In the new old-fashioned way.

Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Nine

Baby It's Cold Outside - Lady Gaga and Joseph Gordon-Levitt


love him, she's still growing on me.

2011 was Tallulah Bankhead and Jack Carson - my favorite version - 2012 was She & Him

Silver Bells - She & Him


i know, it's shocking i haven't posted them yet this year but this is my favorite christmas album ever so i'm spacing them out so they'll last. seeing them live was fantastic. go here.

2011 was Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney, 2012 was Twisted Sister

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Glee Cast


i may not watch it anymore, but every year i get the christmas album cause it's fantastic.

2011 was Toby Keith, 2012 was Brenda Lee

I'll Be Home For Christmas - Gabe Bondoc


very cool acoustic version.

2011 was She & Him, 2012 was Kristin Chenoweth

2011 Day Nine - I'll be home for Christmas, you can count on me.
2012 Day Nine - And the game of golf was invented.

Want a plane that loops the loop.

It's official. My boyfriend is an old man.

That's right, he turned 26 tonight at midnight.

Means I'm next.

2 months and a day.

Ugh, man. A lot to accomplish before that point.

Signing up for the rec center being one of them.

Planning on following through on resolutions this year so I went to sign up and apparently I use too much sanitizer cause my prints wouldn't work.

Geez, I attempt to make an effort and this is what I get.

Guess it's just not meant to be.

Could use that as an excuse to continue to be lazy, but really playing iPad air games for 2 hours every night really isn't healthy.

That's all I got for today. I'm zonked. Worked all day. Date night with the boyfriend after.

We watched Elysium.


It was messed up man. Scale of Awesome says 6/10.

Now all I can think of when I see Jodie Foster is her 20 minute speech about privacy at the Oscars.

But it was Lifetime Achievement so really she could say anything she wanted.

"cause i have a microphone and you don't, so you will listen to every **** word I have to say!"

Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck Day Four


Deck The Halls - Mike Tompkins and friends


don we now our game apparel. see if you can name all the youtubers featured. or you could cheat and watch all the way to the end to read their names.

2012 was Pomplamoose, 2011 was Mannheim



Oh Come All Ye Faithful - Pomplamoose and friends


too cool, love these guys.

2012 was JS, 2011 was Twisted Sister



Chipmunk Song - Glee Cast


who the hell is that? am i really that behind?

2012 was Straight No Chaser, 2011 was the Chipmunks



2011 Day Four - Joyful and Triumphant
2012 Day Four - Do people actually ask Santa for hula hoops?

Done.

Yes, I'm posting this again. It's tradition. And probably the most-posted video on this blog.



Celebratory paper throw.

I can now officially do it.

Holy crap, I'm done with grad school.

Well, the homework portion at least.

Hence the celebratory paper throw.

All that's left are the grades - which is on their end - and then the graduation ceremony itself. Got my cap and gown hung up and all that.

And of course the party. I'm almost done sending out invitations. I still need to mail a few and stop by the home branch to drop off theirs. But other than that I'm good.

I just can't believe it's over.

Grad school is only mentioned in 256 out of 971 - wait, seriously, 971? - posts but it was a huge part of my life for like 3 years. Now I'm done with homework and stress about classes...feels good.

Today was good too. Extremely busy. Because of the holiday last week we were closed for two days and it all caught up with us today. Like 80 tubs in delivery, 2 full carts of holds, plus tons of stats. Made the day go by fairly quickly.

Plus Mr. BossMan Tom stopped by. It'll be weird not leaving tomorrow to go to the internship. While I'm glad to be done with that I'll definitely miss it.

And that's all I got for today. Came home, watched The Voice, The Blacklist, and then wrote up the paper.

The Blacklist was epic - fall finale, can't wait until January for new episodes. I wasn't as impressed with The Voice. Except for Jacquie, she was awesome.

Cry Baby - Jacquie Lee


alright, i'm out.

"You should be getting flowers, not giving them."

I decided against posting this week as most of them would have been me rambling about my apartment, cat, or staring at a computer screen for 10 hours. So here is your mega post.

It's official. Comps are done.



Celebratory paper throw.

I can now officially leave my apartment and not freak out about it.

Unlike how I felt all week.

Comps were not fun. And a lot harder than I expected them to be. Though I wasn't really sure what to expect.

I went into it thinking the lowest grade I've got on a project is a B and the lowest grade I've got for a class is an A-  (*cough*Library Goddess*cough*...threw off my 4.0) so I can handle this it'll be fine.

Questions were posted at 8, I woke up at 9 and went oh god I'm screwed.

The Cool Aunt and I had this baking analogy where we tied the difficulty level of the question to the difficulty level of a baked good - it ranged from cupcakes to flanby - and the plan was to start with the easy cupcake one and finish with the flanby one.

I emailed her and was like...they're all flanby.

Sketch is secretly laughing right now because she knows that I can't bake so the difficulty level for both of those desserts is actually the same. 

Ironically, I ended up doing it in reverse starting with flanby and ending with cupcake.

If you can call it a cupcake, it was still harder than any of my previous assignments.

There's a discussion board tied to each question where we can ask stuff. I'm pretty sure I asked about triple the amount of questions everyone else did because I was just so lost on the first 2 but then once they were explained I had an idea of what I was gonna write about and did it before I lost the motivation.

This was after meeting with my comrades over lunch. Well breakfast. But it was at lunch time.

Is that brunch? My brain has nothing left in it.

We joked about the questions giving one of us a heart attack. I believe the direct quote was "yeah, take one for the team. then they'll make them easier...would you like more butter for those pancakes?"

We were gonna meet later in the week for drinks but it didn't work out schedule-wise. Now the plan is to go out for drinks after we learn we've all passed.

If anything is worth a drink it was this week.

The longest took me 10 hours - that was 10 pages - another took me 7 and I lost count with the other two cause I spread them out over a couple of days while I made changes on my "final" drafts of the others.

I won't post the questions in case they want to re-use them at some point but one was on technology, another was on group development, another was on collaboration and then the monster 10 hour one was on continuing education.

The funny part about that one is that BossLady (to make sure they made sense) and Oldest Sister (to check for grammar and to make sure they made sense) looked them over for me and after I sent the first one BossLady tracked me down at work and said that I made more CE plans in a day than she had in the years she's been there so she will now delegate that all to me.

I went, um, no...but thanks?

The only breaks I gave myself were to do something else productive.

I've never been so caught up on laundry and my closet has never been this clean.

Amazing what you can accomplish when you're avoiding something else.

I kept second guessing myself and changing stuff so I finally just ended up posting them on Saturday a day early before I could talk myself out of it.

Now they're out of my hands.

Got the confirmation email saying they should be graded by Friday so now I wait.

In limbo.

I hate limbo.

If I pass all I have left are practicum and youth services which both end in December. If I fail even one I have to retake next semester.

No pressure.

But, being done Saturday meant I got to watch the Husker game...ugh...and then go out to the farm to help Mom.

Oh, did I mention that Mom decided we needed yet another experience with white walls and sterilized equipment so she fell out of a tractor and busted her knee?

