Billy Idol live at Warped Tour back in '05. He's wicked.

legitimate pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.

"That sounds like an 80's acronym."

It all started with a conversation about stereotypes.

I'm pretty sure I'm turning into that librarian that makes people look at pictures of her cat. Cause the percentage of pictures I've uploaded on Facebook so far in 2013 is like 75% with cat, 25% not with cat.

And it's not like 100 pictures, it's like 5 so don't give me that look.

But he's cute and fluffy and sleeps all the time all over the place and I find it amusing when he sleeps next to McDermott the furby.

That he still hates, by the way.

Though I'm not its biggest fan when it turns on at 2AM just to ramble about being hungry or wanting to dance.

Anyway, so I said I'm turning into the stereotype cause I have a cat and I drink green tea to which BossLady asked if that means librarians are supposed to be hippies and that she composts - and she's quite proud of her compost - so then we got into this whole discussion about what goes into compost and how you're supposed to water your plants at night because the water evaporates during the day.

Then I asked her if she was one of those water police people who yells at you if you leave the faucet running whilst brushing your teeth to which she said she was and apparently in grade school they had this whole seminar on SWA SWA.

Which apparently stands for Save Water And Save Water Again.

Glad I wasn't drinking any water at the time cause there would have been multiple spit takes.

But SWA SWA had a salute and everything so from now on BossLady will be greeted with one cause I find it highly amusing.

Quote of the day:


"I loved growing up in the 80's"
"I grew up in the 80's"
"You were born in the 80's"

Then somehow we got on the subject of the farmhouse - oh I said Mom used to have a garden but then Dad put a building over the top of it. And she asked if we had a quanset to which I replied yes and I was stupid enough to have climbed to the top of it when snow had drifted that high.

Mom flipped, Dad went inside and got the camera.

So then the conversation shifted to how I was a brave kid, or an idiot kid, cause a few years before that was the running over to my grandparents house incident when I was like 3 or 4, barefoot on the gravel in the dark.

But it was at the scary part of the movie and I couldn't find my parents so I ran the half a mile to the safety of Grandpa's house and he drove me home and Mom and Dad didn't even realize I was gone!

To be fair they were helping Second Sister clean out a bin.

And you have to tag team those, you don't want to get hosed by the auger.

So I could blame my earliest memory on her but I kind of like her so I'll just call myself brave and be done with it.

And really that was the highlight of today. Everything else was pretty slow. Aside from the creepers everywhere, on the phone, in person, all that.

Blah magnet.

Well, the highlight of work anyway. I did a lot of homework tonight so I'm basically done until after the library visits this week.

Oh yeah, this week is gonna kick my butt.

Comps review Monday, special library tour Wednesday with homework to follow it, special library tour Thursday with homework to follow it, and then Trivia Night on Friday and I still haven't found anything to wear for Donna. I'm gonna have to look up some pictures of her in character and see if I have anything to cover.

Unless anybody has any fun 70's clothes they'd be willing to let me borrow for a night.

Anyway, I'm hoping to see the boyfriend either tomorrow or Tuesday, or both, so the other homework assignment that's due on Saturday I'll be doing throughout the week. Tonight's took far longer than it should have.

I hate coming up with smart people questions cause I always feel dumb.

Plus I'm an English major so phrasing gets to me and I start writing one question, changing it 50 times and then an hour later I change it back to how it originally was - which was fine I just was overanalyzing.

But it's homework and apparently I'm a perfectionist.

Anyway, it's late and I need to sleep. Carter is already decked out beside me.

Don't worry, I won't drown you in pictures. I'll save it for Facebook.

Though he is pretty cute.

Alright, on to the music so I can sleep.

Runaround Sue - Dion and the Belmonts

i used to sing this to my high school roommate.

not because she ran around, but because that was her name.

It can still be a date if you order raisin bran.

Big day today. Slept in 'til about 11:30, which is huge at the farmhouse. Though I was up 'til like 3 so it wasn't a lot of sleep.

Got my hair chopped and dyed - this time by the new girl. She did pretty good for her first time with me. I'm liking it and now I've got my red so I can pull off the Donna look for the trivia night on Friday - though I'll have to find some good 70's clothes at some point this week. Otherwise I'll just end up with a nametag that says "Hello my name is Donna" which is effective but not festive.

After the hair thing was the notary thing, there's a big deal in the works which you'll hear much more about later but my brother and I got to sign lots and lots of stuff in front of a notary chick who, after I first signed my name looked at me and said "you've grown up!"

One of those times when you want to go, "thanks. who are you again?"

But see it's a small town and everyone knows my parents so I'm sure I've met them at some point in life.

Anyway, so I know that my signature is awful and illegible but my brother's is worse. But then he started making fun of mine so we left it up to the notary chick who couldn't choose which was worse.

Which is sad cause really, his is bad. So if mine is just as bad maybe I should work on that.

But there's a difference between signing something and then signing something when people are watching you sign it.

I don't know about you but I start to overanalyze my signature and like tried to write it slower, especially since apparently it's just as bad as my brother's, but even with more effort you still couldn't read it.

After the signing thing I packed up my stuff and met up with the boyfriend. We saw Silver Linings Playbook which I've wanted to see ever since I learned it had J-Law in it and then after the Emmy's and all of the Oscar nods you knew it had to be worth it.



I liked it, I'm giving it an 8/10 on the scale of awesome, however I'm pretty sure the boyfriend was not as into it as me.

But I think he liked Les Miserables last week and I didn't so while our taste in movies is usually similar - apparently we own all the same ones - it can differ at times.

Basically what the trailer left out is the fact that Cooper's character is dead set on getting back together with his wife and also that his father - played by Deniro - has a serious case of OCD. Or is just really superstitious.

And then Lawrence's character has mental issues, along with Cooper's best friend as he's being driven crazy by his wife. Speaking of his wife, brought back 2 of my favorite celebrities that I haven't seen in about 5 years - Julia Stiles and Chris Tucker.

Wasn't expecting them, although the only clip I'd seen before we went included her rant about the Eagles winning every time they were together

After the movie we watched part of Almost Famous - which I had also not seen. It was weird seeing Kate Hudson so young, though it was made 13 years ago. And since it was that long ago some of the actors have turned out to have big careers and there were multiple times of "i know her, what else was she in?" Usually I can figure it out right away but because they were so young I had to pull out the phone and google it.

