If I fall for you I'll never recover, If I fall for you I'll never be the same.

Post #999

Alright, I'm gonna keep this post short because today was super slow and not a lot happened, but also because I'm already starting on tomorrow's post.

It's gonna be epic, so tune in.

It's actually inspired by events of today.

I have a new stalker that always comes to my desk to ask for stuff and then lingers after every transaction.

It's super awkward but apparently he does it to BossLady too so I'm not completely alone.

He keeps asking me for my name every time he comes in and always has to track me down to say hi, even if I'm like youth services or no where near him whatsoever.

And I feel bad avoiding him cause maybe he's just a nice guy, but he seems too nice and it's creeping me out.

Anyway, so I was thinking about that and previous encounters that Slim Shady so lovingly dubbed my "magnet moments" and came up with the topic of tomorrow's 1000th post.

My Top Library Moments Of All Time.

So if you've worked with me at some point tune in, I'm sure you'll be in there cause the list is huge.

To be fair it has been 3 years, well, more than 3 years now, more like 3 and a half cause I started in May of 2010, so there's a lot to cover.

If you're a frequent reader of the blog you've probably heard of a few but this post will include all my top moments so I'm excited.

That's really all I got for today. It was freezing so no one was there all morning. Like the New Guy and I started in the lab and usually there's a line to get on to the computers...we looked at the clock 10AM, no one, 10:10AM, no one, 10:15AM, no one, 10:20AM, one guy.

We thought the doors were broken or something, but apparently not. It's just that damn cold.

And tomorrow's gonna be worse.

Thankfully I don't go in until noon so it'll be a little warmer than in the morning.

They talked about closing the schools tomorrow because of the cold. Probably a good idea, I wouldn't want my kid walking to school in negative temperatures.

Okay, on to the music, then back to tomorrow's post.

More of my favorites from 2013:

I Love It - Icona Pop


Love Somebody - Maroon 5



out.

Mom officially has Facebook. Watch out world.

I got a new phone today.

Well, I should say, I bought a new phone today.

I don't get it until next week.

I know you're all oh-so-excited.

But you have no idea how frustrating my current phone is.

In order to make a phone call I have to go into my contacts and pick a name, I can't just enter in a number. It takes me back to the home screen as soon as I hit send.

Then when I'm texting the words don't show up on the screen and I have to restart the phone.

I can't see photos on Facebook.

And then half the time the internet doesn't pick up a signal so I have to restart for that too.

It got to the point where I was restarting my phone like 7-8 times a day.

And I've had it since college so yeah, definitely excited to get my new one on Monday.

Cause I have Sunday and Monday off again next week, woohoo!

So yes, I gave you a break and took the weekend off from posting.

Actually our internet was down.

So.

Yeah.

No, actually it was nice just kind of getting away from everything for the weekend.

Had a lot of fun with friends and family back home.

Started off with a camp meeting on Saturday afternoon.

Sent out our postcards with info about registration.

Actually it was funny because usually we send out individual forms and it takes like 5 hours, this time we put labels on postcards directing people to our website to print out the forms - they're also being sent to churches and they will print paper copies - and it took like less than 30 minutes.

We didn't know what to do with ourselves.

So we got icecream.

Which is a recurring theme.

And then just jammed for a while.

Afterward I dropped my stuff at home - long enough for Dad to make me watch 30 seconds of American Hoggers cause apparently I couldn't wait a day until seeing what the dad looks like.

Yeah.

I'll get there.

And then headed up to see the boyfriend.

It stormed.

He put my car in.

Such a nice boyfriend.

We watched a movie.

For the life of me I don't remember - oh yeah, the Whole Nine Yards.


Two of my favorite actors - Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis.

Actors of Awesomeness.

I had seen the sequel - like 10 years ago I don't remember anything about it - but I hadn't seen the first one.

It was pretty good.

After that I headed out to the farm, went to the home church, got to see some old friends there.

Went out to lunch with the parentals and Homey G-Wigger.

Took a nap.

And then - okay, so here's the funny part of the weekend.

For Mother's Day all Mom wanted was for me to come home and clean my room.

The funny part about that is that none of the stuff that we cleaned was mine.

So while yes, it was my room, it was not my stuff.

Cause her office has exploded onto my floor.

But now it's all clean, and almost unrecognizable.



Well, to those of you who know me anyway.

They used to laugh because it was always a pit and there was just a path from the door to the bed and then the rest was covered in junk.

But now even the closets are clean.

And I cleaned out her fridge.

Threw out the cheese from November 2012.

Which I'm pretty sure was when I last cleaned out her fridge.

Limited the cream cheese stash from 9 boxes to 6.

Second Sister brought out her kiddos and we ordered burgers from Strang.

Population 50.

Best food around, you should check it out.

The boyfriend came out so then of course while he had both of us there Dad made us watch American Hoggers.

Since the boyfriend knew the title of the show according to Dad he was a fan - he was not a fan - so after burgers we watched not one but two episodes.

What I don't get is that the girls on there are so normal!

