Yes it's different.
Same blog, new layout.
It was time for a change - I've had that setup for like a year and a half.
At least.
All the pink was weirding me out.
I'm not a pink person.
Which is where the humor was in the beginning, but now it's just annoying.
But if you can't read this then I'll change it to something else.
So, today?
Panic call from Oldest Sister when I was pulling into work, apparently Squirt's life was on edge since volleyball tryouts were today and all that.
Breathe.
She'll be fine.
And she was, she made the reserve team, which is between freshman and JV. So that's great, she did work pretty hard for it this summer. I'm proud, she's all grown up and has her own locker and all that.
Makes me feel old.
But then I go to work and I'm reminded that I'm the youngest one there and then I'm okay again.
Joking.
There are many times at work that I feel old as well, though the majority of those times involve the Teen Advisory Board or Summer Reading Programs. And those are mostly over, until September that is when we have our Hunger Games party. But it'll be fun, stale baguette toss, tribute fashion shows which reminds me that I need to pilfer the clothes from the camp stash sometime soon.
What else from today?
Um, ordered calendars.
That was exciting.
Cleaned keyboards - they were nasty. At some point this week I'm going to brave the lab.
But I'll be wearing gloves cause I'm not that brave.
Not that big of deal, can of air spray - it's thoroughly amusing - to clean the keyboards and screen cleaner spray for the monitors. Unfortunately there are 12 in the lab, plus 5 outside and I'll only have an hour to do it.
I might drag someone else into it with me, hmmm....who to choose.
Nah, they wouldn't like me very much after that.
Early lunch so I got to jam with Slim Shady, ummm oh yeah I got yelled at by a patron - well it was a generic yell aimed at all the employees in the area - saying that she was doing our job for us.
We're not perfect, I'll admit that, but we're not completely hopeless.
Thank you.
Aaannd that was pretty much my day. So not super boring, but not completely madhouse crazy either.
I did get to jam with BossLady for a while so that was fun. And they trusted Slim Shady and I to work together which is a rarity. We joke because the only time we see each other - even though we're in the same building - is either walking in in the morning or walking out at closing and that's only cause we park in the same parking lot.
It's a conspiracy man.
Okay, I will end this before I ramble you into oblivion.
Song of the night:
Paris - Ashley De La Rosa
was literally singing it all day.
well, that and this:
Showing posts with label brown derbies. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Hey, Macarena.
Quote of the day:
Overheard at the library: "We've got nuts."
Yes, we do.
Got my evaluation today.
And a raise.
Apparently I have confidence.
And bring personality to the job.
Told you.
Mad skills.
Just stoked I get to keep my TAB kids and all that.
More time in the basement today looking for tools. But it didn't take long to install the other organizers once we got the mallet in play. Yay!
Cleaned out a couple of desks, can actually find things now so that's helpful.
Spent some time on third using the guillotine. They sent me back with food. I work on the wrong floor, seriously.
Made some progress on the new booklist as well.
So it was a pretty productive day.
Stoked to sleep in tomorrow morning, but in order for that to happen I need to actually sleep first.
Song of the night and I'm out:
"Take Your Mama Out" Brown Derbies
i did give your forewarning there would be more.
i especially love the random macarena. that's fantastic.
Overheard at the library: "We've got nuts."
Yes, we do.
Got my evaluation today.
And a raise.
Apparently I have confidence.
And bring personality to the job.
Told you.
Mad skills.
Just stoked I get to keep my TAB kids and all that.
More time in the basement today looking for tools. But it didn't take long to install the other organizers once we got the mallet in play. Yay!
Cleaned out a couple of desks, can actually find things now so that's helpful.
Spent some time on third using the guillotine. They sent me back with food. I work on the wrong floor, seriously.
Made some progress on the new booklist as well.
So it was a pretty productive day.
Stoked to sleep in tomorrow morning, but in order for that to happen I need to actually sleep first.
Song of the night and I'm out:
"Take Your Mama Out" Brown Derbies
i did give your forewarning there would be more.
i especially love the random macarena. that's fantastic.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Dick Cheney, Vampire Slayer
Hit up "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" with the "oh wise one" aka my smart Valedictorian friend from high school.
She reminded me that the last movie we saw together was another Sci-Fi wait-what-just-happened movie way back in like 2006ish. Though you may remember it as X-Men 3: The Last Stand.
