"Did you just say your daughter was an Amish dude?" "Honor student, my daughter is an honor student."

Happy Christmas Eve Eve.

I'm alive.

Mostly. 

Just took the weekend off and then felt like crap so I'm posting it all now. 

Added two posts for yesterday and the day before though because otherwise it would be music overload.

I know that's cheating but it's my blog so get over it. 

So, where was I? 

Oh right, let's start with the TAB Holiday Party on Saturday. 

Fantastic. 

Ordered pizza, ate ice cream, drank apple juice - they had eggnog which just grosses me out - and played tons and tons of Apples to Apples. It was awesome. 

Though the thing is that they like playing the regular version instead of the junior version so last year we made a rule that if they didn't know who the person was then they got to discard and pick another. 

There were so many people this year it was ridiculous and it made me feel super old. Like camp all over again but this time no Noel to save me. 

On this year's list was: Bill Murray, Madonna, and then Nicolas Cage came up and one of them was like, "oh isn't he that cute old guy?" first off, ew, and second, is 50 old?

It used to be but now it's not. Maybe that's cause I'm halfway there. 

There were many others but I'm blanking on names, I literally went through 5 cards in a row discarding them all because even though I knew who they were they wouldn't which means I would lose every time cause no one would get my references. 

But that's okay, they're young and fun and all that. 

Anyway, so that was a lot of fun then after I went home to take a nap but ended up going over to help Mom unload all the party stuff at the hotel meanwhile getting a pounding headache. 

So basically I helped her unload all her stuff and then the Cool Aunt showed up so I took ibuprofen and laid down to sleep it off in Mom's room. 

Didn't work, ended up watching Indiana Jones part four - still sucks, btw they had 20 years to write it and that's what they came up with? aliens? seriously? - and not getting any sleep nor did the headache go away. 

But then it was 6 and my boyfriend showed up so I took another dose and headed out to be social. 

That dose seemed to work cause 10 minutes later I was all over the place greeting people and forgetting about the headache entirely. 

Was awesome, all my siblings with their spouses and kids, plus his family was all there, the cool aunt and her sons who i've dubbed as the "cool cousins". They're not my only cool ones I have, they're just the only ones I see anymore and since the Cool Aunt borned them it seemed fitting. 

Anyway, I passed on to the dancing baby on to the cool cousins. Have I told you about that freakin' thing yet? Yes, it's in here somewhere. 

AHA! Found it. "Story behind the dancing baby is a bit of a mystery. It originated around 15 years ago and has been making the rounds ever sense. And its not like a nice cute doll. its ugly. and it dances. Well, it's two pieces so when you shake it its upper body flails and it looks like its dancing. and it's still in the package. If you get it you're stuck with it for a year before you wrap it up and give it to someone else."

So last year I got stuck with it and now I'm giving it back. It can adorn their shelves for a year before someone else gets it. I was just proud I didn't lose it. Which for me - meant keeping it somewhere I would always see it, aka above my TV - everyone who saw it went "what the crap?" and then I had to rehash the story for them over and over.

Where was I? Oh right, so my family, his family, cool aunt and cool cousins, one of the favorite aunties plus one of her kids and wife and their kids, plus a bunch of my cool coworkers, and of course the Library Goddess.

Many pictures were taken, including one with boss #1 and boss #2. I let them fight over who fits what title, it's an ongoing battle.

So it was madness, but the good kind of madness that was sort of contained.

Mostly.

Minus the tiny children running all over the place.

I felt bad for the chick on duty at the desk, but to be fair we did bring her lots and lots of food to make up for it.

There was a ton of food there. Mom made chili, mints and my favorite punch, Oldest Sister brought meat and cheese tray plus everything that everyone else forgot, Favorite Sister-In-Law brought chips plus this awesome cheese dip, and then Second Sister brought the vodka slush which won over the crowd.

I raved to my coworkers about it so I made them try it.

Unfortunately my master plan to get the Queen of the Known Universe inebriated failed. But that was just attempt number one, it'll happen.

The question of the night became "you got the degree, now what?"

