blue, blue, blue christmas.

Interesting day today. Got to spend it at the home branch with the Queen of Awesome herself.

And us working together is even more rare than myself and Slim Shady being paired up.

Needless to say the day flew by.

Got to catch up on a lot of stuff, though I kept getting blamed for things getting broken. Self-checks, Koha holds queue, etc. geez, think the building is still mad at me for leaving.

I miss the good old home branch but with the work branch there's so much more going on all the time. Which is good but can be bad as well.

After an extremely fast 9 hours the boyfriend picked me up and we headed over to Grams place for our annual pitch tournament Christmas party.

Every year it's a huge thing. Gag gifts, pizza, card playing, family stories - you know the usual holiday cheer. Got some interesting presents. A bath mat from my bathroom floor, candy, wine glass, dancing baby... crap. i just got rid of that thing. Its on.

Story behind the dancing baby is a bit of a mystery. It originated around 15 years ago and has been making the rounds ever sense. And its not like a nice cute doll. its ugly. and it dances. Well, its two pieces so when you shake it its upper body flails and it looks like its dancing. and its still in the package. If you get it you're stuck with it for a year before you wrap it up and give it to someone else.

Favorite sister in law and I were pitch partners as usual and dominated...the last game. The game we ended with zero points was a little questionable but to be fair it was much better than the negative score the hand before.

We made some crazy 7 and 8 bids to pull off the final victory. Got a stress ball and a bar of soap favor prizes as apparently working and taking classes is stressful and the soap was a present for those who swear, which I do occasionally.

Sketch is laughing I can tell.

But not in front of Grams. She did pretty well tonight with all the excitement. Usually she gets tired early but she lasted the whole time.

Alright on to the music. Off tomorrow so excited to sleep in. Have a good one.

Another slight change as last year's included Charlie Brown and as I can't post it twice in a row I'm switching it out with Run Rudolph Run.

Christmas Music That Doesn't Suck: Day Eight

Christmas song - Mel Torme and Judy Garland
can never go wrong with judy garland.


Blue Christmas - She and Him

love these guys.


Run Rudolph Run - Cee-Lo Green


yes more Cee-Lo, sorry Sketch.



For last year's Day Eight go here

if not for christmas, by new year's night

How morbid does it make me that this morning I kept skipping songs on the ipod-plugged in stereo claiming if I was to die in a tragic car accident that that song wouldn't want to be the last song I ever listened to?

Made for an interesting morning.

Usually it takes me 11 minutes to get to work so I figured if I made it down to the parking lot 30 minutes early I'd have enough time to dig myself out and drive slowly to work.

Didn't work that way.

Too much ice under the tires and every time I gunned it I kept moving more and more to the right. Which wasn't good cause there was a car right next to me. So I panic called my brother in law who then came over and dug me out.

Such a good guy.

1 hour later I was 4 blocks away, following a truck that kept getting stuck in the middle of intersections. Every time his two teenage sons would jump out and attempt to push him through but it would take so long that the light would turn red and they had to move him back .

You would think that a pickup with a snow plow on the front and snow blower in the back would be a bit more reliable.

And I assumed that particular road would be plowed exceptionally because it's so busy but I guess tomorrow I'll be taking the highway.

So I was late for the staff meeting. As were Slim Shady and my Trainee. Plus Queen of the Known Universe and the Library Judge missed the day all together.

What else? Oh, first day for our new Assistant Director. Thought she would introduce herself during the staff meeting but she was probably busy catching up on AD stuff put off for the last couple months. She was my teacher this semester - the one that let us out 2 hours early each time - but as she didn't introduce herself I'm okay with missing the meeting.

I guess that makes her BBB'sA

And that's pretty much it. Lots of off desk time today so not many highlights. Gave SuperWoman her present. Every year I get her something Angry Birds related since she got me hooked. Stuffed one that make noise, calendar, this year it's christmas ornaments.

On to the music - Christmas Music That Doesn't Suck - Day Seven

Slight change to this one as well. Last year I included Achmed's Jingle Bombs and can't post it two years in a row so I'm switching it out with Please Come Home For Christmas.

Jingle Bells - Sungha Jung


incredible talent, wish I could play like that.


Walking in a Winter Wonderland - Jason Mraz


intriguing.

andrews sisters was a close second


Please Come Home For Christmas - CeeLo Green



I know Sketch doesn't like him but I bought his xmas CD anyway and it rocks. Week before I bought the Blake one as well. No Adam but is guest appearance by Christina Aguilera.

Really gonna miss her on the Voice. Shakira, while highly entertaining - second CD I remember buying with my own money, first was Spice Girls - is just very different style-wise, but it should be interesting to watch.

Holy crap, that's Bo Pelini.

So, funny story.

I'm on lunch.

Just got my food, heading back to the building, when who should be jogging across the street headed right toward me?

Bo Pelini.

I literally could have high fived him, he was that close.

Which was awesome.

Though not as awesome as what happened next.

He ran across at a red light, which isn't really that unusual as jaywalking is kind of a part of life when you work downtown.

The weird thing about it, was that he didn't even notice the car that almost schmeered him in the process.

And yet, the funniest part of this entire experience was seeing the look on the driver's face go from "what the hell?!" to "Oh my god, that's Bo Pelini!"

Priceless.

He's the Nebraska Cornhuskers football coach, just in case you have no idea who I'm talking about.

Since Nebraska revolves around football it makes him a bit of a celebrity here.

And that was the highlight of my day.

The rest of it I spent working on my scavenger hunt, coming up with back up options if the books are checked it, researching more people in case more kids participate, etc. Right now I'm done with Eiseley, Cather, and Morris and am starting on Aldrich and probably add in a Neihardt somewhere along the way.

Have I explained this all to you already or are you totally lost?

Short version - putting together a scavenger hunt for my teens. They have to solve clues to make it to the end while in the process they'll be using the catalog, finding articles on microfilm, searching databases and touring the Nebraska-centric area housing all the fun Nebraska artifacts.

While this does not take place until January I still feel like I should get it done while I'm still in the excited phase and have the time, rather than put it off and then dread the whole thing.

It's fun so far so I'm sticking with that.

After work I started working on some more website stuff for class, then turned on some Big Bang cause there's only so much code that you can stare at before you want to slam your head against the keyboard.

*facepalm*

Which is why I use "compose" mode on here and save the html for the links and videos.

It's much simpler that way.

I should really work more on the website so I'll be done.

I do have until Friday at 10.

Tomorrow is date night with the boyfriend.

Hopefully.

And I'm just tired.

You know where you get to that point where you're just tired of working on something?

I'm there.

Think I'm gonna crash instead.

I'm still clueless on a bunch of stuff, I need to email the prof with a bunch of questions.

That will give my head time to stop spinning.

And she's smart so she'll have all the answers.

Okay, I know I said I would hold off on The Voice clips and talk until I'd seen all the auditions and have picked my top ten, but this was just too good.

i just, i can't stop laughing.

but i'm sad cause the clips don't include the coaches comments like last seasons clips.

you don't get to hear Xtina talk about his "raunchy facial expressions".

bummer. you should hulu it.

ps - cee-lo wrote "don't cha"

Okay, I'm off.

And guess what.

It's a legitimate 10:59 PM.