I have a lot to cover so I'm debating on how to do this. I could do it chronologically, which would make the most sense, OR I could do good, bad, other/interesting, OR I could do big highlight, little highlight, rinse and repeat.
Or by group. Hm. Let's try that.
Family:
We celebrated Mom's birthday back in March. She turned 70 and all she wanted was a weekend with her kids (and grandkids) at a nice hotel. But of course we got her presents anyway. They had booked a whole corner of the main floor and we had pizza and free drinks and all that. It was fun. Eventually the kids went swimming - the boyfriend is gonna be favorite uncle, I'm telling you, they kept flocking to him so he would throw them in, it was adorable - while the rest of us played Cards Against Humanity which - if you weren't aware - is like the mature version of Apples to Apples.
Here are a couple that I won with, though actually in the end myself and Oldest Sister tied. I think.
After everyone else went to bed the boyfriend and I walked to the train station at around 1AM. This is what happens when you date someone with vampiristic tendencies - since he works nights he doesn't sleep at night so we walked around downtown for a while then watched some TV - Leverage, Forensic Files, etc. Fell asleep after a while but were actually coherent enough to beat most people down for breakfast in the morning. Huge buffet - omelets, french toast, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, potatoes, all that - it was fabulous.
The birthday celebration wasn't the only family party since my last post. We actually had something even bigger - my parents 50th wedding anniversary. I think around 250 invitations went out and we probably got around 300 people that showed up, it was crazy. My siblings and I got everything set up beforehand - which was an adventure in itself. Tables, tablecloths, pictures on all the tables, other various decorations, setting up my computer with the slideshow and projector. Plus then we took some family photos. By the time we got done with all that there were people already filing in. Thankfully between the decorations and the pictures we were able to get ready ourselves. Unfortunately, the light in the women's restroom was out - well, the one by the mirror was out - so all us girls ended up putting our makeup on in the men's restroom. Another adventure. The party itself was great. Both of my parents gave speeches. Dad's was hilarious. I shouldn't have been surprised since he is very clever. And mom bought flowers for all of her attendants so during her speech I was running all over the place attempting to deliver them. Apparently having a 27-year-old daughter is a good thing when you are 70. The only downfall to being 27 to parents that are older is that everyone at the party knew me as a kid and I hadn't seen them in years so remembering all their names was a bit complicated. Actually at one point I had to go and get Mom cause I was just drawing a complete blank and she was so smooth, she was like ___ and ___ it's so nice to see you! A-hah! Yes. Now I know you. Anyway, the food was great, the people were excited to be there, the slideshow went over well, and my parents had a really good time so I'm calling it a victory.
Between both of those parties was Easter. We did church and lunch with the boyfriend's family and then afternoon and supper with mine. Huge egg hunt in the afternoon which of course I always get stuck being the one in charge of. Even though I wasn't even there 'til after lunch. So much stuff this year that we were basically just running around and dropping stuff as we went. The boyfriend was no help whatsoever. He and my brother have apparently bonded cause while the other adults were hiding eggs, I look back and they are picking up the stuff that we just hid and stealing all the good candy out of them. Cheaters. Though there was plenty of candy for the kids. I even ended up taking home more than I should. More on that later.
Another fun family thing was going to the Red/White game with the Cool Aunt. Ever since I was put in charge of volunteers I haven't been able to go because the banquet for them is always the same day and time as the game. This year we changed it and I'm loving that, I hope it stays that way. You know me and my Husker football, I would go to all the games if I could. Anyway, this year was a big year because of the new coaching staff and quarterback drama. Tommy will probably start but he has some competition. The game was awesome and I taped it so I get to re-watch it whenever I want. The Cool Aunt and I got there super early so we could get our food, seats, and all that. The game was awesome, lots of people there and we even did the wave and all the chants and all that. I'm super stoked to see how this season turns out. Clearly there are things we need to work on. Passing probably being the biggest. But it should be a good year.
Boyfriend:
The boyfriend and I have been up to a lot as well. Within the past few weeks we've went on two different motorcar trips - one in Kansas, the other in Iowa. Kansas was fun because I had never been on that ride before. We also stopped to look at a railroad signal at this guy's house and the dude was on American Pickers so you can just imagine everything that was all over his yard. He gave us a tour of his house which was very much the same. Antiques everywhere, even hanging from the ceiling. The motorcar ride itself was a lot of fun. The boyfriend surprised me by spending the week before the trip fixing up the motorcar that I had bought him for Christmas. I didn't realize that's the one we would be riding until he unloaded it. It actually ran really well so we also took it to Iowa and...well...that was a different story. Died out within the first few miles. So, more work to be done on that, along with his 80 million other projects. Luckily, Popper Boy doesn't bring spare parts, he brings spare cars so we had a different one to ride. Long story, don't even ask. This year was a bit different than previous years though because we stayed at a Bed and Breakfast instead of a regular hotel. It was really neat. Though without TV or Wifi we did end up going to see The Woman In Gold the night we got there. Scroll down for the review of that. His buddy and the buddy's girlfriend stayed with us at the B&B so that was a lot of fun.
I took a lot of pictures for both rides. Here are some of my favorites.
Another adventure with the boyfriend that will blend in nicely with my next category is hockey season. It is now officially over, which I'm totally bummed about yet at the same time, it's probably a good thing. Our team this year was not fantastic. That's kind of an understatement, we got last in the division. Granted we did have a brand new coach and manager and all that, but still, it was rather pathetic toward the end. While the season itself took a downward spiral after our coach suddenly started trading off a bunch of our best players, it did have its moments. Some unexpected victories, big fights, and enough walking tacos to make me think it is definitely time to get to the gym. After the last home game they had a player meet-and-greet out on the ice. Myself, the boyfriend, and the Archaeologist went around taking pictures and getting stuff signed.
Okay, they walked around with me while I got my picture taken and stuff signed. Though she did get her picture taken with a few times. And the boyfriend went along with all of it. He even suggested we take a picture together in the penalty box which made me almost forgive him for calling me a "jersey chaser" five minutes earlier. But I got to meet my favorite player along with others I like and when I tweeted the pictures both he (and a woman who I assume is his mother) retweeted the one of me and him labeled as my favorite.
Jersey chaser. Thanks babe. He's like 17. That's just gross.
Friends:
My Archaeologist ditched me for greener pastures. Literally. But she'll be back. Eventually. This is the one who sits behind us at the hockey games. It's nice to have someone here with similar interests/problems that we can get like lunch or supper or see movies or whatever. Though now that she's gone I'm eating shawarma all alone.
