That's really all I had from yesterday and it was Vegas rules anyway so I couldn't explain it.
Plus I was up 'til 3AM doing homework and then had to wake up at 8 to go to work all day so I did not get around to posting.
We took a tour of a law library that took way longer than I thought. But I learned a lot and it was interesting. And at least I finished the homework so I'm good for a few days at least.
Today was fun. Got to work at the home branch with Space Cadet so things were a little more relaxed. Except that the bookdrop was frozen shut so the maintenance dudes had to come over with a blowtorch.
So that was fun.
Anyway, after work was Trivia Night - the fundraiser for my nephew's school. We went as the cast from That 70's Show - I'm sure pictures will make Facebook. I was Donna, had my red hair and 70's shirt, the boyfriend was Foreman - appropriately enough.
Now I have the urge to watch the series. I have the majority of it - leaving out of course the last season after Topher ditches. Does he at least come back for the finale?
It was fun, 10 categories with 10 questions each plus the additional Dead or Alive and Heads of Tails between rounds. I got some random ones - you would have been proud. Jackson Pollock, Scott Joplin, Albany, The Hunger Games.
Yes, I'm aware those are random answers, but they were the ones I contributed as the majority of the questions were answered by the boyfriend, the brother and the brothers-in-law. Though this year they had an entire category dedicated to quilting - yes, quilting - and Oldest and Second Sisters took over that one. Even Favorite Sister-In-Law dominated this year. Setting the standard for next year pretty high.
There were some weird categories, I mean the usual ones of religion and around the town but then the first category was all about dogs, which we got like 8/10 so that was awesome but then that quilting thing was way weird. Glad the sisters knew what they were talking about.
Interestingly enough, last year we got hosed on the Around the Town thing because they hadn't lived there very long, and yes I went to college there but I didn't pay attention to what building an image of an anvil was on or how many clocks were in the courtyard. This year's was very very specific - and weird. Like what road is this fence on? who lives in this house? - it was the University's president WHICH I GOT RIGHT! so take that.
And I didn't even know it was his house. I just guessed cause it had to be some sort of celebrity so people would know it.
Take that!
Anyway, I think our final score was like 71 or 72. Not great but not last - actually we tied for 12th out of 30 teams so it wasn't that bad.
For as specialized as the categories were at least.
We're debating themes for next year. Possibly something 80's, maybe favorite 80's movie character - in which case I'm not sure who I'd choose. Have to do some research on that one. Some of the Star Wars movies came out in the 80's and I am a Carrie Fisher fan. Though I would avoid the bikini scene. That would just be awkward.
Oh, speaking of, so I love it (that was sarcasm) when people come up to me and say, "hey you look great, did you lose some weight?"
Cause I never know what to say.
I wasn't aware I needed to lose any and it's not like I'm trying to.
I mean I don't really eat but that's because of time constraints, not dieting.
Unless time constraints is a form of dieting.
In which case I would be on a diet.
But what do you say to that really?
Um, thanks?
Anyway, on to the music. Songs of the day:
I feel like I'm running out of music to rec, but I guess that happens after 718 posts.
Gonna have to delve deeper into the collection.
Here, try these, they're great.
The Rock Show - Blink 182
awesome jam song, random video but fitting to their style.
Kiss - Prince
heard this one and totally jammed out in the car. pretty sure the other driver's thought i was nuts. but that's fitting to my style.
and i had to post this one cause the boyfriend brought this up tonight:
Finesse Mitchell on Comedy Central - Prince
Finesse Mitchell | Myspace Video
and it always makes me laugh.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
"Show me your chest hair."
I'm just exhausted.
All day acting peppy and cheerful and excited about life cause when you're training new employees you have to be all peppy and cheerful and excited about life. Cause who wants to train under someone who's mean and depressed and tired all the time?
And that's basically all I did all day was train people. Cause we have three new ones in the system - and it's not like it's a pain, I like them, they're cool. It just takes it out of you. And I'm always freaking out that I'm going to teach them the wrong thing or whatever.
But it's always fun when you're training with other fun people.
Quote of the day: "Show me your chest hair."
Nope.
No explanation, just gonna have to roll with it.
After work was dinner with the sisters. Got my usual rainbow chicken and fries, half of which is in the fridge ready to be eaten at around 2AM.
If I make it that long, I'm barely hanging on for this post and it's only 11:30.
