"What do you call people who mouth the words when they read?" "Nerds?"

These are the conversations I have with Queen of the Known Universe at work... What else would you call them? Is there an official term that I'm not aware of?



Today rocked.

I feel so clean.

Even after a hockey game.

Woke up semi-early, which to me is 9, and spent the whole day cleaning.

Well, most of it.

I swept, I vacuumed, and I CLEANED OUT MY CLOSET.

For serious.

4 bags full of clothes for Goodwill.

That's how long it's been since I cleaned it out.

Plus I organized the shelves and got rid of a bunch of boxes so now it's not only clean, but also organized and I have room for more stuff.

Which apparently is a girl thing, we can never have too much stuff in our closets.

After all that fun the boyfriend and I hit up the hockey game where we dominated Des Moines 7-4. It was awesome, if we score 5 points everyone gets free milk from one of the grocery stores here in town, you just have to show them your ticket. Anyway, we had 4 points and all the sudden the crowd starts yelling "We want milk!" and I swear, mid chant we stole the puck and scored.

The crowd went nuts.

Oh and they fired our head coach. We have a new general manager and that was the first thing he did. Granted we aren't doing so well this season so I'm kind of glad. Our Assistant Coach rocked it tonight.



And as awesome as tonight's game was, it still wasn't as awesome as last week's game. We played Team USA Juniors. They were up 1-4 at the end of the first period. I scored first and then they got 4 straight so we were like crap, this is gonna suck. Then we came back and scored 6 straight.

6 straight.

And also won it 7-4.

It was awesome.

Tomorrow is another game - my last of the season cause the next one I have Bubby's play instead.

It's sad that it's over already.

I'm thinking about getting them again next year. Just have to email the guy and ask about parking passes, cause that got expensive.

Anyway, what else have you missed.

Work is good. Tomorrow for TAB we're having a Murder Mystery party. Which was awesome cause I found a good one and I had it all cast and then a bunch of other teens RSVP'd so I had to write in new characters.

Which I hope don't totally suck.

The only problem with this one is that it doesn't have a master script, just like accusations and rebuttals so I don't know when I should be prompting people or who I should be prompting or if I should be prompting...

I just hope they don't think it's lame.

Remember the web series we were working on? Did I ramble about that yet? Some idiot (me) decided it would be fun for our TAB to film a web series to promote the library and its events. Which SOUNDS like a good idea, until you have to actually film it with a bunch of teens.

I thought we'd be done after one meeting, we're going on three and still have seven scenes left to film.

We may do a bit more tomorrow if the Murder Mystery thing finishes early.

What else?

The boyfriend and I are good, I already rambled about Vegas...I did say he wants to go ring shopping right?

Which he told me at a hockey game and I attempted not to like jump for joy or pass out or ask him to repeat himself cause I clearly didn't hear him correctly...anyway, I'm excited.

Apparently everyone and their dog thought he was going to ask in Vegas.

Not me.

But everyone else.

He says he'd rather do something local instead. Fine with me. As long as it happens. Sooner rather than later.

What else?

OH so remember when I was reading Silver Linings Playbook and I turned into a total nerd and read like a paragraph a day so it would never be over?

Found another one of those books, but said screw it and had to finish it early.

It's called Attachments and it's by Rainbow Rowell.

Yes, that is her real name, her parents were hippies.

And she's Nebraskan - from Omaha - so it's set in Omaha.

It's basically this guy works IT at a newspaper and his job is to flag people for inappropriate computer use - gambling, personal emails, all that - and he runs across this series of personal emails between these two women and he gets caught up so he doesn't flag them. Then one of them mentions this cute guy at work and it turns out to be him so he hits up the gym, etc. etc. Anyway, it's fantastic. 9/10 on the Scale of Awesome, I loved loved loved it.

Mostly because the main female character is me.

No, you have no idea. I'm convinced that the woman followed me around and took notes because she says stuff that I've said and she acts like I do in situations and then the guy is so similar to the boyfriend, it just seriously freaked me out.

Queen of the Known Universe said it must be the Twilight Zone.

So, what do I do? I tweet the author about on Twitter and she favorites it.

Take that world.

#NebraskaPride

Although not so much #Nebrasketball pride, that game was brutal, we got hosed.

For those of you who aren't aware our men's basketball team made it to March Madness for the first time since like 1998.

If we would have won today we could have played Creighton next.

That would have been awesome as they are kind of the in-state rivalry.

Oh well, I think our women have a fighting chance, but they're always good.

