Mom officially has Facebook. Watch out world.

I got a new phone today.

Well, I should say, I bought a new phone today.

I don't get it until next week.

I know you're all oh-so-excited.

But you have no idea how frustrating my current phone is.

In order to make a phone call I have to go into my contacts and pick a name, I can't just enter in a number. It takes me back to the home screen as soon as I hit send.

Then when I'm texting the words don't show up on the screen and I have to restart the phone.

I can't see photos on Facebook.

And then half the time the internet doesn't pick up a signal so I have to restart for that too.

It got to the point where I was restarting my phone like 7-8 times a day.

And I've had it since college so yeah, definitely excited to get my new one on Monday.

Cause I have Sunday and Monday off again next week, woohoo!

So yes, I gave you a break and took the weekend off from posting.

Actually our internet was down.

So.

Yeah.

No, actually it was nice just kind of getting away from everything for the weekend.

Had a lot of fun with friends and family back home.

Started off with a camp meeting on Saturday afternoon.

Sent out our postcards with info about registration.

Actually it was funny because usually we send out individual forms and it takes like 5 hours, this time we put labels on postcards directing people to our website to print out the forms - they're also being sent to churches and they will print paper copies - and it took like less than 30 minutes.

We didn't know what to do with ourselves.

So we got icecream.

Which is a recurring theme.

And then just jammed for a while.

Afterward I dropped my stuff at home - long enough for Dad to make me watch 30 seconds of American Hoggers cause apparently I couldn't wait a day until seeing what the dad looks like.

Yeah.

I'll get there.

And then headed up to see the boyfriend.

It stormed.

He put my car in.

Such a nice boyfriend.

We watched a movie.

For the life of me I don't remember - oh yeah, the Whole Nine Yards.


Two of my favorite actors - Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis.

Actors of Awesomeness.

I had seen the sequel - like 10 years ago I don't remember anything about it - but I hadn't seen the first one.

It was pretty good.

After that I headed out to the farm, went to the home church, got to see some old friends there.

Went out to lunch with the parentals and Homey G-Wigger.

Took a nap.

And then - okay, so here's the funny part of the weekend.

For Mother's Day all Mom wanted was for me to come home and clean my room.

The funny part about that is that none of the stuff that we cleaned was mine.

So while yes, it was my room, it was not my stuff.

Cause her office has exploded onto my floor.

But now it's all clean, and almost unrecognizable.



Well, to those of you who know me anyway.

They used to laugh because it was always a pit and there was just a path from the door to the bed and then the rest was covered in junk.

But now even the closets are clean.

And I cleaned out her fridge.

Threw out the cheese from November 2012.

Which I'm pretty sure was when I last cleaned out her fridge.

Limited the cream cheese stash from 9 boxes to 6.

Second Sister brought out her kiddos and we ordered burgers from Strang.

Population 50.

Best food around, you should check it out.

The boyfriend came out so then of course while he had both of us there Dad made us watch American Hoggers.

Since the boyfriend knew the title of the show according to Dad he was a fan - he was not a fan - so after burgers we watched not one but two episodes.

What I don't get is that the girls on there are so normal!

Like, they look like they could be city girls living city life - there's no overwhelming accent or personality - and then you see the dad and the brother and you're like whoa....

Yeah, no.

I'll stick with Swamp People.

I can live with being subjected to that.

American Hoggers not so much.

Remember my Dad's DVR post?

Should do that again next weekend cause there are soooo way more of them now.

So that was Sunday.

Since Second Sister and her kids took my room - which was clean but wasn't for long while they were there - I got the north room and fell asleep watching All That.

I miss 90's TV.

My favorite non-animated show from childhood.

Cause it was that, Scooby Doo and Garfield.

Classics.

If you haven't seen it it's basically the kid version of SNL.

I have a post on here about it somewhere.

Yeah.

"Oh no, the babysitter exploded!"

They have this sketch with Lori Beth Denberg where she's this obnoxious librarian.



"quiet!! this is a library!!!"

Ha, right.

What's cool is that Keenan started on that and now he's on SNL.