Anyway, she house-sat for a couple of people before leaving so we did a lot of movie-watching and burger eating. Plus trips to Cabelas, Canes, and Culvers. All in one day. We call them Capers. Cause our names start with C's and for some reason we go to a lot of C-named places. Crave. Cherry-in-Top. Etc.
These are the days of our lives.
And speaking of friends I got to see an old one a few weeks ago as Homey G Wigger made a reappearance in Nebraska. She was in-state for a confirmation so we got supper and jammed out for a while. Was good to catch up. Really should work on that whole pen-pal thing. I'm awful at correspondence. Ipso-facto, this blog's sudden downturn. Honestly I don't know how I did this every day for so long. Pretty sure it helped that I had no life, now it's like I barely have time to sit still, let alone post for hours on end.
One of the reasons I get to be so busy for the next few months - and notice that was a "get to be" not "have to be" - is Camp J season has officially started. We had our first meeting and the site went live on May 1st. And yes I've already gotten more than 10 applications in less than a week so, good to know kids are excited about camp this year. Even though I'm hesitant of the date change. Long story. But I need to get my act together with spreadsheets and planning. My inbox and voicemail will be flooded 'til August.
I'm more nervous for this year than I ever was before. That includes the year that Jim and I took over registrations and knew absolutely nothing about how to do it. This year will be the first year without an integral member of our team and I'm not sure how to handle things without her. Last year was redemption year, this year will be remembrance year. I need to get back to working on the guitar. She wrote so many songs over so many years, I'm hoping to work with my fellow music leaders on how to incorporate some of them into this year's camp. I'll keep you posted on that one.
Work:
Ah work. We're at an interesting juncture in my worklife experience. We're venturing into a new ILS system. This will be my third. First was Horizon, then Koha, now it's Symphony. Well, Sirsi-Dynex, but they call their product Symphony. This week and last have been kind of like attempting to control chaos. The fun part about training for a new system? You get to practice for hours on end. Part of practice is creating new library cards for fake patrons. My fake patrons of choice? Myka Bering and Calamity Jane. While both technically reside (or resided) in South Dakota, I moved them to Lincoln. One on Warehouse Avenue and the other on Deadwood Road. Of course they both disappeared when we went live. Boo.
Luckily for stressful times as these there is Staff Association, of which I am a member and somehow got to be in charge of this huge Mini-Golf event thing that took place. I think it's because I had my phone at the meeting and was able to look up prices and times and all that. Whatever, it was fun. A bit of stress in the planning, but worth it in the long run. We opened it up to all the staff and everyone picked teams and dressed up (if they wanted). The best dressed and most spirited won prizes along with best/worst scores, most holes-in-one, and most wet balls. Yeah, guess who won that one. To be fair I only lost 2 and was able to retrieve them.
That's not the only fun thing from work lately - we also just had some big volunteer events over the past few weeks. First was the Volunteer Banquet where we invite all the volunteers from all the branches to this big shindig and the mayor comes and gives a speech and we give them fancy snacks. The fun part about all that is jamming out with the other volunteer supervisors before and after the shindig. This year we joked about my mayor's award and how I need a traveling case so I can whip it out when needed. Basically a fancy fanny pack. So of course when I went to talk to the Mayor and he had no recollection of me whatsoever - to be fair he does that like once a month and he's been in office for like ever - I debated on purchasing one. But then I remembered that this isn't the 90s and they're still tacky. Quote of the day: "It's not like you saved someone's life or anything." Haha.
The other volunteer event was the Paperback Processing Party for my teens. Remember how every year we go to Barnes and Noble to pick out paperbacks for the library to purchase? Well, they came in and then we got to process them. It's fun for them because it's all the TAB groups - well, minus one this year - but they get to talk to people and they get first dibs on the material.
Other various work excursions since my last post have been Inservice - of which I only attended the morning session since we went to Kansas that afternoon. The speaker was good - it was mostly about safety in libraries...which doesn't make you paranoid at all... - plus NLA, that's our big annual conference for librarians across Nebraska. I was asked to be on the committee to put the whole thing together so that's gonna be a new and exciting adventure. We had our first meeting and it's a fun group of people - Library Goddess aka my former boss being one of them. Looking forward to it.
Somewhere in the midst of all this Queen of the Known Universe and I went to see Info-Man's play. They did "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Death Star" and it was fabulous. It's set up like it's a convention and the actors are reading the script to their upcoming movie however not all the actors could make it to the reading so the actors are playing like 3 characters each. For example, Darth Vader was also Han Solo. Yoda was also a Storm Trooper. And Info-Man played the bus driver, emperor, George Lucas, and a cantina bar singer. Highly entertaining, I bought the soundtrack, we loved it.
And what list of stories about work would be complete without including a strange patron interaction? I'm at the desk, right, and this lady comes up to check out some books. She starts handing me her card and then suddenly pulls it away and the conversation goes something like this:
"You are fragrant and I don't want it on my card, can I just scan it by myself?"
"What?"
"You smell like vanilla and I don't want it on my card, can I scan the card by myself?"
"Um, sure?"
So she scans the cards and the books and leaves. My coworker comes over and goes "That was rude." Me, not exactly sure what just happened or how to respond said something like "well, there are worse things to smell like, but I'm not wearing vanilla so I don't know what she was talking about." I was confused for the next few seconds but then I went over to the bookdrop and it was like WahBam! Vanilla! So, someone on the self-check must have been the one drenched in it, not me. Perhaps she had allergies and it just came off as awkward. I'm sure she's a nice person, but it was still weird.
Scale of Awesome's for you.
Interstellar
Scale of Awesome says 9/10. This movie - while long - was worth every minute. I will admit it started off slow and I was a little confused, but once the mission officially started I was hooked.
Woman in Gold
Scale of Awesome says 9/10. Really liked this one as well. Based on a true story and both leads - Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren - were fabulous. Really interesting to learn about art recovery and that specific case.
Predestination
Scale of Awesome says 5/10. So confused. So much shorter than necessary. Need an epilogue. What happens now?
Get Hard
Scale of Awesome says 5/10. I loved Will Ferrell on SNL but for some reason I just do not like his movies. I gave this one a chance cause I like Kevin Hart. It was alright, not wonderful, not awful, but alright.