Hmmm...I'm thinking.

I don't usually have to think when I post it just comes out.

It's been a while so I don't know what I'm missing...

Oh, The Voice is back on. Scroll down and you'll see my Top 20. So far so good in the battles. I think all of mine are still alive. No, wait, my number 5 - Brothers Walker - is out. And Paula Deanda. She was good but Blake put her against Sisaundra and anyone against her is doomed.

Alright, on to the music. A new one and an old one.

Love Me Again- John Newman


his hair style is weird but his voice is solid. love this one. why is the chick wearing gloves? wait a minute, what just happened?! did he actually end it that way?! that's just  mean.

Tomorrow Never Comes - Teddy Geiger


yes i'm aware it was a horrible movie, but the soundtrack is excellent, look into it.


you spin in circles around the sun, but tomorrow never comes.

Just one of those things that gets sweeter with time.

For once I was nothing but productive on a day off.

Usually when I clean my apartment it's because I'm avoiding homework.

Now I have no homework to avoid so I had to force myself into it.

But I was up.

Since 8AM.

On a day off.

I know.

Sucked.

But I guess it was worth it.

Met up with my sisters for lunch, shopped a bit in the afternoon, then cleaned the rest of the day.

Literally, the rest of the day.

Mopped, dusted, vacuumed, scrubbed, all that.

I think I've mopped like 3 times since I've moved in.

Don't give me that look, it's not like there's a lot to mop.

And I keep it clean.

But today was extreme, even changed out my shower curtain.

Think I'm good for a while.

Tomorrow it's back to work so I should crash.

Exhausted.

I know, I'm boring. I'm sorry. But it was a very big day for me.

Here, have some more Useless Information.

-The original pack of Skittles doesn't contain the color blue so you CAN'T taste the rainbow.

-The letters on M&M candies stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.

-The designer of the Statue of Liberty - Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi - used his wife as the model for the body and his mother as the model for the face.

-The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles stands for the varieties of pickle the company once made.

-A group of whales is called a Pod.

-Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

-The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo"

Gonna look into that one tomorrow at work.

On to the music. Song you know but forgot you knew it.

Dust on the Bottle - David Lee Murphy


classic country.

Watching Leverage's Nebraska episode. Nice attempt at our accent. It's amusing. Sophie hates chicken fried steak. Parker wears a Nebraska hat and eats corndogs. Hardison gets mobbed.

"Ladies, for the last time I am not the tailback for the Cornhuskers. I don't even know what a Cornhusker is."

"I can't hack a hick."

Even if he were a High Tech Redneck?



Legitimate pre-midnight post, holy crap tag in use.

"Is that your dad?" "No it's not my dad." "I think it's your dad." "It's not my dad." *see mom through window* "Okay, maybe it's my dad."

So I went out to see the boyfriend after work tonight and we went out to eat and pull into the parking lot and we're walking to the restaurant and we see this guy leaving the restaurant and he's like "is that your dad?"

And I'm like no.

He then spent the next thirty seconds trying to convince me that that was my dad while I spent the next thirty seconds stating it was not and then we walk into the restaurant and there's my mom.

Okay fine. It was my dad.

To be fair it was dark, he was walking in a different direction and it's not like you can just yell out "dad" to see if he'd turn around.

Cause what if he was in fact a dad, but not my dad, and then he turned around expecting his own child which I am clearly not? That would be awkward.

Though it wouldn't matter anyway because my dad is half deaf so he wouldn't have heard it.

But it was, and of course they just happened to have his iPod in hand so I got to give even more lessons on how to run it.

See, an iPod for dad seemed like such a good idea for a present. Little did I know that I would be the one stuck teaching him how to use it, and not only teaching him at home but also in the middle of an Applebee's parking lot in 50 degree weather.

My brother lives half a mile away and he knows all this stuff. He says he knows nothing but I know that's crap cause his wife owns one.

But it was fate really, we could have gone anywhere else, at any time tonight.

The boyfriend thinks they planned this somehow cause they were so casual about it. And just happened to have the iPod in the car.

Apparently my parents are more casual about things than his parents are.

And speaking of my parents the boyfriend and I watched Duck Dynasty tonight which is another one of my dad's shows. This one mom actually likes. It's not awful but I don't need another Swamp People.

Before all that was work. Lots of stats today since there were only 4 of us, but they seemed to come in groups.

Between groups I cleaned cause it was gross and cluttered and I was bored.

Did a bunch of dusting and organizing drawers and all that. Even brought out that dust buster and was able to rehang it without breaking it so I'm calling it a victory.

