Merry Christmas you filthy animal.

The boyfriend's birthday today so I could finally give him his present.

Which means I can finally tell you what it was.

He once said if he could ever have season tickets to anything it would be Stars Hockey so I got him season tickets for the rest of the season.

Now there is a game on Valentine's Day so I need to remember that that is entirely my fault.

He seemed excited so I'm calling it a victory.

Along with the fact that he never figured out what it was after months of guessing.

Victory.

That's basically all I remember from today.

Gave him that, we went to dinner then watched Home Alone.

We're doing it backwards cause last week we watched the second one.

Marathons.


Nothing major from work, except it went by super fast.

Tomorrow is staff meeting and food day so I should konk out soon.


And yes, I did watch the Voice finale and it's killing me not posting about it but I figured I'm already hitting you with enough music so I'll ramble about it after all the Xmas music.

I do have to point out that my pick won it all.

Which makes me 2/4 since I picked Cassadee Pope 2 seasons ago.

And I've only watched 4 seasons of it.

I'm just glad the one with the best voice finally won it.

I mean Judith Hill seriously should have won last season. A lot of people said Amanda Brown was the best the season before that but I liked Cassadee better.

Cause I was a fan of Hey Monday before they got popular.

I don't remember much about season two except I was for Jordis and she got hosed.

Oh, Juliet, she should have won but she got second.

Started Blake's three-peat but now Adam is back on top.

Anyway, enough with my ramblings. I'll post those clips after Xmas.

On to the music.

Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Day Five


Oh Little Town of Bethlehem - Shawn McDonald


if you're into christian music you should check out his song Rise, very catchy, very cool.

2012 was Sinatra, 2011 was Sarah McLachlan


Silent Night - Kelly Clarkson


crazy talented, been a fan since Idol. the one year i watched it. i could link you to like 20 of my favorites by her but i'll just stick with one. my favorite we used to sing over and over in high school. Respect.

2012 was SNL, 2011 was Aly & AJ


What Child is This - Lindsey Stirling


yes it's instrumental but i like it. she's the one that covered Radioactive with Pentatonix which I posted last week. check it out here.

2012 was Carrie Underwood, 2011 was Charlotte Church

out.

2011 Day Five - Battle of the Blogs, Gypsy Caroling, Fat Cats, Whom Shepherds Guard and Angels Sing
2012 Day Five - I'll Deck Your Halls

I feel it in my bones, enough to make my systems blow.

Last day of my internship.

No more half and half days.

Went in with a pen and marker in my pocket - some patients aren't allowed to use pens but they can use markers - notebooks under my arm, and chocolates for Mr. BossMan Tom.

The good ones. If you haven't had Baker's chocolates made in Nebraska you are missing out on life.

He got me a gift too. A copy of Leaves of Gold with a Catching Fire bookmark.

Now I have fancy quotes to use in my blog like...

Poor indeed is the man whose mind is not enriched by some phrase of lasting truth and beauty which serves to restore his soul in the exigencies of life. 

Take that!

No, I love it, it's got fancy binding and everything.

Yes, that's my librarian jargon. Fancy binding.

One of my favorite library memories is actually about binding - my coworker was looking at the cover of this giant Lana Turner book. So me - trying to make conversation - was like, "hey, is that Lana Turner?" and she was like - "oh, I didn't even notice I was just admiring the binding." Giant - like giant - picture of her face on the cover and like 3 minutes of staring at the book.

We're nerds, have I mentioned that already?

Anyway, after practicum I came home and wrote up my monthly report, submitted it, updated the spreadsheet and then sent everything to Mr. BossMan Tom. So I'm officially done with practicum.

Final Count-Up 90:20/90.

I'm sad it's done. And just when we were making progress with our internet policies. Will have to stop by and check in every once in a while. Gonna miss it.

Back to 9-6 every day.

Which used to be exciting.

Gonna have to reinvent my 9-6.

Actually started that today as I shifted and weeded the entire Young Adult collection.

Took me 3 hours to shift everything - I started weeding it last week but finished this morning - but now there's more space cause I talked Superwoman into giving me another unit, and I also added a nonfiction section cause before it was just thrown in with the fiction and if you weren't looking specifically for it you wouldn't even know it was there.

We'll see how long it lasts.

So that was my day. Good but sad. Glad we're closed Thursday and Friday. Gives me some time to finish up my final homework assignment EVER and set up the Christmas trees.

Or at least get started, we'll see.

Song of the Day:

Radioactive - Pentatonix feat. Lindsey Stirling


awesome cover. i posted an xmas video of these guys last year, they're crazy good.

the song's been stuck in my head all day. am i the only one that thought the words were "ready to rock you"? i mean, i figured it out after they sang it twice on the voice but on the radio that's what it sounds like.



welcome to the new age, to the new age.