Like, they look like they could be city girls living city life - there's no overwhelming accent or personality - and then you see the dad and the brother and you're like whoa....

Yeah, no.

I'll stick with Swamp People.

I can live with being subjected to that.

American Hoggers not so much.

Remember my Dad's DVR post?

Should do that again next weekend cause there are soooo way more of them now.

So that was Sunday.

Since Second Sister and her kids took my room - which was clean but wasn't for long while they were there - I got the north room and fell asleep watching All That.

I miss 90's TV.

My favorite non-animated show from childhood.

Cause it was that, Scooby Doo and Garfield.

Classics.

If you haven't seen it it's basically the kid version of SNL.

I have a post on here about it somewhere.

Yeah.

"Oh no, the babysitter exploded!"

They have this sketch with Lori Beth Denberg where she's this obnoxious librarian.



"quiet!! this is a library!!!"

Ha, right.

What's cool is that Keenan started on that and now he's on SNL.

Anyway, so this morning Jim O and Homey G-Wigger and I went golfing.

9 holes, we rocked it.

Par'd it up.

But our par is different than other peoples' par.

Cause we go with like 6-8 strokes as par.



Cause that's par for us.

Except during the actual tournament then we keep track.

Well, Pastor keeps track.

We joke that he gets us to the green so we just need to be able to put.

But we had some good ones this morning.

Like I used a wedge and hit from like 40 feet away to like 2 feet from the hole.

Picked up a couple of extra golf balls, lying about.

And she didn't throw me out of the cart so I'm calling it a victory.

After that ate supper with the family, played some softball with the kiddos.



Everyone kept throwing the ball at mom and she freaks out every time.

It's so funny, when she had to play church softball cause we were short on girls we put her in right field. A ball got hit over her head and as she's running toward it I hear "you told me they never hit it out here!!"

But softball was fun, it was just the kids that bat.

Batted?

Hit the ball.

We fielded.

Then I set Mom up on Facebook.

I know, watch out world.

She's excited to keep up with family and look at pictures.

After they all left I went up to look at phones.

Long line, took forever, but I found one that's similar to the one I have now yet completely different and super new.

And the chick who got me set up put an order in for one for herself and she knows way more about phones than I do.

I'm excited.

Stopped by the boyfriend's place on the way back home.

Went out to eat then I headed back.

Came through the door and Carter about tackled me.

He was not pleased when I closed the bathroom door to take a shower cause then it was like I was leaving him again.

I know, he's spoiled.

But he's cute.

Alright, gonna konk out.

Hope you had a good weekend.

Back to work tomorrow plus the backlog for being closed today.

Love Somebody - Official Double Take cover

awesome cover.

i'm singing along like there's no tomorrow.

Find this video highly amusing.


So I posted it on Squirt's wall cause she likes accents.

Coolest Aunt, 15 years running.

Just saying.

PS - She got her Learner's permit the other day, makes me feel SUPER old.

Wordie says he's gonna put foam all around his car just in case.

Stay off the sidewalks people.

I told her not to take driving lessons from her uncle.

He gave me my first driving lesson.

Here's how that went.

Ready?

"I just did three illegal things, what were they?"

Speeding.

Changed lanes in an intersection.

Did it without signaling.

I have a lot of weird early driving memories.

Second Sister parked her car in the ditch once - she and Favorite Sister-In-Law had a place in town - and Mom was coming so she wanted to convince Mom it was my doing.

Then there was my brother-in-law - the King of Useless Knowledge - letting me drive a car for the first time.

aka putting it in neutral and letting it roll like 3 feet in a driveway, it was AWESOME!

Hitting a deer with Smo and Shel in the car. With cappuccino. Yeah, those went everywhere. Best part we were like 1 mile from home. Called Dad, "does it run?" "yeah." "drive it home." To be fair it was like 10PM.

Driving over a hill with an ex and the yoyo in the cupholder flipping over and landing in place.

Dirt road in the rain, slid off that one with same ex and friend Jess.

Getting pickup stuck in mud at brother's place whilst attempting to go swim in his pond with friends.

...

I'm sensing a trend.

...

Perhaps these incidents were not my fault, there's always people involved.

Been in 3 accidents - none of them my fault.

Once on the farm, got hit by some dude my age who had - the month previously - put the same car in the ditch (in a giant snowpile) about half a block from where he hit me. My brother pulled him out. He suggested we not call the cops, because apparently, not only was he just in that ditch a month before but he also hit his friend's car not long before that and it was a cheap fix. After convincing him that I was calling my parents - well, my brother - he decided then was a good time to tell me his life story. Apparently he had a kid. Guess how he found out. "Merry Christmas, I'm pregnant."

That text came after they had broken up.

Meanwhile in my head I'm screaming, "where the hell is my brother?" If he were at home he could have been there in 30 seconds but instead he was in town with my mother so it took 10 minutes.

While that may sound like a super fast response time, it really doesn't feel that way when you're hearing someone's life story.

Cops showed up, gave him a ticket and he paid for the damage.