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Scale of Awesome says 7/10. Watched this one with the Archaeologist. The problem with this movie is that there is no like "previously on the Hobbit..." It just starts from where it left off and if you haven't seen the previous one in like months then you're screwed. Or at least we were. Thankfully I had grabbed the second one as well and we ended up putting that one in and then skipping around so we could remember why the one guy was in jail, why the other guy was wounded, which dwarf the chick was in love with, the difference between the Bowman and Thorin and also what the hell happened to Gandalf. Then we attempted the new one again successfully. Was pretty good in it's own right, but you really can't compare this trilogy to the original trilogy because it would just fail completely.
Nightcrawler
Scale of Awesome says 5/10. Dude, this dude was messed up man. Anything for a good shot. Kind of made me want to smack him, but made for an interesting movie.
Maze Runner
Scale of Awesome says 5/10. One of my TAB kids is obsessed with this movie. I feel like I would get more out of it if either 1. I was a teenage girl, or 2. I had read the book. Neither of those will be happening anytime soon.
Horrible Bosses
Scale of Awesome says 7/10. This is like the anti-Jennifer Aniston role, seriously. Nothing like her whatsoever and she pulled it off! Actually it was very funny.
Horrible Bosses 2
Scale of Awesome says 6/10. The first one was probably better, though this one did have its moments. I love Chris Pine.
Ridiculousness
Scale of Awesome says 9/10. Mindless humor, and I love Rob Dyrdek. It's highly entertaining and reminds me a bit of World's Dumbest.
Dances With Wolves
Scale of Awesome says 8/10. Sharon Rayder! I totally screamed and he was like what the hell? So, the boyfriend made me watch this one cause he was horrified that I hadn't seen it yet. Apparently it's a classic. I can see why. Even though it was like 3 hours long - which I was not expecting - it was really entertaining. I liked the storyline a lot.
On to the music:
Loving my new iPod. It fits all my music whereas my old one severely limited my music selections. Being able to listen to all my music has brought forth many songs that I forgot I knew.
Like these classics:
Gonna Get a Life - Mark Chestnutt
All 'Er Nothing - Oklahoma
used to sing this one a lot when i was little. is funnier now.
foot.
Electric Feel - MGMT
okay this one i've sang a lot lately and the irony of that being that someone actually checked out the MGMT CD like 2 minutes after i had gone around the building singing it in my head. i freaked, it was awesome.
and moving on to some new stuff
Budapest - George Ezra
love this one, give it a chance.
Alright, and that's all I got. Hope you had an awesome couple a months. I'll attempt to post sooner than months later next time...
Remember how my life motto is: Well, that's something to scrapbook....??
Lots of scrapbook worthy moments will follow in this post, but the first one I could do without. My hands are still shaking.
So I got into libraries cause they were safe.
No stuff to gross me out, no craziness, no life or death situations.
Until today.
With that last one I mean, there's gross stuff and craziness almost every day. That's why we have a security guard.
So, imagine this, if you will, Info-Man and I are on the front desk. Less than an hour left in the day when one of our regulars walks up to the counter.
I look up and something just seems off. His face is sort of sagging on one side and he looked disoriented.
Adding to that he couldn't find his library card, which was apparently right in front of him.
I noticed he was only using one of his arms and on a hunch I Googled (yes all my reference training and I still reach for Google) "symptoms of a stroke". He seemed to have every symptom on the list.
So, me being me, aka hesitant about what we're allowed to do legally, consulted with Info-Man who said I should go tell Superwoman who happened to be working in youth services.
She was of course helping a patron but when I told her it was a patron emergency she came on the run.
I pointed out the symptoms on the screen and then the patron and she went over to talk to him.
He seemed even more disoriented. She called the ambulance, I called the guard, and we all waited for the EMT's to show up.
Longest 10 minutes of my life.
By the time they got there he couldn't even tell them his own name. So I did. Along with the symptoms I noticed and other answers to various questions they had.
They loaded him up on a gurney and drove off to the hospital in the ambulance and that was that.
No idea what happened next. Am hoping he will be okay.
After my dad was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy I started to notice facial stuff like that. Glad we were able to get him an ambulance, can only imagine what would have happened if he left the building.
As mentioned above, could have lived without that one in my life's scrapbook. My hands are still shaking.
So, let's move on before I freak out more about it.
Guess what I found again at the library!
Seriously?
Seriously?
Ridiculous. I'm done looking at ceilings.
And guess what shirt I was wearing!
A blue one with a giant 3 on it.
Which was fitting as it was my third bat.
While this post is delayed that happened the day right after the previous post.
Day after that I was gonna wear a Warehouse 13 shirt but changed my mind and went with a musical festival one instead.
Figured it was safer. Didn't want any magical artifacts showing up at the library.
Seriously should go out and buy a shirt with a bag of money on it.
And now, not only am I "Batgirl" as one of the guards has so lovingly dubbed me, but also I play exterminator to damsels in distress, aka Queen of the Known Universe.
I was upstairs when I got this panic call about a big bug in youth services. She traded me desks while I went to squash it. The call was my fault technically. Earlier this week she had another big bug encounter. She got a supervisor thinking she would squash it but instead she just shooed it and then they couldn't find it. I was enlisted to help search. When it wasn't located I said if she saw it to call me and I would squish it. I'm assuming that led to this call so it was my fault.
In other news the boyfriend and I hit up the last roller derby match at Pershing. It was also the last event at Pershing before it is decommissioned so it was packed. We sat trackside cause how could you not for the last one, really?
The Road Warriors (aka the B team) dominated, but the Mad Maxines (A team) lost in the final minutes. It was a heartbreaker, but it was still a great game. Missing Flash Gloria for sure but Annamaniac and Slam Anderson are pretty good too.
We sat right next to the merchandise table so of course I had to buy some shirts. Especially since they were on sale. You can never have too many derby shirts.
Plus I bought ducks from Kelly Ripa-Nipalov which was delightful. Don't worry, they were rubber. At halftime they put buckets in the middle of the track and you have to try to throw them in one to win prizes.
Ripa is my favorite. The first bout I ever went to she decked a chick at the whistle and then took off skating. Since the refs didn't see it they didn't call it, it was fantastic.
She's my only favorite that's left that is.
It used to be Busty St. Claire then she left.
Then Princess Lay-ya-Flat then she left.
Then Anna-Wrecks-It then she left.
Then Lt. Slamher then she left.
Then Flash Gloria then she left. To play for Omaha. The rival squad.
