popsicles, castle keeping score, and some of 2012's greatest hits

Went re-shopping tonight.

You know re-shopping, right?

After you realize all the crap you forgot the last time you go and redo your shopping?

Though this time it was all about the popsicles.

Remember yesterday's post about the epic fail?

Dude, those things were nasty. So I ditched them and went back to my regular ones and guess what, they were on sale!! Score!!

2 boxes of 20 for only $6.00 total.

That'll last me like 2 weeks, I'm stoked!!

Okay, 3 tops.

Did I mention my love of popsicles?

Aside from the day flying by not much else to say.

In kind of a funk.

And it's a guilty funk which is the worst kind of funk.

Cause I'm surrounded by people who have legitimate reasons to be in a funk but they're not and I am.

So what the crap?

Oh well, I'm off tomorrow - good thing as it's 3AM now - so I'll sleep and get over it.

"i'm the worst kind of a cougar, a self-hating cougar"

Name that sitcom.

Irony is I just watched a clip of her back when she was Daphne with Niles on Frasier. I got hooked on that show back in early '11. Still quote it from time to time.

"just passing by, thought i'd stop in for a career."

Speaking of clips, found this one highly amusing.

Yes someone did literally go through every episode of Castle analyzing his theory of him saving Beckett more times than Beckett saving him.

watch and learn.




Alright on to the music.

2012's Greatest Hits: Day Two

Mitt Romney Style - College Humor


listened to this one while voting for Mitt Romney. don't think that's what it was meant for but it worked for me.

Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People


also very popular on the Voice. heard it twice in two seasons.

50 Ways To Say Goodbye - Train


the boyfriend and i agree. we weren't major fans of Train when they first hit it big, mostly because the radio played "drops of jupiter" over and over and over and over, but their latest hits are pretty good.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Well, mostly.

Day One:

:: "I wanted to punch that Sooner Boomer lady."
"It's Boomer Sooner."
- It was the boyfriend's first trip on a commercial airline. Which is ironic since he builds airplane parts for a living. Bummer I can't use the anecdote anymore. He did okay, aside from the crazy lady sitting next to him. Apparently she and a group of friends were excited about their game and really hated Texas. The ride itself went smoothly and we landed safely in Denver. Oh and I need luggage for Christmas. I mean, I don't need it specifically for Christmas, I mean that I'm putting it on my list for Christmas.

:: Delayed Flight = Loitering Around the Sports Bar to Watch the Husker Game
-The joy about flying planes is that their schedule is dependent on the weather. On this particular day there was a bit of a snowstorm so we spent a few hours jamming out in the airport. So I posted some random stuff on Facebook - and continued as the weekend went on - and got continuous game updates from Mom. Meanwhile the boys all stood outside this sports bar watching it on their big screen and screaming for every big play.

:: Big Bang Theory & Hot Tea
-Since there was a snowstorm there was a major delay in takeoff so they could de-ice the plane. For this reason - I mean, I'm assuming it's for this reason - we got free cable on the way from Denver to Vegas. I watched the Big Bang Theory marathon on TBS. Every time the boyfriend catches me watching it he refers to it as "that show again". But it's just that good. And I got hot tea. Which is my secret stomach settling drink. Well, any type of tea anyway. No idea why, think it's all a mental thing. But I got hot tea on each of the four flights we took.

:: Slots At The Airport
-Yes, immediately after getting off the plane there were slot machines. So, just in case you couldn't wait until the hotel you could start early. The King of Useless Knowledge was the first and lost his dollar. Bummer. Would have been amusing if he did one buck and then won on the first try.

:: Mandatory Resort Fee
-Check-in was a little scary. We changed our reservations so that we'd all be on the same floor. In the end I only paid about 80 some bucks cause I'd already paid for everything else. Though the majority of that 80 bucks was what they called a "Mandatory Resort Fee" which brought up the comment, "you can't put a price on fitness." "Yes, you can, it's 25 dollars." Another weird thing brought up at check-in? They use the weight system so that if you pick up one of the snacks you are charged for the item if you don't put it back in the exact location within a minute of moving it.

:: "Don't lick the apparatus." 
-So, you gotta know that my family is highly entertaining. Some in particular say anything that comes to mind outloud. Over the next few days you'll get a lot of random quotes that I'll attempt to explain but most likely the majority of them are better left unexplained. This particular one came after my brother said he would never go on the zipline because some dude who did got a staff infection and lost a bunch of limbs. But maybe that's what caused the problem in the first place.

:: To Get Married or Not To Get Married, that is the question. 
We had dinner at Gilley's, a cowboy resteraunt where all the waitresses are decked out in cowboy boots, hats and spurs. There was even a mechanical bull in the room next door. At one point the topic of marriage came up - we were discussing when to take our picture in front of a church and send it to our parents prank that my siblings had been plotting. I said something about how it would be easier to just get married to which he agreed. When I said he was joking but I was serious he said he was serious as well so there were about 30 seconds that we were going to get married. We had enough family there to be witnesses and the rest could throw us a reception later. Part of me wishes we did, just cause I want to be with him. But the other part of me knows that our parents would kill us, and of course Sketch as well. She would have driven all the way to Vegas to kick my butt.

Song listened to on the way to the airport?


Only a few of the highlights of the day. Tomorrow is all about Day Two. Stay tuned.

Mitt-Bama Style

Okay, thing I forgot to mention in yesterday's post?

I listened to Mitt Romney Style whilst voting for Mitt Romney.

I'm aware that the song is supposed to deter people from voting for him, but I totally jammed to it whilst filling in the circles anyway.

For those of you who have yet to watch it....

