Queen of the Known Universe is really the queen.
We had this massive update of our ILS system last night and it has some glitches. So there were a lot of frantic moments, mostly this morning.
So, when our Assistant Director comes down to check on us and asks how it’s going she says something to the effect of, “you know what would make it better? Chocolate.”
Jokingly of course.
He goes to lunch.
Comes back with bags of chocolate.
For serious.
Made my day.
I totally busted out laughing cause it was oh my god, he actually brought us chocolate!
And it helped man. We were stoked. Chocolate really does fix all.
I figured that out in high school. An old friend of mine and myself had this theory that just kept getting expanded on.
Originally it was chocolate fixes all. Then it was chocolate and Moulin Rouge fixes all. Then it was chocolate, Moulin Rouge, and apple juice fixes all. And I think it ended with chocolate, Moulin Rouge, apple juice and Carrie’s broken chair fixes all.
Yes I had a broken chair.
And it was awesome.
It was a recliner that stabbed you if you walked by too closely cause the footrest was broken.
My parents hated it cause I brought it home with me from the dorms.
Shortly after I moved out it mysteriously disappeared.
Hmmm…much like my Titans hat that I wore every day…
I’m lucky I escaped with my tearaways! Though I’m sure people are proud that I rarely wear them anymore. As I don’t really have a chance.
Didn’t we just have this conversation? I’m a workaholic? Right? Yeah, we figured that out a couple days ago.
Not that it wasn’t apparent before then.
But this whole chocolate thing is killing my good behavior for the dentist. Apparently I drink too much pop and chew too much gum. Now Mom wants to buy me a water pik, whatever that is, but it would probably be useful. Then maybe I wouldn't have to give up the pop and gum. Cause that's clearly not happening.
Tonight was fun. Had sushi and a movie with Oldest Sister and family. We watched Tower Heist - which I took the kids to see in theaters - and it had alternate endings. They were both good and should have been added, cause you could have the original and both the additions. They should have them.
Oh well, guess more people will have to watch the DVD to see them.
"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!"
We still died, actually Squirt and I kept going, it's almost to the best part, sh it's coming up!
Then the maid went rogue, ran into the FBI guy with the cart and said into the radio, "he was allergic to chocolate, i had to beat him" and we both died.
Best part of the whole movie, though the whole thing is good.
It's hard to have a bad movie when you have so many good actors in it. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Gabourey Sidibe, Alan Alda, even Téa Leoni was pretty badass in it. Though the last movie I saw with her in it was Fun With Dick and Jane...which wasn't too fantastic.
Guess what?!
I get to sleep in tomorrow! So don't call me tomorrow morning! Cause I'm sleeping passed noon.
I'm still exhausted. Girlscout says maybe I have mono. I went NOOO!! Don't even say it!!!
I had that once before and it was not cool.
But I'm tired all the time. Oldest Sister says I just haven't caught up on sleep yet. Which is true, I haven't been sleeping much lately.
Tonight I will. Gonna put in some Charlie's Angels season one and crash with my big fat cat.
I'm still counting car crashes, I bet I can reach double digits by disc 4!
"Elephant Love Medley" Moulin Rouge
because everyone should have someone to scream at in a giant elephant.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wake me when it's in the yard.
I stick true to my grandma’s philosophy on storms. We live in Tornado Alley for Christ’s sake. If we went to the basement every time there was a storm warning we’d never leave! Everyone would be freaking out about the tornados and the wind and the hail and Grandma would just go to bed. “Wake me when it’s in the yard.” Sounds good to me.
So, after hanging at Subway, eating icecream with some of the family we finally decided to just drive back through the storm warnings and the hail and the rain. Oldest sister followed me - M has school tomorrow and I have to work so staying there wasn’t an option.
And I don’t listen to the radio so for all I know we could have been driving straight into storm central. It could have been like a “That 70’s Show” moment. Have you seen the one where Eric has to go pick up Donna at the radio station and he puts in a cassette tape while he’s driving? Meanwhile, you can see the tornado in the background like tearing up houses and stuff. He’s just totally dancing and singing the whole time. Then when he gets there Donna makes a big deal out of him coming to get her and driving through it and he totally freaks out because he’s scared of tornados.