I'm shutting up before I rant for an entire post.
Anyway, here are a few pictures from the bout.
As mentioned we sat trackside. Since it was the last event at Pershing they brought back a bunch of the alumni skaters who happened to sit in front of us.
Best part of the whole derby was them screaming "I hope your wheel falls off!" at the other team's jammer.
Like I said, sad we lost, but it was a great couple of games.
The boyfriend and also went to see Karmin at the State Fair. They were excellent, played all my favorite songs. We went out to meet them afterward but were surrounded by tiny children and screaming teenage girls.
Quote of the day was: "I will shoulder a 12-year-old for you. That's love."
Thanks babe.
We decided we no longer want to have children after that experience. I should rephrase, we decided we no longer want to have children that grow up to be teenage girls after that experience.
Low maintenance boys would be okay.
But since there's no guarantee it will be a low maintenance boy we're just going to hold off for a while.
Until our mothers push us to the breaking point that is. According to his mother we're supposed to have three. According to mine she'll be happy if I have one. Actually I think she'll just be happy if I get married to begin with.
Anyway, here are some pictures from the concert.
Fabulous. Nebraska pride. So proud, for serious.
What else? Oh yeah, finally did the Ice Bucket Challenge. After being challenged 3 times. First was Smo, then Oldest Sister, then Abby-Cadabra my niece. Thanks for that, by the way.
In return I nominated Liz - a friend from the library - Anna - aka Chief my best friend from grade school - and SuperHumann - a teacher from my high school.
Was smart enough not to challenge Sketch - she'd drive all the way out here just to smack me - or the boyfriend who would also not be a fan.
The video is on Facebook if you want to see it.
Been spending a lot of time with my sisters the past week. Went out for sushi and all that.
Tada! Isn't it pretty?
Not according to Queen of the Known Universe.
But we had fun. Basically closed the place down the one night.
The boyfriend and I have been playing a lot of retro MarioKart lately. By retro I mean N64. Which I like better than the Wii version, but that's just me.
I used to play it with my cousins all the time. I'm always Toad. I like Toad. Liz was always Peach, Jake was Yoshi, I think Justin was Mario.
The boyfriend is always Luigi.
Or "weejee" as myself and my family calls him. I have no idea why he picks him, but he does.
I was pretty proud cause I beat him a few times in both battles and races.
Documented proof.
I'm so excited hockey season is coming up. Before the first pre-season hockey game season ticket holders get to tour the locker room and meet the players - I'm stoked! But the boyfriend will be out of town so I'm taking Smo. He'll also be gone for the first actual season game so I'm taking Queen of the Known Universe.
She says if she goes it's gotta be the whole date experience. Dinner and a t-shirt from the gift shop.
Reminds me of when we went to Info-Man's play. That was date night at well with dinner and driving all the way across town to make it in time.
PS - the woman drives like a man woman.
I was reminded of that when we went to a funeral this week for a coworker's father.
Not a fun way to start the day but I was glad I went in support.
Scale of Awesome's for you:
Noah
Okay, I knew I shouldn't have watched this because I had heard about the rock monsters and all that, but I was bored and needed something on in the background when I took a nap.
I was so mad that I couldn't sleep.
It lasted a whole 30 seconds before it was wrong.
And then it just got worse.
The destruction of the world by water is dramatic enough, did you really have to add in rock monsters?
Seriously?
I was so frustrated by the end of it (full of more lies than just the stupid rock monsters, btw) that I still couldn't sleep so I put on some Blacklist to calm me down.
I'm giving it a -10/10.
That's Rushmore and Mummy 3 level which is saying something.
Divergent
The boyfriend and I caved and finally watched it. Scale of Awesome says 7/10. It was alright, but predictable. I'm sure the book is better. However it didn't give me enough motivation to read the books so that will remain just a guess.
On to the music:
Gotta go with Karmin of course. Here are my favorites...
Look At Me Now
the song that started it all. 92 million views and counting.
Brokenhearted
years later and it's still my favorite song.
Acapella
love it. and its acoustic version...also on youtube if you're interested.
There are more but I don't want to overload you.
But I'm excited, I have officially seen 3 of my top 5 favorite bands.
Maroon 5, She & Him and now Karmin.
Now just missing Lily Allen - who is touring the US btw, awesomeness, want to go so bad - and Eminem who is also touring with Rihanna at the moment.
Monster Tour. They did the Ice Bucket challenge, it was hilarious.
Anyway, back to Karmin. I loved it, it was epic and awesome. Nebraska Pride man.
And that's all I got.
Wow, a lot for just two weeks. Should really go back to posting more. At least once a week to keep my ramblings manageable. Maybe I'll attempt for "My Life Mondays" or something.
Apparently more than three, cause it didn't catch on when we tried it.
Granted we were in a room filled with people double my age.
At least.
And they weren't really paying attention to us anyway.
I'll get there.
Today was incredibly dead at the library, but went surprisingly fast.
I spent most of the day working on TAB stuff and learning random facts about the Olympics.
Did you know General Patton competed in the Olympics? Apparently in ancient Olympia married women weren't allowed to watch cause they weren't pure and could be killed in caught. There's more but I'll save them for later.
I think the reason it went so fast was because we were all so excited for what came after.
I had a hot date.
With Queen of the Known Universe.
That's right, made fun of me all day, then all night. Didn't even buy me supper.
Worst first date ever.
Joking of course, we had fun. Got supper and then hit up Info-Man's play.
Barefoot in the Park.
Excellence in the making.
He stole every scene, and I'm not saying that cause I'm bias.
Okay, I am bias, but really, he did steal every scene.
The whole cast was great though, even the minor roles.
"I feel like we've died and gone to heaven - only we had to climb up."
I was very proud.
We all were. It was like library-central, we had a whole section.
I joked that we should have made signs to hold up at intermission that said "Go Info-Man!" That's when we attempted the wave but failed.
But that would be have been embarrassing and unprofessional...which we never are...at work or after it...
Anyway, it's a day for drama cause now I get to watch the SAG Awards.
Here are a few of my favorite moments:
Lupita Nyong'o: "Dad, do you know Brad Pitt? I'm going to be in a movie with him." Dad: "I don't know him personally, but I'm glad you got a job."
Did someone one day decide that their plain flat ceiling was boring and then had a random hose full of popcorn lying around?
Wow, wouldn't this look great up there?
