There will be an answer, Letter B.

Quote of the day comes from the Things Overheard at the Library section:

"I'll put some paint over it, they'll never know the wall was burned."

I absolutely hate this commercial.


But I still can't get over the kids in the end.

An awkward of awesome.

Reminds me of all the other obnoxious commercials that make me want to throw things.

Which takes me back to hanging out at my great aunt's house all the time after school and her threatening to throw rotten tomatoes at the Menard's guy.

An interesting day at the library. Made a lot of progress on TAB stuff. Big meeting tomorrow. Planning our holiday party for Saturday and also picking out the Summer Reading Kickoff activities. I have a list, but you're creative. Any suggestions for fun activities to do with kids ages 2-12? The theme is something to the effect of "dig into reading" or something like that. Thinking treasure maps, crafting fossils, that sort of stuff. But it doesn't have to be theme-related.

Though it'll be hard to top bat goggles.

They were pretty sweet.

Maybe carrot hats will do the trick.

But probably not.

As for the holiday party - Think we'll end up ordering pizza. They want eggnog. Which sounds just gross. But hey, it's their party.

Anyway, thinking about making some fun holiday cards and taking them to a nursing home. Or The Mission. Or maybe I'll let them keep them and give them to their own families. It's up for debate.

So that was basically my day. Working at the desk while planning for the meeting tomorrow so that tomorrow there will be less freaking out-age.

Though I still get nervous. No idea why, they're cool kids. Though this time got a supervisor sitting in.

Big potatoes man, gotta be on my game.

Eh, I'll wing it.

On to the music.

So, The Voice was on tonight. Semi-finals. Things are a bit different this year because of the whole it doesn't matter who your coach is new twist. See last year and the year before each coach had a contestant in the finale because everything was broken down by the teams so whoever on each team got the least amount of votes got kicked off, but with the twist this year anyone can be voted off, no matter the team.

Which led to Xtina and Adam being kicked out before the semi-finals. Now Blake has two - Cassadee and Terry - and Cee-Lo has two - Trevin and Nicholas.

But now, instead of all four being honored and them going through 4th place, 3rd place, 2nd place, winner, tomorrow someone gets eliminated and it's down to three. And then that will be the finals.

Last year they did duets with their coaches, wonder how they're planning on doing that this year.

Aaannd guess who's making a guest appearance?!?!! JULIET SIMMS!! The fantastic and majestic. Now with Cee-Lo as a manager, that's a first so it's huge.

I would be content with any of them winning. They're all great. Though Cassadee still is my favorite and number one on my top twenty. And Trevin is number 2. Glad my top two made it. And Terry was on my honorable mentions but I can't believe I didn't put him higher, he's fantastic. "I wanna know what love is" is my favorite song this entire season.

He did great tonight as well.



So, apparently, growing up my brother thought the lyrics were "Letter B" instead of "Let It Be".

You can see how that can be mistaken, right?

Speaking words of wisdom, Letter B.

There will be an answer, Letter B.

Shine until tomorrow, Letter B.

Wow. Is is really only 11?

I think it's this whole no homework thing. I feel like something's missing.

And, okay, I lied. There's a tie for quote of the day. That one and:

"Si, Gracias por la hoagie." 

Max Black.

Is epic.

Think I could dedicate an entire post to Max-isms.

Hmmm....an interesting thought.

OUT!

and yes, holy crap tag in usage due to the pre-midnight post.

Very superstitious, writings on the wall...

Alright, Avengers is covered, now it's time for The Voice and Castle finales.

Thoughts?

I'm thinking, awesome.

For the pair.

I guessed a long while back that Jermaine was gonna take it. And he definitely deserved it. He did have a major edge already being on stage with Alicia Keys, and I think people really feared him because of it. Experience means less nerves which means better stage presence.

I like him, I like his voice, and I think Blake's a great coach - he's super picky about turning around during the Blind Auditions so you know if he does they're worth it.

Background singer no more.

I was just seriously excited for Juliet Simms for getting second. When it was announced that Tony got third and she had a shot at being first her jaw just dropped.

