It's only fear after all.

Yes, I know I didn't post yesterday but I was all ranty and no one wants to read that.

Despite being all ranty the workday wasn't awful.

Spent the morning at the work branch and then the afternoon with Joe Studley at the home branch.

The other person on duty went home sick so they moved me over leaving only 4 people to cover the entire 4 floor building. And when I left 2 of those 4 were at lunch so...

That had to have been fun.

Joe and I had fun, but we always have fun.

After work I watched some Wipeout, did some more editing, and caught up with Sketch.

Today was much better, as you can tell I'm not all ranty so that's always a good sign.

Finally got to see the boyfriend after like a week. Our schedules have just not matched up. If he gets moved to second and it's like this on a regular basis I'm going to be ranty all the time.

We watched Dream House.



It was messed up, Scale of Awesome says 6/10.

I was entertained but confused about many things.

But it's okay, the movie was good for something as immediately following filming Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig got married.

Yes, she's officially a Bond Babe now.

After that got over we watched a little of Mr. and Mrs. Smith - which I love and I'm going to force him to watch the rest tomorrow if he's able to come up here. Again, I hate scheduling.

When did dating become about scheduling? It shouldn't come down to that, you know? Part of me wants to get married just so that it's easier on us.

Though the other part of me remains a girl about the whole thing, but it's his job to ask so I'm staying out of it.

Where was I?

Oh yeah, today, so I'm a nerd.

Which you knew.

And since it was slow today I took the opportunity to work on some booklists. This round's topics are:

-Spunky Old Men (gonna have to think of a better title for that one, but it goes along with my spunky old ladies booklist, you're smart what would you name it?)
-Banned and Challenged Nonfiction Titles (to go with Banned Books Week in September, everyone does fiction list but I'm up for the challenge)
and my personal favorite as suggested by the Old New Guy
-Million Dollar Crazies (you know like Million Dollar Baby except this is about crazy millionaires aka Donald Trump, Howard Hughes, Joan Rivers, etc.)

I'm having far too much fun looking for titles.

And that was my day.

Well, days.

On to the music and then I'm off to finish up my editing.

Song of the Day:

Fear - Stop Making Friends (acoustic)




i'm sorry but i find this highly entertaining:


though it helps to know what they're saying.


okay off to edit some more.

excited to have tomorrow off.

i have no title for this post.

Okay, so I should have saved the headspace music for today.

Plain and simple, today sucked. Black out of the crevices and all over the chicken feathers as I sit back and wave. Any other life mottos I can kill? Go here or there,

Staff meeting this morning was not what I was expecting. Yes, we're building a new library - if we can get the funding - so all that was explained, but then it turned to budgets and reallocating hours and since I'm the newest employee - technically even though I've been with them since May 2010 I've only been full-time since November - I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get banished to up north.

Not that there's anything wrong with up north, it's just that I finally feel like I'm where I'm supposed to be, you know? Like I love TAB - I just built an entire website for it, and I'm finally used to the supplies and damages routine, plus backup aide supervisor is a fun position so far - but that's mostly cause Slim Shady is the boss boss and she's been doing all the stuff I just take over when she's not there - and as for volunteer coordinating I had four volunteers in today, one of them for his second day since he trained yesterday and they rocked. I like the location, pace, staff, patrons, it just fits.

Immediately after the meeting I went to the home branch for an hour and was talked down by my trainee who is fantastic and logical and reliable and all that and made me see things that I might have missed cause I was upset. If it all works out I owe her dinner.

So today sucked yes, but I had some great people to talk to, Trainee, Joe Studley, the authentically awesome one and only KB, Slim Shady, even BossLady searched me out cause she could tell I was freaked. I'm sure it'll be fine and I'm over-reacting,

Anyway, so after that whole crapfest I headed out to see the boyfriend and we hit up the new Bourne movie.  He's fantastic - the boyfriend, not Jeremy Renner though he's great too - because pretty sure no one else was really looking forward to seeing that movie since it's not actual Jason Bourne - but he put up with it anyway cause my day sucked and he loves me. Talked for a while after but now I'm back and ready to crash.