Tomorrow will be more of the same. Work then hopefully another date night with the boyfriend since he's going out of town next week. Plus I want to see him as much as possible before he gets switched to second.

Which we're both so thrilled about.

Can you tell that was sarcasm.

I can't really inject that into writing without some sort of special punctuation.

But there is no special punctuation for sarcasm so I had to explain that I'm not actually so thrilled about him moving to second as I will never see him.

Though it did bring up the topic of marriage again tonight at dinner.

Actually it got super serious and was all about the wedding and all that.

At some point in the past year he told his mother about the Luxor chapel in Vegas and that we almost got married there and now she thinks we're having a destination wedding which she would not approve of.

And of course that makes him bring it up even more.

I never really thought about that as an option before Vegas. So I don't know if I want that or a church service and neither does he.

But I guess we have time to decide.

He still has 3 years to ask me according to the verbal contract I agreed to 2 years ago when we got together.

Genius move there.

But it's not like I'm going somewhere so it doesn't really matter.

Alright, I should crash. More work tomorrow.

Songs of the Day:

Both played tonight at supper.

Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks


you don't often see singers act out what they're actually singing on music award shows. it's usually all dancers and flashing lights.

okay, nevermind here come the dancers.

Put a Girl in it - Brooks and Dunn


didn't realize they attempted a comeback. really like their old stuff but this is good too.

"But bats are cute-ish!" "Bats have rabies." "That's why I said ish."

First off, old intern, no.

Bats are not cute.

They're fuzzy little rabies-infested things with beady eyes that follow you when you shelve DVDs.

So, yesterday, right before opening, I grab a stack of DVD's and take them to the display shelves.

I do this almost every day.

Normally, I don't look up at the ceiling, but for some reason I did.

And there was freakin' bat hanging there staring at me.



I panicked.

A bit.

I can still see its creepy little face as it followed me as I walked back and forth.

That's as close as I wanted to be to it.

And yes, I know I didn't post yesterday, but I was fall down, die in a corner miserable by the end of the night, and no one wants to read about that.

Besides those get deleted a day later and I find the bat story amusing.

Now.

At the time my girlish shriek and repeated yelling of my boss's name would suggest otherwise.

She thought he was cute too.

As did everyone else.

I, however, have bad experiences with winged creatures when it comes to libraries. Remember the damn bird from last year? If you missed it go here.

Bosslady called the assistant director who got the pleasure of calling animal control who showed up shortly after opening to catch the bat.

I'll have to celebrate by reading "Bats at the Library."


I was glad to have the day off today. But I got up at like 8 which is weird for me on an day off.

Went running.

I know, you had to read that line twice just to verify that I actually wrote it.

Got groceries.

Cleaned - scrubbed mirrors, sinks, litter box, not with the same cloth, vacuumed, did laundry and dishes, took out the trash.

Did homework.

After which I went out to see the boyfriend.

Got Taco Bell, I'm addicted to their Doritos tacos.

The nacho cheese.

Cool ranch chips are nasty.

Watched a movie and talked for a while.

As previously mentioned I've been a bit out of it this week but all is fixed now.

Anyway, it's late. Carter and I are gonna konk out.

Music and I'm off.


Follow Me - Uncle Kracker

used to be my favorite song and i would sing it all the time, but the memory that stands out the most is one day, between games, my old softball team sang it.

nice team building exercise.

"It's cold out and I'm not wearing pants. Where are you?"

So I cleaned my apartment tonight.

But not just cleaned it, moved it.

Basically.

Everything from the living room (but the couch, TV and bookshelves) is currently in the kitchen.

That includes shelves, chairs...and the foosball table.



"Why is your foosball table in your kitchen?" one might ask.

Cause they're coming to steam clean my carpets tomorrow.

And I have nowhere else to put it.

You should see my bedroom.

Definitely sleeping on the couch tonight.

As there is nowhere to sleep in the bed.

Carter is loving this whole wide open space thing.

Like he sprawled out by the window, then five minutes later he got up and sprawled out by the door, then he was in the middle of the floor, now he's in the middle of the floor on a footstool.

It's like a whole new apartment in here.

"I had no idea I had such chatty liberal arts hair."

Watching The Makeover.

Julia Stiles is making a comeback.

She did Dexter, Silver Linings, now she's in this.

"Now let's see if we can get you to stop sounding like a pirate. Having a heart attack. While gargling."

And apparently she stars in some show called Blue.