How did we live without google on our phones?

Alright, on to the music:

Going retro

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

classic

and i'm out

love was just a stage name, watch it as it became

I'm curious about the person who got to my blog by searching for "horse and cow captions".

But I guess this is supposed to be my life in closed captions.

And I've seen horses and cows.

So they are part of my life in closed captions.

Almost as good as the time they landed here after looking up "exploded babysitter" - I went through an All That phase - or "O Lord of Light" and ended up with 2G's version of O Lord of Light.

The majority of the people find me through movie quotes, a lot of Pitch Perfect, Avengers, the last Harry Potter was the first big one. Everyone kept searching for McGonagall's "I always wanted to use that spell" and ended up here.

Geez, that was a while ago. Summer 2011, but I've had this thing for a long time. The first official entry was on Remember Remember the 5th of November.

The 2010 edition.

You'd think since I've been doing it this long - today's being my 713th post - I would know what to say and how to say it.

Nope, still clueless.

So let's focus on today.

Today was good, much better than yesterday. Charmed helped. Much to Sensei's amusement I'm sure.

Did a lot of updates to the TAB website, got free food for lunch from the bosses as a thanks for training new employees - we got props because they officially work at a different branch but we trained them cause we had the staff numbers to do it - jammed with my Trainee for most of the day and last hour of the day was spent in the circ workroom checking in 8 carts.

Challenge conquered.

So it was a good day at work.

After work headed out to the boyfriend's place. We watched Coming to America cause he and his best friend quote it ALL THE TIME and I had no idea what they were talking about.





He loves it and it's actually quite amusing. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall shine through - I could barely recognize them in their different disguises. Except for that chick in the nightclub, that was definitely Arsenio Hall hitting on Arsenio Hall. Even IMDb lists her as "Extrememly Ugly Girl".

Eddie's still got it though. While Norbit turned into more of a horror movie than a comedy his Shrek stuff is great and he was a pretty funny criminal in Tower Heist.

Slide: A robbery can change very quickly. You have to be ready to adapt to the situation at any moment. Anything can happen. I was on a job a few days ago and my homie got shot in the face!
Kovacs: If you get shot in the face, it's over.
Slide: If you get shot in your HEAD, it's over. If you get shot in your FACE, the bullet will go through your cheek and come out the other side! Then, what you gonna do?
Cole Howard: Die! We're all gonna die!

So excited for a day off tomorrow. Getting my hair chopped, but not like chopped chopped cause I could never pull that off.

I think last time I got 6 inches cut off and it was still long.

But that's not 'til the afternoon, in the meantime I'm sleeping in! Well, the farmhouse version of sleeping in which means whatever time Dad decides I should be up or when Mom starts to worry that I'm dead or something.

Anyway, gonna do some more editing, konk out and get back at ya tomorrow for number 714.

Madness man, madness.

Songs of the day:

gotta jam to something whilst speed checking.

Falling - Iration

very catchy, acoustic version is good as well, go here


It's Alright Baby - Komeda

okay so the video's a little weird, but i guess it matches the lyrics


and i'm out!

"you met a guy?" "uh-huh." "as a dog?" "uh-huh." "how?" "well he ran me over."

If you don't like Charmed or Maroon 5 you should probably skip this post.

I'm gonna hit you with a bunch of crap cause if I said the speech that's running through my head over and over and over I'd regret it later.

So, in order to distract myself from the roller coaster of a day I'm watching Charmed.

That's right, Charmed.

Cause I love it.

All 8 seasons of it.

I was obsessive - and still am - and similar to Friends can tell you what quote came from what episode, what episode is in what season (judging by the opening credits or storyline or even hair style) and name pretty much every demon listed in the Book of Shadows.

Here are clips from two of my favorite episodes - the first is from season three's "Blinded By the Whitelighter".

Training with the new Whitelighter:



"well that would be bad."

see, the redhead? that's natalie. mentioned here and here and here and here. she even has her own tag because she's in everything now and i don't even know her real name.

similar to the hailey nash/maid marian shout out yesterday whilst watching bones.

Aames is a Darklighter, they're training to kill him. If you are confused.

Next is season five's "Sense and Sensibility"

Forced to play charades after losing their senses:



"ball?"

"we've gotta find paige."

The movie Phoebe is watching is called "Kill It Before It Dies" starring Billy Appleby and and Sally Mae. It's her favorite movie. It's originally featured in the second season episode "Chick Flick". The Demon of Illusion brings Billy to life and Phoebe falls in love.

yes i am that sad.

But really, that's the stuff I'd rather be focused on at the moment and since I always always post Piper videos now you're gonna get a Prue one.


"i hate when she plays astral games. MARCO!"

"without opening a fast food franchise, yeah."

aaaannd that's actually Billy Appleby censoring Prue at 3:45.

immediately after watching this episode i used the word "rutabaga" as a replacement for everything i couldn't pronounce.

still do.

Another one of my favorite things?

Maroon 5.

Their new CD is pretty great, here's one of my favorites.

Doin' Dirt - Maroon 5


sweet moves.

So, while this post has been probably extremely boring and painful for you (and yet you're still here) it was relaxing for me. I promise to do better tomorrow, but today... let's just say, this helped.

Now I'm gonna go do some more editing and crash. yeehaw.

PS - my new ringtone for text messages is the chime when a whitelighter orbs.

aka the :30 mark of the Sense and Sensibility clip.

Please don't say "caveman!"

Finally home.

Carter attacked me when I got here.

Literally jumped on me cause he missed me.

It was nice to get away but I did miss him.

So, got away from the chaos, cleared my head, now I'm ready to go back to work.

For like 2 days before I get another one off anyway, woohoo!

Need to get my hair chopped at some point soon.

But not like chopped chopped, I'm not that brave.

Don't think I could ever do that.

"Please don't say caveman!!"

Hailey Nash/Maid Marian is on Bones. Now she's a publisher.

I haven't watched this show in a long time and there was a double episode. Huzzah.

So what else from today?

I slept in, watched some TV, took a nap, went over to my brother's to fill out some paperwork. Got to see their cute kiddos and puppy dogs.

Then stopped by the boyfriend's place and we watched the Husker men get smoked by Illinois. Then some Mighty Ducks.

Flashbacks man.

Haven't seen that movie in like 20 years.

