I blow my stack.

"There are too many girls here."

You said it buddy.

My nephew at my niece's dance recital.

He was perfectly content playing his DS video game.

But he was right.

Two hours, about 100 girls on stage.

1 boy.

But he was the best one out there!

Which was humorous for us, but good for him.

He was the only boy last year as well.

Today went by pretty slowly.

Early lunch so I went out with Slim Shady for sandwiches.

Oh but one of the volunteers brought cookies, they were fantastic.

After lunch I was mostly in the lab, checked in holds and then I got the oh so joyful task of setting up tables for tomorrow.

Though I didn't go in past years so I have no idea how to arrange them.

I made it up as I went along, if they don't like the arrangement they are welcome to move them.

But that'll be my day tomorrow.

Get paid to eat pizza with my teens and label books.

For three hours, woohoo!

That's basically all I've got for tonight, boring I'm sorry.

I'll find some reference fact or crap for you, OH! So, things I learned today: that if a ball joint is broken it can totally screw up your tire allignment, and the warning sign is that it clicks.

Also, BossLady is a clown.

No, literally she is a part-time clown.

Shoes and all.

And apparently it pays well.

Which just makes me laugh.

Future blackmail material perhaps.

Okay, actual reference fact or crap.

- In Vulcan, Alberta Canada, the welcome tourist sign is written in both English and Klingon.

- Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal". The second was William Jefferson Clinton - who thinks of these things, seriously?

- Jedi is an actual religion with over 70,000 followers in Australia. I remember that one from Sociology of Religion. We also talked about the holy spaghetti and meatballs thing.

- There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem.

- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

- In Albuquerque, New Mexico it is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.

There you go, you are educated.

Check out these rec's and you're good to go.

Trashin' the Camp - Tarzan

one of the songs at the recital tonight, and also one of my favorite musical animated moments.

I Blow My Stack - Yosemite Sam Saw this one a couple of times and found it humorous. Especially the beard in the beginning and the librarian reference. check it out. Sorry, now I can think of is, "I'm Arianna, I have team spirit, I don't do drugs, so check me out." Cha cha butchee, cha cha cha butchee Roll call." "My name is Craig, I did drugs once, I am a spartan, so check me out." "So check us out." Apparently I don't get enough sleep so I'm going to bed now. Slim Shady: "I'm going to text you at ten saying to go to bed. And around midnight you'll take it into consideration." Me: "Actually it'll be more like I check my phone at 2AM and say, hey she's right." OUT!

"She shot an arrow at your head." "At an apple." "Near your head."

So we went to see Hunger Games.

Again.

This time it was me, squirt and the squirrelly boy.

It was our makeshift Squirt is Awesome parade.

Cause I told her she deserved a parade of awesomeness.

Complete with fireworks.

Cause she got asked to play with the high school girls this summer for volleyball.

And she's just an awesome person like that.

So she jammed with us tonight for dinner and a movie.

Noodles for supper, pasta is my downfall, then Hunger Games at the theater.

I liked it better this time, I'm improving my Scale of Awesome rating from 7/10 to 8/10.

I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.

Though I'm still holding off reading the other books, I want to see if watching the movie first will make them better.

Plus it ended all happy, I don't want it to get all depressing which apparently it does.

So I get to grocery shop on the clock tomorrow.

How cool is my job, seriously?

But it's for Summer Reading stuff.

We're making edible campfires and we're pre-assembling them into bags at the next meeting. Which happens to be next week.

So I get to buy pretzels and red hots and licorice and all that, plus 200 juice boxes. No real clue as to the kind or flavor, the only condition is that it's cheap and if it spills - and it will - it won't stain.

And I'm back to fact or crap reference info.

I'm hooked, I find it amusing.

- Every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds

- On average more people fear spiders than they do death.

- Blood of mammals is red, insects are yellow and lobster is blue.

- An albatross can sleep while it flies.

- Sounds at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.

- Although the pony express was one of the most famous chapters in history it only lasted one year, from 1860-1861.

- The word "housekeeping" was invented by Shakespeare.

And that's all I got for the day.

More of the same tomorrow.

I'm attempting to watch some movie with Carla Gugino and David Boreanez. It's a basketball one, The Mighty Macs or something I think. It's alright, I was hoping to feel more uplifted or inspired or something since it's a basketball movie based on a true story. Maybe I haven't gotten that far into it yet.

Though I'll be konked out in a few minutes anyway.

So looking forward to Dark Shadows. And am intrigued that Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman come out basically at the same time.

"Start Wearing Purple" Gogol Bordello
cause i told squirt i would post it. for some weird reason it got deleted from my ipod, will have to go through and re-add it.

i actually got to talked Warped 05 twice today.