I bought her flowers, that's where the title comes from, some random dude said it and walked away.

I spent the day cleaning and mowing. My cousin or second cousin or once removed or something like that is coming to help farm.

Kind of random and out of the blue as I haven't seen him in years, but welcome nonetheless.

After that I stopped by to see the boyfriend. We watched No Country for Old Men.



He had to explain a lot of it to me, but it was pretty good.

Same with Donnie Brasco which we watched yesterday.



I'm giving them both a 6/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

That was basically the only time I saw him all week. Except for the one night I took off, we got dinner and watched some TV. I think it was Office Space and something else, I can't remember this week was all a blur.

Oh and we saw Bad Grandpa also yesterday.



Scarred for life but he seemed to like it.

What is it with boys and Jackass humor?

Anyway, so now I'm done and it's back to work tomorrow.

Here's my music rec before I crash.

Smooth Criminal - Glee cast Santana and Sebastian


apparently i'm way behind cause i have no idea who the guy is.

out!

but it's a little too late, she's a little too gone, she's a little too right, i'm a little too wrong.

Holy crap.

I'm done!

I finished all my homework for the semester and submitted it.



Yay for flying homework papers! (as is tradition)

I'm still in a state of awe.

Granted that might be because it's super late and I should be sleeping.

So I'll hate myself in the morning but it'll be worth it CAUSE I'M DONE!

Today was pretty good.

Work flew by - literally flew by - lunch break at the apartment loading up my big fat cat for Mom to take to the farm.

Can't leave him by himself while I'm at camp and he loves the farm.

And grandma.

Though that may not last after she takes him for shots and to be shaved.

It's always an adventure trying to get him into the cat carrier cause he's bigger than the carrier.

Which is a challenge, but we've found if you back him in then it goes faster.

But then he bites.

He's not a fan of the carrier.

Or the car ride.

So, sorry about that Mom.


And work was interesting itself, learned how to calculate interest when I got it for a reference question, and found real estate and some legal cases for one of our regulars.

After work was dinner with the boyfriend's family to celebrate his sister-in-law's birthday.

A month later, but still a birthday celebration nonetheless.

Stopped by his train friend's house afterwards.

Oh yeah, train friend.

Like, they do train stuff together like go watch trains and go on motorcar rides on the tracks and buy train stuff and all that.

He's a nice guy. And he knows my dad and his friends so I can semi-follow conversations.

I did grow up in a house full of train memorabilia so that helps every once in a while.


Got home. Did homework for four hours. Rocked it.

Well, hoping I rocked it.

Either way it's done and nothing I can do about it now.

Relief.

Now I can focus on camp.

Which is actually more stressful than the homework.

But worth it in the end.

Though I just realized that I go out there in like 3 days and I'm totally unprepared.

Even though I have all the applications processed, t-shirts sorted, nametags printed, skits picked out, trailer ready, etc.

Still have to type up and print out all the skits.

And do the cabin folders.

Plus pack.

Haven't even made a list yet.

Thursday.

All on Thursday.

Cause tomorrow I'm working.

Wednesday I'll be at a different library for a seminar - which just happens to be located in the town where the boyfriend lives. Hmm...

But Thursday is a half day.

Half work. Half camp.

So I'll be able to handle it.

Or I'll fake being able to handle it.

Fake it 'til you make it, as Bosslady says.

Okay, tired of typing and staring at this screen. Homework kills everything.

Wipeout and sleep it is.

It's a Little Too Late - Mark Chesnutt


is that kathy griffin?

classic country. love 90's country, was the best. gonna have to buy it on itunes.

AND since it is the first song I heard after finishing for the summer that makes it my Summer Song of 2013.

Basically the rule is it's the first song I hear after completing all my homework for the year and then I can't skip it when it comes up on my iPod for the rest of the summer.

Go here for previous years Summer Songs: http://ckmylifeinclosedcaptions.blogspot.com/2012/06/fireworks-ted-summer-songs-and-binary.html

and a binary solo.

Remember how I'm a nerd?

As if there was ever any question.

out.

"I have come here to kick zombie butt and chew bubble gum... and I am all out of bubble gum!"

Oh, Wipeout how I love you.


Got to spend the day at the home branch with the new supervisor.

Lots of fun.

Though we were swamped cause we were closed yesterday.

Showed up and we had an entire bookdrop cart that maintenance had brought in the night before overflowing with stuff, plus whatever was currently in the bookdrop.

And no tubs to send them in delivery so it was just carts and carts of stuff.

Then our internet was down cause they were updating software so we only had one functional computer.

And then once it started working the other one went down along with the patron internet computers.

Patrons were not happy and neither were we.

But it's supposed to be much faster now.

Anyway, we were swamped, people everywhere and constant stuff to do so the day flew by pretty quickly.


After which I had to go save a fish.

Got the panic text from Squirt yesterday while lighting fireworks asking if I'd feed her fish and then close the door so the cat wouldn't eat said fish.

She was bummed when I closed the door.

Aw, poor Dumb as a Post.

She answers to that you know.

And Fluffy Bunny.

Cause she's fluffy.

Though not quite as fluffy as Carter.

Speaking of which, Carter needs to be shaved.

Perhaps grandma can find someone to do it while I'm at camp.

He is her favorite grandcat.

She may not always admit it, but I'm pretty sure she misses him.

He loves the farm.

Just not so much the farm cats.


Anyway, after saving the fish and feeding my cat came the homework.

He called it the "Final Exam" but it was actually three papers combined into one. Six pages and I'm done. Emailed it in at 10PM that's a whole 2 hours before the deadline.

I know you're all proud.

So I'm officially done with Library Systems!!!

Well, the class.

Next up Foundations.

But all that stuff is due end of July so I'm gonna take my time with it.

Going to enjoy my weekend off first.

Headed out of town to celebrate my brother-in-law's 40th birthday.

It's not so much a surprise party when he helps plan it.

But it's gonna be fun, dinner in the old market and then walking around downtown before heading back to the hotel.

Second Sister is excited cause they have a hot tub.

Though they own a hot tub so....


Anyway, I'm excited to be done with homework for the week and that I get to sleep in tomorrow.

And then upload even more camp stuff as that is coming up fast.

And I've gotten like 20 envelopes in the past week.

All huge so I'm guessing there's more than one application in each.

Which is good.

As long as they're counselors and teen helpers.

Cause I have like 2 teen helpers total at the moment.


Aaannd that's all I got.

I know, I'm boring, I'm sorry.

But I'm sure I'll have more entertaining stories to tell after the birthday shindig.



Song of the day:

As always, after I finish a class.



Because I want to throw my notes up like that but don't have the energy to clean them up.

So I'll watch Blaine do it instead.

Pretty sure this is the most posted song on this blog.

Except for maybe Shakin' Stevens or Sam Phillips.

Just means I've taken too many classes.


Alright, I'm out. Back to Wipeout.

Have a good weekend.

celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music

As is tradition every time I finish homework for a semester:

Cause I still wanna do that with my papers but I don't want to have to pick them up afterward.

