"She shot an arrow at your head." "At an apple." "Near your head."

So we went to see Hunger Games.

Again.

This time it was me, squirt and the squirrelly boy.

It was our makeshift Squirt is Awesome parade.

Cause I told her she deserved a parade of awesomeness.

Complete with fireworks.

Cause she got asked to play with the high school girls this summer for volleyball.

And she's just an awesome person like that.

So she jammed with us tonight for dinner and a movie.

Noodles for supper, pasta is my downfall, then Hunger Games at the theater.

I liked it better this time, I'm improving my Scale of Awesome rating from 7/10 to 8/10.

I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.

Though I'm still holding off reading the other books, I want to see if watching the movie first will make them better.

Plus it ended all happy, I don't want it to get all depressing which apparently it does.

So I get to grocery shop on the clock tomorrow.

How cool is my job, seriously?

But it's for Summer Reading stuff.

We're making edible campfires and we're pre-assembling them into bags at the next meeting. Which happens to be next week.

So I get to buy pretzels and red hots and licorice and all that, plus 200 juice boxes. No real clue as to the kind or flavor, the only condition is that it's cheap and if it spills - and it will - it won't stain.

And I'm back to fact or crap reference info.

I'm hooked, I find it amusing.

- Every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds

- On average more people fear spiders than they do death.

- Blood of mammals is red, insects are yellow and lobster is blue.

- An albatross can sleep while it flies.

- Sounds at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.

- Although the pony express was one of the most famous chapters in history it only lasted one year, from 1860-1861.

- The word "housekeeping" was invented by Shakespeare.

And that's all I got for the day.

More of the same tomorrow.

I'm attempting to watch some movie with Carla Gugino and David Boreanez. It's a basketball one, The Mighty Macs or something I think. It's alright, I was hoping to feel more uplifted or inspired or something since it's a basketball movie based on a true story. Maybe I haven't gotten that far into it yet.

Though I'll be konked out in a few minutes anyway.

So looking forward to Dark Shadows. And am intrigued that Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman come out basically at the same time.

"Start Wearing Purple" Gogol Bordello
cause i told squirt i would post it. for some weird reason it got deleted from my ipod, will have to go through and re-add it.

i actually got to talked Warped 05 twice today.

I really need to upload those pictures. Or maybe I have already to Facebook. Though I doubt it. But maybe I have. Add that on my to-check-list, similar to a to-do-list but this is double checking things you've done before you forget about them entirely.

You should see them live, they're so fantastic jumping on drums and all that.

"My Favorite Mistake" Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton
interesting matchup, even more interesting haircut. not sure what's going on with that.
this and uncle kracker's "follow me" are the oldest songs i can remember being my favorites.

well, not like classic old songs, but growing up-wise, when i think back these are the first songs i said were my favorite when the concept of having a favorite song was thought out.

if that makes sense.

if not ignore it, i'm falling asleep as we sleep.

OUT!



Alright, off to bed. Have a good one.

Hello it's me, I'm not at home. If you'd like to reach me leave me alone.

I'm tempted to put that as my voicemail. But as my phone is the official camp number and I'm either always working or my phone is on silent that probably wouldn't be the smartest idea.

A whole weekend with no internet. It's down at the farmhouse. Usually that would drive me nuts but this time it was actually relaxing.

Saturday:
-Little Sister's wedding was awesome. I got to sit by my baby sister.
Me: I may cry. It's your job to make me laugh right before we go to meet her.
Yeah, she couldn't do it so we passed it on to Jamie.
She looked beautiful and she got through her vows so I was proud.

-Huskers kicked butt! Parentals taped it and I watched it when I got home. Totally stoked for this weekend's game!