Anyway, so this morning Jim O and Homey G-Wigger and I went golfing.

9 holes, we rocked it.

Par'd it up.

But our par is different than other peoples' par.

Cause we go with like 6-8 strokes as par.



Cause that's par for us.

Except during the actual tournament then we keep track.

Well, Pastor keeps track.

We joke that he gets us to the green so we just need to be able to put.

But we had some good ones this morning.

Like I used a wedge and hit from like 40 feet away to like 2 feet from the hole.

Picked up a couple of extra golf balls, lying about.

And she didn't throw me out of the cart so I'm calling it a victory.

After that ate supper with the family, played some softball with the kiddos.



Everyone kept throwing the ball at mom and she freaks out every time.

It's so funny, when she had to play church softball cause we were short on girls we put her in right field. A ball got hit over her head and as she's running toward it I hear "you told me they never hit it out here!!"

But softball was fun, it was just the kids that bat.

Batted?

Hit the ball.

We fielded.

Then I set Mom up on Facebook.

I know, watch out world.

She's excited to keep up with family and look at pictures.

After they all left I went up to look at phones.

Long line, took forever, but I found one that's similar to the one I have now yet completely different and super new.

And the chick who got me set up put an order in for one for herself and she knows way more about phones than I do.

I'm excited.

Stopped by the boyfriend's place on the way back home.

Went out to eat then I headed back.

Came through the door and Carter about tackled me.

He was not pleased when I closed the bathroom door to take a shower cause then it was like I was leaving him again.

I know, he's spoiled.

But he's cute.

Alright, gonna konk out.

Hope you had a good weekend.

Back to work tomorrow plus the backlog for being closed today.

Love Somebody - Official Double Take cover

awesome cover.

It's only half past twelve, but I don't care...

Today was a long day, 9-6. Not much to say other than I got nicknamed twice. Girlscout called me "Supergirl" in the morning. When I told that to Superwoman she laughed. I said I was Superwoman in training. She sometimes calls me Sidekick so it fits.
Then in the afternoon the New Guy called me the Queen of the Back Room. Which I am. It's kind of my lair. I spend a lot of my time scheduled there. Either because I'm one of the few people who can get through five carts in an hour or because they're tired of me being out front. Hmm...

So there was that. And Mom stopped by. Brought me CDs and picked one up for herself.

I found that there's a talk to text function on my phone so I can speak and it'll type what I say. Or what it thinks I'm saying. I attempted the "I am grief stricken" conversation again and it came up with "I am a great sturgeon" then "I am a green dragon" and finally got it right a few tries later.

Also, saw this today while watching The Grinch and had to post it.

so funny.

As we're up to I in the alphabet and there are far too many good ones I'll skip to that and ramble some more.

"I Drove All Night" Celine Dion

i enjoy her random pointing and air guitar moments.
although cyndi lauper actually legitimately rocks this song, (how many times can you say that?) I'm still posting this version because it's the version I head-banged to in high school so I could stay awake and finish my homework. sh, don't tell the dorm moms. but it made juwanna laugh. and that's what you want in a roommate.

well, that and one that will save you from demon furniture.
go here: My Life in Closed Captions: "Well, this is awkward."

granted i don't remove paintings from walls like some people but seriously, if you can top being attacked by a dresser while sleepwalking please let me know. there's more to the story if you're interested. tons in fact. made the school paper. which i was the editor of at the time, so that was fun.


"I Run To You" Lady Antebellum

this world keeps spinning faster to a new disaster
this was a college fascination. it was my favorite song for about two weeks. and then i was sick of it already. i haven't listened to it since, but it's good to jam to it again now.


"I Say A Little Prayer For You" My Best Friend's Wedding

who does her hair?!
how can you top this? seriously? i'm tempted to break out into song at the library but refrain because i enjoy my job. and my point level of 140. even though i'm stuck there and she won't give me any more. making me actually work for my points, geez. what a mean boss. what kind of lesson is that supposed to teach me? really?


"I Want You To Want Me" Cheap Trick

because i love them. i saw 10 Things I Hate About You and was doomed from then on.