WATCH THIS FIRST

Then go here:


this is by far my favorite video of the moment.

had to buy the song on itunes cause it was stuck in my head after watching it like 20 times.
notice all the references?

go behind the scenes here:


Mitt Romney Style is much more catchy than Obama Style:

yeah, no.


while not as impressive as that one attempted to be these actors could totally pass for obama and michelle

yeah, that's mostly dancing and that's all. but they're dead on appearance-wise.


okay, i take it back, this one's pretty good

hey, romney's shady.


I don't remember what I was actually going to talk about today. Had 3 go-po volunteers come in at the same time for training. That was interesting. What else? Um, oh, finished two major homework assignments. Which means I can actually take time to pack for Vegas either tomorrow or Friday. Depending on which night Oldest Sister is taking me shopping. For clothes to wear to Vegas. And then we'll buy more in Vegas. But I don't plan on gambling excessively so I should be fine. I mean, I will, just attempt to keep it under a hundred.

Alright, that's all I got for today. Glad I'm done with the assignments. Just gotta post to a discussion board later and that's it for the ones due before Vegas.

And you got the song, well songs, of the week so I'm out.

Notice the lack of Voice ramblings? Not really impressed with the artists on either of these teams aside from Trevin, Adriana and Mackenzie. Oh well, another episode tomorrow.

Vegas countdown 3 days and counting.

Out.

NLA 2012 Day One - The Full Monica

2011 NLA Highlights: Green Bags and Nametags

I survived day one of the NLA annual conference.

Left the apartment this morning at 6AM and just got back at 9:45PM.

I didn't have to be there until 8, but thinking there would be traffic and I would get lost I left like an hour earlier than I needed to. After stopping for gas and cash I arrived at like 7:08. So I jammed in the lobby with Queen of the Known Universe and fellow LCLers. There were a lot of us there, I can count at least 12 off the top of my head. Though by the dinner banquet we were down to four.

Showed up with nothing but cereal and a diet dr. pepper and came home with a bag full of free stuff.

What is it about conferences or home and garden shows that turn you into a kleptomaniac? I mean seriously. It's my goal to go to each of the booths and get a pen or ruler or candy or whatever so I came home with this bag full of stuff and went, crap. Now what am I gonna do with it?

Granted the majority of the stuff taking up space in the bag is presents - I got something for mom, dad, the cool aunt and the boyfriend but i'm not done shopping for them yet.

And then of course came the t-shirt that the Library Goddess bought me cause she's awesome and spoils us. It's blue with the Superman logo on the front except instead of a giant S it's a giant L.

Should write in a "SA" after the L so it's a true statement as I am a Library Service Associate and not quite yet a Librarian.

So, our homework assignment from Boss's Boss's Boss is to meet someone, talk to them about what they do and then write about it to her in an email.

I think I've done that like 50 times over. And the thing about working with the Library Goddess is that she's so enthusiastic so if she doesn't know someone she'll go introduce herself and take you along with her. Like today, I met two published authors - Stephanie Bodeen aka S.A. Bodeen who wrote "The Compound" which is a Golden Sower nominee and Mary Downing Hahn - author of about 50 kids books but "Closed for the Season" was also a Golden Sower nominee, guessing the Cool Aunt is super jealous - and about 80 students in the program.

I didn't meet Tom Osborne but I did listen to him speak, and my Trainee met him in the parking lot so that's exciting.

We gave him a standing ovation. We did the a couple of times but he was the only one I actually knew. Which is amusing. People like stood up for this one chick and clapped and I was like, okay I should probably stand and clap. Who's this again?

I did learn a lot as well. As much as it physically pains me to say it, like literally pains me I'm intrigued by BISAC. I mean, I'm Dewey through and through, for serious, I think that the books are already divided up by genre why do they need to do it again with different labels, it would a pain and awful and just something else we'd have to adjust to if we switched over - but listening to a presentation about this library turning just their YA area into BISAC and having its circulation like triple intrigues me cause we don't get a lot of circulation for our nonfiction YA material. Perhaps if we had more signage and separated it out it may get more attention.

Except we don't have a lot of nonfiction for YA so that'd be something to work on first.

I'll keep it in mind. That and an App session were the only two I attended all the way through. The rest of the day I was in the booth or taking pictures of presentations if they were given by staff/students/alum of the Missouri program.

Taking pictures is fun until you get to like the second or third presentation on your list and everyone glares at you cause you're walking in late, then your camera makes noises and then you leave early getting even more glares. Blah.

Now I'll officially have to join NLA. Oh yeah, that's another person I met - the president of NLA, well as of a couple hours ago before she passed on the golden gavel to someone else. But I'll do it online this week after the dues are changed. And I'm a student so I get in for cheaper.

Hung out a lot with both of my bosses aka Superwoman and the Library Goddess. They were having an argument as to who is Boss #1 and who is Boss #2. I told them it was up to them to duke it out. It was fun hanging out with them.

I actually saw about 80 classmates who all know me cause I'm the grad assistant but I'm still learning names so I'm like, "Hey!" *pause to look at name tag* "Did you register for the iTunes giftcard raffle yet?" Thank god for nametags, seriously. My lanyard is purple and pretty but clashes with my yellow Mizzou tag.

New concept to take home from the conference but won't include in my report to the Boss's Boss's Boss:
-"The Full Monica" aka the female version of the Full Monty

Oh, and we all got our pictures taken with a cardboard cutout of Sheldon Cooper which will probably become my profile picture.

Tomorrow I'll get one with Darth Vader.


Clip of the day as recommended by the boyfriend.

Parody of a pretty much already parody.



heyyyyy wealthy ladies...