Sunday/Monday:
-Okay, Chuck is the bomb. Seriously. It's funny, it's got action and good storylines - I love it. And, now, so does my mom. I got her hooked this weekend. That's basically all we did. Watched Chuck. Ate. Watched more Chuck. Slept. Watched even more Chuck. She was so sad I had to bring it back with me here that I had to leave her a season. Seriously.
And apparently I know absolutely nothing about it at all cause when Angie Harmon guest starred I about fell off the couch. Seriously.
So I encourage you all to check it out. It's fantastic. And if you don't like it then you're welcome to kick my butt. But you may have to get in line. Pretty sure Sketch has been waiting to do that for a while now. I love you! *pathetic face included*

-Figured out my epiphany/revelation moment that my brother and sister in law were talking about us not being thorough on. But I can't post it to Second Sister figures it out. It was one of those...ohhhh! moments. Like I was totally confused about what he was talking about but now I get it.

-Worked at the movie theater Sunday night with Homey G Wigger and some friends. It was fun. I did drinks in the concession stand.
Me: You didn't tell me about that!
Kim: New ice will fall and hit you. Also, you will run out of Sierra Mist. And you will get sprayed.
Thanks for the heads up.
But it was fun and I got started on my book.

Tuesday:
-Went in at 8 this morning to shelve everything. They painted over the weekend and took down everything that was up against the walls, put it in boxes, and piled them in the middle of the library.

Which, normally wouldn't be that big of a deal but at this branch we're smaller and need to utilize wall space. It took all morning plus part of afternoon to put shelves back up and the books back on them. Mass hysteria. But I got to work with Slim Shady and Superwoman so it was cool.
Although I did learn that I was anal retentive. Which I wasn't aware of until now. So either you all knew and kept it a secret or this is BRAND NEW INFORMATION!! sorry. Friends reference.

-Worked on some homework this afternoon then went back to work tonight. Jammed out with Superwoman and now I'm back.

Tomorrow:
-First full day back at both branches since the weekend off.

Song of the day:

Listened to it on the way to work and it was stuck in my head all day. Drove me bananas.

"A Change Will Do You Good" Sheryl Crow

love the guest stars. "Well this isn't Elm Street." She sounds a bit like Paget when she says that - I had to flip back and make sure it wasn't her.



OUT!

Little Sisters and Winding Roads.

I should have known, when I started the day off sweeping up broken glass in the back room, that today was going to be crazy.

First off, I thought it was actually Saturday, until I showed up at work and was like, well crap. It's Friday. Not that Friday is bad.

"Hello Cleveland."
"It's Burbank."

It's just I was expecting it to be Saturday. Where I get off at noon. And go to my little sister's wedding. Instead I spent the day in public service - which I love - except for when you have to call the cops and someone ends up in handcuffs.

But I did get to see my friends. And tomorrow I will see even more. When I'm off at 12. And go to my little sister's wedding. Did I mention that it makes me feel really old that my little sister is getting married? Not to be confused with my baby sister. Or my adopted little sister. Yes, there are three of them. And yes, none of them are blood relatives.

I went to a dorm school. Boarding school. Whatever you wanna call it. And no, I'm not "one of those", you know the ones that get shipped off, it was voluntary. And I liked it. Most of it. Freshman year was hard. I was homesick for about a month straight. Okay, that's a lie. Two months. And that part sucked. But everything else was great. I got to live with my friends, got to go to a great school, I had a blast. And I met some great people. One of them was my big sister.

You see, as a Freshman. Well, as a female freshman - pretty sure the guys didn't do this - you get adopted by a senior. They become your big sister. And they watch out for you. I was lucky enough to get two. A real and an adopted big sister. Which is funny, because technically I ended up with 2 reals and an adopted. Who just happened to be my boyfriend at the time's actual younger sister. But that's another story.

Moving on.

They watch out for you. And I was crazy homesick and they were great.

It was a small school. By the time I graduated there were only 25 in our class. And we were the biggest in the school. The class above us was short on kids and short on girls. So, when a new group of freshman girls came up, they were short on big sisters. I was Junior and the dorm mom's approached me about being a big sister. And I jumped at the chance. When I met her, she was one of the shyest girls. And she was homesick. Which is why I was asked to step in. So I did. And I think I did okay.