So yes, I am DONE!

Well, with the homework aspect at least.

Still one more online collaborate to attend on Friday night but after that I'm done until June!

Tonight's was fun.

While I was the only one to present on Monday we had like 5 tonight leaving only 2 for Friday.

And afterward I had time to complete my entire homework assignment for Internet Reference that's not due until tomorrow night.

BUT tomorrow night I'll be out and celebrating with the boyfriend's family. We're going out to dinner for his dad's birthday.

I'm gonna be partying it up cause literally all I have left to do is login to the website and watch two people present.

Maybe ask them questions if I really feel like it.

For now I'm gonna eat my popsicles and crash.

Watching old episodes of Wipeout.

The American one this time and on TV, not my phone.

Not like every day at lunch.

Cause see, every day I watch that at lunch means it's another day that I don't finish Silver Linings Playbook.

Cause I don't want it to be over!!

Sketch makes fun of me cause I don't finish books I like cause then they're officially over.

And if I do finish them they get tabbed.

Like tags on each page with quotes on them that I like.

And not just one or two, more like 30.

But me not finishing the book is like my not watching the unaired Women's Murder Club pilot.

Cause I've seen the rest so that means I'd seen them all.

And since it got cancelled there won't be more.

Fortunately there are other stubborn fans out there like myself.

Today...hmmm...what can I say about today?

Got lied to by a volunteer, that was fun.

She's nice but there's a cultural gap and I'm having trouble finding things for her to do.

Gonna have to do some collaborating with other people throughout the building to find stuff.

Long story, but I was not a happy camper.

Other than that the day was good.

Off early for the class thing, after that I watched The Voice.

Did The Voice's voting system get hacked?

Is that what that announcement meant?

Or was the screwup on their end?

I'm guessing it got hacked.

But seriously? Just why?

Anyway, here's my lineup after tonight's eliminations.


Red = Adam
Green = Blake
Blue = Usher
Purple = Shakira

Judith Hill

Jess Kellner

Midas Whale

Caroline Glaser - lost in lives

Monique Abbadie

Sasha Allen

Michelle Chamuel

Sarah Simmons

Christian Porter

Jessica Childress

Jeff Lewis

Jacqui Sandell

Karina Iglesius - lost in lives

Holly Tucker

Garrett Gardner

Danielle Bradbery

Amber Carrington

Savannah Berry

Josiah Hawley

Audrey Karrasch

Team Adam:
Judith Hill
Sarah Simmons
Amber Carrington

Team Blake:
Holly Tucker
Danielle Bradbery
Swon Brothers

Team Shakira:
Sasha Allen
Garrett Gardner
Kris Thomas

Team Usher:
Michelle Chamuel
Josiah Hawley
VEDO

So I was spot on for both Blake and Usher's teams in my predictions yesterday. The only thing I missed was that Judith got saved by America instead of Sarah and that Adam in turn had to save Sarah and then instead of Kris going home it was Karina, but I did predict she'd save Garrett.

Sad to see Caroline go home. She was one of my favorites, along with Karina.

She's fiesty.

I'm really not happy that Usher saved Josiah over Cathia.

I fear this is another one of those Bromances like Adam and Tony Lucca during season two.

Not really deserving of how far they've got but they're friends with the boss.

Just a thought.

Okay you've got the music and the rambling so I'm out.

Staff meeting tomorrow morning.

but the tigers come at night.

I think I'm getting sick.

Well, I don't need to think, I've spent the past hour puking and burning up.

So I guess I am sick.

I felt off today, but I just figured that was stress cause of tax stuff and TAB stuff and other work stuff.

So I should be sleeping but I can't because I have a MASSIVE assignment due this weekend.

And I can't work on it Thursday cause that's date night with the boyfriend - I don't care what you have to say about my priorities I need some aspect of sanity and he gives me that - and Friday is Mom's birthday party with the family and then this weekend Sketch will be here in person so it is tonight and tomorrow for me to get it done.

I hate the census website with a passion.

And then there's all this math stuff and then her math doesn't match up so I can't use it as an example.

I literally want to throw my computer against the wall.

The frustration is just adding to the nausea.

I don't understand it and I don't understand what she wants and I'm going to fail and it's making me all emotional which is just making me throw up more.

So I should really text Superwoman telling her I can't make it tomorrow and then go to sleep

BUT I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO TOMORROW AT WORK.

Like we're out of receipt paper at like every station, one of the printers needs a new cartridge, NESU is out of a certain tax form - that I don't know where to get cause my Trainee is gone on vacation - I have the Old New Guy's flashdrive cause I forgot to put it on his desk - he left it at the computer and I put it in my pocket to take down to his desk but I was so flustered about the tax form thing that I totally spaced it. And then my program descriptions are due on the 21st.

We finally picked the dates but I don't have anything close to ready with those things, I passed them on to Girlscout for her opinion cause my descriptions always suck but that's as far as I've gotten.

I don't understand it. Everything was fine. I watched NCIS and Splash - ridiculous, by the way, but I'm going to keep watching anyway - then I pick up my laptop to start the assignment due Saturday and I start puking nonstop.

So I'm taking a break from the homework but I'm still burning up and nauseous.

The boyfriend told me to go to sleep but I CAN'T cause I need to get this done.

But I can't get it done because I don't understand the assignment.

And I can't ask the professor because I have this feeling that she hates me - just something about how she words her comments on my stuff it makes me feel inadequate - so I don't feel comfortable asking questions and then that makes me feel even more like a failure and that's making more more sick.

So I quit.

I'm going to bed.

And then I'm gonna fail the assignment.

But hey, life sucks and then you die.

Yay.

This is really not what I was expecting out of this post.

Today was fine, I mean aside from the stuff that sucked, which a lot of it did, but nothing to the extent of how crappy I feel at the moment.

I don't know what's going on with me, apparently I get all emotional when I'm sick so I should really stop typing and just crash.

I just need someone to sit down with me and go over the assignment. Normally with professors I feel comfortable asking questions but not with this class. I hate math and I hate that website so I'm just gonna fail.

Sounds good.

I'm out.

what a bright time, it's the right time

It's interesting how fast days are flying by.

I just want everything to stop, literally just stop and go slower.

Christmas is the best time of the year and it's almost over already!!

Last year didn't feel like Christmas at all cause there was no snow, this year it's mad snowing outside right now. If the temps stay low maybe some of it will still be around next week.

But probably not enough to go sledding.

We'll see.

Though we're rednecks so our version of sledding is hooking up a sled behind a four wheeler.

Or what you would call an ATV.

Then driving it all over the yard, through the fields, over the pond, over buried cars, etc.

Have some interesting memories from sledding. Remember one time Tweet was driving the 4 wheeler and Alex and I were in the sled, he was in the front, we hit a bump, he fell out - somehow over the front - and I ran him over with the sled. My bad. But not like I could do anything about it we were going that fast.

Another time my brother was driving and he used to have this big black lab that was very excited about cars and stuff so he totally took me out on the sled, didn't even see it coming.

Then I ran Megan into a mailbox.

That was legitimately my bad.