Yeah, let's spray it on the ceiling! My ceiling would look so much cooler if I covered it in tiny bumps...
And then it was all like keeping up with the Joneses.
Gotta have a bumpy ceiling cause smooth ones are out of style.
Or was it more like meant for eclectic people who couldn't tell the difference between the ceiling and the walls so they had to give them different textures just to clarify.
Sorry.
Insomniac question.
Library Golf went fantastic, in case you were wondering.
I know that's why you're all actually here, not to read my ceiling ramblings.
9 holes set up throughout the library.
Two up on fourth floors, ride the broken/get stuck inside elevator down to second floor for one in biographies, music, nonfiction, language and then it's down the back stairway to the bottom of the stairway and over to the adult nonfiction and ending in youth services.
Each of the TAB kids designing and leading their own holes.
Squirt's was Doctor Who themed.
Even made her boyfriend come in and golf, it was amusing.
Rock solid awesome man.
Except that multiple of my members had to leave early so we had some fun staff/volunteer coverage.
Anyway, pictures are being put up on the website, I may steal some of them tomorrow with permission from Info-man who took them. I was too busy running all over four floors to take really any of my own.
Plus he was officially assigned those hours to take pictures so he got plenty.
I know you're all jealous that you didn't get to host a library golf tournament.
For the whole like 20 people who took part.
Not that I was expecting more, with our location I was glad there were any.
Think if we do it again we're gonna open it up to all ages. The only teens that show up to stuff at my branch are the teens already in the advisory board.
But they made me proud today.
Showed up at one, finished their holes, helped out the kids that came through...
Then the new intern and I got to clean it all up.
I'm loving this new intern, today we talked Chuck.
"computer emergency..."
It's nice having someone there my age again.
We had fun, pushing around two flatbed trucks when our main elevator was busted.
The doors would get stuck and all that so instead of us riding in it with our flatbeds we stuck everything in it, sent it downstairs and then ran to meet it.
Highly entertaining.
Just not for the dude who came to fix it.
We were zonked by the end of the takedown you could tell, we were basically just chucking these magazine holders into a pile.
Calling it Queen of the Known Universe's land.
Filled with tiny little magazine people that worship her.
With their own newspaper.
The headlines include:
"Today on her break she read a book!"
Shocking.
Not really.
Those are our zonked out conversations.
So yes, I don't care that only 20 people participated, I would have called 5 a victory.
And even without those 5 my teens would have had fun.
And they did, designing their own holes, I know they were proud of them.
Alright, so that was the highlight of my day - aside from picking the clubs up this morning and dropping them off again.
And now doing homework.
Which is really more of a lowlight, I'm exhausted.
Music and I'm out!
a new one:
Change - Churchill
love it.
and an old one, here's another Song You Know But Forgot You Knew It:
So, I don't know what the heck happened this morning, but when I woke up to the steam cleaning dude knocking on my door - 9:30AM - my left leg was asleep and I fell three times on the way to the door.
It's like 10 feet from the couch to the door so it was every freaking step.
I can only imagine as to what he was thinking outside my door cause every time I fell a different expletive came out.
And not quietly.
It explained the amused look on his face when the door swung open.
And Carter was just laying there like what the hell?
Like, by the time I made it to the door I was holding on to it for dear life, then stood against the wall for a while just to make sure I wasn't gonna faceplant in front of him.
The last time that happened to me in the morning - that I can remember, though a lot of my mornings are fuzzy cause I hate mornings - was in high school. And actually it was because I was injured.
So, if you know me or you've read this long enough you've probably heard of the sleeping walking incident.
If not, here's the short version.
Basically, I had this dream that I was crabwalking through a tunnel on a college visit and it turns out I was actually crabwalking down my bed. And the metal bar that I felt by my feet was real. I stepped on an office chair and it flew out from under me so naturally I grabbed the closest object to me to regain my balance, that just happened to be a dresser.
I woke up on the ground - tile floor was especially cold that night - with something really heavy on top of me and I couldn't move. About 10 minutes later, after the panic attacks had stopped - I realized that I had a roommate.
Juwanna thought the screaming was just me having a bad dream. So did I - somewhere between all the flailing and the blacking out - though that changed when she turned the lights on and went "oh my god!"
Then, when I could actually see that the giant object crushing me to the floor was in fact my own dresser, filled with my clothes and covered in my radio and my random crap that was now scattered all over my floor, I was able to realize that no, this was actually happening and it would probably be a wise idea to, in the future, just sleep on the floor of a room with padded walls.
Anyway, my ankle got crushed somewhere between the dresser falling and it being lifted off of me.
Juwanna went to get the dorm-mom, who naturally had to call the Dean - oh yeah, the Dean of the high school - at like 2AM - then she gave me a glass of water and put me back to bed.
I woke up in the morning with her at the base of my bed asking if I could get up.
I took one step and totally face planted - again on the cold tile floor.
That's when she said, "well, guess we should call your parents."
"Crap."
Still haven't heard the end of that one.
Yes, that was the short version.
Granted I don't remove painting from walls like one former coworker but I'm pretty sure that one can top any of your sleep-walking stories.
I lost myself.
Oh right, so yeah, that's the last time I remember having no control of my body and not being able to regain my balance before I fell straight to the ground.
So that made for a fun morning.
The dude was actually very efficient.
And chatty.
So that made the fact that he was cleaning my carpet as I sat on the couch less awkward.
Carter hid out in the kitchen the whole time - he's not so good with loud noises - but the carpet has never looked cleaner.
It took all day for the carpets to dry, watched 10 Things I Hate About You amongst other things, much funnier than I remember. But hysterical cause I was quoting it as it went. Didn't realize I had watched it that many times growing up, but apparently so.
Now everything is back in its place.
Though I'm thinking of asking my parents if they can take my foosball table and store it for me until I have a house and a place to put it.
Cause I can't get rid of it, cause it's like a memorabilia thing, you know? And the third best Christmas present ever.
The first being Maroon 5 tickets from my boyfriend and the second being a signed script from Charmed from Second Sister.
Yes, I am one of those Charmed nerds.
I could be queen of all Charmed nerds can cause I can list episode titles from all 8 seasons and quote from each of them as well.
Speaking of quotes, so my original intention - before all these ramblings - was to go through my box of random crap that I've collected since I moved here that's filled with all sorts of coworker and patrons quotes from the three years that I've worked in the library system.