What a day, seriously. Worked 9-1 - staff meeting, backroom, backroom, public service. Got yelled at by an Aide, nicknamed by a supervisor - “big brother” and I are now the “Gruesome Twosome”. I told you we ask a lot of questions, she probably wants to run and hide when we come downstairs, then basically took off as soon as I could to head out for practice.
Practice was good, they were into it, I could hear them, they sang the right words, only needed to be cued a few times. We were like, they’re gonna pull this off! Like shocked. Sent them home and came back for supper in the basement. Lots of parents and family came so that was cool. Then upstairs to the classroom where we hung out, talked things over with them and all that, walked down to the stage together. Start like right away. I’m barely in the door when the first song starts. Song goes great, I’m thinking, alright this is going to work.
After the song…okay, imagine 14 kids wanting to be anywhere else. Now put them all together on a stage, staring off into space, whispering back and forth, arms crossed, messing with their clothes, it was like - people could have slept through it. Seriously. But, there were only a few times they needed to be cued so they were paying attention. Somewhat. I don’t know if it was nerves because of the audience or if they were just tired of it but I could not get any eye contact. Usually, I do motions and dance in the back and distract them so that they’re looking up and smiling and stuff - no, no one would look at me. It was crazy.
But it’s done, and I waved and it’s done. Back to having free time. HA! More time for homework maybe.
Speaking of, duuude. Have you ever read a book or watched a movie that you’re so into that when you turn it off or put it down you have to re-adjust to life as you were living it before the experience? This is one of those books. A book that makes me ignore the music that’s blaring in my headphones so I don’t even hear it because I’m so focused on what happens next. So it doesn’t matter that the play could have gone better. Much better. Because now I get to finish the book. Damn you Library Goddess. You and your good taste in literature. I’m toast for this class. I’m not going to have any time to do anything else but read Young Adult novels. But this one…makes that totally worth it. I’ll give you a Scale of Awesome when I’m done with it. 100 pages left, actually less than that, I could barely put it down before the play. I was late to the beginning of the potluck - which is fine because it’s a potluck so you come and go - because I couldn’t put it down.
Currently, I just feel like an emotional wreck. Completely exhausted. Work was awesome - til I got yelled at - but after that it was good again, the practice was good I was excited for that, then I went home and read so I was totally zombie mode for that zoning out everything but the book, then I started to get a headache at supper, but I got to see my mentor and hang out with some friends so I ignored it, the play was just an experience - something to scrapbook let’s go with that - I totally started crying during one of the songs not because it was good or bad just because of the melody and the lyrics which makes me a cheese ball but it didn’t matter, because no one was looking up at me anyway! HA! After the play was the awards, Nic is always good with that kind of stuff, then they started taking down the set decorations, we headed to get ice cream, I almost puked in the bathroom - when I have a headache for a long time I get nauseous. Ask Oldest sister, she’s got a fun experience involving me in a mall parking lot after seeing “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” with its shaking camera and my going in with a headache. And I love that movie! “Baby, you couldn’t find the button with both hands and a map” but now when I see it all I can think of is a bucket and a parking lot. After the ice cream it was the drama of sitting around waiting for the storms to move on. Which they didn’t so we drove through them. Then I was debating which was worse for my car - driving through the hail and the pressure of it against a moving car, or for it to be in a parking lot like a sitting duck with no where to hide. Which do you think would do more damage? I guess I’ll see what it looks like tomorrow. Then, driving back with Oldest Sister was amusing because for some reason, even though she’s older and has 4 wheel drive, I was the leader, or maybe those are the reasons why she wanted to follow me - who knows - so we were like waving when we got into town and I was going to turn so we were in the lane next to each other and then this other car was between us - pretty sure we weirded them out. But whatever. Now I’m finally back at my apartment, writing this, will post it, then read my book until I fall asleep like last night - I woke up with my book and my big fat cat in my lap. And like, he’s a big cat. So I don’t know how I didn’t wake up when he jumped on me, but I was out. Like out.