The thing about this one was that the rope was really long and you have to remember that when you turn corners. Gotta remember to turn wide or you'll end up running your third cousin straight into the mailbox.

But she survived so we're good.

Megan and I have been through a lot together - "those are gonna be some weirdass dreams" Camp J Highlights - but somehow our adventures are always highly entertaining.

So worked all day today and it flew by. Am shifting the books on CD cause we're out of space and weeding any more of them would be ridiculous. Anyway, BossLady and I are adding shelves so I got to stand in the broken glass while she climbed over stuff to get the nice looking ones from the backroom of the basement.

It's like a graveyard down there, I should have taken a picture. Piles taller than me full of shelves and edges.

"Like graveyard jenga down here."

Why yes, I do still say that in a Scottish accent. Go here or here or here or here or here but mostly here

Wow, have I really abstained from that saying that phrase for over a year?

"Result!"

I realized you have no idea what I'm talking about. You should all go to your local library and request a copy of Bonekickers. It's fantastic. British CSI meets Indiana Jones. It was so cheesy it was awesome. Though the critics didn't think so which is why it only lasted a few episodes.

After doing that for a few hours it was back to the desk, lunch, checking in holds, then more shifting and desk stuff. Tomorrow will most likely be more of the same.

Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Six

Slight changes to day six, last year I included Glee's mashup of Deck the Halls and Up on the Rooftop and as much as it doesn't suck I can't post it again as it would kill the whole, same songs different artists thing.

On to the music.

Sleigh Ride - Karmin


Last year's was one of my favorite bands - She and Him - but this year I went with a Nebraska girl. More specifically, college town girl. A quite famous one.

Nice to hear the other half of Karmin in this one - aka her fiance.

I like the new one but it's hard to beat Brokenhearted.

It's just too damn catchy.


Jingle Bell Rock - Chord Overstreet


Because who doesn't want to dance with cheerleaders dressed as reindeer to a choreographed song about dancing bells in the middle of a library?

I'm so far behind but Glee-Loving Boss - for the 2 seconds that I saw him when I was at the home branch - said I need to watch the Xmas episode. I don't even know who's in it anymore aside from Blaine cause of the Hopelessly Devoted to You video I ran across earlier. Go here: There's no where to hide since you pushed my love aside


You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - VersaEmerge (acoustic version)


The girl is pretty good but dude, that guy's got a voice.

Was not expecting that at all. Might have to look into them further.


For last year's day six go here


with arsenic sauce.

Legitimate pre-midnight post. Holy crap tag in use.

coffee, work, homework, and potential flying papers

Aaannd, just like every other end of semester, here you go.

Misery - Glee

Aaannd every time I wanna throw papers but then realize I have to then clean them up.

I'M DONE!!! with all my homework!!

For the semester at least. Now gotta order textbooks for January's classes.

Was a good day. Early morning coffee with the Library Goddess with special guest star THE COOL AUNT with her chai tea latte as always.

We put the finishing touches on our newsletter then they took off for work. I stayed a bit and finished things up. Now just gotta upload it and send her the link so she can pass it on to be added to the website. Huzzah!

After that was 9 hours of work, only 1 of them at the desk. And it was Youth Services. Staff meeting at 9, periodicals at 10, off desk doing aide timesheets with Slim Shady at 11, lunch at 12 - actually got to eat with Slim Shady and literally can't remember the last time that happened cause we never get scheduled for lunch together ever - meeting from 1:30-3:00, off desk 'til 4 working on volunteer stuff with my volunteer, circ work and holds at 4, then YS at 5.

Weirdness, but quite relaxing.

After work added posts to the discussion boards and submitted my reference interview paper. So back to the huzzah!

Huzzah!

Tomorrow is back to work as usual then I have Saturday off and class Sunday with a soup luncheon. More on that later.

I know, I'm boring. I'm sorry. Here. Have some useless information.

-If you blow torch Pepto Bismol you would get a hunk of metal.

-Your foot and your forearm are the same length.

-The only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible is a cat.

- The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

-You can put a price on fitness. It's $25.


OUT!

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

there's nowhere to hide since you pushed my love aside...

Am I the only one that needs a beverage nearby whenever I eat anything with peanut butter in it? For fear of choking?

Awesome night with the boyfriend.

We were talking about Vegas - because I talk about that a lot - and what to pack and all that and his plan is jeans and t-shirts.

Knew there was a reason I love him.

That and he doesn't care what I wear.

So I love him more.

This was after an interesting day at work.

I mean, it started out that way. A lot of changes being thrown at us, but I guess adjustment is necessary. As I  was told today you can either adapt, migrate, or die.

By a patron, not a staff member.

After the morning was lasagna for lunch, after lunch was stocking supplies, then dinner with the boyfriend, now the Voice. Well technically Burn Notice but I just finished the Voice and switched over.

Tonight's episode was great. Amanda, Bryan, Trevin, Melanie, Adriana and of course my favorite Cassadee are moving on!

So my top 10 looks a bit like this:

Cassadee Pope

Trevin Hunte

Nicole Nelson – knocked out by Loren

Aquile – knocked out by Sylvia

Avery Wilson – knocked out by Cody

Bryan Keith

Brandon Mahone – eliminated after first battle

Michelle Brooks-Thompson – knocked out by Amanda

Adriana Louise

Collin Mcloughlin – knocked out by  

Terisa Griffin – knocked out by Trevin

Suzanna Choffel – knocked out by Cassaddee

Nelly’s Echo – eliminated after first battle

Melanie Martinez

Gracia Harrison – knocked out by Liz

Celica Westbrook – knocked out by

Mycle Wastman – knocked out by Nicholas

Mackenzie Bourg – eliminated during playoffs

2Steel Girls – eliminated after first battle

Joe Kirkman – knocked out by Bryan

That's basically all for tonight. More tomorrow and then VEGAS! The countdown continues 1 more day until we leave!

Songs of the night:

So Glee did Grease.

And even though I don't watch it anymore because of the suckish storylines the music is still fantastic.

Hopelessly Devoted to You

may be ever better than the original.


Hand Jive

i was like, is that trouty mouth? yep, he's still in it. awesome.


......


but
now
there's nowhere to hide
since you pushed my love aside
i'm out of my head
hopelessly devoted to you
hopelessly devoted to you
hopelessly devoted to you

yep, had to play it again so i could scream the lyrics along with him. my neighbors love me.

oh baby, my sweet baby, you're the one.

Got to spend the day at the home branch with Glee-Loving Boss.

And yes, we did talk about Glee, but I haven't watched it since like 2 seasons ago so I'm a bit behind.

But it's okay cause my mom gives me updates every once in a while.

Like Quinn was in an accident.

And...

Okay, that's all I remember.

But half the good people graduated, but apparently they're still in it or something?

I don't know, I'm confused. Perhaps I'll watch a random episode on hulu and see if I can figure it out.

If not I'm sure there's an online summary somewhere.

It's one of those shows I just lost track of even though I was crazy obsessed at one point in my life.

Like Grey's.

And Bones.

and for a while The Closer.

But I caught up with the last one before the finale.