For Christmas one year she did this 12 days of christmas from a secret admirer thing. I got like a necklace and...sunchips - which didn't last long between me and my roommate - and some pictures and all that. She was fantastic. And I love her. And tomorrow, she gets married.

Which is why I'm feeling super old. Plus my adopted little sister has a big girl job and is moving here. Huzzah for that!

As for the baby sister. She's good. Cute as ever. Promises she'll invite me to her wedding. Totally freaked me out, couple months back she changed her last name on Facebook and I probed her until she explained. Some sort of status thing.

Kids these days.

Geez.

Old.

"Everyday is a Winding Road" Sheryl Crow




So. Tomorrow. Big day. It's gonna be fun. Out.

All I wanna do is have some fun. I got a feeling I'm not the only one.

Today's Highlights:
-Staff meeting in the morning. Had my juice and cereal so it rocked.
-Put up my display - totally proud, doing a Remember 9/11 one since it's been ten years.
-Finished yet another list. Deserved ice cream but went to see a movie instead.

-Took the Squirt out for sushi and to see "Crazy Stupid Love" (Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone) and it was fantastic. 9/10 on the Scale of Awesome.
"He doesn't know I'm in love with him!" "Ohhhh...."



Carell is married to Moore who wants a divorce and cheated on him so he drinks away his troubles in a bar where he meets Gosling who takes it upon himself to make Carell a man again. Basically extreme makeover's him and all that. But it's hysterical. Like a fairy godfather or something.
Plus there's a bunch of other love plots surrounding all the characters.
With special appearances by Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon, Josh Groban, Analeigh Tipton, Agent Lee... okay Liza Lapira but I call her Agent Lee no matter what movie/tv show she's in. It's NCIS. Long story.

"When I told you I had to work late I really went to go see the new Twilight movie by myself....and it was so bad!"

-Then while driving home....well, okay. Here's a story. Originally I wanted to be a teacher. I was in the Ed program and all that but I dropped it because I realized that my teaching methods were not something that you would want your child to learn from. I'm more of a learn-from-my-mistakes kind of a person. Because, that's how I was taught. By my brother anyway.
Here was my first driving lesson. I'm sitting passenger while he's driving down the highway and he says, "I just did three illegal things. What were they?" Yeah. That was my brother teaching me how to drive.
So, this is how I teach the Squirt.
Lesson number 1. When drunk frat guys pull up next to you while driving and they're screaming and sticking their heads out the window, DO NOT wink and give them The Nod, or they will continue to drive next to you for miles, stop next to you at the stoplight even though there is 40 feet between them and the car in front of them, and continue to yell things out the window. It's better just to not acknowledge those kind of things.
So, don't do it. See, that's how I teach. You don't like it, don't send your kids to me.
But it was amusing. And she kept freaking out cause it lasted for miles.
So. Keep your eyes on the road while driving. Don't acknowledge the crazy. The crazy will only get worse.

Songs of the night:

"Just One Look" Doris Troy

soundtrack fun. and she didn't know it so i was sad.

"All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow

cause it was sheryl crow kinda day. love her music, makes me feel like i'm chillin on a beach.


"Seriously, it's like you're photoshopped!"

10 points for Gryffindor!

Subtitle: Shenanigans ensued.

Theme of the day: "Put on some music, it'll make her look less crazy."

I learned a lot things today.

1. Everything tastes better when you're drinking it out of a funky glass from your cool aunt. For instance - we made Butterbeer today, which sounds disgusting, but it was surprisingly delightful.

2. Beware when filming your Smart Cousin while she sings karaoke. I threatened to play it at her wedding and she threatened my life. "I will murder you at my wedding. I'm not above that."

3. Voldemort could have thought of much better/safer options for his horcruxes. "Old dirty underwear in a dump. No one would look for that." "That would be the best horcrux ever."