I'd give Bourne about a 6/10. It was alright but mostly because it had Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz, two of my favorites though Jeremy more recently than Rachel. She was pretty kickass, had a few Mummy Returns flashbacks but it was him that did the majority of the fighting.

I will have to go back and watch the original trilogy though to remind me all of the ins and outs of Treadstone and Black Briar and all that. I recognized the faces but the last time I watched any of the movies was on New Years like 3-4 years ago.

Alright, music then crash.

Songs of the day:

More headspace.

Hurtful - Erik Hassle
he's swedish, just go with the hairstyle.

Bury Me - Thirty Seconds to Mars
video is weird but the song is good.

You're my brown eyed girl.

So the wedding.

Awesome.

Oldest Sister dragged me dress shopping last week.

I got multiple. She did a victory dance.

But I'm not the girliest girl - which you have probably figured out by now - so I made Smo choose.

And the bride approved so she chose well.

Though I think my favorite moment was probably the boyfriend's facial expression when he saw me in the dress. Made me laugh.

Told him not to get used to it.

He says maybe it'll grow on me.

Highly doubtful, but a guy can dream.

The wedding was great. I told Beej I was proud she made it through without crying. She said she about lost it walking down the aisle.

I'm like, that's when you lean over and say "Dad, slow down, I need a minute!!"

As fun as the wedding was, the reception was 10 times as awesome.

And I gotta throw this out there. It was like a freakin' reunion. So many NELHS alum that one of our recruiters - the one who recruited me - made us take a group picture. We'll see where that one ends up. Highly likely it'll make its way to Facebook eventually.

Which reminds me that I need to upload my pictures...from the wedding and I still haven't put up the Alumni vs. Called Worker game pictures either. Woops.

Anyway, it's highly amusing now that everyone I went to high school with is old enough to drink. Needless to say many hijinks ensued. And most of them either won't be remembered and shouldn't be repeated so I'll leave it at that.

Though I do have to repeat this one.

The boyfriend was telling us a tale of a girl who thought that the song "Strawberry Wine" was some sort of reference to Jesus.
Smo looks over, serious as ever, and yells over the music, "But, it's about wine!!"

It was a great night. I had a lot of fun dancing, and chatting with some old high school friends - got to jam with Smo and Shel and Frizzy, yeah Sideburns!! and Sloan - I forgot how much fun these people were. There's a reason I loved high school. Even the boyfriend hit it off with some former college classmate who was randomly there.

So it was all about old friends making new memories and all that jazz.

Today, on the other hand, as much fun as it is to take over the library with a big shot of estrogen - there were 5 of us there today and we're all female - the majority us were dead on our feet. So I was glad it was relatively slow.

After work it was homework and then I finally got around to watching The Whistleblower.



Dark. And scary. And depressing. And more depressing.

But based on a true story, about a NEBRASKA cop turned peace-officer in Bosnia who uncovers a human trafficking ring. It's interesting watching the interviews with the real Kathryn Bolkovac. She literally wasn't trying to be a hero, she was just trying to do her job. It's completely fascinating but totally depressing.

Scale of Awesome says about a 7/10 I watched all the way through, couldn't leave until I knew how it ended. Not completely what I expected, but it definitely had its moments. And I mean how can you turn down Rachel Weisz and Nebraska? Really?

Alright, on the music:

"Brown Eyed Girl" Everclear

almost good as the original but it's hard to beat a classic

"What I Like About You" The Romantics

love the original and the remake by lillix. and the show. the show was fabulous.

Extra fun fact I learned today at work. The song "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland is considered a love song. From the 60's.

Which is ironic. Because it's neither a love song nor from the 60's.

And yet it made a 60's love songs compilation CD.

Hmmm....

"You know if you move that thing fast enough, you can almost write your name?"