Didn't even remember the storyline but now I have an urge to get the rest of the series through Interlibrary Loan.

I have another request in the works but for the life of me I can't remember what it is. Guess I'll check on that tomorrow.

It's back to work I go and it's late so I should sleep.

Yes, I know, I'm boring.

Here.

More Useless Information

-Starfish have no brains.

-The powder on chewing gum is finely-ground marble.

-A "clue" originally meant a ball of thread. This is why one is said to "unravel" the clues of a mystery.

-Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the "Happy Birthday" song

-Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.

-A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

-Apples are actually part of the rose family.

-The Zip in Zipcode means Zoning Improvement Plan.

on to the music

We'll call this section "Under-rated soundtracks"

Goodnight Moon - Shivaree

Retro 1999 from Kill Bill Volume 2 and apparently now Silver Linings Playbook, which I still have yet to see.

Chelsea - Stefy

reminds me a bit of the Eurythmics.

John. Tucker. Must. Die. I watched this movie twice a day for 3 months.

Enough said.

When the Morning Comes - Jon Allen

Give him a chance it's fantastic. Bones always has great music, like Grey's did. Back when I watched it anyway.


and i'm off.

24601

I'm sorry, but I think it's hysterical when a pickup plastered with stickers about how badass the driver is drives slower than anyone else in bad weather.

You know the stickers I'm talking about? The skull and bones and stuff about guns and all that.

I'm sorry if you're one of those people.

Perhaps you should add a "I'm a safe driver" sticker right next to the one of the little kid peeing on your ex wife.

Every once in a while you'll see cool bumper stickers.

Get a New Car for Your Spouse. It'll Be a Great Trade. 

My other car is a broom.

Horn broken...watch for finger.

Princess, Having Had Sufficient Experience With Princes, Seeks Frog

What If the Hokey Pokey Really IS What It's All About?

So Many Pedestrians - So Little Time

I Do Whatever My Rice Krispies Tell Me To

Do NOT play leapfrog with a unicorn

If at First You Don't Succeed, Skydiving Isn't for You.

etc. 

So I ate in a giant train today. 

Well, the outside was a train, the inside was a building, covered in train pictures and a functional model train that my dad apparently gave them. It runs along the ceiling if you put a quarter in a slot. 

He gave him another after we ate. 

Huge hamburgers, they were awesome but I think I ate like a third of it. 

Oh well, lunch for tomorrow. 

If Dad hasn't already eaten it. 

After that I watched J-Law on Saturday Night Live. 

Love that kid. 

"the alphabet called, it wants its letters back."

Some of the sketches on that show have become a bit out there. 

Not as funny as with the old cast. I miss Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon. And you know Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, Kristen Wigg, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, etc. 

Just not the same without them.

Though it is interesting to see Keenan go from All That to SNL as All That was basically SNL Jr.

And they're apparently running reruns now. Wonder if they have seasons of that out on DVD. I'll have to check Amazon later.

Alright, so after eating in a train, helping mom with some tax thing and watching about 5 minutes of Bones I headed up to see Les Miserables with the boyfriend.



Scale of Awesome puts it at around 6.5/10.

Yes I know, I know, you can stop throwing fruit at me.

It was a big movie, I was just expecting it to be epic.

And to me it wasn't.

I know, I'm an awful person, I have no taste, blah blah, whatever.

And with a musical I'm shocked cause they're normally my thing.

Usually right after watching one I'll go buy the soundtrack and I've heard nothing but good things about this movie and its soundtrack but I still don't have the urge to buy it.

Granted I do already own half of them from when we did a medley of them in high school.

But I haven't seen any of the past movies or read the book so those songs were the only thing I knew plotwise.

And without knowing who sang them it didn't give me much.

But the costumes and the sets and the casting was all great especially Anne and Hugh.

And I did really like Helena Bonham Carter, but she's always great.

I don't know, I just couldn't get into it.

Just something wrong with my taste this week I guess.

Anyway, I'll put my name on the list at the library but I don't think it'll be one of those things I'll buy and watch over and over.

Kind of like Zero Dark Thirty - now that one was epic.

But once you've seen it you've seen it and don't really want to watch it again.

Or maybe that's just me.

After the movie we watched some American Pickers and then I headed back to the farmhouse since he had to go to work.

Tomorrow I plan on sleeping in, eating some lunch, watching a movie and taking a nap, jamming around the house and then stopping by the boyfriend's place on the way back home as I have to work again Wednesday, and Thursday but not Friday, woohoo!

But that's only cause I pulled the weekend shift again.

On to the music:

Dreaming of You - The Coral

some stylin' haircuts

Superhero (acoustic) - Cher Lloyd

the rest of her CD is actually pretty great. granted the reason i got it was Want U Back, but still.

and because i feel the need to post something as it was a musical but can't choose which number to choose, you get all of them.



he's got skills.

was your head shaped like an egg before she hit you?

I love that I don't even need to call home for the parentals to know I'm coming.

Got the confirmation text this afternoon.

A blog is a handy thing.

So I really gotta stop wearing this bracelet to work.

I got this sweet bracelet from Second Sister for Xmas. It's awesome, black band, silver with writing but so far it's brought me nothing but trouble.

I've been asked if I'm an alcoholic - to be fair it does state their motto - if I'm disabled - does it really look anything like one of those bracelets? not really - or if I'm Wonder Woman - except she has two.

Okay so the last one isn't so bad, but I'm thinking the bracelet is gonna have to stay in the locker during the day.

Will put it on after work when I take off the "engagement ring".

Bringing it back. I thought the creepers were starting to leave me alone but it turns out they've just been biding their time.

Oh well, I'm happy today so I don't care.

Got to see the boyfriend tonight. We went out for dinner then watched 50 First Dates.



I attempted to refrain from quoting the entire movie in front of him.

I think I passed.

Moreso than when we watched The Mummy.

Though that one I can quote back to front along with its sequel without even putting either of them in.

But not the third cause it sucks.

Though it was amusing to hear that Bosslady can do the same.

Even got our torch swinging timed exactly.

"then how do i seem to know exactly where i'm going?"

Go here: "What are you going to type into Google, 'what's a smart-sounding word for nose hair?'"

And now I have an urge to watch that.

Hmm.... will have to distract myself with something else as I don't have it with me.

So excited for two whole days off.