4. Gryffindor is the best house. Seriously. I kicked ass in Harry Potter trivia today. I was actually the first of our group to be sorted. Mostly because the Smart One would yell out trivia and I would answer it or finish her quote and she would respond with "Ten points for Gryffindor!" She ended up in Slytherin - sidenote, we would not be surprised if she turns out to be the next dark lord. She kind of has it all planned out already. Anagram'd name included. Watch out PotterMore! My Vegan cousin + Justoooone were in Ravenclaw, and the Young One - aka the youngest of all the cousins together, not just this group of us - voluntarily chose Hufflepuff. He said he's bringing it back. When you think about it, who is from Hufflepuff even other than Cedric Diggory who doesn't come around until the 4th movie and Susan Bones...who gets mentioned during the sorting hat scene in the first movie. At least Ravenclaw has Luna and Cho.
It was a very HP day. Cool Aunt made themed cookies, we watched 7A until the end when we ran out of time and they did a fast/comedic summary, then we played HP 20 questions which is actually really fun and difficult cause it's not just people you're guessing it's objects and places included. Vegan cousin chose Mad Eye Moody's eyeball, and Smart one and me went back and forth for like half an hour with that as our top choice but we kept hypothesizing because we didn't have many questions left.
And we saw HP7B in 3D which was awesome. and ran into one of our tech guys from work which is ironic because when I went to see the 2D version he was coming out as I was going in and the same with this one. Out of all the theaters and days and showings...

5. I finally understand why our family is so crazy and gets thrown out of places. I mean, I already knew we were crazy, but now I understand why. When you get all of us together our energy like builds until we're just this endless ball of adrenaline. Seriously. Plus, there is usually some amount of alcohol at these family gatherings/reunions/dinner whatever's and that just adds to it until we get loud and obnoxious and they kick us out.

6. I feel like an awful granddaughter. I freakin' live in the same town as Grams and I don't make enough time to go over there. We went over today to see her and she was so happy and so surprised that she just kept telling us how happy she was. Like I was all emotional about that which hopefully she didn't notice but I feel like crap. Cause I should go over there more often. I lived with the woman for months for crying out loud. Then went back to school and it was like complete life change. I don't know how to explain it. Other than I should go over there more.

and speaking of - totally feels weird going back to a house you used to live in, letting yourself in with the code and seeing all the furniture/setup different. My cousin is taking up residence there now so we jammed out there for a while.

Decisions made today include:
We need to start a cousin band named "Marvin Gardens" and write themed songs about Monopoly. And then others about Harry Potter. We all play different instruments so we could make it work.
Cousin roadtrip - this is always mentioned and thought about but it never actually takes place. We used to go all over the place - Florida, California, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon... us girl cousins are thinking Vegas. Last time we were there we were too young to get the whole experience of it. Maybe for like a weekend. But like I said, always just an idea.


Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow

"maybe I am crazy too."
one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artists. and a good theme for the day as well. her greatest hits is definitely in the running for most listened to CD in my collection.


and with that i leave you. i'm not sure about my schedule for tomorrow, it's conflicting which isn't unusual. I'll probably just go to one branch in the morning even though I'm not scheduled to go until 11 and then go to the other at 12 because yeah, overlapping and unlike the Smart One I'm not talented enough to be in two places at once.

Since you've been gone my world's been dark and gray...

Gonna keep this short so I stay motivated to read tonight.

Shelved the day away, literally. The other aide is on vacation so I've basically been playing catch up nonstop. Which is fine actually because usually I shelve everything and there's nothing left but shelf-reading.
Anyway, did the morning shift then came back and finished book #9, huzzah! Will work some more on book #10 tonight then hopefully get that finished tomorrow. Then tonight I went in for an extra hour and it was the end of an era! No more night shifts with Joe Studley. It was a sad sad day. Next Tuesday I'm with Space Cadet for our second round until August. But we have a lot of fun so I'm excited.

Quote of the day:
-Anonymous Library User: "I do it for myself, not for anyone else!" about riding a bike without a shirt. I about died on the spot. But I think that's one of those tone of voice have to be there kinda moments. Still funny.