I painted myself silly today. It's been a while. I think the last time I went was with the Cool Aunt as well. She joined Oldest Sister and myself there today. But it was different because this time there were no grapes. And there are always grapes. But she painted no grapes, instead she went for a cupcake and an ornament for grams, Oldest Sister did some picture frames and I painted a gnome and some christmas ornaments. Yes, a gnome. I was stoked. Now I need to go paint another, then I can be rolling with my gnomies....

I just have one question for you. Gnome. Why is the g silent? Really? Is it accomplishing anything that it needs to be there? and just sit there? Silently? Like the K in Knights looks cool - especially when you burn a giant one for homecoming - but the G in Gnome just makes the word look awkward. Or is that just me? But I guess that's sort of fitting since gnomes are kind of awkward. In a way they just sit there silently. Like the g. Okay, now I get it. Or I still don't but I'm rationalizing it out in a way so that I do.

Moving on.

After the joy that is painting and the comradery that goes with it I went over to Oldest Sister's for supper and we watched The Mummy Returns.

I can hear my mother groaning already. "Again?" "Really?" Yes again. Always again. What's wrong with again? I've seen that and the first Mummy more times than you probably brush your teeth in a year! Okay, I hope not. But 300+ is a lot of times to watch something. Especially when watching the second movie with commercial breaks makes you want to do nothing but pull out the first one on DVD and watch them both properly. Skipping of course the third one, which I won't even acknowledge - that's properly, and pulling out all my ancient Egypt books and resources and getting lost in them again.

Am I the only one who gets completely enamored with all things Egypt? The history and the religion and the traditions is completely fascinating.

And now I've figured it out.

Whoa.

Okay, sorry, roadblock. Mr. Boss Man just got back from his cruise and his talking about all things vacation reminded me that I haven't left the central US area since I was like 13. When we went to California. or maybe it was Florida. It's been so long I don't even remember where we went first. Or how old I was. It couldn't have been 13 cause that was high school. So 12. or 11. Good god, I need a vacation.

I did go to Chicago twice, once for a senior trip and another time to visit a friend. Then we flew to Arizona for a basketball tournament, but that's not traveling really. I want to go somewhere far far away. That requires me to actually go out and get a passport. Queen of Awesome and I were talking about a roadtrip to Canada yesterday while eating sushi. That would be freaking sweet!

And our cousin group - who went to florida, california, clear lake, yellowstone (and okay warehouse 13 has totally given that place a whole new meaning) - has talked for a while now about another cousin roadtrip. We were thinking Vegas. And I'm totally in for that. totally totally in.

But I think I need to go somewhere farther. Like Egypt. That would be awesome. But complicated. But worth it. But who would I go with? Cause that's not exactly something you would want to do alone.

And I kind of want to go to London some day as well. Maybe Australia, meet up with Kat.

See, I have all these ideas and all these people want to go places as well and we talk and talk and talk about them but they never happen.

So, today, I say this - and put it in writing - Some time within the next 5 years (gotta give me time to graduate and put my life in order) I am going overseas. Somewhere. For an extended vacation to see the sights, and jam out with the locals.

Sounds fun. Okay, it's in writing. Next step, pick the place and the people to go with.

Now...where was I? Oh right, so The Mummy. Yes, they are both in my top 5, right after RENT, and they still remain there after 10 years of me watching other movies. Which is impressive because I watch a lot of movies.

And, because I've seen them 300+ I know all the lines. It's similar to singing along to the radio when your favorite song comes on except mine comes with visual aids and is about 2 hours longer.

"Tuthmosis? What are you doing here? T-t-t-t-t, I'm going to put you where you belong." leans and ladder goes straight up, leans again and turns the library stacks into dominos. "Woops."

I like Evy, she's my favorite. The rebellious librarian who gets in a bit over her head with her sense of adventure. Plus you add in Jonathan, her idiot brother who really only cares about money, but he's hysterical. Then O'Connell, the love interest, who is the only American in the bunch.

PS - on the DVD Brendan Fraser does the audio commentary for the first movie and it's fantastically funny. I highly recommend it.