Which I think is on YouTube.

Not like clips, like the show airs on YouTube.

Anyway, this is basically like My Fair Lady but in reverse.

Hannah Higgins, Elliot Doolittle.

Hannah runs for congress and loses. She's not likable enough. Her opponent dies after he's elected. Elliot's a beer vender who wants to become a supervisor and comes to her for speech lessons. She decides he would make a good candidate for congress.



It's highly entertaining.

Thinking 7/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

Been giving out a lot of 7's lately.

They're all good movies, just not like stellar, perfection, stunned speechless kind of stuff.

And for some reason a lot of them lately have been Lifetime movies.

Or I guess this was Hallmark, whatever.

I blame the library for having them available.

And Julia Stiles for getting me interested.

And Lauren Ambrose for getting me interested in the last one.

And before that is was Sara Rue and what's his name from Samantha Who.

That wasn't intended to rhyme.

Anyway, today was interesting.

More training.

Fixed flyers.

I'm off tomorrow and Summer Reading starts tomorrow so I figured it would probably be wise to hang up some ones for the kickoff next week.

Only took me an hour for the font to come out right.

Luckily I had already started the flyer, it just wasn't like stellar, perfection, stunning people speechless and all that.

Now it is wicked sweet.

Gotta make posters for every event.

And now I'm making them for other peoples' it's highly entertaining.

Alright, aside from that I can't really remember anything about today.

Staff meeting.

Talked about the Summer Reading Program.

Yep.

All I got.

So apparently you like the quote books.

I found one that I used to carry around when I first started working in the library system - PS, right now it is officially the 24th which means I've worked at the work branch for three years. Mother Frito, Son of a Beandip - sorry, will talk about that more tomorrow cause this post, like many posts, is gonna say it's 11:50PM.

Anyway, so I ran into this one while cleaning my apartment.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Me: "He says I deserve a pizza."
Superwoman: "Crap."

Me: "That'll be me in 50 years."
Space Cadet: "But you'll use your inside voice. Unless you're too deaf to hear it."

Super Librarian Status: *on my sister-in-law calling me Pippi* "You have a lot to live up to. Just don't throw angry customers across the room."

Slim Shady: "Magnet, magnet magnet."

Oldest Sister: "Picture 'I can't run anymore I'm gonna puke!' and then running the next couple steps."

Oldest Sister: "They didn't punch a hole, they punched a crawlspace."

Nina: "Guess what I got."
Finch: "Why, are they stumped down at the clinic?"

Superwoman: "Are you free tonight? Do you have to call your mother?" ONE TIME. geez. 

Supervisor: "Don't run in the library."
Kid: "I'm jogging!"

Chief from Carmen Sandiego: "If cheese isn't safe in Wisconsin nothing is safe in Wisconsin!"

Wordie: "You guys okay?"
Corey: "I have hay fever. She's hungover."

King of Useless Knowledge: "Spontaneous combustion is pretty awesome, unless it happens to you."

Mom: *about church during a holiday weekend* "I can be giddy. No one else will be there!" 

Bubby: "Porkchop karate!"

Second Sister: "It's an appropriate amount of freakage."

Brother: "Just say 'oh pigeons.' Well, it's appropriate cause they're annoying as crap."

Squirt: "Lock him in the closet with a piece of cheese and a glass of water."

Brother: "We'll split the trains four ways. She can have the beer mugs."
Second Sister: "I want the Corve."
Me: "Can I have the Bird?"
Brother: "Yes, we'll flip you the bird."

Roz: "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Marco. I've seen the future and its name is Marco!"

Mom: "You get money when you die."
Me: "What am I supposed to do with it?
Mom: "Bury yourself."

Mom:*about a seatbelt though Second Sister likes to quote it about other things* "Get that on! I don't wanna see you hanging out!"
Me: "The doors are closed!"

Aunt Hay-Hay: "We ordered an ostrich and they had to go find one."


And then it goes on to homework notes but I'll post more of the college ones throughout this week.

For now I should sleep.

No idea what time the guys are coming tomorrow.

Probably 8AM.

Ahh!!

I'll have my assistant set an alarm.

Sam!!

On to the music:

Heard this one of my way home.

Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe

speaking of Julia Stiles - my favorite movie of hers - this is the scene I think of when I hear that song.



gotta love it.

gonna have to make Squirt watch it if she hasn't seen it already.


out for the night.

Feel good. Feel good. Feel good. Feel good.

Remember yesterday when I said I was going to "brave the lab"?

I braved it.

And then some.