Dinner was fun and our annual trivia night - mentioned here "Hey, I got flax." - has been officially scheduled for the first Friday of February. Totally stoked. We talked about our costumes a bit, every team is supposed to have a theme. We picked That 70's Show for ours - go here: "That's not it either." I'm Donna cause I got the red, which makes the boyfriend Forman. Oldest Sister is Kitty cause she can do the laugh, her husband aka the King of Useless Information is Kelso, my brother is Red all the way, Favorite Sister-In-Law will be Jackie, Second Sister will be Hyde - she's stoked to buy a wig - brother-in-law will be Fez which I think will be hysterical.
Anyway, originally that was going to be the weekend for the annual Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure so we will probably end up pushing it back. But it was also the weekend of my niece's first birthday party and I felt guilty for skipping. This will be good though cause it gives us actual time to plan since that's coming up really fast. Last year when we went I got sick so we didn't do much but this year we actually semi-know the area and we can come up with a game plan about some stuff to visit and places to eat at and all that so it will be better.
Should stop by their library.
Yes they have one.
We drove by. We actually did just randomly drive all over town. It took like 20 minutes to cover the whole town.
Boondocks baby, yeah.
Anyway, so that was my day.
And yes I'm boring so here, enjoy these.
More Useless Information
- A hard-boiled egg will spin, a cooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- The word "News" came from the first letters of the words North, East, West, South because information was being gathered from all different directions.
- 95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
- Nintendo first produced playing cards.
- Take your age, multiple it by 7. Then multiply the product by 1443. The product will repeat your age 3 times.
And on to the music the LAST DAY of my picks for 2012's greatest hits.
Lights - Ellie Goulding
actually been around much longer than 2012 but didn't gain popularity until this past year. very catchy and SUPER COOL VIDEO. we played this while golfing this summer 2G style.
Lovin' You Is Fun - Easton Corbin
love the deep voice. really like this one.
Finally Found You - Enrique Iglesias
making a comeback? liked "baby i like it" better though.
OUT!
All day acting peppy and cheerful and excited about life cause when you're training new employees you have to be all peppy and cheerful and excited about life. Cause who wants to train under someone who's mean and depressed and tired all the time?
And that's basically all I did all day was train people. Cause we have three new ones in the system - and it's not like it's a pain, I like them, they're cool. It just takes it out of you. And I'm always freaking out that I'm going to teach them the wrong thing or whatever.
But it's always fun when you're training with other fun people.
Quote of the day: "Show me your chest hair."
Nope.
No explanation, just gonna have to roll with it.
After work was dinner with the sisters. Got my usual rainbow chicken and fries, half of which is in the fridge ready to be eaten at around 2AM.
If I make it that long, I'm barely hanging on for this post and it's only 11:30.
Dinner was fun and our annual trivia night - mentioned here "Hey, I got flax." - has been officially scheduled for the first Friday of February. Totally stoked. We talked about our costumes a bit, every team is supposed to have a theme. We picked That 70's Show for ours - go here: "That's not it either." I'm Donna cause I got the red, which makes the boyfriend Forman. Oldest Sister is Kitty cause she can do the laugh, her husband aka the King of Useless Information is Kelso, my brother is Red all the way, Favorite Sister-In-Law will be Jackie, Second Sister will be Hyde - she's stoked to buy a wig - brother-in-law will be Fez which I think will be hysterical.
Anyway, originally that was going to be the weekend for the annual Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure so we will probably end up pushing it back. But it was also the weekend of my niece's first birthday party and I felt guilty for skipping. This will be good though cause it gives us actual time to plan since that's coming up really fast. Last year when we went I got sick so we didn't do much but this year we actually semi-know the area and we can come up with a game plan about some stuff to visit and places to eat at and all that so it will be better.
Should stop by their library.
Yes they have one.
We drove by. We actually did just randomly drive all over town. It took like 20 minutes to cover the whole town.
Boondocks baby, yeah.
Anyway, so that was my day.
And yes I'm boring so here, enjoy these.
More Useless Information
- A hard-boiled egg will spin, a cooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
- The word "News" came from the first letters of the words North, East, West, South because information was being gathered from all different directions.
- 95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.
- Nintendo first produced playing cards.
- Take your age, multiple it by 7. Then multiply the product by 1443. The product will repeat your age 3 times.
And on to the music the LAST DAY of my picks for 2012's greatest hits.