"Istanbul" They Might Be Giants

Superhumann used this song as an educational tool to get us interested in world history in high school. it worked for me, not so much for the others. but that was true for me in a lot of her classes. that chick got me through high school. period. wasn't for her i dunno where i'd be today. definitely not where i am now.
high school english. i wanted to teach it because of her. then i got in the ed program and went, eh. too many hoops to jump through.
so i switched to behavioral sciences - yeah, less hoops to jump through there. but then the idea of being a social worker became completely depressing so i went back to english. which is helpful as it's where i am today.
anyway, this song has stuck with me over the years, because not only did we have to listen to it for world history, i also had to sing it onstage for one act junior year. in front of actual people. i played the token girlfriend - stereotyped that way, shutup sketch - and i got to jam on stage with my headphones. so, when the time came around that i would have to figure out what song i was actually going to sing and jam out to i went back to the old faithful director, who just happened to be superhumann, and we decided on this one. i still karaoke it with her to this day.
she's taught me a lot over the years. i still have her safety net in my wallet. high school was kind of a hard time in life for me. it was a dorm school and i was a very homesick kid - at first, it was okay in the end - but stress and school and being away from home got to me but she was there if i needed to talk. when i was having a particularly rough day she wrote me a note - 5 pages front and back - and i carried it around in my back pocket for years until it got almost torn to shreds. now it is safely tucked into my wallet which i carry with me every day.
another thing i got from her - which actually, she got from my uncle as he was once her teacher way way back, - is the saying...okay give me a second, i don't want to butcher it.

Say One Thing
Mean Another
Write A Third
Expect A Fourth
If It's Simple, Complicate It
It It's Complicated Draw A Picture
If It's On The Test Don't Talk About It

oh my god. just oh my god.

i'm still dying. yeah. those are the kind of guys that i hung out with in high school, so it's not hard to imagine them doing that. actually, pretty sure i've seen them do something similar but it was to the bohemian rhapsody.

"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" Alan Jackson feat. Jimmy Buffet

love it. i sing it in my head often because it makes me laugh. brightens up the day.

Alright, that's enough I-Recs for the night. Off to sleep. Stoked to sleep in. Don't have to go in until 6 and then it's Home Library for two hours before I'm off all day Wednesday, woohoo!

Every single breath you take away gives me more life than before...

Dad: "If that spills your car will smell like spiced tea forever."
Mom: "She likes spiced tea."

Return trip = success

No spilled spiced tea or pies all over my floor. Why is it that I always end up with a fridge full of leftovers even when it's not at my house? I think that they think that I can't feed myself properly. Since I can't cook.

But I can.

Sort of.

I mean, my apartment is still standing, and I haven't gotten sick, so both of those things mean I'm doing something right, right?

Got my new phone today. It's all fancy and shiny. It's giant compared to my blackberry, but I like it. Touch screen, I'll have to get used to that instead of a keyboard but it's cool so far. I didn't get a lot of time to mess with it today since we watched the Husker game - woohoo!! - and then I put up the trees. I'll mess with it more tomorrow after work.

9-6.

Plus a stop to make sure Bubby is still alive and feed him.

I miss vacation time already.

Now that I actually earn it I should start taking some. I started in May 2010 and the only vacation time I've taken is for camp. And that doesn't really count, as it's more work than work work. But I like it so that's okay.

What else?

Oh yeah.

Trees. Not as bad as the nightmare that was last year. This year it went okay. Listened to my Christmas music, set them both up, new one included. It turned out pretty good actually. Much better and easier than the one I'll be throwing in the hole. Oh! Forgot to do that. Will have to when I go home next.

And film it.

I think Mom thinks I'm joking when I say I'm going to film it. I'm not. I want to watch it fly. and die. That thing caused hours of pain and suffering. This new one took about two minutes to put together. Decorating it took a while, but seriously, two minutes and it was standing straight in the right direction. Fantastic.

So I'll do the old tree throw next time I go home. That and pick up all the stuff I forgot, aka CD's, random stuff in closet I was going to grab but forgot/didn't want to carry up stairs along with everything else I was sent home with.