Cause you know what happens when you get on a roll.

It all started first hour. Showed up at 9, started cleaning keyboards and screens at 9:05, finished the lab at exactly 10:04 when the stampede began up the stairs.

Missed it by that much.

Yes, the second the doors open to the public there are like 10, okay more like 20, people that all run up the stairs to get to the computer lab and the filtered outside the lab.

Not so much the express 15 minute ones.

Anyway, they were gross. I won't go into details because I don't want to scar you for life.

But yeah, gross.

Super, uber gross.

And sadly according to Fearless Leader it had just been done a few months ago.

So after that came desk stuff and all that, ran a Lost in Transit list which reminded me of myself and my home branch coworkers' plan to form a band and call ourselves the "Joe Studley and the Lost in Transit". Listed all the instruments we can play between the, well at the time there were 7 of us, but that was as far as it got.

After lunch I got tired of walking past three carts overflowing with crap and I had a free hour so I cleaned more and got it down to one highly organized cart against the wall so there's space.

Huzzah.

Then went back to search lists, and checking in. At that point I was ready to fall over so I took a break, told Queen of the Known Universe to wake me in 15 minutes and crashed on the basement floor. Unbeknownst to me that responsibility was passed on to Girlscout once QOTKU's break was over.

The thing was though when I heard her get up I set my alarm to make sure I'd wake up and when it went off I headed upstairs forcing Girlscout to track me down to make sure I was conscious and all that.

If I'd known I would have given her the headsup though it was rather amusing.

One thing I learned: basement floor, not so comfortable though surprisingly more sanitary than the computer lab.

After that I went back to check-in and youth services avoiding a tiny screaming child.

That's meant to be interpreted as a tiny child who screams, not a child screaming "tiny" over and over again.

Finished work, came home to watch "Man On a Ledge" Scale of Awesome says about 7/10, it was a lot better than I expected. After that I went back to editing, made a lot of progress on that lately, will work on it more tonight until I crash and pass out with my laptop on my lap with olympics on in the background.

I keep watching the men's basketball game over and over cause I want to actually watch it but I get distracted and only make it through like half of the first quarter or the last few minutes.

So yes I know what happens but that's not the point.

Speaking of points, didn't get any from Superwoman today even though I was super productive. Will have to remind her of that tomorrow.

But when I ask for points she gives me none claiming it'll make me more motivated to do even more.

A boss making me actually work and strive to be better?

Well, that's just mean.

Early morning tomorrow for a meeting with the Library Goddess to come up with a schedule and life plan and all that.

Song of the night:

Check out this cover of the Gorillaz, it's fantastic.




for the original go here:

"I was in an ice cream haze and I couldn't see!"

New strategy for stealing the check from the Cool Aunt.

Feed her ice cream and hide her glasses.

It worked!

But only cause Mom made me do it, long story.

Today rocked.

Slept in, woke up around eleven, jammed out with cat and watched Chuck.

Then headed over to get some jalapeno margaritas!! with the Cool Aunt and my mom.

Since it was my birthday - well, it's almost my birthday - we got fried ice cream for desert, it was fantastic and I highly recommend it.

And I got another duck, I'm STOKED!!

See, this is why I love the Cool Aunt, well not the only reason I love the Cool Aunt, cause you know she's cool, but sometimes she buys me presents for random reasons and I find it highly entertaining.

I get my winter hats from her, "The man they call Jayne" hat last year, plus my new "tundra" hat. Then, ever since high school graduation I've been getting rubber ducks. They're all over my apartment and car. It's highly amusing. And who could forget the fun socks? Cause really, how can one live in life without fun socks.

Regular socks are boring.

In addition to my duck and socks and lots of candy I got some Husker shirts - cause you can never have enough Husker shirts, I decided that last week when I cleaned out my closet - and then Mom got me some fun socks and clothes as well.

Plus she bought lunch. And brought me soup. And took my tax stuff. So she rocks.

After the awesomeness that was fajitas and jalapeno margaritas, I headed back and freakin' cleaned my apartment.

See, there's a difference between cleaning your apartment and freakin' cleaning your apartment.

Cleaning your apartment involves throwing things in your closet so that they're not visible.

Freakin' cleaning your apartment involves brooms, mops, and dustrags.

Did the whole thing, bathroom and kitchen included.

Now it's all bright and shiny.

Though I need more lightbulbs, cause apparently they've all decided to die at once.

Which I guess makes some sort of sense as I installed them all at the same time originally.