Lights - Ellie Goulding
actually been around much longer than 2012 but didn't gain popularity until this past year. very catchy and SUPER COOL VIDEO. we played this while golfing this summer 2G style.
Lovin' You Is Fun - Easton Corbin
love the deep voice. really like this one.
Finally Found You - Enrique Iglesias
making a comeback? liked "baby i like it" better though.
OUT!
Friday, August 17, 2012
That's not it either.
Weirdest of days.
It started out fine, met up with the library goddess to talk scheduling over a cup of coffee that she totally bought, she rocks. Was relaxed and all that afterward, then 2:05 hit and I was helping this lady find a book in the biography section - totally normal - except on my way out I see this plastic bag so I lean over and see it's got like bottles of shampoo and conditioner in it.
Since it's a weird thing and I didn't want to touch it I naturally called the guard.
Cause apparently that's what everyone does when they don't want to touch something.
Well, that or Colliers.
Anyway, called the guard, he came up and when I leaned over to grab the bag I noticed that there were other things under the surrounding shelves.
Here's a list of things we found under the surrounding shelves:
-Bag of fresh tomatoes
-Box of donuts
-2 Twinkies still in their wrappers, only slightly smashed
-Empty bottles of shampoo and conditioner
-Glass cleaner
-Old Spice deodorant
And since we ran into Superwoman on the way downstairs I got the pleasure of writing an incident report about it.
I await commentary that I'm sure I'll read when I go in on Sunday.
So there was that, then I discovered that BossLady doesn't like rootbeer.
And neither does Queen of the Known Universe.
But Rootbeer, especially rootbeer floats are like a staple in America. It's like apple pie, baseball or the national anthem. You know?
Inbody-ism: "Some dums" as in some of the dum-dums are rootbeer flavored, while some of the dums are chocolate flavored. Apparently she was sad when what she thought was chocolate was actually rootbeer and it scarred her for life.
After work I met up with the boyfriend and we drove over to the stadium for our annual August birthdays Saltdogs game. Basically it's myself, the boyfriend, and my siblings - sans children - and we go and eat and drink and cheer and dance and basically humiliate ourselves but have fun while we're doing it.
You can find last year's entry here: Extra Innings Victory I don't remember it going to overtime but I guess it did. We did tonight as well, but they lost after the other team scored one and they couldn't come back.
And then Oldest Sister's entry about it here: A Family Tradition
So we were still loud and obnoxious but there wasn't as much dancing as usual. That's okay, we made up for it with interesting conversation.
Including the quotes of the night:
-A big pickle doesn't go well with beer.
-Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.
-PCPA - principle commander of what now? camp stuff
-Usually I wait 'til 5th of 6th inning but I'm in dire need for some dip-n-dots. she did make it to like inning number 5 at least. and that's only cause her husband got them for her. We discussed having a "text the loudspeaker" option so you could have him announce, "Hey, make that a large fry!" Would be awesome.
-But here's my lover, so call me maybe. *Bek Kate's version of but here's my number so call me maybe*
-Makes more sense to yell 'dogs' *instead of charge since they are the saltdogs*
-Schweddy balls? Sounds delicious. *yes it is an actual icecream flavor and i was forced to google it cause they didn't believe me. I don't know how we got there, someone started in on SNL stuff. Go here: B&J new flavor *
-I'm glad you're my brother cause you'd make a really ugly sister. *birthday card which reminds me i need to send mine*
-Did you say scrip? Yeah, 15% of that goes to nelhs! *you don't want to know, let's just say what happens in vegas stays in vegas*
-Bahoobies *apparently "bajoingas" isn't the only term in use by our family. this came from 3 year old abby cadabra after trying on her sister's swimsuit. i like it and it's going to stick. Repetition made me want to do a facebook search to see if the guy on facebook in front of us put his status as "what the hell is a bahoobie?" as we started yelling it as a battle cry, did i mention there was liquor involved?*
now everytime i think of that word i do this:
More on that later.
Other interesting observances:
-Oldest Sister bought a bag of cotton candy all for herself, a few rows down a kid - maybe like 2 - sits facing her and stared at her as she ate it. Apparently, she has become accustomed to that because she has a dog that begs for scraps, so she basically just sat there staring at him and proceeded to eat it all. that's just mean.
-Someone in the box seats brought a fishnet and stuck it out the window when there was a foul ball. "That's just lazy." cause he missed so it was okay.