But I'll make it out there soon. Maybe this weekend. I have class Saturday but I'm off Sunday.

Oh yeah, so next semester I'll have class on Sundays. That'll be different. But good cause it's in the afternoon and not 8:30 AM. Huzzah! Last one of those of this semester on Saturday. All assignments have been submitted so I'm basically done. All I have to do is show up and talk about outreach advocacy and marketing. Oh yeah, and download the plan of study form from the website, fill it out and give it to the Library Goddess. Someone remind me to do that, cause I'll forget.

Okay, enough rambling. It was an excellent day. Huskers rocked it. Seriously. Heroes Game trophy included.

Alphabet Rec's of the night. What am I up to, F? Right? Cause yesterday was "Everywhere" and something else. "Evil Woman" that's right.

So tonight, let's see....

Aww man, there's too many good ones! I'll limit myself to three.

Alright, something you haven't heard...or you probably have in the background of big movies. I'll let you figure them out.

"Feels Like Home" Chantal Kreviazuk live

She's pretty good live, amusing. Though it's funny cause she switched up some of the lines. I was like, wait, what?

"Find My Way" Gabe Dixon Band live


and a bonus one.
okay, music video slideshows kind of weird me out, especially ones with lyrics on them, cheesefest style, so you won't see a lot of them on here. I only sacrifice when I think the song is worth it, and this one is.

"Fall Into Me" Hey Monday

love it.

out for the night. long day tomorrow.

"I'm gonna need some bail money."

Okay. So I got a speeding ticket. Yes, I'm aware. But, now, apparently, everyone else is as well. But as least I called and told them about it after it happened. It could have been worse. I wasn't calling from behind bars or something. My one phone call. Asking for bail money. Thanks for that Second Sister. The lot of you really. You're all so supportive. The second I walk through the door. Seriously.

So, Thanksgiving. A time for food, family, and sarcasm galore. There wasn't as much this year since there was no Apples to Apples involved. There was however a lot of card playing.

Some really really and let me add another really bad pinochle playing on my part. Joe sat by me trying to pick up the game and I had to say, "Well, here's how you lose." But, just to say, we were 87 in the hole at one point and still finished with a positive 40 something. So that could have been worse as well. Got a double marriage and a double pinochle and a run in one hand and I think we scored about 80 on that one alone. But that was my only good hand the whole night.

I did win one game though, when I was paired with Dad. Which is weird, I mean it's not cause he's good, but Teina and I usually rock when we're paired up. But that was a while ago when we were last paired. This year we got owned. On multiple occasions. But crappy cards man. Geez. One good hand means getting set every other one. Yikes. I should have just stopped bidding altogether.

I haven't played that game in literally years. Which is weird, because we use to play it all the time and I mean all the time. We never played pitch. It was always pinochle. But when we're with extended family it's pitch because it's easier. And faster.

Other than card playing there was a lot of food, yes, but there was also a mass amount of laziness. About an hour of sitting on the couch, watching Suh get thrown out, smooth move dude, and going through the ads. It was funny cause we were out in the living room on the awesome new furniture, Sarah on the end, then Cindy then Mandy, Me then Teina and Mark on the floor and we would just pass the ads down the couch basically. All with paper and pens coming up with Christmas lists.

Second Sister wants me to get her one of those emergency tool things so if your car goes under water you can slice your seatbelt and hammer your way out of your window. Cause apparently you're trapped. They saw it on Mythbusters. And she drives over mass amounts of water daily. Not. But she's pregnant and hormonal so I shall do as she asks.

And they always ask if we're doing a big Christmas, aka are we buying presents for the siblings? And I do. Cause I like Christmas. They don't have to buy lots of stuff if they don't want to, but I'm going to. Cause I like it. and I have this awesome catalog of random stuff - similar to a Sky Mall if you've flown and browsed through that - and yeah, there's gonna be a lot of random gifts this year. I'm thinking Everts Christmas gag gift stuff. Primo collector edition.