And Bones I'm still missing a few from last season but I have them taped.

So I'll watch them.

Or I'll buy it and watch them then.

There's just too many shows and I don't have time for them anymore.

I guess that happens when you get a life.

I do still watch NCIS, Castle and the Voice.

But the rest is DVR'd.

And half the time those are DVR'd, but I actually watch them, not let them sit for days and days.

I don't know where I'm going with this.

It's 2AM.

Oh yeah, I don't have to go in until 4 tomorrow, a-woohoo!

And I think after I'm taking Oldest Sister out for her birthday cause I have yet to do that.

I should probably wake up at a semi-decent hour so I can get started on some homework, but I guess that depends on when my internal clock wakes me up.

Cause sometimes I'll sleep 'til way late and get up, eat something fast and go to work.

But then there's times when I'm up at like 9 and can't go back to sleep.

Which is suck-ish, cause I rather enjoy sleeping in.

Oh well, I'll post some homework and then be done with it.

The only real assignments this week are discussion board stuff and a health resource analysis thing for the Library Goddess. We have to find a authentic website, print resource and community resource that someone can use for health information.

But the fun part is that we get to pick the patron and like give them qualities like mine will be a 24-year-old chick getting her Master's but she's suddenly diagnosed with like restless leg syndrome or something that sounds ridiculous but I'm sure is a serious problem.

It's just the commercials that are ridiculous.

Perhaps it's the writer in me, or just cause I'm a nerd, but I rather like assignments like these.

So that's the plan for tomorrow.

Not much to say about today other than the usual - it was dead cause it's a Sunday but then it picked up while he was at lunch and I was by myself - which is the norm as anyone who works/has worked there can tell you.

I have two volunteers that are supposed to start at the work branch tomorrow but I won't be there.

I trained them, but we'll see how much they remember.

I left detailed instructions, took up the whole board, and sent out an email to the staff to watch out for them. I'm sure they'll be fine.

Alright, in order to enjoy the sleeping in process I first have to fall asleep so I'm off. I'm sure I'll have plenty to talk about tomorrow. That usually happens when I do something with my family, we're full of characters.



Back in Time - Pitbull
what is it with him and Miami?

seriously?

still have yet to see this movie, gonna have to buy it when it comes out, already have the first two.

A Nightmare on Elm Street aka Sketch Uses the Code

There are no words for today.

I'll throw some out anyway.

Met up with the Library Goddess for coffee at 7AM.

Actually I got there at like 6:55 and the doors were still locked so I leaned against the building for a while.

Then, (after they opened) thinking I could get away with it, I went immediately to the counter to get my coffee, I put in the order, I reached for my wallet and suddenly "Hey, put that away!"

The woman won't let me pay for coffee. So close yet so far, I thought I could beat her to it.

Instead I get a "hold this!" as she holds out a bag for me to grab. "what is it?" "your ipad." "my what?"

So apparently waking up to meet her before I'm completely conscious is worth it. I get coffee and an ipad.

And a list of stuff to do with said-ipad, but still, it's an ipad.

That's mine until May cause that's when the assistantship ends.

We met up super early this morning since I had to be at work by 8:30 but then our meeting really only took like half an hour so I ended up going to work at like 7:35 - pretty sure I freaked out Boss's Boss's Boss. I was all set up in youth services with the ipad, my laptop and then all my contact stuff I was updating when she walked in and paused when she saw me. We talked grad school for a while then she left. And was followed by multiple members of administration - I didn't realize they got there so early. No wonder they're all gone by 5.

Anyway, so I had to get there at 8:30 along with the BossLady and Slim Shady because we had a group of college kids who were there to volunteer. We basically cleaned the library top to bottom. Started with all the computers on the first and second floors, cleaned all the tables and chairs, dusted shelves, cleaned the books on CD area which is always gross, organized youth services, even washed each individual chair upstairs on the fourth floor. And there are like at least a hundred. They had them all sat out in a row and worked together to wash, dry, and stack. It was amusing but effective.

They were actually really great kids, I was impressed and super grateful for their help without any complaints. That part was my favorite, we got them started and that was their focus. And they asked to come back again next year so apparently I didn't scare them off completely.

So, after cleaning with them I attempted to finish all that TAB stuff I was attempting to do yesterday and yet again was interrupted by all sorts of flukes. Running out of printer paper with no backup in sight - because I've had no time to do supplies at all - and then my personal favorite was when a guy came to place an ILL request, from our side it said he was disavowed though he didn't have any fines and then on our ILL staff side in the basement it said his account was fine.

No idea what was going on, something to do with a second card but he said he'd never had another card then remember he had one once that was all worn out but by this time the Interlibrary Loan Goddess was already on the case and get it fixed. Felt bad for the dude cause I had no idea what was going on. But he seemed pretty cool and very patient, so again, grateful.

So, busy morning, flukish afternoon which led to an even more busy day cause those both happened at the same time and there were literally like 10 people in line and it was just the three of us. Awkward.

Oh well, we made it unscathed.

After work the boyfriend came up and we went to see "Possession" it intrigues me that Kyra Sedgwick would rather have her family torn apart by a demon than take down bad guys with LAPD's finest.


Just saying.

Scale of Awesome puts it at around 5/10. It was interesting....kinda cheesy, though the majority of it did scare the hell out of me so I was tempted to make the boyfriend check my apartment, though I don't think you can really see demons so it wouldn't do any good. Besides he had to head out cause he had to work tonight at 11.

And asking would just make me sound weak and pathetic.

Though I'm pretty sure he knew that already since I was like grabbing his arm every other minute during the loud and scary scenes.

So, big huge extravaganza of a day, hoping things will be much more boring tomorrow since I have to redo all my TAB stuff, plus stock supplies, plus cleanup all the cleaning supplies from today, plus finish up the assignments from the Library Goddess and then the last question left on my homework quiz.

Boring.

Yay.

Root for boring, please.

Moving on.

Yesterday you got Sketch Meets the Parents, today you get the sequel. Well, technically it's more like 5th in the series, but you catch my drift.

First was this: Sketch Gets Some Flowers
Next was this: Sketch and Edit Buy Some Plants
Yesterdays was this: Sketch Meets the Parents
Code reference comes from here: Sketch and Edit Cook a Turkey

there are others that you should read in a certain order but none of those are included today so I'll shutup.

A Nightmare on Elm Street aka Sketch Uses the Code

*Edit’s phone beeps*

Text message from Sketch: “as;dflkjasfdlparlay”

*Edit dials*

*Sketch’s phone rings at dinner table, Mother glares*

Edit – “Curses, King Henry has cut off my head!”

S – “I have to take this, excuse me.” *goes outside while Edit rambles*

E – “You need to come home because I am decapitated. And even though I can still talk it is, in fact, an emergency and I need you to come and drive me to the hospital. Now. You need to come now, there’s blood all over the couch and I’m hungry and I can’t eat without a head because I can’t see the food to eat it and I don’t have a mouth to put it in and then there will be no food because I have no head so then I will die, like actually die and…”

S – “We’re clear, I’m outside. Are you watching The Tudors again?”