And honestly the truth is I don't know.

I'm comfortable where I am, but I've been told on numerous occasions that I shouldn't stay there too long or I'll be stuck there forever.

Which to me would be fine. I don't know, we'll see if any positions open up in the near future. If not I'm content. For now.

To be honest I'm waiting for them to make the final decision on the boyfriend's hours before I make any major decisions. If he gets switched to second maybe moving somewhere and working 11-8 would be better. For now 9-6 is good for us so I'm sticking with it.

So that was all Saturday.

Sunday was church, the dinner with Mom, Dad, the boyfriend and Oldest Sister's family. We went to this Greek place for the second Sunday in a row - which is fine by me it's good food and there's no wait, plus they have a breakfast menu, not that I order off of it, but it's there.

After that the boyfriend and I watched Shawshank Redemption, waited in line at Best Buy for obscene amounts of time but I got my headphones, and then we saw American Hustle.



It was good, not my favorite, but alright. Scale of Awesome says 6/10.

I know, I'm harsh.

I love that Jennifer Lawrence got the "and" in the credits over all these seasoned actors. That's just how badass she is, take that!

No it was a good cast and the script was alright, their hairdos were seriously messing with my mind, Jeremy Renner's mostly followed very closely by Christian Bale's. But I guess that was the style.

So that was Saturday and Sunday. Today is Monday, I felt like crap so I spent most of it sleeping on the couch and when I wasn't sleeping on the couch I was sleeping on the bed.

We'll see how much sleep I get tonight.

On to the music Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Ten

I'm throwing this in first cause the boyfriend and I enjoy it immensely.

It seems every episode SNL gets at least one sketch right, this was this Saturday's.



Shakira, Pitbull and Alanis are all dead on, but I loved Snape cause it was so random.

Alright, Day Ten songs are:

White Christmas - Wood and Wire


live from Austin, these guys are great

2012 was Team Blake from the Voice, 2011 was The Drifters


Welcome Christmas - Girls Generation


okay i'm a chicago nut but i was like, wait what? ohhh..."all that christmas". well they had the dance down. i enjoyed that in the subtitles it was all foreign and then there would be like 2 words in english in the middle of it all.

apparently they have the most popular video in the world at the moment beating out cyrus and bieber. no it's not this one, it's this one. don't look at me, it's k-pop i have no idea.

2012 was the original Grinch classic, 2011 was Glee


God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Postmodern Jukebox


love this one - swing version, she has a great voice.

2012 was Barenaked Ladies, 2011 was Glee


and then my favorite "new" christmas song, aka not one of the classics, which I posted in 2011 but not in 2012 cause I didn't find a cover that I liked but this year i did so i'm adding it back.

Wish List - Only Seven Left


i just want you, oh darling, i just want you.


out.


2011 Day Ten - I just want you, oh darling, I just want you.
2012 Day Ten - Westward Leading, Still Proceeding

uno, dos, tres, christmas.

Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper.

So I woke up to like 16 missed messages and I freaked out cause I assumed they were from the boyfriend saying he was gonna be switched to second, but no, they were all from the women in my family about food for the graduation party on Saturday.

Meat and cheese trays, chili, chips and salsa, salads, cake, mints, punch, and a whole lot of liquor make up the menu. It should be fun.

Interesting day at the library.

Had a lot of fun with the Queen of the Known Universe. I'm pretty sure we scared off an aide after she called me a bitch and I laughed.

He's new.

And there's more to that story but I can't tell you.

It was a joke, by the way.

I mean, I hope I'm not actually a bitch, though I was giving her crap so I deserved it.

Preceding that was a staff meeting - we're rearranging. The back room is done so now it's on to second floor, next will be the front desk - and following that was holiday party shopping for TAB.

Ordered my pizza to be picked up Saturday morning, got my ice cream, fruit, juice, and eggnog.

Which is gross, btw, but they like it.

I don't get it.

But the party was a lot of fun last year with pizza, ice cream and board games so we're doing it again. This time minus the secret santa/white elephant thing.

Should be fun.