Yes, as of today, it has officially been three years of working at the work branch - technically it was 3 years in the system as of the 16th cause that's when I started at the home branch, but I already did a big post about the home branch my last day there, so, here's to three years.
Things overheard at the library:
"It takes two to screw up a tango. Or something like that."
"Why would anyone want to eat anything that pink?"
"My sickle's in the car."
"Give me the one with the naked dancing men."
"Don't give me virgins, no!"
"There's so much water around the mosquitoes are gonna be as big as small birds this year!"
"We could call it PITA - Pain In The Ass!"
"Yeah, BYOP - Bring Your Own Painkiller."
"That's my mean look."
"You need practice."
"I left it on a cruise ship."
"She kept constantly murdering people in hopes of meeting Angela Landsbury."
"Do you get paid to sit there and look pretty?....And she's smart too!"
"I would have cussed him out in Russian."
Coworker Moments:
Fearless Leader holding up a copy of Legally Blonde the Musical: "THIS is why I hate musicals!"
Little Shelver Boy: "Can you check out anything in the library?"
Slim Shady: "Yes."
Little Shelver Boy: "Then can I check you out?"
Slim Shady: "Don't you have books to shelve?"
Queen of Awesome: "Trash it and do a happy dance."
Space Cadet: "Screw the fan, you want an e-reader!"
Me: "He went all Hulk and broke in!"
InfoMan: "The lights were still off!"
Me: "I just got an LOL from Superwoman. Brings me back to my MSN Messenger days. 'BRB' I'm not actually going anywhere but neither is this conversation."
Shirley: "You've been naughty so here's the scoop. Your Christmas gift is snowman poop!"
Girlscout: "My orca is gonna attack your porpoise."
Me: "Wicked? It's like the ultimate fan fiction."
Patron: "Hey, I'm trying to get my groove on here."
New Guy: "You're gonna have to get your groove on somewhere else."
Space Cadet: "You deserve like a sticker. or a gold star. or a pizza."
Superwoman: "Oh good grief, she would say pizza."
Space Cadet: "If I yell-"
Me: "I will run."
Superwoman: "It's a psychological thriller."
Slim Shady: "What does that mean in the context of ballerinas?"
Super Librarian Status: "Someone tried to flush a copy of The Economist down the toilet."
Me: "Irony."
Queen of Awesome: "I am envious of your boxes."
Me: "You looked all serious."
Space Cadet: "I am serious, I gotta get rid of this 7Up!"
Me: "You're a fan of Charlie's Angels?"
KPH: "I'm a fan of girls in general."
Me: "Here is my phone number so you can stop calling my mother."
Superwoman: "Maybe we like talking to your mother."
Fearless Leader: "I tried to use p-slip as a verb, p-slipping, don't do it."
Me: "Some dude got bit by a rattlesnake at Walmart."
Library Judge: "Yeah, but it only caused 60% damage."
QotKU: "I don't want to cougar him."
QotKU: "I'll wait for the hot firefighters."
Me: "We should write a book called 'What the hell were we thinking: The Hindsight Bias.' We could have a chapter called 'Relationship Mistakes, Mishaps and Malfunctions."
Cabin Fever: "Tell them you worship snakes. Always works for me."
Darth Scheduler: "A joyous observation on the day of your birth!"
Me: "What?"
Darth Scheduler: "Happy birthday."
Me: "You threw away the plant?"
Koha Queen: "It was dead!"
Me: "Well, in the words of Eric Overmeier..."
KPH: "I'm a sweater addict, I admit that freely. She wanted fashion in the 80's, has that changed?"
Me: "Does the coffee machine in the breakroom work?"
Fearless Leader: "Don't do it!"
Me: "Just say no to vending machine orange juice."
Me: "Justin Bieber wants to know if I like pie. What do I say? Now he's threatening to mug me if I don't answer."
Sensei: "I think this is a lovely start to the book you're going to write. I will be happy to provide color commentary."
InfoMan: "What happens in the library stays in the library."
Girlscout: "Or checks out for three weeks."
Supervisor: "Let's take 'em down!"
Me: "I gotta go upstairs, you're gonna have to 'take 'em down!' with Jeff."
Darth Scheduler: "Arg the pirate caveman."
Slim Shady: "Just say 'ew' and walk away."
Me: "Does that container say 'barf chips'?"
Glee-Loving Boss: "Yes, they are waste pickup deoderizers."
Me: "What are face aerobics?"
Extra
Second Sister: "If he shows up at your apartment do not let him in. Break up with him over the intercom."
Me: "An intercom breakup?"
Second Sister: "Oh yeah, they're all the rage."
Seth Godin: "We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are more clerks who guard dead paper."
Random Notes in bin
$0.25 for slot machine from Supply Queen - quarter spent in Vegas
intro for the speech i need to memorize for tomorrow:
Thesis: Special Librarians Dominate Dewey by Cataloging for
Their Customers Instead of Other Librarians.
Let me start this off by saying, I have nothing against
Dewey. I think it’s a great organizational system that has been constantly
evolving through time and that’s why we still use it. However, Dewey is not
customer friendly, it’s overwhelming. You’ve got baby name books shelved in the
middle of the geography and history section. You’ve got mythology lodged
between law and political science.
Can someone please explain to me why those items have been
put together?!
Without the help of a catalog even veteran librarians
sometimes have trouble finding items.
But Librarians are innovators man.
We rise above.
We take the improbable and make it possible.
We are all that and a bag of potato chips.
But there’s something to be said for special librarians. As
a public librarian – well, a Library Service Associate – I enjoy the variety of
material and patron base that I get to work with on a daily basis. But in a
special library it’s very different. Each special library has a specific patron
base they focus on. They choose their collection based on the needs of that
patron base, not based on what other librarians say they should have in their
collections.
have been finalizing speech all night. finished the powerpoint, now it's just about memorization. the most of which will probably take place tomorrow. i'm gonna record it and then listen to it over and over throughout the day. that's how i learned the zombies vs. unicorns speech here: Impromptu speech writing
you'll get the rest of this one tomorrow.
Quote of the day:
I have spiders, I think.
Anyway, the exterminator came to the apartment, but I kept calling him the "terminator" to which Info-man replied in a Schwarzenegger accent, "I'll be back to kill your spiders..."
yes, i know, short post, but like i mentioned, huge day tomorrow and gotta record my speech.
i did was Splash. glad Katherine made it through to another day. i've really been surprised by nicole eggert, but i'm still rooting for drake and rory. and have since the beginning, so stoked they're the top two. and then i added katherine on my root for list cause of last week's dive. and i like brandi because she was an alternate and came in an dominated.
i know, i know, it's an awful show. seriously awful, but it's a good relaxing show that takes me to a zen place.
moving on to music:
soooo much spanish this year!
last year it was julio and he was the first in the series, now it's everywhere!