She was my favorite of the final four,
"I thought we were gonna make a toast and then we got a car? I don't have a car so I need this!"
"I feel like I'm on Oprah!"

I'm guessing they'll all get record deals, that's what happened last year. I wanna hear more of Juliet Simms. I got one of Automatic Loveletter's CD's through interlibrary loan - that was her band before she made The Voice. It's great. Same gravelly voice, but with original lyrics.

Here's some highlights from the finale:

Notice how I don't include Bieber Fever. Though I did enjoy Erin saying they were going to stalk him backstage.



definitely one of my favorite moments. basically the final four brought back former season two competitors and they sang together. This was Jermaine's bringing back Pip, Jamar and James for some Jackson Five. Love the choreography. And they're all so different from each other. I miss James and Pip, they were great.




such a random pair for Juliet to bring back, I was just intrigued, seriously. but i guess Raelynn was like her little sister and Jamar was just always so positive and as they were the final two for Team Cee-Lo it makes sense.




a little random since they weren't the final four, but awesome just the same. Sera rocked it.



i like this combo, Chris is great with opera but then you've got Lindsay's unique tone and Katrina's powerful vocals, it was great.




"this is what they were afraid of purrfect, they're gonna fire us."this is my impression of purrfect..." too funny.


love it. seriously love it. "i can't say the same."

save the best for last.



okay, i literally jumped up and down. literally got up and jumped. and at that point i was like, okay, Tony can win and i'll be okay with it. all because he brought Jordis back. she's my favorite, unless you missed all my rambles throughout the season.

She's just so great, she has a grit to her voice and serious power, great at both relaxed like "wild horses" and then hardcore like "maybe i'm amazed".

Hope she makes the "best of" CD. Or gets a record deal.

Can't wait until next season.

Speaking of, Castle's finale was huge!

Whilst the case storyline wasn't all that spectacular, actually I was a little let down by that, but the end made it worth it.

Now I just hope they don't screw it up like Bones.

I think they had their season finale as well, but I'm so far behind and for some odd reason have no motivation to catch.

Think it's all because things changed when they got together.

You can tell I'm not the only one. When a show changes nights that means it's at risk. If everybody was tuning in when it was on there'd be no reason to change things, they would already dominate in number of viewers.

Maybe Castle will be different.

I'm wondering if that's part of the reason why they're holding off on Ziva and Tony on NCIS.

And why Penny and Leonard broke up, course I'm behind on that too so for all I know they could be back together.

Too much pressure to keep them together. Plus it takes away motivation to keep watching since they're already together.

That's one of the reasons Frasier did so well. They didn't end up getting together until like the 8th season. And people kept watching because they had to see how it happened and then what happened next.

That's how I got sucked in, it was like finally! But now I have to watch until they get married and then I had to watch until they had kids and then I had to keep watching to see how it all ended.

On the agenda for today was a halfday at work then a meeting for grad school stuff. Basically I'm gonna be her grad assistant and have to take over her current duties. One of them is to lead these comprehensive exam study sessions where you get tips from those who took it and learn how to submit them - we don't have a major test, just a bunch of essays.

It was pretty informal, basically just went over the necessary steps. And then I talked to her about GA stuff, puts me at ease knowing what's coming and how to handle it.

I think I'll be okay. It's just a couple of semesters. Plus you know taking three classes and the homework and working 40 hours and directing a youth camp and doing TAB stuff...yeah, that's not bad at all.

I'd give you a music rec, but I gave you plenty above. I'm out.

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

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

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

Righteous man, I miss it there.

It's a totally different atmosphere.

As cheesy as that sounds, it is completely different.

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

Was great going back, had flashbacks.

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

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

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

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

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

- Bees have five eyes.

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

- Plastic law flamingos outnumber real ones in the US.

- Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing.

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

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

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

- Apparently the boyfriend thinks unpacking groceries is sexy.

Not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Every time he turns around I think he's the blue power ranger."

Where did Gibbs get "yabba yabba"?