So I was all over the place all day and I'm glad to be sitting now.

Though a night off meant I had to do everything I avoided all week once I got home.

Paperwork, paperwork, and more paperwork.

And mailing camp stuff.

Blah.

But that's okay, it's done now.

I can celebrate. And I'll do that by watching the Sing Off.

It is a 2 week event so it's on constantly. I'm loving Home Free, the rest are pretty good too, but they're the clear front-runner.

I'm getting really excited with all these Olympic commercials on.

I love the Olympics, I'm a total nerd. I watch them all.

Though the skiing and shooting thing, where they ski with guns on their back kind of freaks me out.

I don't remember what that one is called, but is that seriously a sport? It's madness.

Mom is into the figure skating so we always used to watch that. So is Grams.

I love all the snowboarding stuff and the big jumps.

Way cool.

Alright, that's all the rambling I've got for the night.

Think I'm gonna konk out early. Exhausted after today.

On to the music, Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Six

Songs for tonight include:

Sleigh Ride - Jewel


actually watching her right now on the Sing Off and diggin' it.

2012 was Karmin, 2011 was She & Him

Jingle Bell Rock - Kurt, Max and Macy Kate


i got distracted with all the phone stuff before i realized they actually have great voices.

2012 was Chord Overstreet, 2011 was Brenda Lee

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Urban Method


and speaking of the sing-off, nice. "when you rap seuss you win hearts."

2012 was VersaEmerge WATCH THAT ONE IT'S FANTASTIC, 2011 was the original Thurl Ravenscroft Grinch version


2011 Day Six - Troll the ancient yuletide, Carol!
2012 Day Six - What a bright time, it's the right time

oh god that 2011 post was about the evolution of the apartment story, has it seriously been that long since i started that monster of a story.

now that i have more time i should get back to that.

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

so hurry down the chimney tonight.

Yes, this is late. Sorry. Didn't get back 'til way late after the wedding last night.

Yes, there was a wedding.

And a holiday party.

Big day.

Woke up at 9AM, picked up the pizza around 10:15, then went to work to set up all the stuff for the holiday party - frantically flailing because I only had like 20 minutes by the time I got there.

The original plan was to eat pizza and other junk food - I got them clementines so it wasn't completely unhealthy - make holiday cards to take to the City Mission, then play apples to apples.

It ended up being just food and Apples to Apples.

Which I was okay with and they were haven't lots of fun so I'm calling it a victory.

After that I came home then n the boyfriend picked me up to go to his cousin's wedding reception. Got to meet some of the extended family and hung out with his siblings - danced with Rachel to the Cha Cha Slide and Gangam Style then did the Cotton Eyed Joe with his and Rebecca so I officially got my exercise.

That song is always so much longer than I remember. You get halfway through and go, ah crap.

They played Call Me Maybe but I was too lazy to go out there. It was funny though cause the dance floor was empty and then that started and people flocked out there.

The majority of the music played was country.

When I say majority I think the only ones that weren't country were 1 polka song and then previously mentioned ones.

We debated on making a list of music that will be banned from our wedding. Anything by Jason Aldean - sorry sketch - and the Chicken Dance.

Sorry but just no. We both run for the hills whenever that makes an appearance.

But we'll see.

We headed home around 10:15ish but it's a long drive so it was well after midnight before we got to the parking lot.

An interesting drive home, apparently glass caps are illegal on a truck.

Long story.

And our music taste is apparently similar cause half the stuff on his ipod is on mine as well.

So that was that.

Moving on to day two of the annual: Christmas Music That Doesn't Suck countdown until Christmas.

Day Two goes like this:

Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - interview on ABC News before performance
what the heck is grandma doing getting run over by a reindeer?! how many drinks did this woman have?

i know this is sensei's least favorite but it makes me laugh.

Little Drummer Boy - Kevin McHale, Glee soundtrack
no video for this one but kevin mchale is fantastic.
last year's was Sean Kingston which is also good but I think this one's better

Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
it's hard to beat the original even though i am a big fan of last year's PCD

For last year's Day Two go here