Gonna sleep in, watch some movies, take a nap, read some stories, nap some more, spend time with the boyfriend, possibly see Les Miserables, take more naps, etc.

Totally exciting and the fun starts now.

aka going to sleep. Well, more likely watching something and falling asleep.

Sounds like a plan.

On to the music:

This movie has an excellent soundtrack, and while all the songs are good, these two are my favorites.



he's gotta sing her a song, just like The Wedding Singer aka their first movie together. both are awesome.



granted this one isn't on the soundtrack, but i think it's funny.

off to sleep.

and then you'll want the love you threw away before...

I'm tired of filling a tire that was supposedly fine a month ago!!

Broken it is.

Full of crap mechanic is.

Play nice or I go Yoda on your ass.

It gets really old really fast.

So, my week has been suckish.

Which you know already.

But today wasn't so bad.

Was almost incident free and I got to see the boyfriend.

But that's part of why the week is suckish, he's busy and I'm exhausted and freaking out about stupid stuff that's going to my head.

But apparently I'm a better actress than I thought cause I play it off fine.

IN FACT Bosslady actually used the words "chipper" and "perky" to describe me. Then she called me a cheerleader and I laughed in her face.

Then called Sketch who laughed in mine.

Cause if you know me know me, you know that I am none of those things.

It was my brother who brought it to my attention in the first place when I got two jobs at once with no experience.

"You must be a good actress."

But that's me. Be the person they want me to be, keep my head down and I'll be fine.

Not that there's anything wrong with cheerleaders, I may be marrying into a family filled with them sometime within the next 10 years.

I'm giving him 10 though with the rules of inflation he may only have 5 and some change.

Oldest Sister got married at 21.

Brother got married at 24.

Second Sister got married at 27.

With inflation that gives me until 30, right?

We'll see about that.

I mean, it's not as if I'm going anywhere so I'm fine with waiting, but there is such a thing as waiting too long.

Anyway, we watched Moonshiners.

My dad would be so proud.

And then some Die Hard.

Stoked for the new one!! He was making fun of it, saying they'd still be making Die Hard's when Bruce is old and in a wheelchair.

But I don't care cause they are all awesome. And now I'm tempted to watch the first one from the start. Do a marathon over the holiday weekend.

I'm off Monday and Tuesday!!

Technically we're only closed Monday but since I worked the weekend and did the party on Friday I'm taking my 2 days off and getting the heck out of dodge. Think gonna go crash at the farmhouse for a few days.

Gotta get out of here, clear my head and all that crap.

Ha! Sketch.

I didn't realize how often I used the phrase "and all that crap" until Sketch and I had this epiphany that if people overheard our conversations and how we ended them they'd think that we have no emotions whatsoever cause it's always "well i love you and all that crap. okay bye." or something to that effect.

But it's just our thing.

The thing and the thing.

She gets it.

I get it.

Like I said, not so chipper, perky, cheerleader, whatever on the inside.

Just on the outside at work.

Which I can do.

It's basically a job requirement.

Or as one of my grad school classmates put it, "Just don't be an asshole. That's my mission statement."

On to the music:

Keystar - Munchausen By Proxy

2:16 is still the best.

wish they made a complete album. granted half the soundtrack is theirs but still, they rock.

i need more keytar.

Final live appearance together

One Fine Day - The Chiffons

not bad for 49 years later.

i've watched that movie and listened to that soundtrack far too often but it popped up on shuffle on the ride back and i totally jammed out. almost missing the cop sitting in the middle of the road.

good thing i don't speed on the way back.

i go back and forth on which version is my favorite, but it's usually this one

One Fine Day - Natalie Merchant

pretty sure i posted this one back during Merchantfest but you're getting it again anyway.

i say yes when i oughta say no.

Ah how I miss sleeping in.

Yesterday was long, more training and all that but I got to come home, watch some Homeland, talk to Sketch, plan out our next adventure - we're thinking March - and relax. But I was on the phone with her for like 2 hours and falling asleep by the time I got off so I skipped posting.

Today was nice, didn't have to go in until 5:30, though missed out on dinner with the boyfriend's family so that kind of sucked.

But the teen thing was fun. It was a cosplay party which is basically where they show up in costume and we play games. They did some charade stuff and then got candy and we played Apples to Apples, Clue, Life, Hangman, and Mafia.

I've watched people play mafia for years at camp and I still have no idea what it's about.

But they seem to enjoy it.

My gang all played Apples to Apples.

Used the same rule as at the Holiday Party since they again chose the adult version over the junior one. If you don't know who the person is hand it to me and pick a new card. Tonight's people included: Steve Martin, Al Pacino, Jacques Cousteau, John Travolta, amongst others.

Big surprise they knew who Georgia O'Keefe was.

Well, one of them at least.

They always make me feel super old when we play.

But I guess I am, at least compared to them.

They tend to stick together, not big into mingling. I had to encourage that a bit when they went to do the charades but they made it through unscathed.

But they're teens so that's kind of expected. I was that way as well.

Afterward we leaders went out for drinks.

And sorry, but Vegas rules apply so you get nothing.

Though I will say we were the loudest table there.

And it was humorous because we're a bunch of library people at a bar under investigation for having strippers there earlier this week.

I even got carded! Which rarely happens anymore.

It was a lot fun. Never really get to see these guys aside from inservice and youth services meetings. And meetings are meetings, as much fun as they may be.

Learned a lot of fun life lessons and humorous library stories so now I'm going to bed because I'm working all weekend. But I have Monday and Tuesday off so it'll be worth it.

On to the music:

They played an interesting collection of music at the bar tonight, ranging from NSync to Steppenwolf. I'll give you a varied range as well.

All Right Now - Free


classic, good jam song

I Get Around - Dragonette


cause i like them and it's catchy. another great jam song.

And it's humorous to see their reactions when the cymbal falls off.



Back to Storage Wars again. Why is Darrell known as "The Gambler" when he never buys anything? Like he'll bid and then quit. Like 5 out of every 6 episodes he goes home empty.

I think I'm watching far too much of this show to realize that.

Turning it off and putting on Homeland.

"Show me your chest hair."

I'm just exhausted.

All day acting peppy and cheerful and excited about life cause when you're training new employees you have to be all peppy and cheerful and excited about life. Cause who wants to train under someone who's mean and depressed and tired all the time?