Anyway, so the apartment is clean!! Except, for the freakin' foosball table. You know why the foosball table isn't clean? Cause there's freakin' curtains on it!

I've decided that that's what I want for my birthday.

Someone to hang up the curtains that have been sitting on the foosball table for months. They've been there so long that I don't even remember how long ago I got them.

The bedroom ones are up, it's just the living room ones we had problems with as they didn't fit over the blinds. Now they should. Or I think they should, but perhaps not. Who knows? I don't, clearly, as they are still sitting on my foosball table.

Aaannd rant over. Moving on.

Class tomorrow so I should pack before I'm lights out. Gonna turn on some Chuck and konk out.

I love Chuck. There's actual character depth, you know? It's not just all about the action and explosions and all that. It's funny and you get real live characters. Plus Adam Baldwin. Granted Sarah is probably my favorite as she is badass, plus Chuck is you know, normal. But Casey seriously just makes me laugh. Adam Baldwin is quickly rising to the top of my hilarious badass actors.

Speaking of the man they call Jayne,

Song of the night:

"The Hero of Canton" Adam Baldwin

that's my hat. except mine is black with colors, instead of orange.

If you haven't seen Firefly you're really missing out. Space Cowboys and Nathan Fillion, how can you go wrong? This is where Adam Baldwin really shines, too funny. He plays the muscle - similar to his character on Chuck - and he's highly amusing too. Plus he has great shirts - of which I own half - and an awesome hat.

The show was great, but of course short-lived, as most of the great ones are. Yet there was such a big protest when it went off the air that a movie was made a few years later and the cult following still continues.


"this landing is gonna get pretty interesting."
"define interesting."
"oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die?"

plus Castle references it all the time.

And she's off! To watch Adam Baldwin kick some rogue-spy butt.

Welcome to the world, Tessa Jo

Well, it's official.

I have to have not one, but TWO boys to even out the family.

Crap.

But I was also told I'm supposed to marry a Catholic to keep with the family tradition.

We'll see about that.

Tessa Jo

7 pounds, 12 ounces and 20 inches long

and super cute, she had her arms up the entire time i was there.


born at 4:28

got the text and picture before i fell back asleep.


this one just cracks me up.

awww.

bubby and squirt, proud cousins.

i'd upload one of the siblings but when i got there one was at school and the other was getting ice cream with grandpa.

So today was fantastic. Got to jam with the family and meet Tessa Jo.

Plus Dad put air in my tires.

Apparently 20 is a bad number to have for tire pressure.

Which I knew.

But never got the chance to fix it.

Woops.

After that I came back and cleaned out my closet.

Literally.

I have bags of clothes to donate.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you're avoiding doing something else.

Notice how cleaning out my closet was nowhere on my to-do-list?

I'm getting there, I'm getting there.

Songs You Know But Forgot You Knew Them:

"Here I Go Again" Whitesnake

nice hair boys. am i the only one that thinks that chick seems man-ish? kinda fits right in with the rest of the band.

"She Drives Me Crazy" Fine Young Cannibals

wow. big hair difference. i'm sorry but this video is just plain weird. is this supposed to be his progression of crazy?

Tomorrow will be weird as I'm split between two branches.

Which actually, a few months ago, was normal.

But this is backwards cause I was mornings there.

Now I get to spend my morning at the work branch and head the home branch after lunch.

And will probably run into the Queen of Awesome!! at some point. Cause I think she is leaving when I get there. Party in the parking lot.

Woohoo!

It's just been one of those, one of those days...

Rollin' with my gnomies. Yep. Painted another one today. Think it's gonna be my thing. Cool Aunt always paints grapes on things. I'll just paint gnomes. I'll have an army of them. Yeah, Gnome Army. I like it. Rollin' with my gnomies. What? It's not like it's an army of clowns or something.

"There is a heavy clown presence in this room. It's unsettling and I'm obsessed with it! I want both more and less of the clowns." -Max, 2 Broke Girls. Love that episode. "It's Hoarders 3D: The Experience!"



okay. got distracted for about 20 minutes watching clips. must move on.

So, today. 11-2 shelving. Then painting. Then came back and CLEANED MY APARTMENT! heck yeah! vacuum and broom included. Although I still need to dust. And clean the bathroom. But the main room, kitchen and bedroom are golden.

Along with that cleaning I'm also cleaning out my DVR. I've taped all the pilots to a bunch of shows that I wanted to check out but have yet to get around to them. I kept the good ones that I'll attempt to watch soon aka Once Upon a Time, Unforgettable, and Grimm but deleted Pan Am, and some old episodes of shows I've already seen. I am keeping however, all the episodes of Castle, Bones, 2 Broke Girls and all that.