Afterwards we walked around town and talked about tennis, and we did the same tonight.
Our plan originally was to at some point get together and play tennis. I suck and the last time I remember actually playing tennis was in grade school. And the majority of that PE class was spent running.
Cause I'd hit the ball over the fence.
Not the net, the fence surrounding the courts.
Then Schomberg was like, "go get it."
Crap.
So I'd go get it, bring it back, and hit it over the fence again.
But I blame that on the Williams sisters.
Though I don't think many people can blame bad tennis playing on the Williams sisters.
My excuse is that I feel the need to like slam the ball really hard cause you have to have that whole grunt factor thing - who doesn't watch tennis just to hear them grunt repeatedly? - but! apparently if you hit the ball too hard it will fly over the fence.
Especially if you're a grade schooler with no aim cause you never play tennis.
Where was I going with this?
Oh right, I suck, but she's good. And now I live in a apartment complex with a tennis court. And we have rackets, so we are going to attempt to play some tennis. At some point in the future.
And these courts have high fences so I think I'll be okay.
Running these streets would be obnoxious cause it's just houses and they have dogs and blah.
So I'll use that as motivation.
Anyway, so Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - we figured if it sucked we'd sit in the back and make colored commentary. But actually it was quite entertaining.
why yes, that is johnny cash.
Scale of Awesome isn't quite sure how to rate it, but I think I'd put it around a 7/10. Ish.
I don't know, not something I'd see again, but the premise was so interesting that I had to see how they could make such a random and out there storyline work.
Though I don't quite believe that vampires fought in the Civil War.
It did have a cool historical aspect to it.
And she's smart so she's like, "Is that supposed to be Jefferson Davis?" and I laughed and then he called him Mr. Davis so I was like "heck yeah, it is!"
Flashbacks to watching election results during play practice and the creation of "John Thune Rocks My World" homemade t-shirts came to mind.
Anyway, Quotes of the night:
"You don't think he could pull it off? Dick Cheney, Vampire Slayer?"
"It'd be more like Dick Cheney, Everyone Slayer."... "I'd be more scared to be on his side."
awww, no love for friendly fire
"Mary Todd is gonna kick her ass."
the actress who played her was fantastic but it drove me crazy cause i couldn't place her. now with the help of IMDB i realize she is both Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim and Lucy McClane from Live Free or Die Hard aka Mary Elizabeth Winstead which i think i also discovered about her on here a while ago, probably in this post: My Life in Closed Captions: That poster needs more exclamation marks.: "Scott, if your life had a face I'd punch it." yep that's the one.
I could place Dominic Cooper but originally couldn't think of his name. All I could think of was "Mamma Mia Boy".
The dude that played Abe - Benjamin Walker - was pretty great with the ax. Very impressive. Apparently he actually worked on that for months so it would seem authentic.
The movie itself didn't have any one-liners but there were humorous physical aspects to it. So we did add some colored commentary when those came around.
So yeah, I'd say around a 7/10 on the Scale of Awesome.
Though not quite awesome enough to make me want to read the novel.
Alright, off to bed. As fun as 4-6 was today, it's back to the regular 9-6 tomorrow so I'm gonna turn on some Wipeout and crash.
Cause I'm into remakes this week apparently
Who Are You - Brown Derbies
at first i was like, wait what is this again? then like ohhh....got it.
Study Maybe - University of Maryland School of Medicine 2015
stick with it, highly amusing but probably moreso for people in the medical profession
out!
She reminded me that the last movie we saw together was another Sci-Fi wait-what-just-happened movie way back in like 2006ish. Though you may remember it as X-Men 3: The Last Stand.
Afterwards we walked around town and talked about tennis, and we did the same tonight.
Our plan originally was to at some point get together and play tennis. I suck and the last time I remember actually playing tennis was in grade school. And the majority of that PE class was spent running.
Cause I'd hit the ball over the fence.
Not the net, the fence surrounding the courts.
Then Schomberg was like, "go get it."
Crap.
So I'd go get it, bring it back, and hit it over the fence again.
But I blame that on the Williams sisters.
Though I don't think many people can blame bad tennis playing on the Williams sisters.
My excuse is that I feel the need to like slam the ball really hard cause you have to have that whole grunt factor thing - who doesn't watch tennis just to hear them grunt repeatedly? - but! apparently if you hit the ball too hard it will fly over the fence.