That's the second episode I've heard him say it, and it's wigging my out.

Today rocked man.

Much more relaxing than the flustration that was yesterday.

Yes, flustration, get used to it.

Yesterday was a madhouse, but we were closed the day before so that's actually normal.

Today I had two hours to get all my supplies and TAB stuff together, we had a great meeting with a lot of good ideas, plus we took the kids out to the courtyard and took some fun pictures with their repurposing projects. Will have to send them to our website dude, maybe he can post them on the library website.

And I actually took half an hour of vacation, I know a whole 30 minutes right?!! so I could meet up with the Library Goddess and the cool aunt for the rivalry game of the season aka Nebraska vs. Creighton - we dominated the creetans - but they're goofballs, especially when they're together so it was a lot of fun.

Plus we ran into another professor, and we were just literally talking about morning classes. This is the Shackleton professor so it was amusing when she was at the game, and we just happened to run into her. Randomness rocks.

Told a lot of old family stories, basically me as a kid being an idiot but for some reason it turned out okay, like once when I was four I was watching the Jungle Book and it got to the scary part and it was too loud. So I freaked out and couldn't find my parents. Me, being the genius I was at age four, decided then that it would be a good idea to run to my grandparents house cause they would make it all better. So I ran half a mile in the dark, barefoot, got there, Grandpa was like what? He drove me back, and my parents were walking to the house - they were out cleaning a bin - and he's like "missing something?" "huh?" they didn't even know I was gone.

Rock solid man, rock solid.

Or the time at the hotel, basically every year we would go to a hotel in Iowa to meet up halfway with some family. My cousins and I would come up with random games to keep us entertained.

This one was basically hide and go seek with a twist. We'd take a bunch of pieces of paper and make a big black dot on only one of them. Everybody picked from the stack and went off to hide. Once you found a hiding spot you open the paper and see if you had the spot, if you did you're it and you had to go find someone, if not do your best to stay away though it's best to keep wandering instead of being in one spot. If you ran into someone you didn't know if they were friend of foe so do you team up or run?

I wandered a bit too far, ended up in a completely different wing and floor. Completely lost and I'm like 8 I knock on a random door and there are these two guys going, what the heck? They basically led me around the building until I could hear my family, we're super loud.

But that could have been really bad, as could the barefoot thing cause you know I could have run into a raccoon. And "a raccoon could kill a dog!" scroll down.


Quotes of the day:

Me: "Say cheese"
Kid: "Potato"
Me: "And barbecue sauce..." *takes picture*

Library Goddess: "Didn't it buzz your butt?" phone on vibrate

Cool Aunt: "Every time he turns around I think he's the blue power ranger." power rangers were another cousins thing. we each had our own characters, rock solid. but this reference was about the other team's catcher.

Me/Cool Aunt: "Cause you know a raccoon could kill a dog." this is a dad line and it's ridiculous. just one of those family quotes that stick with you because it's soooo way out there.

Library Goddess: "Vegas." meaning what happens in vegas stays in vegas so whatever you're talking about stays between those present.

Prof: I'm the one she curses for applying Shackleton to daily life. and i still do!! dangit...

Abby from Scandal: He gives expensive speeches, makes a fortune. He's anti-choice, pro-gun, hates the gays and likes it when kids pray in school." i laughed so hard at the hardcore rant, so funny. ps, i'm in love with scandal it's fantastic.

Duuuude, Gibbs just clotheslined a dude with a trashcan lid!!


"Are You Gonna Go My Way" Jamar Rogers

jam fest.

"Roxanne" Juliet Simms

she's just so good!! LOVED this one, standing ovation from xtina and she's not even on her team. i just keep playing 1:29-1:32 over and over. i love xtina's "dooooooope" she says that frequently it rocks.

"Don't Leave Me This Way" Cheesa

this is the one i raved about yesterday, had to get it off itunes, actually i got all these off itunes plus some extras from the earlier rounds as they're dooooope.

I won't give out any spoilers in case you're behind but I am pleased with the results.

Alright, I'm out for the night. Have a good one.