I need you darling, come on set the tone. If you feel you're falling won't you let me know.

Big day.

Slept in - excellence - then hit up the annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet.

As the volunteer supervisor I got to go set up tables, welcome the volunteers, eat fancy food, listen to speeches, then take down and get paid for it.

Our set up only took a record setting 30 minutes so we had time to take fun pictures.



Stealing that picture from one of our many fabulous Sarah's.

We have a lot of Sarah's. And Julie's. And Pat's.

Granted I can't talk, there are two of me too.

We're a goofy bunch, but lots of fun.

The food was good, my kids had fun, we took lots of pictures, I'm calling it a success.

After which I cleaned my apartment - kitchen and bathroom included.

Not sure what to do with myself now, it's almost too clean.

Don't worry, that won't last.

Along the way I bought a bunch of fun new music for my iPod (this after buying over 100 songs for Dad this past weekend. Did I mention how it's all fun and games for us kids to buy him an iPod but when you're the only one around to download them... now I come home and he has lists for me. It's wildly amusing. He even calls when it's been a while to see when I'm coming home. He used to have lists of reality TV episodes I needed to watch, now it's downloading music.)

Anyway, I went Pentatonix crazy - I love iTunes, they have everything - and then, for fun, searched the top lists and ran into this one.

This post is actually just an excuse to post this song as its my new obsession. If you haven't heard it already listen to it now, it's fantastic.

Sing - Ed Sheeran


It only took about 30 times of listening to it before I realized how much it reminds me of my favorite Rolling Stones song. One that I've posted multiple times but will post again.

Miss You - Rolling Stones


Compare and contrast, ready, go.

Didn't hear it the first time, now I can't not hear it.

Now I'm off to watch the second Hobbit. Or perhaps I should save that and watch it with the boyfriend. We skipped seeing it in theaters. Having it on DVD means I can fast forward through the boring stuff.

An option I wish I had when we saw the first one in theaters.

Is that sad?

I think it's just because I liked the trilogy so much that my expectations were high and it fell short.

I can only imagine how I'll feel after the upcoming Star Wars movie. My love for that series nearly quadruples my love for any other movie series.

Except the Mummy series that is (minus the third of course, god that was awful). And Charlie's Angels but there's only two of those. And Harry Potter. And the Hunger Games.

Maybe only triple of the Die Hard series. And the Marvel series. But other than that....

Did I mention I liked sequels?

That's all I got. Have a rockstar weekend.

We are not the B-Team! Fool, we are the second A-Team!

Saw this today.

Watch it and tell me you're not intrigued.

I dare you.


Serendipity is my stripper name.

Aw Claudia, how I've missed you and your snarky remarks.

No, seriously you should watch the clip. It's a great show, totally underrated though it is gaining speed.

Got a bunch of library friends hooked.

But how can you resist?

Though now every time I see anything by HG Wells I picture Jaime Murray instead of an old dude with a mustache.

Which makes library life interesting.

Not that it's not already interesting.

Take today, the work branch closed early because of a water leak.

Didn't really matter to me though as I wasn't there anyway.

Today was our annual volunteer recognition banquet.

Got a panic text from Superwoman asking me to go over early and cover for her.

Spent the majority of the time setting up tables, putting out chairs, napkins, programs, silverware, and staring longingly at the food - it's catered like cheesecake and chocolate and fruit and all that. Got a whole plateful and ate it whilst listening to speeches.



Lots of good speeches, the mayor - totally shook his hand - library director - aka Boss's Boss's Boss - and then our library board director.

Who I've talked to once.

Which was today.

Superwoman played emcee.

Joke of the day being her remembering what our volunteer tokens were called.

Sweat-free double-walled tumblers.

Looks like this complete with straw.

And she's allowed to cause she and I picked them out.

They are awesome.

I use my UNO one from the Cool Aunt all the time.

After the recognition I attempted to finish the homework I couldn't last night - see yesterday's post - cause their site was down.

Turns out it's still down.

And I wasn't the only one with issues, Maegan also commented on my post, along with one more and then I got an e-mail from a 4th asking if I'd heard anything.

Which I didn't.

So I just submitted everything with a note at the bottom and screenshot of the website when it was down.

Got an e-mail back from the prof saying she couldn't access it either so just to send it in and she would consult with the other prof.

Hoping we don't get docked for something that's not our fault.

Though the irony is that the question is something like go to Complete Planet and search for something you know a lot about. Are there databases listed that you've never seen before? Is Complete Planet worth checking again in the future.

Um, the answer to that right now, is no.

This assignment was much easier than the last one with all the census crap - yep, remember that one and the professor that hates me?

Though I can't decide if she still hates me or not.

She seems to be pleased with my work as of late.

So that's exciting I guess.

Aside from homework I've started watching Blood Ties.



He has some great moisturizer.

They're Canadian.

It's.

Weird.

But oddly entertaining.

I got the first two seasons from ILL.

2 discs in, we'll see where it goes.

Alright, on to the music and then I'm out.

Song of the night:

Miss You - Rolling Stones


Meeting tomorrow morning for class then a whole day off.

With no homework to work on.

Stoked.

Probably nap and watch more Blood Ties.

Or one of the other movies I have checked out at the moment.

The stack is growing.

And they all look good, but the problem is that the boyfriend and I watch a lot of movies and I think he would want to see some of them. So I'm waiting 'til he gets back.