And of course, everything I was repulsed with I talked about and they all claimed they were going to buy it for me. But really, why would you need a fake plastic person who's actually a tape dispenser but is sitting on a toilet with a pen in his mouth and paper clips coming out of his butt? Is that repulsive to anyone else? Who wants that sitting on their desk? Seriously. I'm gonna have to find a picture of that, cause I really can't describe it any better than that. I'd rather just have a coffee cup filled with pens and tape.

Here, go here: Creepy Plastic Person

It freaked me out.

Even more than the 100 dollar bill toilet paper. It doesn't cost 100 dollars, it's an actual (fake) 100 dollar bill on a roll.

or the kind that glows in the dark. WHY?!

Good god.

I did, however, find something fantastic for The Cool Aunt. which I guess I can't mention cause she reads this. So she'll just have to be excited for things that fly. and that's all I'm saying.

Speaking of Everts Family Christmas. We have this baby. It's plastic. and Ugly. and Dances. Supposedly. But it's still in the box so really it only sways side-to-side and it's been a gag gift for years. Literally. and it just keeps getting passed back and forth. and I have a problem. Because I'm pretty sure that I have it. and that means I have to find it. So it's either in the boxes in my apartment, or the boxes in my closet here at the farmhouse. or in the abyss that's the basement. Hmmm... I'll check tomorrow.

Okay, so other than cards, trail mix, ads, football, napping, mass amounts of food, drinking chocolate wine, and watching children run wild, there was a lot of talking. and some good quotes. Though there are really none of them that I can repeat. Other than the ones I've already explained.

I did enjoy our 20 minute conversation about the Dougie dance. If you have no idea to what I'm referring to skip to the bottom and watch the video. We want to change it to "Teach me how to Teina". We watched the video and she said she does most of the moves so we could change the name and add a few more moves. and Mark can do the cabbage patch in the background.

Alright. Music Rec's I think we're to the E's.

And due to good timing you get a family classic:

"Evil Woman" Electric Light Orchestra

used to dance and sing this when i was little tiny. and we taught it to Squirt and Bubby when they were little tiny.
"there's an open road that leads no where, so just make some miles between here and there"
hahahahaha, oh my god. one of the comments on the youtube page is a dedication.
"I'd like to dedicate this song to my ex, Sheila.
Sheila, if you are reading this, rot in hell.
Love, Mark
:D
"
fantastic.

"Everywhere" Michelle Branch

a big one from college. good god she looks young.
yes i know this is the second one of hers i've used for the alphabet rec's and we're only to the E's but get used to it, cause she rocks. and technically that was The Wreckers. just cause she's one of the lead singers in the band...


as mentioned above:

"Teach Me How To Dougie" Cali Swag District



Big day tomorrow. New phone on the morning, means I had to go through my current phone tonight typing up all my notes cause they won't save to my media card. Do you know how long it takes to type up 479 notes? I skipped half. Didn't even upload any of the dream log. Cause dude. That's soooo much more. But the pictures and ringtones and all that are good to go. I'm hoping they'd just be able to transfer all that stuff - like contact numbers and stuff - to the new phone but I'm guessing it doesn't work with the notes. Hence the typing.

I did find a few more life mottos that I forgot to mention in the One Year post.

-"One minute I'm sane, the next two I'm crazy" think that came from a dream
-"Put it in the microwave and pour it over chips" that's a Magic Bullet direct quote but I like to use it out of context, it's more fun that way
-"It's a worthless guide to an epic ride" which is kind of a disclaimer to this blog
-"We won't judge you. We may slow clap you, but we won't judge you." camp quote, that was one of mine when we went bowling, works well in life events

Okay, will consider transferring more depending on how tired I am after this post.

After the new phone tomorrow is the Huskers game. First annual Heroes Game, trophy included. It's a "revivalry" really. I enjoy that word.

And then I get to set up the trees - yes I did buy them a new one and I'm stoked - and decorate the house. My favorite thing to do for Xmas, aside from the whole Xmas day proceedings. It's cool to have all the lights up and all that. I'm excited.

So, big day. I'm out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

By the time that we get through the world will never ever be the same and you're to blame.