And that's basically all I did all day was train people. Cause we have three new ones in the system - and it's not like it's a pain, I like them, they're cool. It just takes it out of you. And I'm always freaking out that I'm going to teach them the wrong thing or whatever.

But it's always fun when you're training with other fun people.

Quote of the day: "Show me your chest hair."

Nope.

No explanation, just gonna have to roll with it.

After work was dinner with the sisters. Got my usual rainbow chicken and fries, half of which is in the fridge ready to be eaten at around 2AM.

If I make it that long, I'm barely hanging on for this post and it's only 11:30.

Dinner was fun and our annual trivia night - mentioned here "Hey, I got flax." - has been officially scheduled for the first Friday of February. Totally stoked. We talked about our costumes a bit, every team is supposed to have a theme. We picked That 70's Show for ours - go here: "That's not it either." I'm Donna cause I got the red, which makes the boyfriend Forman. Oldest Sister is Kitty cause she can do the laugh, her husband aka the King of Useless Information is Kelso, my brother is Red all the way, Favorite Sister-In-Law will be Jackie, Second Sister will be Hyde - she's stoked to buy a wig - brother-in-law will be Fez which I think will be hysterical.

Anyway, originally that was going to be the weekend for the annual Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure so we will probably end up pushing it back. But it was also the weekend of my niece's first birthday party and I felt guilty for skipping. This will be good though cause it gives us actual time to plan since that's coming up really fast. Last year when we went I got sick so we didn't do much but this year we actually semi-know the area and we can come up with a game plan about some stuff to visit and places to eat at and all that so it will be better.

Should stop by their library.

Yes they have one.

We drove by. We actually did just randomly drive all over town. It took like 20 minutes to cover the whole town.

Boondocks baby, yeah.

Anyway, so that was my day.

And yes I'm boring so here, enjoy these.

More Useless Information

- A hard-boiled egg will spin, a cooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

- The word "News" came from the first letters of the words North, East, West, South because information was being gathered from all different directions.

- 95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.

- Nintendo first produced playing cards.

- Take your age, multiple it by 7. Then multiply the product by 1443. The product will repeat your age 3 times.


And on to the music the LAST DAY of my picks for 2012's greatest hits.

Lights - Ellie Goulding


actually been around much longer than 2012 but didn't gain popularity until this past year. very catchy and SUPER COOL VIDEO. we played this while golfing this summer 2G style.


Lovin' You Is Fun - Easton Corbin

love the deep voice. really like this one.


Finally Found You - Enrique Iglesias

making a comeback? liked "baby i like it" better though.


OUT!

You suck at this game!

So I play this game on the drive home.

I drive the same route every night so you get to know traffic patterns and all that. Anyway, if I go a certain speed with no car in front of me I can hit every green light a split second before it turns yellow all the way to my apartment.

However, if there is a car in front of me I hit every red light.

Not one, all.

So of course there was this obnoxious car going under the speed limit and I can't pass them so we hit all the lights.

He sucks at that game.

Oh my god, so I'm watching Jennifer Lawrence on David Letterman, was I the only one who got her First Wives Club reference?

Has no one else seen that movie?

Did people think that she would actually insult Meryl Streep like that?

Seriously?

Bette Midler's character Brenda picks up an award that Goldie Hawn's character won and says something to the effect of, "look it says I beat Meryl!"

I bet I can find it.

HA!



LiLo blowing everything out of proportion. As always.

I'm sorry, tangent.

So, today was the scavenger hunt.

I spent the majority of the day FTFO.

Even this morning making changes and then the hour before realize that one of my clues was checked out so my wonderful Trainee found me a different book and wrote the clue.

But the kids seemed to like it.

Didn't think it was lame. Or at least that's what they said.

And they learned stuff.

Or seemed to.

I had fun making it, though it took like months on and off.

Gotta work with the off desk time all I can.

Anyway, so they paired off and I had 5 sets of clues - cause I didn't want them to just follow each other around the library. Each of the clues was based around the life of a Nebraska author featured in our in-house special library.

They started with microfilm and OF COURSE today of all days some dude decides to camp out on one of the machines and then the articles take a while to find plus the third machine takes forever to load and then neither of them print so I had some skip ahead to the next clues and then work their way around, whatever, after they showed me the article - instead of printing it off and bringing it to me - I gave them their next clue which was a call number to a biography which they had to locate which then led them to adult nonfiction then to adult fiction which then led them to finding information in a specific database - tied to their subject matter - that they had to show me and then after the database was the music section and then we all ended up on 3rd.

Meanwhile, on the backs of all these task/clues were bonus questions specifically about our library system. What are the full names of all the branches? (look for a business card at the desk) Who is ours named after and why? (ask a staff member) What year did we open? (look for a plaque outside the entrance) What animal is hanging in Youth services? What color is this person's portrait's frame? etc. etc. There were more but I'm rambling.

But they all got them right and they took the time to answer them and to go to all these places in the library and they did it without complaint so I'm proud of them.

Anyway, it ended with an awesome tour by our in-house special librarian. Who is excellent. And I'm pretty sure she gets cabin fever cause almost every day I see her fixing displays on first floor.

Love it.

But she had fun with it and the kids seemed to like it. Was a good refresher for me. Got my C-NAMES down.

Long story.

Anyway, that was pretty much all afternoon and really the only thing from the morning was training new staff to work over at one of the other branches. This time there's 3 new girls - one of which used to work at the work branch and is back. The other haven't worked at libraries before. All 3 are pretty awesome and said we hadn't scared them off and they are coming back again tomorrow so, job well done.

And that was my day.

So, on to the music. More of 2012's greatest hits

Starships - Pitch Perfect cast plus Youtubers

cause i think it's cool.


Scream & Shout - Will.i.am and Britney Spears

first of these greatest hits that i don't own. actually this is the first time i've heard the song all the way through. it's not bad, may buy it.

just such a random combination of artists.

We Are Young - Fun

at first was not such a fan of these guys, but they've grown on me. really like Some Nights.


Why yes Craig, it is a great day for America.

I miss this show.

Used to watch it every night for like years.

Literally years.

And LENA'S A GUEST!!

Totally DVR'ing this one.


Useless Information 

a la Craig Ferguson

The reason a vaccination is called a vaccination is because...