Especially if you're a grade schooler with no aim cause you never play tennis.
Where was I going with this?
Oh right, I suck, but she's good. And now I live in a apartment complex with a tennis court. And we have rackets, so we are going to attempt to play some tennis. At some point in the future.
And these courts have high fences so I think I'll be okay.
Running these streets would be obnoxious cause it's just houses and they have dogs and blah.
So I'll use that as motivation.
Anyway, so Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - we figured if it sucked we'd sit in the back and make colored commentary. But actually it was quite entertaining.
why yes, that is johnny cash.
Scale of Awesome isn't quite sure how to rate it, but I think I'd put it around a 7/10. Ish.
I don't know, not something I'd see again, but the premise was so interesting that I had to see how they could make such a random and out there storyline work.
Though I don't quite believe that vampires fought in the Civil War.
It did have a cool historical aspect to it.
And she's smart so she's like, "Is that supposed to be Jefferson Davis?" and I laughed and then he called him Mr. Davis so I was like "heck yeah, it is!"
Flashbacks to watching election results during play practice and the creation of "John Thune Rocks My World" homemade t-shirts came to mind.
Anyway, Quotes of the night:
"You don't think he could pull it off? Dick Cheney, Vampire Slayer?"
"It'd be more like Dick Cheney, Everyone Slayer."... "I'd be more scared to be on his side."
awww, no love for friendly fire
"Mary Todd is gonna kick her ass."
the actress who played her was fantastic but it drove me crazy cause i couldn't place her. now with the help of IMDB i realize she is both Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim and Lucy McClane from Live Free or Die Hard aka Mary Elizabeth Winstead which i think i also discovered about her on here a while ago, probably in this post: My Life in Closed Captions: That poster needs more exclamation marks.: "Scott, if your life had a face I'd punch it." yep that's the one.
I could place Dominic Cooper but originally couldn't think of his name. All I could think of was "Mamma Mia Boy".
The dude that played Abe - Benjamin Walker - was pretty great with the ax. Very impressive. Apparently he actually worked on that for months so it would seem authentic.
The movie itself didn't have any one-liners but there were humorous physical aspects to it. So we did add some colored commentary when those came around.
So yeah, I'd say around a 7/10 on the Scale of Awesome.
Though not quite awesome enough to make me want to read the novel.
Alright, off to bed. As fun as 4-6 was today, it's back to the regular 9-6 tomorrow so I'm gonna turn on some Wipeout and crash.
Cause I'm into remakes this week apparently
Who Are You - Brown Derbies
at first i was like, wait what is this again? then like ohhh....got it.
Study Maybe - University of Maryland School of Medicine 2015
stick with it, highly amusing but probably moreso for people in the medical profession
out!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic?
Aw anonymous people, they make my day.
Thanks for the comment, I do my best.
Though this is mostly crap, but it's fun crap so that's okay.
So I'm breaking my early to bed streak.
But that's only because I don't have to go in to work tomorrow until 4PM.
Though I'm gonna have to wake up earlier cause I gotta finish the paperwork I keep putting off. Mom is coming to help, cause I'm hopeless with tax stuff. I printed off all the stuff and was like AHHHH!! then called her.
I gotta get a notary to sign stuff. Which is why I keep putting it off cause I work. And when I'm not at work the banks are closed.
So tomorrow since I have the morning off I'm forcing myself to get this over and done with. Then I won't have to deal with it anymore.
One of the many panic calls I've made this week, but the others are mostly camp-related.
Yes, I'm totally ready for camp.
HA!
Right.
Still gotta write all the skits, as the ones I have a pure crap.
And gotta get the lyrics from dad so I can make my 7th and 8th graders sing.
They hate me but their parents love me.
And I gotta make sure all the t-shirts come in and everyone sends in the right forms, and if they don't make sure they bring them to camp.
And I'm still getting applications which means gotta make sure there's room and if there's not we gotta switch stuff, stuff haven't come up with a new schedule or cleaned out the trailer.
I'm hoping all the t-shirts come in this week, otherwise we're screwed, but I'm going out this weekend in hopes of them being there.
So that's my daily camp update.
What did I do today other than freak about camp?
Oh right, went to work for six hours. Well, technically it was 6 and a half, but I got a half hour lunch. During which I got a sandwich from Jimmy Johns.
