He's a bird dog.

So I broke down and got Twitter.

Now I feel like even more of a stalker.

But it's amusing to read what my favorite celebrities are rambling about.

Watched Splash in the background when I was setting it up.

Just when I was starting to like Brandi Chastain. It would have been cool if she won since she started as an alternate.

No, honestly Nicole Eggert deserves to win the show, but I've been rooting for Drake and Rory since the beginning so I feel I gotta stick with them.

Work today was interesting.

More Aide Training.

Shelving Adult Non-Fiction and Youth Services now.

She's great, so far perfect minus a book on CD issue yesterday.

I don't know how but we are completely caught up on shelving.

We have some awesome aides and volunteers.

One of my volunteers is 93 years old. Comes in almost every day.

Skipped the Volunteer Recognition Banquet cause it was her day to volunteer.

Gets up on step stools to reach the high shelf, she's fantastic.

Aside the aide training there were a lot of tiny children running all over the place. Multiple grade school tours going through.

Originally I was asked if I wanted to help lead them but tiny children in giant masses freak me out.

I know, it's great that I work in Youth Services, huh?

Camp I can handle cause it's controlled groups in organized sessions and they're all over 3rd grade.

Speaking of camp, getting stoked.

Gonna have to start putting together some skits while I have the time.

But first I should really finish all my homework.

Final project presentation for Diversity is next week, along with my final assignment for Internet Reference.

She's finally letting us use Google.

I know the point of the class is to get us to use a variety of resources, but I can find things so much faster on Google than any of those other sites!!

Drove me nuts cause assignments took 3 times as long. But that's what you do when you work reference, Google, because the people on the phone don't want to wait for you to search a variety of search sites they want a phone number, address, answer to some obscure trivia question, etc. and they want it right away.

Anyway, I'm excited to be able to use Google.

As excited as one can be when they're talking about homework.

But I will soon be done with it eternally so I guess it's okay.

Next week, then I'm free 'til June. After June everything will be about Camp and Summer Reading and then classes pick up again in August and then I'll be done in December!!

I have no idea where this post was headed so I'm going to steer it toward something I do know about and that's The Voice.

I know, you're all shocked, but I didn't post about it last night cause I hadn't watched it yet so you're getting it tonight.

Highlights episode was on tonight to prep for next week's live shows. I'm so excited!!

Anyway, Monday Adam and Shakira's teams were knocked down to four a piece, last night it was Blake and Usher's turn.

Team Blake

"someone nice?"

Team Usher

"well that's inappropriate."
"Beaches...?" I love Michelle, that's fantastic.

Here's how my top 20 lines up after last night's knockout rounds.

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

Judith Hill - Adam, defeated Karina in battles and Orlando in knockout round

Jess Kellner - Usher, defeated Taylor, lost to Josiah in knockouts

Midas Whale - Adam, defeated Patrick, beat by Amber in knockout round

Caroline Glaser - Blake, lost to Taylor stolen by Adam, defeated Amy in knockout round

Monique Abbadie - Shakira, defeated Luke, lost to Karina in knockout round

Sasha Allen - lost battle, stolen by Shakira, defeated Shawna in knockout round

Michelle Chamuel - Usher, defeated Chelsea in battles and Audrey in knockouts

Sarah Simmons - Adam, defeated Duncan in battles and Warren in knockout round

Christian Porter - Blake, eliminated during battles

Jessica Childress - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jeff Lewis - Usher, eliminated during battles

Jacqui Sandell - Blake, eliminated during battles

Karina Iglesius - lost to Judith stolen by Shakira, defeated Monique in knockout round 

Holly Tucker - Blake, defeated Michelle in battles and Luke in knockouts

Garrett Gardner - Shakira, defeated J'Sun in battles and Tawnya in knockout round

Danielle Bradbery - Blake, defeated Caroline in battles and Taylor in knockouts

Amber Carrington - Adam, defeated Sasha in battles and Midas Whale in knockout round

Savannah Berry - Blake, defeated Jacqui in battles, lost to Justin in knockouts

Josiah Hawley - Usher, defeated Jeff in battles and Jess in knockouts

Audrey Karrasch - Usher, defeated Jamila in battles, lost to Michelle in knockouts

I'm ticked that Jess is out. She was way better than Josiah.

But I'm really starting to love Danielle Bradbery, she's good.

Anyway, here are the the team lineups for the live rounds:

Team Adam:
Judith Hill
Caroline Glaser
Sarah Simmons
Amber Carrington

Team Blake:
Holly Tucker
Danielle Bradbery
Justin Rivers
Swon Brothers

Team Shakira:
Sasha Allen
Karina Iglesius
Garrett Gardner
Kris Thomas

Team Usher:
Michelle Chamuel
Josiah Hawley
VEDO
Cathia

Monday, Tuesday AND Wednesday of next week. And Cee-Lo is making a guest appearance. Gonna have to clear out my DVR.


I know, I know, you read none of that. But it's Voice season, so get over it.

Song of the night:

Okay, weirdest song ever.



Ever weirder?

It was a big hit.

What the crap is a bird dog?

And see I want to hate it, cause the lyrics are so weird. But I can't get the melody out of my head cause the harmonies are catchy.

Dangit.

"I'll meet you there, I'm gonna go jam out to Gwyneth Paltrow!"

Who knew there would be a day when those words came out of my mouth?! I mean, I loved her in Iron Man, Shallow Hal and of course View From the Top but before Glee she wasn't that high on my list of awesome. Now she's quickly rising to the top. Did you see that episode of Glee? She rocked it! And called Rachel on her crap at the same time! "Rachel - you suck! You're a total drag!"

Immediately after watching I had to go to itunes and buy the song. I love it!

Today was amazing. Went downtown for work in the morning then back to the smaller library in the afternoon which is backwards for me but still fun. I got to stop for coffee and a cinnamon roll, they were both fabulous. We had a staff meeting this morning and talked about the wonders of google. There's actually a lot of cool stuff you can do with it and now we have permission to mess around with it, woohoo! I love my job. Worked a little at the desk and heard a coworker use "p-slip" as a verb aka "p-slipping" and we paused. (P-slip as in paper-slips that we write notes on.) Was there 'til twelve then got an actual lunch break during which I watched the Glee episode I missed.
Then went to the other library, shelved everything there was to shelve and scanned the board books and first readers. I love my coworkers so much, you have no idea. Okay, I'm a shy person. Or at least I am at first, until I get to know you. Then I talk and you know say sentences that are longer than "no sir" or "yes ma'am." But today was about perfect timing. We were scanning books and my coworker claimed that I can't be a shy person because I was in drama in high school and I direct a kids camp and I sing and I'm on youtube. And I was like "But I AM shy!" And with seriously perfect timing my boss walks up to the desk and says "Since when?!" And we all busted out laughing. Apparently I have this air of confidence around me that I'm not aware of.

After all that I met up with my grade school teacher and we went to visit a buddy who's in the hospital. He's doing a lot better than last time so that made the day so much better. Then Nic and I hit up Old Chicago and I took half my meal home with me, woohoo for lunch tomorrow! Now I'm in for the night and will probably konk out watching The Nanny. Hoping for a good day tomorrow too. We are going to see Harry Potter 7 part 1! Woohoo!


Let's go get some tacos!!