Accident number 2 was here, way north on 27th, got rear-ended by a guy named Kory.

Yes, he spelled it with a K.

Think his number is still in my phone.

Anyway, it was barely a scratch, more of a shock factor than anything else. I told him I'd have my brother-in-law look at it and then contact him.

3rd one Mom was driving. We were driving through Oldest Sister's neighborhood on ice, dude coming in opposite direction was going too fast, couldn't slow down, ended up spinning and hitting us.

Got to call the non-emergency number.

Again.

Good thing I work where I work.

Otherwise it would have been 911, emergency.

You learn so much from working at a library filled with crazies, drunks, and other festive personalities.

He was like half a block from his house, sad day for him.

Mom's car sat in my parking lot for a while 'til it could get checked out.

It snowed and someone made a smiley face on the hood.

Oh the joys.

But none of them were my fault. Much more cautious now with the new car.

I used to speed, a lot. Now I don't really see the point - not that I did then, it was just something you did when you're a teenager and stupid.

But now I have to watch out for freakin' cops who hide in alleys, then walk in the middle of the road pointing their speed gun at you and then point to a sidestreet you're supposed to turn off on.

Or the joy and excitement that was my birthday last year when I got pulled over in Second Sister's driveway. "Happy birthday, here's a warning." That was an adventure. But the speeding wasn't intentional, thought it was 35 when it was in fact 25.

No, I actually don't speed now cause I have to pay for the insurance, ha! And as much fun as Stop Class is - been there twice - I can really do without another 8 hours of "don't speed" "wear your seatbelt" "don't drink and drive" "don't text and drive" etc. etc. Although, the more recent one was more like watch these amusing video clips because the cop who's supposed to be here is sick.

How did I get here?

Oh right, Squirt and her driving capabilities.

They need to take her out to the farm and let her loose.

I never took Driver's Ed. I actually got my license when I was 14, or was it 13?

Cause you get your school permit at like 15 but then I could get it when I was 14 cause I lived more than 10 miles away from school and then instead it was 13 cause I lived on a farm too or some weird law thing.

I don't remember.

I was supposed to do like 50 hours of supervised driving but I'm pretty sure the parentals just signed at the bottom and called it good.

Speaking of signing, apparently the Library Goddess has perfected my signature. Good thing she knows how to spell my name. Ask her about that later.

And as for the parentals, today is Mom's birthday. I called, yay me.

And also Abby Cadabra's birthday. I called, yay me.

I asked her if she wanted me to sing and she replied, with absolutely no excitement whatsoever, "sure". No faith in my birthday-singing skills. So I sang anyway.

It was amusing, we - as siblings - banter frequently.

So this morning I get this text from my brother saying:
"Don't forget today is Mom's birthday. As I have already given her the continuous gift of having a child with her birthday no call is necessary. You less thoughtful children must call."
To which Oldest Sister replied:
"U r taller than ur hair." (We give him crap cause he shaved his head in college and the hair never grew back.)
And then Second Sister added:
"I don't claim to be the most thoughtful offspring, that much is certain. Just the best looking."

I WAS WORKING so being the responsible adult that I am, refused to participate. (actually I didn't get them until lunch and by then we had moved on to talk of burning farm ground so we can start from scratch. on purpose don't worry.)

Apparently the only skills needed to participate are being able to beat stuff with a stick with a mud flap on it.

And there must be beer on hand.

No, we're not redneck whatsoever.

I missed out on last time so I'm hoping to make it this year. Last year it was just the boys. Driving 4 wheelers around the fires.

Taking a break from their day jobs.

No, we're not idiots whatsoever either.

but that's enough family hijinks...

is it hijinks or hyjinks?

either way i'm getting those annoying red edit lines.

Got to see 2 of my favorite home branch friends today as they made an appearance at the work branch. Does that mean I can call them my "homies" cause they're from the home branch? or would that make them the "home branchies"?

I like "homies" better. Congratulations.

Didn't get to talk to Joe Studley for very long but it was good to catch up with Sensei as I haven't seen her since working at the home branch on a regular basis, cause she used to come in and check stuff out even after she retired. So that's what like November of last year, not like this past one though, the year before that.

Really?

Has it been that long?

Geez.

But I guess yeah, cause I started May 2010.

Alright, on to the music before I find something else to ramble about.

Up to the last of Maroon 5's greatest hits, so take like 11?

Heard the first one live, would have loved if they sang Doin' Dirt, that's one of my favorites.

Love Somebody


amateur music video, but cute.

Tickets


catchy.

Doin' Dirt


love it.

Beautiful Goodbye


fitting end.

Aaannd I just realized that I don't work tomorrow.

So I don't have to go to bed immediately, whoa.

All day yesterday it felt like Thursday. Now that it is Thursday I don't feel like I'm off tomorrow.

Weirdness.

Oh well, taking advantage. Will sleep in, do some homework, watch some movies and hopefully see the boyfriend at some point.


Oh, and Carter and I made snowpeople.






The one on the left is Norman. Haven't decided on a name for his friend yet.