They still know my order.
I'm a creature of habit and when I first started working there I went to Jimmy Johns every day and got the same thing every day.
Then I started going to the place right across the street for sandwiches and all that, but they're closed on the weekends so I hit up Jimmy Johns if I work on Saturday or Sunday.
Anyway, I walk in and they start making my order without me saying anything.
And they know my name.
Still, even though I haven't been there during the week in like a year they still know me.
Where was I?
Oh right, so yes, work was estrogen-filled with some of my favorites so we had fun.
Made some plans to jam out with an old high school friend. We're going to hit up Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter tomorrow night.
Currently I'm watching some Home Run Derby. Prince Fielder is rockin' it, for serious. Love the fountains.
"That one was almost to Omaha!" "Wrong direction."
Alright, so I should probably go to bed at a semi-decent hour since Mom is coming tomorrow.
She'll be proud that I have actual food in my fridge and my apartment is semi-clean.
Rock on man.
Song of the night:
"Toxic" Brown Derbies
to be fair i did warn you there would be more of them.
Made some changes to the blog layout, if you haven't noticed already. A previous post brought up a Charlie's Angels debate so vote for your favorite and we'll see who the most awesome angel is.
Thanks for the comment, I do my best.
Though this is mostly crap, but it's fun crap so that's okay.
So I'm breaking my early to bed streak.
But that's only because I don't have to go in to work tomorrow until 4PM.
Though I'm gonna have to wake up earlier cause I gotta finish the paperwork I keep putting off. Mom is coming to help, cause I'm hopeless with tax stuff. I printed off all the stuff and was like AHHHH!! then called her.
I gotta get a notary to sign stuff. Which is why I keep putting it off cause I work. And when I'm not at work the banks are closed.
So tomorrow since I have the morning off I'm forcing myself to get this over and done with. Then I won't have to deal with it anymore.
One of the many panic calls I've made this week, but the others are mostly camp-related.
Yes, I'm totally ready for camp.
HA!
Right.
Still gotta write all the skits, as the ones I have a pure crap.
And gotta get the lyrics from dad so I can make my 7th and 8th graders sing.
They hate me but their parents love me.
And I gotta make sure all the t-shirts come in and everyone sends in the right forms, and if they don't make sure they bring them to camp.
And I'm still getting applications which means gotta make sure there's room and if there's not we gotta switch stuff, stuff haven't come up with a new schedule or cleaned out the trailer.
I'm hoping all the t-shirts come in this week, otherwise we're screwed, but I'm going out this weekend in hopes of them being there.
So that's my daily camp update.
What did I do today other than freak about camp?
Oh right, went to work for six hours. Well, technically it was 6 and a half, but I got a half hour lunch. During which I got a sandwich from Jimmy Johns.
They still know my order.
I'm a creature of habit and when I first started working there I went to Jimmy Johns every day and got the same thing every day.
Then I started going to the place right across the street for sandwiches and all that, but they're closed on the weekends so I hit up Jimmy Johns if I work on Saturday or Sunday.
Anyway, I walk in and they start making my order without me saying anything.
And they know my name.
Still, even though I haven't been there during the week in like a year they still know me.
Where was I?
Oh right, so yes, work was estrogen-filled with some of my favorites so we had fun.
Made some plans to jam out with an old high school friend. We're going to hit up Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter tomorrow night.
Currently I'm watching some Home Run Derby. Prince Fielder is rockin' it, for serious. Love the fountains.
"That one was almost to Omaha!" "Wrong direction."
Alright, so I should probably go to bed at a semi-decent hour since Mom is coming tomorrow.
She'll be proud that I have actual food in my fridge and my apartment is semi-clean.
Rock on man.
Song of the night:
"Toxic" Brown Derbies
to be fair i did warn you there would be more of them.
Made some changes to the blog layout, if you haven't noticed already. A previous post brought up a Charlie's Angels debate so vote for your favorite and we'll see who the most awesome angel is.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
It's not like you're bringing home a Subway.
Got to semi-sleep in this morning, then headed out to the awesomeness that is Donna's to get my hair chopped and dyed. For some reason I run into other people there as well, this morning it was Beth one of my camp lifeguards who I just happened to go to grade school with once upon a time. We talked camp stuff it was amusing. Then Donna regaled me with stories of animals, family and camping. The usual topics, she's always fun to jam with.