-We are deciding on our theme for trivia night, go here: Hey, I got flax! But it's in January so we still got time. We're leaning toward That 70's Show. I would be Donna cause I have the red hair which makes the boyfriend Eric Foreman. Since Oldest Sister is the mother of the group she'd be Kitty, sister-in-law would be Jackie, brothers-in-law would be Hyde and Michael, Second Sister would be FES, and brother would be Red.
Should be fun.
Anyway, so when we discussed that Oldest Sister should be Kitty she did the laugh. You remember the laugh from above, right?
But then she tried to do it again later and failed epically. So we all tried it and failed as well, saying "That's not it" after each attempt. I told them I'd go home, record it and send it to them and they'd send me back, "That's not it either."
Pretty sure I nailed the :02 one, though toward the end it was more like the :28.
Then it got all quiet and Second Sister and I busted out laughing at the exact same time.
Other things I learned:
-Apparently no one has seen the Evolution of Dance video because they don't know the "Tonto" dance
-Staying away from the giftshop means less money spent on random shirts that I wear maybe 3 times a year.
-There is such thing as too much dough in a pretzel.
Check out these sweet moves.
dig it.
It started out fine, met up with the library goddess to talk scheduling over a cup of coffee that she totally bought, she rocks. Was relaxed and all that afterward, then 2:05 hit and I was helping this lady find a book in the biography section - totally normal - except on my way out I see this plastic bag so I lean over and see it's got like bottles of shampoo and conditioner in it.
Since it's a weird thing and I didn't want to touch it I naturally called the guard.
Cause apparently that's what everyone does when they don't want to touch something.
Well, that or Colliers.
Anyway, called the guard, he came up and when I leaned over to grab the bag I noticed that there were other things under the surrounding shelves.
Here's a list of things we found under the surrounding shelves:
-Bag of fresh tomatoes
-Box of donuts
-2 Twinkies still in their wrappers, only slightly smashed
-Empty bottles of shampoo and conditioner
-Glass cleaner
-Old Spice deodorant
And since we ran into Superwoman on the way downstairs I got the pleasure of writing an incident report about it.
I await commentary that I'm sure I'll read when I go in on Sunday.
So there was that, then I discovered that BossLady doesn't like rootbeer.
And neither does Queen of the Known Universe.
But Rootbeer, especially rootbeer floats are like a staple in America. It's like apple pie, baseball or the national anthem. You know?
Inbody-ism: "Some dums" as in some of the dum-dums are rootbeer flavored, while some of the dums are chocolate flavored. Apparently she was sad when what she thought was chocolate was actually rootbeer and it scarred her for life.
After work I met up with the boyfriend and we drove over to the stadium for our annual August birthdays Saltdogs game. Basically it's myself, the boyfriend, and my siblings - sans children - and we go and eat and drink and cheer and dance and basically humiliate ourselves but have fun while we're doing it.
You can find last year's entry here: Extra Innings Victory I don't remember it going to overtime but I guess it did. We did tonight as well, but they lost after the other team scored one and they couldn't come back.
And then Oldest Sister's entry about it here: A Family Tradition
So we were still loud and obnoxious but there wasn't as much dancing as usual. That's okay, we made up for it with interesting conversation.
Including the quotes of the night:
-A big pickle doesn't go well with beer.
-Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.
-PCPA - principle commander of what now? camp stuff
-Usually I wait 'til 5th of 6th inning but I'm in dire need for some dip-n-dots. she did make it to like inning number 5 at least. and that's only cause her husband got them for her. We discussed having a "text the loudspeaker" option so you could have him announce, "Hey, make that a large fry!" Would be awesome.
-But here's my lover, so call me maybe. *Bek Kate's version of but here's my number so call me maybe*
-Makes more sense to yell 'dogs' *instead of charge since they are the saltdogs*
-Schweddy balls? Sounds delicious. *yes it is an actual icecream flavor and i was forced to google it cause they didn't believe me. I don't know how we got there, someone started in on SNL stuff. Go here: B&J new flavor *
-I'm glad you're my brother cause you'd make a really ugly sister. *birthday card which reminds me i need to send mine*
-Did you say scrip? Yeah, 15% of that goes to nelhs! *you don't want to know, let's just say what happens in vegas stays in vegas*
-Bahoobies *apparently "bajoingas" isn't the only term in use by our family. this came from 3 year old abby cadabra after trying on her sister's swimsuit. i like it and it's going to stick. Repetition made me want to do a facebook search to see if the guy on facebook in front of us put his status as "what the hell is a bahoobie?" as we started yelling it as a battle cry, did i mention there was liquor involved?*
now everytime i think of that word i do this:
More on that later.