Songs of the night:

"White Liar" Miranda Lambert
I actually like her quite a lot. She has some excellent lyrics and catchy melodies plus she's not a completely unlikeable snot. Bonus points! This one is often in my head... I enjoy 3:10. There's actually a backstory to this video's casting, you can find the behind-the-scenes stuff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S3pOaa1hMQ

"Picture" Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow

"I was headed to church..." "I was off to drink you away..."
love love love this song. and i'm a fan of both artists so it's like win win. plus the video's pretty cool in that behind-the-scenes kind of way.
She actually wrote a book and we have it, it's called "If it makes you healthy" which makes me laugh as it is a play on words to her song "If it makes you happy."



okay, gotta read some more so I can go see Wicked tomorrow without stress.

sickness, bee stings, greek mythology, zombies, unicorns, evil woman, sheryl crow.....cough medicine.

I'm sick. I have a cold. And it sucks. I've spent the day in bed - yes my actual bed Sketch - drowning myself in cough medicine and surrounding myself with kleenex's. Which made me laugh...but that's more of a long story.

Work today was a bit of a blur. I only had to get into the bookdrop for less than a minute this time. Which was exciting...until I saw the bees. Because apparently spiders and ants weren't enough. I have to admit I had kind of a sister-in-law reaction, grabbed the cart and ran back to the building once it was full. She's deathly afraid of bees. I've only been stung once. Of course it was while I was moving pipe with my brother. I screamed and dropped the pipe. Then while I was bent over in pain he stared and said, "ready yet?" But I love him. Especially when he serenades me with "Rooooooxaaaaaannnnne." Because in the morning that's super funny...My full-grown brother singing...on the particular morning I'm remembering it followed his rendition of some Whitney Houston song, can't remember which one, and we were sitting in the truck waiting for dad because the wheel had fallen off the pipe trailer a whole 3 times already. So yeah, we were done for the day. I almost cheered as he swore up a storm. Cause that meant I got to go back home, take a shower, and go back to bed. Early mornings really aren't my thing. In case you haven't noticed already.

But I guess it was a good day to be sick as I get to spend it in bed, reading/listening to my books for class and finishing the homework. I'm motivated to be done because then I get to konk out and turn on "Covert Affairs" season one, then go out to dinner tomorrow night with the cool aunt for sushi.

And, maybe it's the cough medicine, but I seriously feel like I should ramble about these books. Cause oh my god. Seriously.

Okay so book #7 was "The Lost Hero" by Rick Riordan and we had to listen to the audio format. It was actually pretty good, I'm thinking about reading the sequel after class is over and I have time. I love the Greek Mythology aspect as I'm kind of a nerd about that stuff and ancient Egypt.
But the thing about audio books is that they're good and bad.
Audio book Pro #1 - You can take and listen to them anywhere.
Audio book Con #1 - You feel like you must take and listen to them anywhere. Then you forget you left disc whatever in the car so instead of running out to get it you feel like jumping to the next one but you can't because you're already so lost in all of the backstory you're hoping that the end of the disc in the car will explain something!

Pro #2 - You can multitask while listening, like clean and unpack your apartment, make food, take a shower, clean your apartment, play with your cat, attempt to take a nap, clean your apartment...
Con #2 - The dude reads at a slower pace then what I'm used to so it takes forever to get through a disc! 16+ hours...man.

...there were more pros and cons in my head when I started typing but now I can't remember them. Cough medicine. I'll add them in later.

And okay, here-in comes the oh my god. "Zombies vs. Unicorns". Fun fact #1, actually shelved in the nonfiction section...but that's cause it's a collection of short stories by different authors. Still funny.
Anyway, the stories alternate between being about zombies and unicorns. Except for this one dude who tried to do a cross-over and failed epically. But it's by several authors and two editors who kind of have this running commentary and it's hilarious!
Question though, is it weird that I'm totally more freaked out by the stories about unicorns than the ones about zombies? I'm serious. There's some messed up stuff in there. Like you're thinking rainbows and stickers and flowers and stuff, and while there is a bit of that, duuuude. There's a lot more gore and killing and just disgusting stuff in these ones than in the zombie ones! And zombies eat brains! I'm gonna have nightmares about some killer unicorn coming to eat me and then having some weird zombie guy with half his face avenge me. Freaking cough medicine.
I've totally taken the zombie side in this whole debate. And if you haven't you should read the book. Then you will as well. Just, oh my god. But if you do read it, be warned. It's graphic. Like seriously graphic.