I think she secretly looks forward to me coming out just because of the wild hair colors I've had in the past.
It was probably around 6-7 inches that got whacked off. Feels a lot better and camp will be a lot cooler. And it's red. But not like red red like I used to, just dark red with blonde like last time.
I have to remain a professional. Well, paraprofessional. And people probably couldn't take me seriously with the fire engine red hair.
That and I don't think the boyfriend would approve. He immediately flashed back to high school when I told him I was getting it dyed. Nope, not that extreme.
Though Superwoman did give me points for it once upon a time when I was a temp.
I think I'm currently at 146 or maybe it's 146.5 I'll check the email tomorrow. Still behind both my mother and Space Cadet. And I'm sure once I get close they'll both do something good and will go up another 50.
But then what would I have to aim for really if I passed them.
Anyway, so yes it's dyed. My favorite I think of the dyeing it when I was a temp is that Boss's Boss's Boss went to introduce herself to me then realized she already knew me so like stopped mid-motion. Made my day.
After all that was done had to catch up on my Swamp People with dad as he had a bunch saved up for me. Watched the last two of the season so I'm good for a while. Then watched some Closer on Mom's DVR and took a nap. Mom was off in Iowa with the Cool Aunt. Going to movies and buying me shoes.
She sent me a picture before she bought them, they are pretty wicked sweet Nebraska-esque ones.
Which is good cause mine are falling apart. Not surprising as I drag my feet and they get pretty scuffed up. I go through them fairly quickly.
Shoes and headphones.
Which I broke today as well.
But I have spares so I'll pull those out when I leave tomorrow morning.
Songs of the night:
So if you're on Facebook you probably noticed these from yesterday but I figured I'd post them on here anyway.
The Brown Derbies. Acapella group from Brown University started like 30 years ago and gets new members every year.
These guys are fantastic you gotta watch these ones.
Rediscovery of the week so you'll probably see more of their videos throughout the week.
Though my favorite of their songs is the Friends theme remake these ones are right up there.
"Faith" - George Michael
love the second verse harmony
"Not Over You" - Gavin DeGraw
awesome
out for the night!
I think she secretly looks forward to me coming out just because of the wild hair colors I've had in the past.
It was probably around 6-7 inches that got whacked off. Feels a lot better and camp will be a lot cooler. And it's red. But not like red red like I used to, just dark red with blonde like last time.
I have to remain a professional. Well, paraprofessional. And people probably couldn't take me seriously with the fire engine red hair.
That and I don't think the boyfriend would approve. He immediately flashed back to high school when I told him I was getting it dyed. Nope, not that extreme.
Though Superwoman did give me points for it once upon a time when I was a temp.
I think I'm currently at 146 or maybe it's 146.5 I'll check the email tomorrow. Still behind both my mother and Space Cadet. And I'm sure once I get close they'll both do something good and will go up another 50.
But then what would I have to aim for really if I passed them.
Anyway, so yes it's dyed. My favorite I think of the dyeing it when I was a temp is that Boss's Boss's Boss went to introduce herself to me then realized she already knew me so like stopped mid-motion. Made my day.
After all that was done had to catch up on my Swamp People with dad as he had a bunch saved up for me. Watched the last two of the season so I'm good for a while. Then watched some Closer on Mom's DVR and took a nap. Mom was off in Iowa with the Cool Aunt. Going to movies and buying me shoes.
She sent me a picture before she bought them, they are pretty wicked sweet Nebraska-esque ones.
Which is good cause mine are falling apart. Not surprising as I drag my feet and they get pretty scuffed up. I go through them fairly quickly.
Shoes and headphones.
Which I broke today as well.
But I have spares so I'll pull those out when I leave tomorrow morning.
Songs of the night:
So if you're on Facebook you probably noticed these from yesterday but I figured I'd post them on here anyway.
The Brown Derbies. Acapella group from Brown University started like 30 years ago and gets new members every year.
These guys are fantastic you gotta watch these ones.
Rediscovery of the week so you'll probably see more of their videos throughout the week.
Though my favorite of their songs is the Friends theme remake these ones are right up there.
"Faith" - George Michael
love the second verse harmony
"Not Over You" - Gavin DeGraw
awesome
out for the night!
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