Como la Flor - Mary Miranda
worth watching purely for shakira's reaction at 1:12.
"that's the real spicy dip!"
literally the only song i remember from Selena.
Good Girl - Amber Carrington
my team is full.
blake's ticked.
Dreams - Jacqui Sandell
it's like Juliet Simms-light. but she's good. and it's a good song.
Okay so, with the help of Info-Man and BossLady we've come up with an idea that could be completely EPIC for teens at the library.
See, he has this library friend who convinced her library people to hold like a golf @ your library thing where they set up holes around the stacks.
Which reminded me of this video that I had watched a while ago...
Wait, not that one.
Yes, that one.
Love the sand traps and water hazards.
Anyway, so I was thinking it would be fun for my TAB kids to do this around our library as an event for them, but then thought maybe we could make it a system-wide TAB thing where all of the different branches TAB kids could take part but then thought that would really limit our audience as well, so what about making it a Teen Summer Reading Program Event in which outsiders can partake?
The theme is "Dig Into Reading" and we're thinking more of golf than croquet, but either way I'm sure we could think up some sort of slogan to fit.
But the hosting teens could each design their own hole to match with what area of the library it's located in.
I'm thinking we could start up on 4th floor and have a couple holes, then they hit it in the elevator - don't worry they'd be those plastic golf balls, not the real ones that break glass - ride with it down to 2nd floor - skipping admin on 3rd cause pretty sure they wouldn't be fans - go through the biographies, the music library, around the reference collection and computer lab, then through the non-fiction and young adult areas, even some by the language and car repair manuals, taking them to the north staircase where they would hit it down the stairs and then going through the adult fiction and ending in the youth services department.
All the while hitting their plastic golf ball into themed holes along the way.
Thoughts?
I had to ask my aides cause they always tell me if things are lame or not.
They're like my handy dandy lame-o-meter.
But they said it sounded cool.
I think it could be EPIC. Which is why I want to open it up to more than just my teens cause for that sort of thing it would be better to have a crowd.
But I need permission from so many levels first before I could even bring it up to my teens as a possibility.
And I have a meeting on Tuesday so I'm hoping it will spark and catch fire tomorrow and give me either a yes or no by 4:15 on Tuesday.
But we'll see, I'll keep you posted.
The problem with posting random clips from YouTube is that while you're on you're reminded of other clips you could watch.
Like these next ones...
I've had this scene stuck in my head all day cause I heard the song this morning before work and when you've seen the movie as many times as I have you can see the entire scene in your head when you listen to the song and when it's a Sunday at work and it's dead there's not much else going on in there.
Though I can't necessarily blame that completely on the date though, can I?
Anyway but then you search for that one and end up watching a bunch of the others...
OR! the little gucci dress...
I want a bus like that.
Though I don't know if I would trust MeatLoaf to drive it.
...and now I really need to log off YouTube or I'll never go to bed.
This movie is the reason I can't watch The Good Wife.
I just keep seeing him as Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth.
Okay, finding what I actually came here for.
More of 2012's Greatest Hits
Pretty sure there's going to be more than a week of these.
and speaking of epic...
Set Fire To The Rain - Adele
2012 was the year of adele.
hoping 2013's even bigger. Domino - Jessie J
was originally resistant to this one as i didn't see the appeal but then heard adriana louise perform it during the blind auditions and that changed.
go here and you'll see. xtina won the four chair turn-around on that one.
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
ah, taylor swift. a girl for boys ages 18-35.
nah, these guys are actually pretty good.
It made for an interesting Sunday. One of the joys of having an ipad is that you can take it to work with you so you can add and drop classes with it on your breaks.
So, I emailed the Library Goddess last night cause I was freaking out about the classes I was going to take this semester. Special Libraries is gonna be awesome, there's no way I'm switching that one. I'm pumped and it's more of a go places than a read about places kind of thing.
Internet Reference I think is going to be very relevant and helpful and manageable, however when I heard that we needed to read 2 novel length books every week of the semester (aka January-May) for Reader's Advisory and combining that with the 2 other classes and their homework, plus work work, plus upcoming camp work, plus Summer Reading stuff, there was going to be no way that my brain would still be in one place by the end of the semester.
So I switched over to Diversity in Libraries which is taught by the same two professors that taught my Adult Services class last semester which I'm actually really nerdily - yes, nerdily - excited for because I learned A LOT about adult programming in that class by writing up program plans and researching all that. I took a lot away from that class and at the work branch our patron-base is completely diverse.
Not that the other branches don't have diverse patrons, but because of our location we have a bit more...
Anyway, I just think that that specific topic can really be helpful for my daily life at the work branch and may also teach me things that I can do with my TAB kids to kind of get them more involved with library outreach...
Did any of that make sense?
Are you catching what I'm throwing?
Do you hear me clucking, big chicken?
First time I said that to someone who wasn't my Oldest Sister he thought it was a drug reference.
My Delayed...Reaction partner.
No, it's not a drug reference, I'm calling you the big chicken.
I'm not clucking the big chicken.
Whatever the hell that means.
Let's not even go there.
Alright, it is far passed my bed time so I should sleep. That way I can enjoy sleeping in tomorrow as I don't have to be awake and coherent until I go in at 4PM.
who says you have to win to be awesome?
totally should have made it to the final three at least.
I'm not sure what I did to incur his wrath but he won't shutup.
I wonder what he does while I'm gone.
I know he's always waiting for me meowing at the door when I get home.
I'm sure my neighbors love him.
This is Carter in a nutshell.
no wait, this is carter in a nutshell.
pretty much every night. minus the bat.
You can blame these on my coworker's kid, she was the one to introduce me to them. We jammed out all afternoon - my TAB kids came in and made bookmarks, signs, banners and all that to hang up in the YA area.
She's a great artist so if there was a contest she would have dominated.
The bookmarks were a big hit. Apparently teens are into glitter. Who'd have known. Not sure that I was really that into but that was quite a while ago so maybe I'm blocking out my glitter fascination because it's tied to a specific memory.
I guess this goes on the "Boy, was I wrong" list, right above gauchos but just below the Flashdance phrase.