Which is Monday.

Yay!

legitimate pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.

hey baby won't you look my way, i can be your new addiction...

So you can add tornado warnings to the ever-growing list of awkward situations in which I've met my neighbors.

Spent some time in the basement.

With the cool kids.

And there was a cat.

And it was cool too.

More calm than mine, I left him in my apartment.

Does that make me a bad mother?

Leaving my cat in my apartment when there's a tornado warning?

I would have taken him if it was serious, but it was north of town so I figured it was okay.

Anyway, I'm back now and watching Morning Glory. For some weird reason I had an urge to watch it. Perhaps it's because I've spent the last hour watching the news. Weather-central.

Morning Glory.

Fantastic movie.

Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Rachel McAdams.

Awful morning news show that she turns around, it's quite funny.

Uh-oh. Sirens.

Police ones this time, not the storm ones. Though I wouldn't be surprised if they came back.

Get to spend more time in the basement with the cool kids.

But for now I'll keep watching "at least we're not Daybreak"

Today was good, slept in woohoo!

Went to the volunteer banquet, got lost along the way so I had to call Superwoman,

"are you driving a red car?"
"yes"
"do you see me waving?"
"yes"
"good then you found it, i'm going inside"

It was pouring.

It was crappy weather all day.

Hence the basement dwelling.

But the volunteer thing went off without a hitch. And they had really great snacks. Catered man. They rocked.

And I got to jam with my coworkers from other branches. And heard what's in store for me this upcoming year for grad school. Basically no sleep or free time whatsoever. Should be fun.

Fantastic.

Hm.

I'll figure it out.

Anyway, lots and lots and lots of volunteers all in one place at one time so it was mass hysteria, but good mass hysteria.

Cause sometimes mass hysteria can be good, right?

Basically a bunch of library volunteers gathered at this recreation center and were honored and got free stuff and free food and speeches were made, BossLady made one of them, she was a "speech-er" and got to hold a giant check. Squirt and I took a picture with it, it was mildly exciting.

So weird seeing Harrison Ford as this old news anchor dude. Just watched Star Wars the original trilogy so it's amusing to see how he's aged, but still his characters remain the same. Arrogant, wise-ass, scoundral types, but it works well for him.

Alright, think I'm gonna grab a snack and then crash.

Guessing the storms are passed as it's been an hour and no sirens. Well, weather ones anyway.

So, I'm out. But I'll leave you with some good music. And yeah. That's all I got.

"Everybody Talks" Neon Trees

diggin' the drive-in dive.

i absolutely love these guys. "animal" was great, but the rest of the album was really catchy as well, had to buy it off itunes.
plus their christmas song, first new original christmas song that i can actually stand!! like, artists these days try too hard trying to write ones they think will become classics and just fail epically, you know? but this one, is just simply fantastic. and classic. go here: I just want you, oh darling, I just want you...

or just check it out here:

yes, christmas in april.

just go with it.

"Wish List" Neon Trees

i still love it. and am jamming to it. in april.

i'm a nerd. get used to it.

OUT!



More tomorrow.

Camp Season Has Begun

First camp meeting of the year.

Yep, camp season has officially begun.

Tonight Pastor, Jim and myself put together a basically "coming at you" letter that gives them a heads up about the dates and theme and all that. And to watch their mail for upcoming application forms.

Totally intense man, worked for like five minutes and then we got stuck cause my computer's not hooked up to the copier but Pastor's is but Pastor was gone at the moment so I ended up drawing random pictures of the board for Homey G-Wigger for when she gets back. Basically I drew all of 2G aka Blackstone - pastor - Dash Riprock - Jim - Homey G Wigger and then Choot 'em Lizbet - me. And we're all posing as normal so pastor and G wigger are golfing normal though I should hvae drawn her driving like a maniac. Jim lost his ball in the tree and is whacking the tree with the club and I'm on the ground next to the golf cart cause she's thrown me out of it two years running.

Anyway, camp, right.

We're going with "The Ultimate Transformer" Pastor found a cool passage to go with it, it should be fun. Very different compared to last year's theme of "Guiding Light" which was fantastic as it was all soap opera-esque and I'm the skits and worship person. Plus registrar. Plus administration. Plus plus plus... But I got Liz with me for the music part. Apparently she's working on songs already, woohoo! She writes one every year. Last year we attempted to but it didn't turn out as good as hers do.

And we cheated, used a song already in existence and added a verse to the end of it. That way the melody was already written and all we needed was one verse. Fool-proof!

Anyway, so we came up with a coming at you flyer and stuff some envelopes. Gotta love those labels you can print out on special paper and just stick them to the envelope, those are fanstic and make our life loads easier.

No hand-addressed envelopes which is good cause my handwriting is atrocious.

As I'm falling asleep while I type this I'll keep it short.

Tomorrow is work plus Squirt and Bubby's trial of the bad wolf play. He plays the evil villain - two years running woohoo! - and she plays some sort of fairy godmother. Should be fun.

Then Saturday is the volunteer recognition banquet which I gotta go to as the TAB kids are going. Think it's basically about the awesomely catered food, haha no, it's a great way to show appreciation cause some of these volunteers dedicate a good chunk of their lives to do it.

And that's my ramble nation for the day. Tune it next time for family anecdotes and humiliations.

"Everybody Talks" Neon Trees


"Til I Kissed You" Everly Brothers


same message, different style. much different.