If you haven't seen 2 Broke Girls yet you should check it out. Monday nights on CBS. It's fantastic. Max is my new hero. Her personality is very similar to the voice in my head. She has all the best lines. Like stuff you really want to say to someone but refrain cause you know, you're a nice person or want to make it seem like you're a nice person.

I'm a nice person.

I think.

Shutup Sketch.

I can be a nice person. And not like Phoebe's I can be a bear cub kind of thing.


middle season two. and i can tell you the title without looking if you're interested.

Music Recs:

"One of Those Days" Joy Williams

cool video. i sing this often at work. especially after incidents that involve reports.

"Leave the Light On" Priscilla Ahn live on the Late Late Show

just a bonus that craig introduces her. he's my hot guy of late night. used to watch his show every night for over 2 years. college craziness.


Alright, tomorrow is all day and then I'll probably crash and burn so I should probably konk out soon.


Carter is scratching at the carpet. It's freaking me out. I think the cleanness is freaking him out.

She said I love the way you think but I hate the way you act.

I was totally productive today. I'm proud of myself. You would be too. Cleaned my room - like officially unpacked. I've lived here over a year now, it was time. But the boxes are gone, stuff is put away in the closet, posters are on the wall, stuff is shredded and in the trash - all while I listened to my audio book for class. Ha! Multi-tasking. I'm on disc 9 out of 14 so it was good day.
Except for the bookdrop thing. I'm all for bookdrops. I love them. They're easy and awesome, until you have to climb in one. I just felt like showering all morning. But we had so much stuff since we were closed for two days and it was overflowing. Blah. Lots and lots of checking in. But I just shelved - huzzah! And I actually shelved everything before noon so that was exciting. Then came back here intending to shower and nap but instead listening to my book and deciding it was time to unpack. I worked hard today. And actually feel a sense of accomplishment. So huzzah! to that.

But yeah, disc 9 of 14 on book #7. I'm thinking of burning the rest of them on my computer and uploading them to my ipod so I can listen on the go. A decent book so far, it's pretty intriguing but I still wish I could get through it faster so I can figure out what's really going on. There's a lot of backstory, so there's more things revealed in every chapter. I have to finish it just to figure out what everything means! I actually got this for a decent price off Amazon but a bunch of my classmates got it for free on some trial thing on there. Totally jealous. Anyway, tomorrow I need to go shopping, so then I can multitask as well if it's on my ipod. I need pop, cat food, human food, light bulbs, and more pop. I'm hoping that writing these down - well, putting these out there - will help me to remember what I need. But of course I'll forget.

Okay, one more thing, I think Facebook needs a "poke all" button. Just because so many people freaking poke me - it's a poke war basically - and it takes forever to hit "poke back". It'd be nice to just hit one button and be done.

"No Such Thing"

my favorite of his songs, other than "Daughter"

"Always" Rilo Kiley

although the song doesn't really start start until like 1:48, not sure why the intro is so long. kind of annoying. i always find myself skipping ahead. so that's my advice to you. if you actually listen to the song, skip ahead to around 1:40. from then on, awesomeness.

and since that one had a late start and was more like a half I'll hit you with another.
"Steal My Kisses" Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals

another late start, skip to 0:40.


out!

We can dress real neat from our hats to our feet and surprise them with a victory cry!

Today flew, and in a good way. Sort of. And I only got yelled at once so that's a bonus. Tomorrow means sleeping in (hooray!), play practice, then probably helping Mom clean the yard. Although it looks like she's already gotten a big start. So I guess that depends on what's left.
Maybe I'll clean the house instead. Or my closets. Since they still have stuff in them. Lots and lots of crap that's just shoved onto shelves. Yeah, it's one of those. Like a Monica's secret closet that no one notices until they try to open the door and it's locked kind of closet. Then they open it and stuff just falls out all over the place. Monica's secret shame. Although mine isn't really a secret. Or a shame. But the doors close so it's okay. And, to be fair, since I've moved out, a lot of the stuff in the closet is actually not mine. I know! I came home and there's a bunch of other peoples' clothes just like hanging in it! I guess I should be happy they didn't turn my room into a gym. That's a second Friends reference for those of you counting.