Haven't quoted Lorelai in a while, must be off my game.
So worked in the morning, jammed with the teens designing some cool looking bookmarks all afternoon. Literally all afternoon they were here 1-5. And then it took forever to take down to poor Info-Man basically had to close by himself.
After work I came back and did homework. Finished my paper due Friday and posted it. It's nice to know I can still pound out a major assignment in just a few hours. So I'm done for the week aside from discussion boards and then this weekend I'll attempt to work on stuff that's due next week but since it's my first weekend off in forever we all know that's not gonna happen.
I just needed to get it all done before conference on Thursday/Friday.
Or should I say nerd convention? More on that later.
I'm shocked but of course the boyfriend is off on vacation so no real plans which means I get to go to the farm. Woohoo! And get my tire pressure sensor fixed! I'm hoping, anyway. I think that thing breaks every few months, this is at least the third time it's happened. Gonna have to start keeping track of which tire it is.
More Voice battles tonight. Mycle and Michelle both survived. I'm starting to like Liz Davis as well, she's pretty good. Shocked by Xtina's steal, was not expecting that. The problem with more singers is that they don't show all of the battles. So like Celica, Michelle and Mycle's weren't aired even though they're great. They just showed the highlight reel and then the coach's pick.
Song of the night:
love 1:23-33 seems so much older than 25. just something about the voice. but it just sounds like she should be on the radio. you know? actual legitimate country voice, awesomeness.
Alright, I'm out for the night. The teens tire me out even though I was just sitting all afternoon drawing. They've got a lot of energy. Yikes.
Sadly I talked to her for like 5 seconds before I had to present the Curious George stuff - again! - you'd think I'd have it memorized by now.
Ha, right.
Scroll down a few posts and you'll get what I'm talking about.
They were putting up the panels for the displays as I was leaving. Should be all ready by opening tomorrow, woohoo!
Day flew by fairly quickly, checked in six carts in an hour, updated the TAB website, OH! sent them a challenge...
It's Teen Read Week - oh yeah, happy teen week read, btw oh and last week was banned books week, i totally sent a letter to my former children's lit professor as we have become pen pals - and we have this site that the awesomeness that is Info-Man has created that houses reviews and booklists and links - it's the one site I submitted my Hunger Games and The Help booklists to. Anyway, there's a staff review section to it that I contribute to, though not lately, my bad, but there's also a customer review section as well. Let me know if you're interested I'll send you the link.
Anyway, Info-Man was saying how he got all these great customer reviews from one of the other library's teen volunteers so since it is Teen Read Week I sent out an email to my TAB kids with a competition to see who could post the most reviews by the end of the week.
They don't have to read/watch/listen to the stuff this week, they just have to have read/watched/listened to it in the past and make sure it's in the collection for it to count.
We'll see if anyone participates, but I there will be a prize for the winner.
Though I'm guessing I already know who that will be.
But we'll see, I'm constantly surprised by these kids.
I'm hoping I will be tomorrow as well. We're doing out artwork project day - well, afternoon, literally. They're coming in 1-5, well I'll be there 1-5 they can show up whenever and leave whenever - but we're going to be making artwork to decorate the Young Adult area as it has white walls and is very blah-ish.
So we'll design some new signage, color some posters to hang around - I'm thinking of like having them draw out their favorite scenes or do some cool calligraphy of classic quotes or something so it's all literature-related - and then make up some cool bookmarks to have laminated and cut out.
We gotta spice the place up a bit as it is like the only wall in the building not colored.
So we'll see who shows up. I basically have it 1-5 because it's their day off and half of them could make it before 3 and the other half couldn't make it until after 3. But like I said, they're teens so we'll see if they're actually interested and want to take part or if they're feigning interest and would rather sleep or something.
Not that I'd blame them, it is their day off and sleep is pretty awesome.
I mean, I'd rather be sleeping.
Right now I mean, not then.
I'm excited for then, right now I'm toast but I gotta shower and do homework before I can go to bed.
It's only 11, I got time. As long as I'm out by 1 I'm usually pretty good the next day. Any later than that and things can get questionable.
I would have started earlier except you know The Voice and Castle were on, and I can't focus with them on in the background. Other shows I can pull that off.
The battles weren't like super exciting tonight. I mean, they were okay, but nothing as spectacular as Trevin Hunte vs Amanda Brown. That was awesome and I'm glad she got saved.
Scroll down a few, I posted it at some point this past week.
Though I'm guessing no future ones will really be even close to that one.
Or maybe they will, I mean almost half of my top 20 still has yet to battle and the only two I've lost are Nelly's Echo and 2Steel Girls.
Cassadee
Pope
Trevin
Hunte – beat Amanda in battle
Nicole
Nelson
Aquile
– beat Nathalie in battle
Avery
Wilson
Bryan
Keith – beat Collin in battle
Brandon
Mahone
Michelle
Brooks-Thompson
Adriana
Louise
Collin
Mcloughlin – stolen by blake after loss
to bryan
Terisa Griffin – stolen by cee-lo after loss to julio
Suzanna
Choffel – beat lelia in battle
Nelly’s
Echo – eliminated after first battle
Melanie
Martinez – beat Caitlin in battle
Gracia
Harrison – beat 2Steel girls in battle
Celica
Westbrook – beat lisa in battle
Mycle
Wastman
Mackenzie
Bourg
2Steel
Girls – eliminated after first battle
Joe
Kirkman
I think I need a new vacuum. The big one that I have doesn't work properly though that's probably because I don't have any replacement bags, and then the smaller one works but the battery constantly needs charging.
I attempted to clean tonight after work but the motivation didn't last long when the vacuums weren't working. Will work on that more later. Think tomorrow is date night with the boyfriend, either that or Wednesday night, it has yet to be decided. The night that's not date night will be homework night and if it's Wednesday night it's gonna have to end early cause I gotta be up and an hour away by 8AM the next morning for NLA.
And you all know how much of a morning person I am.
Will have to google directions on how to get there and all that since I don't know where I'm going.
Alright, song of the day:
Disease - Matchbox Twenty
love this video.
sorry, rob thomas is cee-lo's guest adviser this season so it's stuck in my head.
though this version is pretty great as well:
Phillip Phillips aka the newest American Idol performs live with guest guitarist
love the solos at the end. sweet.
whoa. a legitimate pre-midnight post. i'm in shock.
feel like i should wait fifteen minutes and then post it.