Now this is really long so post, then read, then sleep, then work, then finalize homework then get ready for class. Huzzah!
Song for the night - because it’s the same song, well kind of.
“Smells like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana
Here we are now, Entertain us.
Ah, the mosh pit. There were plenty of you at Warped. “She tried to crowd surf and the tide went out.”
Or the Moulin Rouge version
Outside it may be raining, but in here it’s entertaining!
So, after hanging at Subway, eating icecream with some of the family we finally decided to just drive back through the storm warnings and the hail and the rain. Oldest sister followed me - M has school tomorrow and I have to work so staying there wasn’t an option.
And I don’t listen to the radio so for all I know we could have been driving straight into storm central. It could have been like a “That 70’s Show” moment. Have you seen the one where Eric has to go pick up Donna at the radio station and he puts in a cassette tape while he’s driving? Meanwhile, you can see the tornado in the background like tearing up houses and stuff. He’s just totally dancing and singing the whole time. Then when he gets there Donna makes a big deal out of him coming to get her and driving through it and he totally freaks out because he’s scared of tornados.
What a day, seriously. Worked 9-1 - staff meeting, backroom, backroom, public service. Got yelled at by an Aide, nicknamed by a supervisor - “big brother” and I are now the “Gruesome Twosome”. I told you we ask a lot of questions, she probably wants to run and hide when we come downstairs, then basically took off as soon as I could to head out for practice.
Practice was good, they were into it, I could hear them, they sang the right words, only needed to be cued a few times. We were like, they’re gonna pull this off! Like shocked. Sent them home and came back for supper in the basement. Lots of parents and family came so that was cool. Then upstairs to the classroom where we hung out, talked things over with them and all that, walked down to the stage together. Start like right away. I’m barely in the door when the first song starts. Song goes great, I’m thinking, alright this is going to work.
After the song…okay, imagine 14 kids wanting to be anywhere else. Now put them all together on a stage, staring off into space, whispering back and forth, arms crossed, messing with their clothes, it was like - people could have slept through it. Seriously. But, there were only a few times they needed to be cued so they were paying attention. Somewhat. I don’t know if it was nerves because of the audience or if they were just tired of it but I could not get any eye contact. Usually, I do motions and dance in the back and distract them so that they’re looking up and smiling and stuff - no, no one would look at me. It was crazy.
But it’s done, and I waved and it’s done. Back to having free time. HA! More time for homework maybe.
Speaking of, duuude. Have you ever read a book or watched a movie that you’re so into that when you turn it off or put it down you have to re-adjust to life as you were living it before the experience? This is one of those books. A book that makes me ignore the music that’s blaring in my headphones so I don’t even hear it because I’m so focused on what happens next. So it doesn’t matter that the play could have gone better. Much better. Because now I get to finish the book. Damn you Library Goddess. You and your good taste in literature. I’m toast for this class. I’m not going to have any time to do anything else but read Young Adult novels. But this one…makes that totally worth it. I’ll give you a Scale of Awesome when I’m done with it. 100 pages left, actually less than that, I could barely put it down before the play. I was late to the beginning of the potluck - which is fine because it’s a potluck so you come and go - because I couldn’t put it down.
Currently, I just feel like an emotional wreck. Completely exhausted. Work was awesome - til I got yelled at - but after that it was good again, the practice was good I was excited for that, then I went home and read so I was totally zombie mode for that zoning out everything but the book, then I started to get a headache at supper, but I got to see my mentor and hang out with some friends so I ignored it, the play was just an experience - something to scrapbook let’s go with that - I totally started crying during one of the songs not because it was good or bad just because of the melody and the lyrics which makes me a cheese ball but it didn’t matter, because no one was looking up at me anyway! HA! After the play was the awards, Nic is always good with that kind of stuff, then they started taking down the set decorations, we headed to get ice cream, I almost puked in the bathroom - when I have a headache for a long time I get nauseous. Ask Oldest sister, she’s got a fun experience involving me in a mall parking lot after seeing “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” with its shaking camera and my going in with a headache. And I love that movie! “Baby, you couldn’t find the button with both hands and a map” but now when I see it all I can think of is a bucket and a parking lot. After the ice cream it was the drama of sitting around waiting for the storms to move on. Which they didn’t so we drove through them. Then I was debating which was worse for my car - driving through the hail and the pressure of it against a moving car, or for it to be in a parking lot like a sitting duck with no where to hide. Which do you think would do more damage? I guess I’ll see what it looks like tomorrow. Then, driving back with Oldest Sister was amusing because for some reason, even though she’s older and has 4 wheel drive, I was the leader, or maybe those are the reasons why she wanted to follow me - who knows - so we were like waving when we got into town and I was going to turn so we were in the lane next to each other and then this other car was between us - pretty sure we weirded them out. But whatever. Now I’m finally back at my apartment, writing this, will post it, then read my book until I fall asleep like last night - I woke up with my book and my big fat cat in my lap. And like, he’s a big cat. So I don’t know how I didn’t wake up when he jumped on me, but I was out. Like out.