Other interesting observances:
-Oldest Sister bought a bag of cotton candy all for herself, a few rows down a kid - maybe like 2 - sits facing her and stared at her as she ate it. Apparently, she has become accustomed to that because she has a dog that begs for scraps, so she basically just sat there staring at him and proceeded to eat it all. that's just mean.
-Someone in the box seats brought a fishnet and stuck it out the window when there was a foul ball. "That's just lazy." cause he missed so it was okay.
-We are deciding on our theme for trivia night, go here: Hey, I got flax! But it's in January so we still got time. We're leaning toward That 70's Show. I would be Donna cause I have the red hair which makes the boyfriend Eric Foreman. Since Oldest Sister is the mother of the group she'd be Kitty, sister-in-law would be Jackie, brothers-in-law would be Hyde and Michael, Second Sister would be FES, and brother would be Red.
Should be fun.
Anyway, so when we discussed that Oldest Sister should be Kitty she did the laugh. You remember the laugh from above, right?
But then she tried to do it again later and failed epically. So we all tried it and failed as well, saying "That's not it" after each attempt. I told them I'd go home, record it and send it to them and they'd send me back, "That's not it either."
Pretty sure I nailed the :02 one, though toward the end it was more like the :28.
Then it got all quiet and Second Sister and I busted out laughing at the exact same time.
Other things I learned:
-Apparently no one has seen the Evolution of Dance video because they don't know the "Tonto" dance
-Staying away from the giftshop means less money spent on random shirts that I wear maybe 3 times a year.
-There is such thing as too much dough in a pretzel.
Check out these sweet moves.
dig it.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah.
First Children's Lit class today.
Flashbacks to college Children's Lit with Serck.
Next up, read a bunch of Golden Sower nominees and add them to goodreads.com profile.
The website is pretty cool, and addicting so you should check it out.
And it's free.
Leaving at 7 this morning wasn't fun, but I stopped for coffee and stayed awake the whole time.
Which is more than I can say for now, I'm falling asleep as I type.
So I'll keep this short.
The Library Goddess was abundantly pleased for me to bring her one as well, but I have her order memorized. Large Iced Latte, no flavor.
After four hour of Children's Lit, basically four hours of discussion on literacy, I headed home to eat leftover burrito stuff and I was gonna take a nap but I watched "Hugo" and "Boondock Saints" instead. I'll give them both 6/10.
Intrigued, but not going to watch them again anytime soon.
Sasha Baron Cohen in a serious role just weirded me out.
I'm used to hating him, not rooting for him.
It was humorous to see Chloe Moretz her go from Carolyn Collins to sweet and innocent what's her name.
I'm debating whether I want to pre-order Dark Shadows the original series. It's pretty expensive off Amazon but I think it'd be worth it. I'm all for cheesy movies, especially at camp. But probably not this one for camp.
I definitely want the soundtrack, it's fantastic.
Stoked to have today and tomorrow off. Will most likely be church and then nap time.
I got some camp stuff done today too so was pretty functional and all that.
That's a weird word.
Was pretty productive, yeah let's go with productive.
Did I mention I was sleeping?
The boyfriend is off in California 'til next week. Lucky, I'm stoked for Vegas. Checking out some books and all that, find hotspots. Should be fun.
Alright, I'm aware this is lame, but I'm gonna konk out with my big fat cat.
Maybe eat some Lucky Charms.
Cause they rock.
"Shake Your Groove Thing" Peaches and Herb
this song reminds me of two TV references. That 70's Show and Mike and Molly.
it was that 70's musical which was hilarious, and then the mom's boyfriend from M&M said something about it being the same peaches but herb number four so they should dig up her yard.
yes, i'm lame. i'll make up for it tomorrow. out!
Flashbacks to college Children's Lit with Serck.
Next up, read a bunch of Golden Sower nominees and add them to goodreads.com profile.
The website is pretty cool, and addicting so you should check it out.
And it's free.
Leaving at 7 this morning wasn't fun, but I stopped for coffee and stayed awake the whole time.
Which is more than I can say for now, I'm falling asleep as I type.
So I'll keep this short.
The Library Goddess was abundantly pleased for me to bring her one as well, but I have her order memorized. Large Iced Latte, no flavor.