I really need to upload those pictures. Or maybe I have already to Facebook. Though I doubt it. But maybe I have. Add that on my to-check-list, similar to a to-do-list but this is double checking things you've done before you forget about them entirely.

You should see them live, they're so fantastic jumping on drums and all that.

"My Favorite Mistake" Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton
interesting matchup, even more interesting haircut. not sure what's going on with that.
this and uncle kracker's "follow me" are the oldest songs i can remember being my favorites.

well, not like classic old songs, but growing up-wise, when i think back these are the first songs i said were my favorite when the concept of having a favorite song was thought out.

if that makes sense.

if not ignore it, i'm falling asleep as we sleep.

OUT!



Alright, off to bed. Have a good one.

"Hi, my name is Adam and I'm gonna sell you a car right now. I NEED you on my team!"

I kicked it old school today, jammed at the home branch with the Queen of Awesome and Joe Studley with special appearances by Sensei and John Boy.

Was cool, got to do the whole deal, bookdrop, holds list, opening, delivery, lunch break, covering for a lunch break, then help John Boy prep for a computer class and took off at 6.

Righteous man, I miss it there.

It's a totally different atmosphere.

As cheesy as that sounds, it is completely different.

This is a neighborhood library, small building, small patron base, slow pace. The work branch is the complete opposite. 4 floors, huge patron base, frantic pace, and there are other branches that are even bigger and more frantic.

Was great going back, had flashbacks.

So here are your reference fact or crap for the day.

-Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member still on the hood.

- In West Virginia you cannot fly a red flag in front of your house if you are disappointed in your sheriff.

- In Hong Kong a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.

- Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

- Bees have five eyes.

- Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.

- Plastic law flamingos outnumber real ones in the US.

- Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

- At the end of the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" an ultrasonic whistle audible only to dogs was recorded by McCartney for his dog.

- According to a study men prefer white bedrooms and women prefer blue ones.

- When movie directors don't want their names to be seen in the credits they use the pseudonym Allen Smithee instead. It's been used over 50 times.

- Apparently the boyfriend thinks unpacking groceries is sexy.

Not.

But I did get some good food at Target, plus some camp stuff woohoo! Then came home to watch The Voice, Juliet all the way! Though I'm thinking it'll be either Tony or Jermaine.

Sad to see Katrina and Jamar go, but they'll keep going. Now that they have fans. Lots of artists from the first season got record deals. I'll look forward to Jordis'. I'm attempting to get Rockstar INXS from Interlibrary Loan as they highlights were put out on DVD. And she was on it, got 5th, with dreads. But cut 'em off after all that.

So my cat is giving me a massage. It's amusing. He does this frequently, then he bites me. As kind of a hello, I'm still here. In charge. Just cause you think you're the boss doesn't make it true.

Okay, well the fact or crap is my humor for the day. I'll hit you with more tomorrow.

"Oh Darling" Juliet Simms
gotta show some support. dare you to find one person who isn't completely blown away by this performance. or Roxanne. love that Adam gets really into it. i love her voice, it's just so different and gravely and awesome.
Team Cee-Lo is actually pretty dangerous with her, though I'm not sure she can beat the fanbase supporting Tony Lucca or Jermaine Paul. Would be interesting if the operatic Chris Mann wins it.

As for now I'm for Team Juliet, even though Christina is my favorite. Adam and Blake come in at a close second.

I love you more, than I did the week before...

Overheard at the library:

"Does he sleep through it?"
"He sleeps like a moose."
"What?!"

Which led me to my reference fact/or/crap of the day.

Moose sleep standing up.

It's a myth apparently.

They sleep on their stomachs.

From 11:30-5:45.

Yes 11:30-5:45.

Fact/or/crap.

"It's casual-wear that's ruining society!"

Yes, I've changed topics.

That one was Nina Van Horn.

Nothing blows away the depression that is SVU better than some Just Shoot Me comedy.

Not that SVU is bad, I like it, I've gotten 11 seasons through Interlibrary Loan over the past year, but there's only so much of it you can watch. Especially since today's weather was so gloomy and depressing.

Carter and I are jamming, he took multiple naps on my lap tonight while I was sketching out my presentation plan. More on that tomorrow so I'll have all Saturday free, huzzah!

"Alcohol" Barenaked Ladies

love the melody on this one.

"American Woman" Lenny Kravitz

debating which version i like better of this song, though you can't go wrong with the classic.

Tomorrow is an all-day as well, but it's a Friday so afterward I'm gonna rock it.

But my cat needs food, I'm out of pop, and then there's the homework. So it won't be completely relaxing.

Have you ever had one of those weeks where you're so tired in the morning that you say to yourself you need to start going to bed earlier?

And clearly it's not happening as I'm still awake past midnight.