When they were searching for cures to smallpox they noticed that milk maids never got small pox, however they did get cow pox. And that little bit of cow pox kept the small pox away. Since the Latin word for cow is "Vacca" it led to "Vaccination".

and just cause i can...



and i'm out.


EDIT

Sorry, Lena's interview was hysterical and reminded me of how often I rewind it when guests swear and they put flags over their mouths and Craig yells something else and I found this great example so I'm adding it cause I think it's funny.



that's how i dance.

Kinda like Gandalf.

Kicked stats ass today.

In the upper 40s.

We're keeping individual stats online now. Basically, every time you help someone in person, over the phone, online, and all that cause apparently we had lower stats listed than the home branch.

And the home branch gets like half the circulation.

Probably cause we forgot to tally them.

My bad.

But now that it shows up on the schedule I actually remember to do it.

That's all I really remember about today. Aside from screaming and coughing children. Updating my scavenger hunt.

Which is tomorrow.

Hope it doesn't suck but I really need to stop changing things. I'm overanalyzing again.

We went to see Zero Dark Thirty tonight.

Intensity.

That's all I have to say.

Scale of Awesome puts it at around 8/10 though I won't watch it again. Super long and not something you want to watch over and over.

Not that it's boring it's just one of those that once you've seen it then you've seen. it.


definitely deserved the golden globe for best actress but it was another one of those "hey that's whats-her-name" - not the GG winner, the other female. Usually I can figure out who it is by a twang or accent or a turn of a head, mannerisms. Or just google which is what I'm doing now.

Jennifer freakin' Ehle. Downton Abbey and King's Speech that's why I know her.

Alright, falling asleep at the board, gonna crash but first more of 2012's greatest hits.


Home - Phillip Phillips


no matter how many times i listen to this song every time i still think of the olympics, more specifically the usa gymnastics team. cause they played it ALL THE TIME.


I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz

i used to really like this one but then it was played so often that i've lost interest. but it was still big in 2012 and i did in fact like it at one point.

Pound The Alarm - Nicki Minaj

see my opinion of nicki minaj is similar to my opinion on pitbull. i'm really not a fan of them, but their music is alright. i guess. i mean, i don't want to like it, but it's catchy so it screws me over.

i'm tempted to post Fat Lip cause I heard it on the way back. Maybe next week after the 12's are done.

"but when it comes to torture I trust the lady who spent 3 years married to James Cameron."

Ah, the weekend.

Can't believe it's already over.

Not that I don't like my job, I love my job. I'm just not looking forward to going back as much now that I'm Slim-less.

It will also probably take a while for her position to be filled so we'll be short-staffed.

But that's fine, gives me stuff to do.

Though I'll have plenty to do tomorrow. Still freaking out and feel like I should go back and start over on my scavenger hunt.

That takes place Tuesday.

I mean, it's fine, but there's like these things hidden in books that they have to locate meanwhile answering bonus questions and I'm debating if I want to like...

... yeah, I think I'm going to glue the questions to the clues in the book and then just give them like a blank sheet to write the answers on. That'll be good instead of having a seperate sheet.

Yeah.

I know, it's dumb and I'm over analyzing

What else?

The boyfriend and I took the kiddos to the hockey game last night. Bubby, Squirt and Squirt's boyfriend. It was amusing, but we lost. We always lose when I go. Either I'm bad luck or we really suck.

Or maybe both.

Anyway, it was amusing though cause there were like 5 fights.

When I say fights I don't mean slam a guy against the wall and steal the puck, I mean sticks on the ground, gloves off, fists flying and all that.

But they look like such dorks because they have so much padding on and they're on skates so they're off balance and their fighting just looks hysterical.

One of the fights was between goalies - this was fight number 4 I think, it happened at the same time as fight number 3 and about 2 minutes after fight number 2. But it was like the goalies looked at each other and went, yeah, why not and met up in the center of the rink.

10 minutes for fighting.

Perhaps if our boys were more focused on scoring and less on hitting people for no reason they would have won.

But that's just a theory.

Anyway, we got hosed but the game was fun. The kids seemed to have fun. And it was a fun date night. Today was super lazy. Slept in, watched the rest of season one of Game of Thrones - don't even get me started about my feelings about sean bean's character - went out for some lunch, then he went and bought more motorcar stuff before heading home to sleep more cause he has to work tonight.

I hate our schedules. It's only weekends that he doesn't have to work and I end up working half of mine so spending time together when there's actually time to spend is difficult.

But after he left I had all these plans to like clean and all that. See, I vacuumed yesterday so the floor is all clean and the trash is gone but the rest of the place is still covered in dust. But it's the weekend and as my sister would say, "I'm on my vacation!" so I instead chose to watch Homeland - awesome, btw - and took a nap before turning on the Golden Globes. Which is where the title of this post came from. Pretty sure I filled up everyone's newsfeeds. But they'll get over it. Gotta keep track of my score and all that. Sketch and I like to commentate but she was gone so one-sided it's not as funny.

Here are some of my highlights:

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosting - The queens of comedy so you knew their intro would be good. That's where the title came from. Though I was surprised that they weren't on stage very often. I mean, I know the majority of the talking is done by the presenters and then of course from the winners with their long speeches but I think they were up there like 3 times total, 1 was the intro and the other 2 were with drink in hand. Maybe it was 4 I don't know. Though I did like their outfits. In a couple of the awards they were in the crowd dressed in costume and were announced as one of the nominees. Amy with bad teeth and Tina with a mustache. And they were both up for an award but got beat out by Lena!! You knew Girls would win big tonight. Which leads me to my next highlight.

Lena Dunham's Girls - Even Girlscout was excited about this one. She won for best actress in comedy/musical TV series and also for best comedy/musical tv show. Only got brief glimpses of her tattoos but when you get a chance you should take a look. They're all characters from children's books, Ferdinand, Eloise, etc. - yay read!

Is that Bill Clinton? - I think he got more applause than anyone else, but what the hell was he doing there? I like sat up and everything. Apparently he was invited to introduce Lincoln as it is a presidential movie. But the only other person that got a standing ovation from everyone was Jodie Foster for her Cecil B Demille Award. She was great as well though her speech felt like half an hour. And it was hard to follow that intro by Robert Downey Jr. Anyway, I posted on Facebook something about what the heck was he doing at the Golden Globes and my college professor posts back, "Why not? Clinton is one of the greatest actors of all time."

"Thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today." - J-Law is awesome as ever. Even with the flu she kills it on stage.



Probably my favorite speech of the night.

Followed closely by this one:

I want to high-five James Bond! - Adele beats Taylor Swift and Keith Urban for best original song.



love her, she's fantastic.

Homeland still dominates - See, I've just today gotten hooked on the show so I felt like I could legitimately vote on it. I would have watched it earlier but the holds list for it at the library was madness. Anyway, it's awesome and it deserves all the awards that are thrown its way. Both Damien and Claire won - "who took my pants out every damn week", I was hoping for Mandy to win as well - it's amazing how similar Saul and Gideon's characters are - but he lost to

Les Miserables takes the cake - Loved Anne's speech dedication to Sally Field about breaking stereotypes. "and our crew who deserve a special award for pretending they like live singing at 7AM". She's just cool, you know? I loved her growing up in the Princess Diaries, she was hysterical in Get Smart, badass in Batman and now incredibly talented in Les Miserables. Which I have yet to see, same as Little Brother so we bonded over that. Everyone was claiming that Lincoln was gonna dominate but actually I think Daniel was the only one who won for it. But I got to proclaim my love for Hugh Jackman to which my favorite Aussie responded "of course you do, he's an Aussie!" This is true, but not as cool as my favorite Aussie. It's amazing how many of my Drew-mates jumped on to my commentary. Little Brother, Favorite Aussie, UZ, etc. Feel so behind on that stuff, she got married, had a kid and I barely know anything about it.

Argo F Yourselves - Glad Argo won best picture. It was afterall the only one that I had seen in the bunch which is why I voted for it, but also because it was a really good movie. Ben deserved the win, both of them in fact. Though it was amusing that he had his wife on stage later thanking the people he forgot.

With that vote I ended up with 17 out of 25 which isn't bad. That's a passing grade. I think. Barely. Maybe not, my math is a little rusty.

Speaking of math, it feels so weird for the semester to have started and I don't have homework due until like next week. My only classes don't start until like the 22nd and then my Special Libraries class homework isn't due until the night before our field trip. Granted I'll do it before that, but still. It's nice. Though with 2 of them online and no one around to remind me about homework I'm really gonna have to work on my time management.

Gonna enjoy my freedom as long as I can so with that I will post this, shower, and sleep and then head back to work all week, plus the weekend as my next day off isn't until Monday.

More of 2012's greatest hits

Drive By - Train


really liking their new music. drops of jupiter was good until it was played repeatedly without end. the new stuff is excellent.


Glad You Came - The Wanted


came out in 2011 but more popular in 2012, most requested/played of the year according to ryan seacrest.


Good Time - Owl City Feat. Carly Rae Jepsen


excited to see them live!

we don't even have to try it's always a good time.

"and don't forget to pay the lady."

Holy crap, McDermott just woke up.

Scared the crap out of Carter.

Freakin' Furby.

So I was up 'til about 4 last night.

Couldn't sleep - combination of factors aka sickness and restlessness but I was really productive, verified by the fact that the Library Goddess emailed me back this morning with, "what were you doing up that late?!"

Went into work anyway cause I promised Slim Shady that I wouldn't miss her last day.

She got her dream schedule today and ended it with me closing down second floor.

Walking her out for the last time I had flashbacks of walking out Fearless Leader and taking her picture in front of the library.

Took Slim's picture in the workroom taking her name off her locker - see Facebook.

Same frickin' locker that attacked us - fell over on us and they're huge and heavy so Big Brother and Fearless Leader had to come on the run to save us.

AND NOW ALL THREE OF THEM ARE GONE, so the next time it tips I'm hosed.

See, when Fearless Leader left it sucked.

It did.

But now they're both gone and it sucks even more.

Cause the three of us were pretty tight - dinners, movies, booze cakes, etc.

We were all hired within months of each other and we were around the same age so we were fast friends.

But the difference between Slim and Fearless is that Fearless had a boyfriend the whole time she was at the work branch, however Slim and I went on our fair share of bad dates and then got to vent all about them before we both got together with our respective "he's the one" guys.

So we bonded and vented and vented some more. And while I love all of my coworkers it was nice having someone my age that was going through the same stuff.


Even SuperWoman tracked me down this afternoon and went "both of your buddies are gone."

Yep.

Oh well, still got the New Guy who's my age and BossLady isn't much older.

And we always say, it's not goodbye but really it is.

The end of an era.

An interesting end to an interesting day at the library.

She did really go out with a bang - literally, Queen of the Known Universe  and I got the pleasure of calling the cops over a fist fight on first floor. There was a chunk of hair on the floor when I showed the cop where they fought, it was nasty.

We just heard thumping noises and saw people fleeing the area before we figured out what was going on.

Apparently one of the fighters was mouthing off to one of the cops outside and they had to take him down.

Joy.

What else from today?

You should never go grocery shopping when you're sad. You'll buy far more junk food than you should.


Oh well, see there's a reason I didn't label losing weight as one of my resolutions.

Mostly because I always list it and never do it so I'm thinking if maybe I don't list it and the pressure's off maybe I actually will do it.

Does that make sense at all?

Alright, aiming for earlier than 4 though it is already 2:30 though this time I don't have to wake up until like 5PM tomorrow. The boyfriend and I are taking Bubby, Squirt and Squirt's BF to a hockey game. Should be interesting.

Moving on to the music, more of 2012's greatest hits.

Back In Time - Pitbull


i used to really not like him. his miami's and havana's drove me nuts but he's growing on me. like this one a lot, along with the newest release.


Die Young - Ke$ha


but see with her i've always been a fan.


One That Got Away - Katy Perry


i'm sorry but old katy is creepy.

but anyway, after watching her Part of Me movie totally see her from a completely different perspective. even bigger fan now.

remember when i started falling asleep to storage wars? back in like july? i'm bringing it back. it's entertaining but not entertaining enough to keep me awake.

i go in spurts on who to root for. think jarrod and brandi are my favorite. barry coming in second. dave's alright but i don't remember the name of the other one, darrell? right?

more than just bricks and mortar

Big day.

Long day.

Big and long day.

Woke up at 6:30 for Thursday morning coffee with the Library Goddess.

I actually beat her to the coffee joint this morning which has only ever happened one other time.

But I was pretty sure hell was freezing over.

Something's going on with all this freakin' fog.