E – “Yep. Bad?”

S – “You know Hitler?”

E – “Not on a first name basis, but yes, I’m familiar with him.”

S – “Imagine him with long brown hair staring at you while you’re trying to eat a salad.”

E – “Is this with or without the mustache?”

S – “You need to come get me.”

E – “You don’t think they’re going to see through that?”

S – “I know. I hate you.”

E – “You like this guy right?”

S – “I’m eating dinner with his mother, I think that’s a definite sign.”

E – “Well, it’s not like you had much choice in the matter, but you seem to like the guy and you glow when you come home and you’re all happy giddy Sketch all the time. He seems worth all this and you don’t want to throw that away because you can’t stand to be in the same room with his mother for more than an hour, do you?”

S – “No.”

E – “So just finish the salad-”

S – “But she’s staring at me!”

E – “Then stare back!”

S – “What if her jaw unhinges and she bites off my head?”

E – “Well, then we’re screwed cause I’m already decapitated.”

S – “Who will drive us to the hospital?”

E – “Plantman?”

S – “Maybe.”

E – “Oh, is he not on our side anymore?”

S – “Undetermined. But he can’t think it’s going well, right? I mean, when your mother grills your dates about their personal lives and finds a way to make every answer sound like they’re a hillbilly with no hope or future do you think it’s going well?”

E – “Don’t know, haven’t really had a relationship that’s lasted longer than a mento so there’s been no need for introductions.”

S – “That’s cause you’re a commitment-phobe.”

E – “Look who’s talking.”

S – “Hey, I’m here aren’t I?”

E – “Yes, but you don’t want to be. Just breathe, go back inside, finish the salad and say it’s a school night so you need to get back to work on lesson plans. Which it is, and you do. I’ll see you when you get home.”

S – “If I don’t jump out on the interstate first.”

E – “Don’t jump out on the interstate – drive a motorcycle and get someone to door you, it’s a much better way to go.”

S – “Alright. I’m going back in. Thanks.”

E – “Anytime. By the way, was that a ‘parlay’ at the end of that text?”

S – “I thought it was fitting.”

E – “I think we found our new codeword.”

The rest are here: Sketch and Edit Collection

Songs of the day: 

Telephone - Glee

ran into this one at lunch

She's So Cold - Rolling Stones

i'm wondering how much drug usage was involved in the production of this video.

you better change it back or we will both be sorry

VACATION!!

I'm free!!

For two whole days!

The library is closed for Memorial Day so I'm heading out to stay with the parentals for a couple days.

I see reruns of HeeHaw and Swamp People in my future.

Oh well, it could be worse.

At least this way I can kill two birds with one stone - watch HeeHaw and come up with camp skit lyrics at the same time.

Since the parents wanted a repeat of last year when I made the 7th and 8th graders since Where Oh Where, but I gotta give them new verses.

Though Dad already has a bunch written out for me.

So, now I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow is church and some family stuff, after that is more relaxation and I'm guessing a whole lineup of DVR'd stuff I'm supposed to watch while I'm here, so here's your music rec and then I'm out for the night.

And consider yourselves on vacation from Word of the Day.

I'll pick it up Tuesday.

Or Monday night for Tuesday.


"Don't You Want Me Baby" Glee


so if you haven't watched him in the harry potter musical online you're missing out online. youtube it people. it's fantastic. and draco is played by a girl.


that's all i got.

What exactly do Boogie Shoes look like?

Falling asleep at the keyboard here so I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet.

All day at work, spent the majority of it stuffing bags for summer reading, and I'm still not done, but maybe Squirt can finish that tomorrow.

Summer Reading is getting exhausted and it has barely started. In fact, for the public it doesn't start until the 25th. Which is interesting since myself and Mentor aren't on the schedule that day. And we're kind of sort of in charge of parts of it. But that mostly takes place on the first.

After work was Bubby's baseball game, they won by about 23 points, they're really good, been playing together forever. I think that was the other team's weakness, didn't play very well together. Or maybe it was cause it was the first season.

Bubby hit a triple it was fantastic, we all screamed.

And I brought my own chair and everything, courtesy of the school's silent auction, woohoo!

I miss playing softball with my old teammates, that was fun stuff. The only sport I ever semi-excelled. But now we've still got church league so that makes it all better. This year is gonna go in the record books, we're gonna win them all. Or at least have fun in the process of doing it. We play better when we're scrappy anyway.

That's all I got at the moment, I'm falling asleep and anything other than that would be gibberish.

Which I'm making my word of the day for tomorrow.

Gibberish. I'll speak in it and use the word in a sentence.

Music Rec:
"Boogie Shoes" Glee Cast

was that jesse st. james? wow, i'm really behind. but season's over so i'll catch up when it's out on dvd.
i have no idea who that chick was, but she's fantastic. great dance moves as well.


sad small post but i'll make up for it tomorrow.

PS - Sent out application forms on Monday, already three questions as of tonight. Probably get some back as early as Thursday.

When all your promises are gone, I'm the only one...

I never realized how much easier my life would be if I drank Diet Coke instead of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Hear me out, so the Target I go to doesn't carry a 24 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper, but they do of Diet Coke.

So, if I wanted 24, which would last me a heck of a lot longer than 12, I'd need to get 2 packs of the 12.

Which would be fine.

Except I then have to carry them up multiple flights of stairs.

Along with all the other crap I just bought.

So two of those equals both hands full meaning I take two trips, whilst if I drank Diet Coke I could carry that in only one hand and everything else in other.

It's the little things in life man.

Speaking of little things, I had some great ones today.

Little thing #1: Sleeping in. Until 1PM as I didn't have to go in until 4. It was fantastic.

Little thing #2: Friday Night Lights season one on DVD. I keep hoping that it will start to suck and I can stop watching it. Because I don't have time to get hooked on yet another series I will have to see all the way through. I've got a pile of series' I need to get through aka Necessary Roughness, Fairly Legal, Suits, Chuck, Burn Notice, White Collar, Heroes, CSI, Covert Affairs, SVU... I figured once it sucks I can give up and move on to another, but it just keeps getting better so that's screwing over my plan.

Little thing #3: Frozen lemonade with strawberries from the place across the street. Normally I'm not really a fan of lemonade cause it's too bitter, but this was fantastic and a great kick in the butt to keep me awake for the rest of the day.

Little thing #4: Great coworkers. It's not every day you can go up to a supervisor and say, "wow you really are a clown" and they don't get offended. Cause she is a clown. Part-time anyway. And it's always nice to have someone back your play when a patron attempts to break the rules just because they think they can get away with it.

Little thing #5: Night service. The church here has this brilliant thing called Monday night service since some people work on Sundays. And as cheesy as it sounds I feel like I get a lot more out of this than regular Sunday service because it's more like one-on-one as there is rarely more than 10 people there plus he's in the crowd not behind the pulpit.

Little thing #6: One stop shopping. Can I just say how much I love Target? Cause you've got everything you need all in one place. So I got my fruit, popcorn, carpet cleaner, Burn Notice season 4, dress shirt, dress shoes, pop, plus some chocolate all in one trip. Then it was just about carrying it up the stairs to the apartment.