I'm trying to think of commercial ideas for the play. Since it's a Survivor show - well, Survivor Babylon - we're writing our own commercials. One is going to be for our band which means we'll have to write another song, and the second needs to involve two of the older kids that don't have as many lines. They're both pretty good so I'm not worried, it's the writing part that is screwing me over. I'm thinking something about flame retardant material. Since it's about a fiery furnace and all the commercials should fit with the theme. So like spray or brooms or something, I don't know I'm stuck. I go through sporadic clever spells. This isn't one of them. That happens with camp too. Which reminds me I need to start working on those application forms because they need to be sent out soon. Oh well, maybe I'll think of something during practice tomorrow.

Okay, I'll stop with the rambling. Have fun with some Glee.
It's the Safety Dance! Artie's dream sequence.

I'm tempted to start one of these at work. But I'm guessing my musical-hating colleague might not appreciate it. We'll see.

"The night is young and so am I."

Are you sure you want to forge the river?

Name that video game reference.

Got off early today then came home and cleaned. Shocker. Me being productive after work? Never. So this is new. And probably won't last. But at least my apartment is clean...er. I'm being OCD about it again, but it's bigger than I thought it was. I'm doing it one room at a time, I'm finished with the living room and the kitchen, next is the bedroom, bathroom and closet. Yikes.
I borrowed some of that dusting spray stuff from my sister, I think she was shocked. It's not that I'm a slob. I'm actually pretty neat, but it takes a lot of motivation for me to like scrub and dust and like clean clean, you know? Well, I've had the motivation. And got more today! I thought the whole bug thing would be over by now! Nope. Apparently they plan to continue giving me crap until it gets old. Which, in a library, could possibly mean forever. I'm toast.


Okay, here's another shocking statement. Congratulation Sarah, you're right. Save this post you won't hear/read it again for a very long time. But Maroon 5 does, in fact, rock. Seriously. Here's my new favorite.



Think that's all for tonight, kinda exhausted from all the cleaning. Gonna shower, watch some more SVU and then crash. These library dvd's are kickin' my butt, they all come in at once!!
Tomorrow means work then family then more cleaning then sleep. Hopefully in that order.

And yes, I did forge the river frequently. Paying that dude to do whatever it is he did so that we didn't drown was always expensive and I only remember not making it like once. Oregon Trail. If you didn't get that by now.

"Every time I wind up back at your door....."

Thank God the Dog Days Are Over

Today and yesterday were kind of crappy. I told my grad rep why they were crappy, because apparently I like to ramble to people who have nothing to do with the situation but are very supportive, (which suddenly sounds a lot like a blog) And she said, and I quote, "You do more things right than wrong. Your colleagues speak highly of your energy, good ideas and work ethic." Awwwww... right? Totally lying, but I'll take it. She's awesome. Jalapeno Margaritas awesome! Which is like a 10/10 coming from me.
Hmmm... maybe I should make an official "Scale of Awesome". That might be interesting. Like a 7/10 would be the NCIS marathon that was on tv today. They were all seasons 3 and later and although Ziva is awesome I love Sasha Alexander and Kate was my favorite character until they killed her off. So, good episodes but I had seen them all. Which, I guess, makes sense since I own all the seasons. But there were commercial breaks which seriously made me want to pull out the dvds and watch those episodes without them. And usually I do. But today I cleaned instead.
A 5/10 would be the average day - not too awesome but not crappy enough that I want to yell and throw things.
A 3/10 would be today and yesterday because of the incident, but also because it was good day up until that point.
And a -10/10 would be the movie Rushmore. Two hours of my life that I want back. Seriously. I compare all crappy movies to it.

On a different subject, you know, it's amazing how many chores you can get done when you're avoiding doing something else. Like usually, I put off cleaning my apartment. Because it takes forever and I have no motivation unless my mother is coming to visit. Today, after putting it off for weeks, I needed to register for my grad school class. But, since I didn't want to do that because it involved calling the IT people and having them walk me through it, my apartment is now practically spotless. Like, you can actually see the floor, like all of it! My cat walked around meowing like, "whoa? what's going on? what's that big gray loud thing she's pushing around? maybe i should run and hide in the closet." Which he did, so I vacuumed and now it's all pretty. Don't worry, I'm sure it won't last long.

And, because it's been a crappy week so far, I watched Glee and here's the clip of the week. I bought the song on itunes and have had it blasting in my headphones on repeat. I feel it fits my life at this time.


It's reversely screened but it does the trick. Is that a word? Reveresly? I'm making it one. It seems to me that it's the cast singing it as themselves instead of their characters and that it's not really choreographed. Which I loved.