Driving back was ridiculous, couldn't see 10 feet in front of me.

Anyway, so this morning, met up with the Library Goddess for coffee - I had one there and then one to go plus a mountain dew once I got to work so I was pretty wired the rest of the day.

Which is good cause I didn't get back until 9:40 PM.

So morning coffee, had lunch with Slim Shady - our last official lunch together. We hit up this new joint, had some rice bowls it was great but half of mine is still in the fridge. Oh well, lunch for tomorrow.

If I remember it's there.

After that I was at the desk for like an hour before I had to take off for class but during that hour I got to hear all about the pros and cons of Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hulu Plus from the New Girl and BossLady so I've officially made up my mind and am going with Amazon Prime.

Makes the most sense since I use Amazon quite often.

And if I need it I'll throw in Netflix.

But apparently with Hulu Plus it doesn't always work on the smart blu ray players and a lot of the stuff you can only watch on your computer not your TV or tablet.

Lame.

Anyway, so after lunch headed up to class - met up with the Library Goddess in the parking lot cause she had to give me a parking permit so I could park in the staff lot.

This is after I had to call the Cool Aunt to try to track her down cause she doesn't answer her phone!

Nah, it worked and I got to stop by the Cool Aunt's office before the Library Goddess literally pulled me out and down the hall. We set up for class which she's team teaching with 2 other teachers - 1 I've met like once and the other is the Mad Clapper. That woman is the queen of clapping for serious, louder than anyone else on the planet, I swear.

Anyway, so we set up, I handed out the mandatory contact info slips and got to sort thru them after class. There are 15 people I'm in charge of but in the class there are 65 total.

Which is madness, I'm aware. But half of them are undergrads.

One way to tell the grads from the undergrads?

Seating placement.

We took up the back row.

Not just one of us.

All of us.

Jen jokingly said we'd "done our time in the front" which is true but highly amusing.

But we also know each other and sit together and with the way the undergrads were looking around I'm pretty sure they're still not too familiar with names yet.

You'll get there.

It's actually cool getting to know people cause you'll run into them in classes and conference and all that but the funny thing about being the GA is that people know you, even if you don't know them.

Like faces I can usually place and be like, I was in this class with you so your name is.... and then it hits me.

But they all know me, like I'm handing out those green sheets and they keep saying my name after the "thanks".

One of those, "just nod your head and smile" situations that SuperHumann always use to comment on in high school.

Anyway, a lot of fun Library Goddess-isms from tonight, a few are inappropriate but my favorite is a repeated line - I mean aside from the "this isn't a job it's a profession." - This one is "it's not just about bricks and mortar." then went on to say we could have state of the art million dollar libraries but it would mean nothing if we didn't have ties to the community and the patrons there-in.

We're more than our buildings.

Without outreach we die.

So class was fun. This one was Special Libraries in which we go all over the state visiting different specialized libraries.

Special libraries are basically - okay so there are three main types of library you've got the public library which is where I work, the academic library and then the special library like a military or medical or religious, etc.

But we get to go to the capital and see the secret passageways and all that. I'm stoked. Signed up for some fun sessions, actually there's one for the specialized music library at the work branch which I didn't sign up for cause I figured it was cheating as I walk through it every day.

Speaking of music I should post this and crash cause it's already way late and I have to work all day tomorrow as well.

More of 2012's greatest hits - country style

Pontoon - Little Big Town


music mentor loves this song. sang it all camp.


Fastest Girl In Town - Miranda Lambert


love this video. find it highly entertaining. no idea why.


We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift


too catchy for its own good. loved kaley's comment on taylor being president. go here. awesomeness.

people's choice is probably my favorite - well tied with oscars - because there are so many awards all thrown at them at once and the speeches last like a 30 seconds max. plus the people i want to win actually win. like jennifer aniston and maroon 5 - "damn you swift" - and big bang theory and robert downey jr and ellen pompeo and hunger games and jennifer lawrence - loved her speech - and katy perry and taylor swift and NATHAN FILLION!! and adam sandler, chris colfer, lea michelle, etc.

It's just all fun and games.

Plus I really like Kaley.

From before Big Bang Theory, which people rarely say.

But I can, remember the Charmed obsession?

Oh yeah, she was in it.

Billie.

Final season.

Check it out.


yep, definitely blonde.

"Is it all sunsets and rainbows or did you throw up in your mouth a little?"

I knew when I slept through my alarm that this was gonna be an off day.

Woke up at 9:01.

Supposed to be at work at 9:05. Hit snooze too many times apparently.

So I called Superwoman who covered for me 'til I got there.

I got to shelve for a couple of hours today, ah flashbacks. Though shelving at the work branch is a lot less zen than at the home branch.

Mostly because there's more stuff, but also with the home branch I could tell you exactly where anything was without wandering around trying to find it. I knew which author was at the end of the row before you had to go to the other side because I shelved them every day.

Though now since they've shifted that's all changed.

But anyway, with the work branch there's so much stuff and I'm just not used to it so I have to go by signs - some of which are wrong, btw - so I'm scrambling and it took so much longer than I thought it would.

I only did fiction though, no nonfiction.

What's funny is that I know the nonfiction call number breakdowns because I can visual which subject is shelved where at the home branch. Like oh, that's there so that must be in the 741.5's. Could actually tell you the order of the general stuff from memory.

In fact I already did. Go here: Rockin' Reference with the Shelver's Curse

Though I do have an excuse to wander in the nonfiction since we just did a huge shift.

So now when I'm helping a patron I just look like an idiot going, it'll be this way, nope, sorry next row.

Where was I going with this?

Oh, I got to shelve.

It was fun though not the same.

After work went out with Oldest Sister and Squirt.

Things overheard at dinner
-"Evidently she's a whore."
-"But she's a nice whore."

-"Maybe they think Squirt's hot" about our waiter talking to his boss and looking at our table but not taking our order.

-"All my bitches are freshmen."

-"Is it all sunsets and rainbows or did you throw up in your mouth a little?"

Alright, early morning tomorrow meeting the Library Goddess so I'm out after these hits of 2012.

Titanium - David Guetta feat. Sia


love the mix of this one from pitch perfect. will have to find it later and post it.

interesting video, not what i was expecting.

Too Close - Alex Clare


very catchy, cool video


Good Feeling - Flo Rida



too catchy for its own good.