After four hour of Children's Lit, basically four hours of discussion on literacy, I headed home to eat leftover burrito stuff and I was gonna take a nap but I watched "Hugo" and "Boondock Saints" instead. I'll give them both 6/10.
Intrigued, but not going to watch them again anytime soon.
Sasha Baron Cohen in a serious role just weirded me out.
I'm used to hating him, not rooting for him.
It was humorous to see Chloe Moretz her go from Carolyn Collins to sweet and innocent what's her name.
I'm debating whether I want to pre-order Dark Shadows the original series. It's pretty expensive off Amazon but I think it'd be worth it. I'm all for cheesy movies, especially at camp. But probably not this one for camp.
I definitely want the soundtrack, it's fantastic.
Stoked to have today and tomorrow off. Will most likely be church and then nap time.
I got some camp stuff done today too so was pretty functional and all that.
That's a weird word.
Was pretty productive, yeah let's go with productive.
Did I mention I was sleeping?
The boyfriend is off in California 'til next week. Lucky, I'm stoked for Vegas. Checking out some books and all that, find hotspots. Should be fun.
Alright, I'm aware this is lame, but I'm gonna konk out with my big fat cat.
Maybe eat some Lucky Charms.
Cause they rock.
"Shake Your Groove Thing" Peaches and Herb
this song reminds me of two TV references. That 70's Show and Mike and Molly.
it was that 70's musical which was hilarious, and then the mom's boyfriend from M&M said something about it being the same peaches but herb number four so they should dig up her yard.
yes, i'm lame. i'll make up for it tomorrow. out!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Hangin' Out.....Down the street.....The same old thing....We did last week....
TV show review: Happily Divorced - It's like the Nanny! If Mr. Sheffield decided he was gay 18 years into marriage and suddenly all their children just didn't exist. Then he decided to give his wife advice about dating other men.
"What am I trying to say on a first date?"
"That you want a second!"
Okay so it's really nothing like the Nanny other than the fact that it's written by and stars Fran Drescher. But it's actually pretty funny, I'd give it a 8/10 on the Scale of Awesome.
So, the weekend is officially over and I'm back at work for the week. I got to sleep in this morning, only at one branch in the afternoon then attempted to watch Vandy vs. Florida until I lost signal...then when it came back there was a weather delay. After that I just turned on CSI. Seasons 1 and 2 from Target for $12. Awesomeness. Now I'm watching That 70's Show on nick@nite. I really need to get thru the dvd's I have checked out but for some reason I have no motivation. Think I'm going to just turn them all in tomorrow and start off with something else.
It's just so weird having all this free time again. I don't have to run home just to read and post stuff. Huzzah! It's that bizarre no homework yet really no camp work since I can't really do anything until I get more application forms. That won't last. I give it a week. The deadline for the forms is July 1st. Even though we get them way after that.
Tomorrow's split shift. Gotta run errands between so I'm off to bed.
Duuude, That 70's Marathon! 10/10 on the Scale of Awesome. "Niiice burn!" Donna was pretty much my idol. Plus Laura Prepon as Nikki Heat - pure genius.
Fernando
OUT!
"What am I trying to say on a first date?"
"That you want a second!"
Okay so it's really nothing like the Nanny other than the fact that it's written by and stars Fran Drescher. But it's actually pretty funny, I'd give it a 8/10 on the Scale of Awesome.
So, the weekend is officially over and I'm back at work for the week. I got to sleep in this morning, only at one branch in the afternoon then attempted to watch Vandy vs. Florida until I lost signal...then when it came back there was a weather delay. After that I just turned on CSI. Seasons 1 and 2 from Target for $12. Awesomeness. Now I'm watching That 70's Show on nick@nite. I really need to get thru the dvd's I have checked out but for some reason I have no motivation. Think I'm going to just turn them all in tomorrow and start off with something else.
It's just so weird having all this free time again. I don't have to run home just to read and post stuff. Huzzah! It's that bizarre no homework yet really no camp work since I can't really do anything until I get more application forms. That won't last. I give it a week. The deadline for the forms is July 1st. Even though we get them way after that.
Tomorrow's split shift. Gotta run errands between so I'm off to bed.
Duuude, That 70's Marathon! 10/10 on the Scale of Awesome. "Niiice burn!" Donna was pretty much my idol. Plus Laura Prepon as Nikki Heat - pure genius.
Fernando
OUT!
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!
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