Little thing #7: A cat that loves me. Sure he bites every once in a while, but then he falls asleep on my lap or on my stomach at night and I forgive him.

There are more little things, but I'll stop there. Besides, tomorrow is another day and I'm sure I'll come up with plenty to add then.

Word Of The Day:

So I found this great book - at the library of course - called "Weird and Wonderful Words" by Erin McKean and it's basically a dictionary of the obscure. While being highly amusing it is also highly educational so I'm going to start doing a Word of the Day because I'm an English major and a writer and a library service associate and a skits and worship leader so words are kind of my thing.

Here's the premiere: "Aquamanile: a bowl or jug made in the form of an animal or bird."

Well that's an interesting definition. Are they saying that birds aren't animals? Guess I'll find out tomorrow as I try to include it in a conversation.

"I'm The Only One" Melissa Etheridge

there is no smoke and mirrors with this woman, just her and her guitar. and she can pull it off. that's what makes her a great artist.


"Let Me Love You" Glee Cast

okay I must be way behind cause I don't recognize like half those kids. But I haven't watched a single episode this season as the storylines have turned to crap. Will have to catch up on this one when it comes out on DVD.


that's all she wrote.

i says "let them truckers roll, 10-4."

Okay, words to describe today...there are a few.

Tiring: slept in, gonna go to church tomorrow night as I did not sleep well last night at all. stupid cat.

Relaxing: work on Sundays is mostly slow, think it's the lowest circulation of the week so it's mostly monitoring the computer lab and checking out at the front desk.

Crazy: impromptu mother's day dinner at oldest sister's house means family/small children galore. but it was fun as usual. and i got steak. i gave mom her present last week - a margarita set complete with four glasses, mix and salt. the rest of them got her lighting for her house as we've had the same lighting since they bought the place. or maybe a few years after.

Amusing: "it's mother's day and they give us Avatar?!" yeah. not a great movie to be playing on mother's day FX. and really, not a great movie to be playing any other day of the year. i'm sorry james cameron, i know that you changed the face of cinema or whatever but i really was not so impressed with that movie.

Contemplative: we also watched some youtube clips. squirt agrees about my camp j theory. i'm thinking of making my teen helpers do the perfect cheer. thoughts?

Dominating: bubby challenged me to some SSX Tricky on the PS3. i told him he was going down and he didn't believe me. i mean, i only beat the boy by a couple hundred thousand points each time. no big deal really. but i let him win the last one, kept biting the dust on purpose. well, snow. cause you gotta keep hope alive. otherwise he won't play me anymore.

But that's the first game I owned for PS2, got it Christmas of like...oh god, I'm thinking like 2002? 2003 Maybe? Whenever it first came out. Cause I got a PS2 for Christmas and a racing game to go with it. They rocked.

But then we all got DDR/Rockband Fever so I haven't played SSX in a while.

Still dominated.

Now it's back to Relaxing. Get to sleep in as I don't have to go in until 4. Basically gotta make up the 2 hours that we don't get on Sundays cause it's 12-6 instead of 10-6. And you gotta have five 8 hour days for 40.

But I like it this way, get to sleep in, run some errands, go in for two hours, go to church then come home and crash just to work 8 hours the next day.

I like my job so I have no complaints.

Songs of the day:

Okay, so here were the exact versions of the 2 songs stuck in my head all day.

Folsom Prison Blues - Jamie Lono

"cause i eat sandwiches..."


Santa Clause is Coming To Town
not kidding.

on repeat.

in my head.

all day.

drove me nuts.

make it stop.

gotta find something else to make it go away.

oh my god, you gotta watch this. the story of Hanukkah as told through song.

i think my favorite is moves like jagger.

freakin' youtube, it's like yesterday with the train of thoughts. let me find an actual music rec...

Convoy - CW McCall

cause it's a family holiday, gotta throw in one of these. family classic. lip-sync central. i just love that he's so serious through this whole thing.

Alright, I'm off to read and/or watch some Friday Night Lights. the series is pretty good so far but I'm only a couple discs into the first season, we'll see if it entices me enough to put a hold on the second season.

bang she shot you, karma tastes so...

Joe Studley calling in sick means me at the home branch all day, jamming out with my big brother coworker.

He's a cool guy so the day flew by fairly quickly.

Was amusing to go back to old habits, though he got the bookdrop I still went straight to routine with the holds list/expired/cancelled/counting money/checking in delivery/etc.

Hit up Arby's for lunch, that rocked.

And basically just jammed around all day.

Though for some reason I'm exhausted, which makes no sense cause while the work branch is constantly busy, the home branch is more relaxed. So it doesn't make sense.

Maybe it's a state of mind thing. Zenned out.

I'm tired.

And waking up early tomorrow morning so will probably konk out within the next few minutes.

Clips of the night were basically from - you know how you can go on youtube to find one video and you end up finding like eight you weren't planning to find?

It's like a train of thought thing like, "hey, i'm gonna look for culps seminar videos."


"it's really inspiring that all of you decided to attend this mandatory drug awareness assembly..."

"i love will ferrell and ana gasteyer, let's do a search for the perfect cheer." "oh my god, why has no one uploaded videos of the perfect cheer?" "i bet i can find some amateurs."





"oh my god, if you could hear them speak they are dead on!" "those were some killer moves. let's look for some videos on breakdancing."





"oh my god that's ridiculously cool. let's find something else ridiculously cool." "who's ridiculously cool and her music is stuck in my head? kelly clarkson of course."




"well that was....interesting." "what's the name of that song from her new CD?" "oh, that's right." "wow, his cover is really cool, let's post that version."

"I Forgive You" Kelly Clarkson cover by Ben Mallare


"very impressive. almost better than the original." "who else has a killer voice?" "oh yeah..."

"Bang Bang Bang" Christina Perri


"oh my god, she's fantastic live. i wanna go." "you know who else is great live?"



"speaking of having a new hairstyle and outfit practically every time she walks through a door..."



"though when i hear gaga i think of this"



"oh my god, i love sue sylvester. she needs a 'best of' video." "bet i could find one."



"aww, she's so cool. i want one. a sue sylvester that is. guess i should attempt to be more badass in the future." "speaking of badasses..."

there were more, but i'm cutting myself and you off.

cause we need a break.

WE WERE ON A BREAK!!



okay now i'm done.

gotta sleep.

like now.

early morning + long day tomorrow.

OUT!

That'll be the day.

Does anyone watch Glee anymore?

I was trolling iTunes to look at The Voice singles that were released and where they were on the top charts and ran into a bunch of new Glee stuff.

Surprisingly not so bad. Loving “How Will I Know” yes they covered Whitney Houston. This time just the girls + Kurt acapella. Awesome.

So the music is still great, it’s just the storylines that went to crap.

But maybe it sucks less by now. I haven’t watched a single episode this season. Which is shocking to some as I used to be crazy obsessive about this show and its music.

But then the storylines got too over the top and I dropped it.