Plus the actors themselves are just goofy.


Rachel Weisz is one of my favorites of all time. And now she's married to Daniel Craig. Which is interesting. And has a new horror movie coming out. Which Sketch won't let me go see. Mean.

Alright, I'm gonna konk out before I overload you with quotes. I'm letting you off easy, trust me.

"Look, I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell. But I am proud of what I am."
"And what is that?"
"I...am a librarian!"

"Oh, because Cheers was taken!"

So, it's official. My social life is dead and gone for the next 2 and a half months. I got my first camp application in the mail today. Geez. I just sent them out like two days ago. And I should be excited. Because I love camp! I seriously love it! I could ramble on about camp for days and days - I do, actually, to the BFF and I think it drives her bananas - but right now, I'm just trying to get through the whole grad school read your brains out thing. So, I think, for the most part, I'll upload the information into a spreadsheet and then deal with it later after the meeting. Which will hopefully either be this weekend or the next. I guess I should ask my partner about that one and if he has any updates on it. Gotta find a new binder as well - my old one is still stuffed with last years info and the year before that's as well. I have a whole corner in my bedroom filled with tubs stuffed with old camp forms, tshirts, bandanas, lanyards, envelopes with the old themes written on them, just like piled up in the corner. I should go through those as well.
I've lived here almost a year now - it'll be a year end of next week - and I still haven't completely unpacked. I now have pictures and paintings on the wall of the living room, so if you just go in there I can completely fool you. But if you make it past the bathroom to the bedroom then I'm toast. There's still boxes everywhere. And I don't even have posters on the walls. Which is soooo bizarre for me. Yes, I still act like a teenager in my decor choices. It drives my sister - well sisters - nuts.
So, this summer, aside from directing a camp, taking classes and working two jobs I will also not only empty all the boxes and put stuff away but also hang stuff up on the walls, get curtains that block out the sun - I hate myself every morning for putting that off - and...well, I'm sure I'll come up with something else later on. Other than clean. Which I also need to do.

But speaking of year anniversaries, I've now officially been at one of the branches for over a year....well, as of Monday I had anyway. Now it's been a year and two days...and still haven't had my 6 month evaluation. Which makes me laugh. But yes, a year. Huzzah! It's funny because it flew by. So it doesn't feel like it's been a year. And on the 24th I will have officially been at the other branch for a year. Although, technically, it was only for a temp position so my 1-year-official-anniversary isn't until like September 18th. Or 16th. I can't remember. I'll look into it later.


Songs for the night:

"Say Hey (I Love You)" - Michael Franti & Spearhead

love the video and the song. those drummers are sweet!

okay...what else....I'll put my ipod on shuffle and hit you with whatever comes up. nope, not that one...or that one...that one's just dumb...okay, i lied. i'll hit you with one when i find one that i haven't already recommended, doesn't suck or won't be stuck in my head for the rest of the night as i have to read and do homework stuff.

...close enough.

"Can't Fight the Moonlight" - LeAnn Rimes and Piper Perabo

because i like the final scene better than the music video.
i actually thought about this movie today during work - when she asks if she's on drugs and she's like "just coffee." See, THIS! is Maria Bello's perfect role. Seriously. This is who I see her as. So, don't go casting her in roles with British accents "Rick, watch out for those rocks!" I just cringe every time. I mean, the whole like 3 times I've watched it. I refuse. The Mummy isn't The Mummy without Rachel Weisz, I'm sorry. Okay, rant over. Anyway, this is Maria Bello man. HBIC bartender. Awesomeness. If you have no idea who I'm rambling about she's at 0:15 and she's the first one to scream. Piper's not bad herself, haha.
So yes, I do have the soundtrack and yes, it is amazing.
I'm still channeling Victoria... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-ne7vkA40 I'll just keep posting it until you all actually go there and watch it. Or start protesting. Whichever happens first.

Book #3 is finished now I'm started on #4, I'll give you a S.O.A. on them when I finish that one and post all the info. Huzzah!