I left my phone at the farmhouse. I called Mom from my sister's house. "Yes, I have your phone. It was in my chair." So if you've been trying to get in touch with me and I haven't answered that's why. You can text my mother if you're so inclined. I'm not sure if she knows how to answer it on my phone though.
You could be like Superwoman. Work people kept calling my mother when they were trying to get a hold of me because they had that number on my record. Then mom would have to call me to relay the message so I gave my boss my cell to switch it out and she says, "Maybe we like talking to your mother." She is quite enjoyable.

Today: yes, we wrote the song posted below but also we did get a lot done, talked to the tshirt dude, cleaned out the trailer - Ahh!! and finished the actual song. Well, it's more like a verse, we're adding a verse to an existing song. Chicken strips of awesomeness for lunch.
I hate making nametags. I don't know how the program works, I can't use it. I hate it. I hate Vista. Stupid Vista. We blame everything we don't like on Vista even if it had nothing to do with computers. It works well for us. Even made the song two years ago. Which I think was the last time the program worked. And that's only because my Delayed...Reaction partner worked a miracle as he was in charge of them.
I filled out the whole database with everything but then when I went to print nothing showed up. But it was there. I know it was cause I saw it, just not when I printed it. Stupid Vista.

But we made an icecream run. They basically melted all over Nicole in the passenger seat. Madness.


My cousins are in town! I have a lot of cool cousins but these ones are actually my age! so that's nice. The Cool Aunt called and says she's taking us out for jalapeno margaritas later this week. Huzzah!

"Hey There Delilah" Plain White T's

awesome.

"Banana Pancakes" Jack Johnson

love him and this



OUT!

When Eddie said he didn't like his teddy you knew he was a no good kid...

Today was ridiculous. My alarm didn't go off on my cellphone because there's something wrong with my cellphone. It's probably a virus since I keep getting calls from these weird numbers and after I answered the first one (and no one was there) my texting stopped working until I took out my battery and put it back in. Needless to say I've stopped answering numbers I don't recognize. But I don't know what that has to do with the alarm.
Anyway, I was late and after calling both bosses and getting a hold of no one I got dressed, ran to my car and sped to work. When I got there they started cheering. Like cheering cheering as in clapping and victory dancing (or Chris and my version of victory dancing aka raising the roof). I mean, I know I'm crazy, but I didn't think that the people I worked with were crazy. Apparently, the last time a coworker didn't show up they were dead. Literally. That's lovely. And they tried calling me but of course my cellphone is messed up so they couldn't get through. My boss told me she had visions of me laying bleeding on the side of the road. I'm scared to ask what happened to that last guy... but it's nice to know they care enough to dance since I'm not dead. Yay! I love fun coworkers.
But, since I had the afternoon off I was able to stay a half an hour later so I made up for the time lost. Then sped to my college to pick up my writing portfolio - missed the prof I was aiming to meet with but caught up with some other cool ones. Forgot to tell them I got into grad school, should probably email that since one of them wrote me a recommendation letter...woops. Will do that tonight.
Anyway, after that and running into an old classmate who's back in Nebraska I headed to my hometown and the Verizon office there to try to explain what's up with my phone. The lady there had no idea either but her boss had just dealt with someone who had the same problem. Of course her boss wasn't there so she called the IT people and did some sort of technical stuff while I ran to yet another town to get my hair dyed leaving my mom there with my phone.
To make a long story short - too late - my hair is now red and blonde and awesome. Then I went home, ate supper with parentals, went to brother's house to talk about cars (apparently mine is old and I need a new one) then drove back to my apartment in the snow. Hooray! I love snow!
My original aim when I went home was to clean out my closets and get winter clothes but by the time I got there I just ate and left. Dinner was interesting though. According to dad I was a good kid (opposed to the other three who apparently fought a lot) but then mom came back with "That's because she didn't have anyone to fight with! She would have if she did!" Thanks Mom. That's love.
Anyway, working tomorrow - my first workday in the snow. I wonder how bad it is in the mornings. I guess I'll find out.