Which kind of killed my conversations with my Glee-Loving Boss as it was all we talked about the morning after the new episodes premiered.

The question now is, are people gonna stick around next season when they lose half the cast?

Graduation man, bites for your audience ratings.

The show pretty much revolves around Finn and Rachel, lose them and what’s your replacement exactly?

Curiouser and curiouser.

So, tomorrow off.

Don’t even remember when I had a day off that was in the middle of the week.

Probably back when I was an aide.

Which was like November.

But it was rare I took a day off at all, if I wasn’t at both places I was at least at one, which wasn’t a problem as at the time I really didn’t have a life.

Not that I have a giant one now, but there is a semblance of one at least.

Cause there’s a boy, and there’s family, and there’s camp, and there’s school, and then there’s everything else.

Might actually use some vacation time this year aside from the week for camp. Siblings are thinking of making some trips.

Cause yeah, we're the crazy kind of siblings that actually like spending time together.

Which apparently is rare.

We’re thinking Vegas. That’d be fun. But before that is camping, so yes, camping twice this summer. One time relaxation-filled, one completely opposite.

But that’s what happens when you’re in charge of 100 kids and the adults roaming around with them.

Speaking of, should put together an application form so I’ll have a mock-up for the meeting next week.

And start mapping out skits. Or at least take inventory of what I’ve got, I’ll write the new stuff once I have some idea of final numbers.

Though they’re not really final until the actual day, we’re constantly getting more and more applications until the day of.

Or they just show up.

Which is fine.

Sort of.

Not really.

But we’ll take them anyway.

We don’t want to be the camp that turns away kids.

And they loved the tents last year so if all else fails we’ll expand that way.

I should really finish that song book I keep intending to send out.

I’ve got everything scanned I just need to format it.

Tomorrow.

Oh tomorrow.

Such grand plans.

Sleeping in, as I don’t have to be officially up until 7.

PM.

Dinner with the sisters, woohoo!

Thinking it’s a movie day, I can always have one of those on in the background while I work on the songbook.

I’m thinking J. Edgar. I have that one checked out, pretty sure it’s due like tomorrow. Woops.

I’m there everyday and I still have fines, get over it.

Maybe I’ll watch the Week with Marilyn movie, that one got rave reviews from even my Big Brother coworker, so props to that.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I guess I could love you tomorrow.

Sure, why not.

Speaking of loving, so yeah, the boyfriend must really love me.

Sacrificing going to the races to go to the roller derby with his girlfriend.

I know, must be so difficult for him to settle for watching women in fishnets battling it out whilst he watches on drinking beer.

But the races are big to him, and I’m grateful he cares enough to put up with my crazy instead of watching cars drive around in circles.

Especially if we meet up with my derby buddies, then he’s really gonna have to put up with my crazy.

Nah, we’re not that bad. Just have a good time. Cheer loud and all that. Drink some Pepsi. Yep. Pepsi. It’s totally Pepsi. At least that’s what we said it was when the pictures hit Facebook.  

Moving on, I love derby.

Totally stoked.

Gonna crash and sleep in.

Don’t call me before noon! Cause I won’t answer. Sorry.

“How Will I Know” Glee Cast

I guess his sacrificing the big race to go to the derby with me is a big hint.

“That’ll Be the Day” Buddy Holly

Day Off = Homework + Immortals + War Horse + Necessary Roughness

So this is what a day off feels like.
Huh.

Though it wasn't much of a day off.

Since I put off my homework, no surprise there.

But I did at least start it last night.

Then looked at the clock and said, past midnight, eh, I'll do it tomorrow.

So I watched Just Shoot Me instead.

Then slept in, fantastic by the way, and woke up and finished it all.

EVERYTHING!

Done for the freakin' semester.

Well, aside from class tomorrow. But the homework's done, now I just need to present it.

Then I'll be done.

Til June!

Woohoo!

Celebration mode.

So I watched some fun and exciting stuff.

Cause I have lots of fun and exciting stuff checked out.

Such as:

The Immortals.

I could take it or leave it.

I mean, it was good, loved the mythology aspect of it cause I'm an ancients nut like that, but the storyline was a little eh.

The special effects however, the staging, and the colors used during the battles oh my god fantastic. Like I literally rewound and played a bunch of stuff over. There's this one huge battle scene between the Titans and the Gods where the Titans are all in gray, the building is all in like tan and the Gods are in pure gold and those are the only colors. Well, aside from the bloodshed. Seriously cool.

Anyway, Scale of Awesome says 6/10 because of the storyline. There were a lot of times where I was like, what?

And if you didn't know who the characters already were you were totally clueless, like they never introduced who half the gods were, they just had different head-dresses and Poseidon had a trident, and then there was this seer who was supposed to stay a virgin but since she was the love interest that didn't stay too long, whatever. It was alright, but not something I want to watch again.

However, next up on my list was War Horse.

Oh my god I totally cried.

Turned into a total girl.

It was fantastic. I mean, not the crying stuff, but the movie as a whole.

Scale of Awesome says 8/10. But so sad that I don't want to watch it again.

Yeah, one of those.

Spoiler Alert, if you don't want to know then don't read it.

It was not the storyline that I was expecting. I expected it to be all about the boy and his horse, but then the horse goes off to war without the boy, and then the horse gets other owners, and I mean the title makes sense now, not that it didn't before, but it just wasn't what I was expecting.

In a good way.

Cause I like that they brought it other owners, gave the story more depth.

8/10 definitely.

But so sad that I probably will not watch it again.

Had to turn on some comedy, I got Necessary Roughness from Target on sale, fantastic.

"Terrence King! I dragged my so-called bony ass out of bed and left my kids home with a tattooed man named Xeno who is probably scaring the crap out of them right now!"

Though totally weirding me out cause it has Max Medina. Maaax Medina. Which would be fine, except in this show he's supposed to be some sort of mysterious badass security dude, but since I see him as a high school teacher it doesn't fit.

Typecast I know. I was in high school, now I do it when I watch things.

But I can't help it the red head from RED and the Go Meat commericals will forever be Natalie the obnoxious whitelighter, Jon Favreau will always be crazy Danny the linebacker, Idina Menzel is still Maureen Johnson, Jane Lynch will forevermore be Sue Sylvester and Max Medina will always be Max Medina no matter how much of a badass Navy Seal he's supposed to be portraying.

Aside from that the show is pretty good. She's a shrink who's hired by a pro football team to un-crazy their wide receiver. He can't catch anything so she hypnotherapies him.

They like her so much they keep her around, I'm on episode three at the moment, in this one the team's owner also owns a racecar driver who has panic attacks.

So far I'm saying 7/10, worth persuing, and if it takes a turn for the worse it gets donated to the library.

"Misery" The Warblers
this video seems to pop-up whenever i'm done with a major assignment, not because i'm in misery but because i envy his throwing of papers in the intro. jealous. cause i'd do it, but then i'd have to clean it up.

Now I'm hungry. Post, Eat, Sleep.

Last class tomorrow!

PS - I hate the new blogger. Behind-the-scenes layout is freakin' me out.