Now this is really long so post, then read, then sleep, then work, then finalize homework then get ready for class. Huzzah!
Song for the night - because it’s the same song, well kind of.
“Smells like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana
Here we are now, Entertain us.
Ah, the mosh pit. There were plenty of you at Warped. “She tried to crowd surf and the tide went out.”
Or the Moulin Rouge version
Outside it may be raining, but in here it’s entertaining!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
bugs on steroids!
That's what a friend of mine said when she first moved here. We were driving and her windshield was covered in june bug juice. haha. But there were freaking bugs everywhere at work this morning. Spiders and crickets and some weird looking green thing. Just gross.
So, Jarvis decided to go rogue again. The unlock button on my key stopped working so I had to use the actual key. Which is fine. Except that it set the car alarm off. Crimeony. I'll have to figure out where the spare key is cause tomorrow I'm at both libraries and an alarm blaring might make things awkward. Especially when there's a security guard that would totally make fun of you for it.
But play practice was awesome! I was shocked! I mean, usually it's awesome because I love the kids and we have a lot of fun but this year they're just not as pumped as usual. Anyway, today they knew most of their lines and they were actually singing the songs. I'm going back out Thursday afternoon and hopefully we'll be completely out of the books and all that. Bop and my oldest girl are writing their own commercial so that's exciting. The King and Shad started working on their rap this afternoon. So if both of those things get finalized and we start work on them by the end of this week we might actually be ready! Shocker! 16 days. Holy toast. I'm just glad I don't have to learn the lines. I do however have to write a song with Nic. Which of course we haven't started yet. Last year we wrote it just a few days before performance so we're right on track now. We still need to pick a topic as well. I'll have to brainstorm on that this week. What about, what it takes to direct a grade school play? hmm...
Another fun thing that's kind of still going on - we're having a bit of a battle on facebook! My cousins and myself that is. My sister mentioned something about not being cool enough for her daughter to want to be "matchers" with - which is more of a long story - but my male cousin stood up for her, saying our family is awesome but then something along the lines of the male members of the family being better. To which he was bombarded by comments by myself, my sister, my second sister, and two of my cousins. I cool aunt quoted him as well. Because she's right and this just proves true. "*insert last name* women show up!" Which is true! Weddings, family reunions, etc. We're always there. Us women are awesome. And it is totally on like donkey kong. Seriously.
Quote of the day:
"Another four weeks, which he said four weeks ago." Dad about his healing process. He's ready to be done with all that medical junk but the doctors keep pushing it back.
"No Air" Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown
I enjoy watching him put on his jacket in slow motion. And okay, gotta say,
Red hoodie = awesome.
Giant blue scarf that's really awkward and unnecessary indoors = dumb.
It's like the updated version of Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman yelling at each other in a giant elephant, I'm loving it!
So, Jarvis decided to go rogue again. The unlock button on my key stopped working so I had to use the actual key. Which is fine. Except that it set the car alarm off. Crimeony. I'll have to figure out where the spare key is cause tomorrow I'm at both libraries and an alarm blaring might make things awkward. Especially when there's a security guard that would totally make fun of you for it.