And now I'm going to go read the last few pages of ZvsU, then turn on Covert Affairs and crash. I can finish the rest of the homework tomorrow night after sushi with the cool aunt.


oh right, music recs. cough medicine. ummm... turning ipod on shuffle. which reminds me about my summer songs thing.
Remember how I'm a nerd? and I have all this music on my ipod? Well, every summer after school got out for like the past 4 years I have this thing called a "summer song" which is basically the first song that plays on my ipod (i put it on shuffle) when i'm released from school that year. and I have to listen to it every time it comes up on my ipod without skipping it for the entire summer. Cause I'm a nerd. and have a lot of music. so I skip a lot. But yeah, have been holding off on that since I'm still technically in school til mid June.


oh yay, more family stuff.
"Evil Woman" Electric Light Orchestra

my sisters and i sing this song quite often. delayed...reaction has also murdered this song during a karaoke party a long time ago. fun times.

"First Cut is the Deepest" Sheryl Crow

okay, is it me, or do both of these titles seem to fit in with the whole ZvsU theme? or maybe it's the cough medicine.

I'm gonna sleep now. or turn on Covert Affairs. I hit "play all" last night and don't remember anything past the camera taking pictures of something in the first frame of the series....don't even remember what it's taking pictures of.

...mmmm sleep.

An Unbelievable Barbie Girl whose Favorite Mistake is to be Never There while they Say a Little Prayer 90s Music Day Three

I think I used the word "Cheeseball" to describe myself about 50 times within 5 minutes. Sad day. I'm filling out this reviewer profile thing to be put on the website and I've filled it out and deleted it like 3 times already because I feel like a total cheeseball. Ramblings and Recommendations on here is one thing, on there I have to be all professional and sound smart and all that stuff. It's like a fulltime job. Which technically, it is. Black in the Crevices people, Black in the Crevices. My Life in Closed Captions: "I'm just coloring in the chicken feathers."

Quotes of the day:
"I'm gonna go all tea party..." (supervisor choosing book about history of america during staff meeting this morning
"Cream of whatever...no chunks." second sister describing hospital food

Day Three
1. Awesome rock song (probable crossover with pop category)
2. Cool pop/rap song (probable crossover with rock category)
3. Mandatory Country song - since that's what I was mostly listening to in that time of life.
4. TV tie-in - soundtracks and all that
5. And a yes, I did listen to this song and do continue to when it comes up on my ipod, I don't care if it makes me a total dweeb.

1. "Never There" Cake 1998

Love this song.

2. "My Favorite Mistake" Sheryl Crow 1998

While I'm not wild about the video I am about the song. It was my favorite for years but got edged out of its top spot by Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody" which I already posted during favorites week (another 90s song) so I won't double post it. Even though it's fantastic.

3. "Unbelievable" Diamond Rio 1998

Another old favorite. I love all their stuff, my family actually has our own lyrics to "Meet in the middle", maybe I will post them later in the week.

4. "I Say a Little Prayer" My Best Friend's Wedding 1997

Haven't seen this movie in forever but this is the best part by far.

5. "Barbie Girl" by Aqua 1997

Aw the flashbacks. Mostly ones of high school, me and Smo laying in our neighbors bunk beds listening to this song on repeat even though the neighbors weren't in their room. I mean, they were originally. But then they left. And somehow we ended up staying. It was a long time ago, we actually just talked about that this weekend. "How did we get there?" "Why did we stay?" I just remember one of the upper classmen walking by, seeing us and going, "This isn't your room..."

And she's out!!...for the night.