But play practice was awesome! I was shocked! I mean, usually it's awesome because I love the kids and we have a lot of fun but this year they're just not as pumped as usual. Anyway, today they knew most of their lines and they were actually singing the songs. I'm going back out Thursday afternoon and hopefully we'll be completely out of the books and all that. Bop and my oldest girl are writing their own commercial so that's exciting. The King and Shad started working on their rap this afternoon. So if both of those things get finalized and we start work on them by the end of this week we might actually be ready! Shocker! 16 days. Holy toast. I'm just glad I don't have to learn the lines. I do however have to write a song with Nic. Which of course we haven't started yet. Last year we wrote it just a few days before performance so we're right on track now. We still need to pick a topic as well. I'll have to brainstorm on that this week. What about, what it takes to direct a grade school play? hmm...
Another fun thing that's kind of still going on - we're having a bit of a battle on facebook! My cousins and myself that is. My sister mentioned something about not being cool enough for her daughter to want to be "matchers" with - which is more of a long story - but my male cousin stood up for her, saying our family is awesome but then something along the lines of the male members of the family being better. To which he was bombarded by comments by myself, my sister, my second sister, and two of my cousins. I cool aunt quoted him as well. Because she's right and this just proves true. "*insert last name* women show up!" Which is true! Weddings, family reunions, etc. We're always there. Us women are awesome. And it is totally on like donkey kong. Seriously.
Quote of the day:
"Another four weeks, which he said four weeks ago." Dad about his healing process. He's ready to be done with all that medical junk but the doctors keep pushing it back.
"No Air" Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown
I enjoy watching him put on his jacket in slow motion. And okay, gotta say,
Red hoodie = awesome.
Giant blue scarf that's really awkward and unnecessary indoors = dumb.
It's like the updated version of Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman yelling at each other in a giant elephant, I'm loving it!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.
Okay so that whole cleaning thing went out the window. I did take a nap. Which was nice...for a whole like half an hour. You can only sleep so long at the farmhouse since it's freakin' grand central station. Phone call after phone call and the ringers are loud.
Play practice was excellent, kids are getting pretty into it. The only problem that now kids are out sick and the oldest is still out because of the surgery. So we're going to play a lot of catch-up with not a lot of time. May 12th is the date. One month from tomorrow. And we're still in the classroom which is not a good sign. Maybe we'll be down on the stage by the end of the week. We're gonna have to soon to start working on blocking. Thankfully this year's play came with a choreography DVD that I still have yet to watch, woops. But I don't have to come up with it this year, hooray!
Keeping it short tonight, kinda tired for no real reason other than it's a Monday. Castle was awesome though! Yay for the ending!
"Let's Dance" David Bowie
Classic song. Although, not the video I was expecting. "Under the moonlight, the serious moonlight..."
Moulin Rouge...Just because I can.
Because everyone should have someone to scream at in a giant elephant.
Pure awesomeness, minus the offkey moment at 0:29. But it's cool, she fixes it on the soundtrack.
Tomorrow means split shift, hooray! So I can run some errands, clean apartment, attempt to nap. We'll see.
"How wonderful life is now you're in the world."
Play practice was excellent, kids are getting pretty into it. The only problem that now kids are out sick and the oldest is still out because of the surgery. So we're going to play a lot of catch-up with not a lot of time. May 12th is the date. One month from tomorrow. And we're still in the classroom which is not a good sign. Maybe we'll be down on the stage by the end of the week. We're gonna have to soon to start working on blocking. Thankfully this year's play came with a choreography DVD that I still have yet to watch, woops. But I don't have to come up with it this year, hooray!
Keeping it short tonight, kinda tired for no real reason other than it's a Monday. Castle was awesome though! Yay for the ending!
"Let's Dance" David Bowie
Classic song. Although, not the video I was expecting. "Under the moonlight, the serious moonlight..."
Moulin Rouge...Just because I can.
Because everyone should have someone to scream at in a giant elephant.
Pure awesomeness, minus the offkey moment at 0:29. But it's cool, she fixes it on the soundtrack.
Tomorrow means split shift, hooray! So I can run some errands, clean apartment, attempt to nap. We'll see.
"How wonderful life is now you're in the world."
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