Thank you frailty. Thank you consequence. Thank you, thank you silence.

I feel like I should be doing homework.

Granted the only assignment this week isn't due until Friday, but still.

It feels weird to actually have time to sit around and watch TV.

No discussion boards, plus I finished the newsletter and sent it to the Library Goddess, so the only pressing matter on mind is that Bosley's gone missing and is in big trouble.

He was trying to be spontaneous cause he felt the Angels knew him to well so he disappeared, sending them clues to see if they could figure out where he went and now he's been drugged and kidnapped.

See what happens when my boyfriend works second shift?

I watch like 3 discs worth of 70's awesomeness.

And apparently my theory of no one wanting to be Sabrina was false, no matter how many TV interviews I'd watched about the series, two of my library friends still say she was their favorite.

I also neglected to mention yesterday that my ex boyfriend's mother was Kate Jackson's stunt double.

Which was awesome.

It's interesting to see how many big-named actors have made guest appearances on the show and to see where they are now. Dennis Cole - dead - appeared in three different episodes as three different characters but they kept casting him because he was married to Jaclyn Smith.

I find it amusing when spouses make cameos, like Jason Sehorn on WMC appearing as basically himself. He walks out of a room right as Angie Harmon's character walks in claiming, "why can't I get a guy like that?!" Though according to the awesomeness that is Demi he has no interest in appearing in Rizzoli and Isles.

Bummer. I might actually watch that episode.

I'm so far behind, I watched the whole first season, bought it plus the second but have failed to watch any of the third...or the second that I already own.

Oldest Sister took advantage of that and watched it whilst babysitting my apartment waiting for the mattress men.

Speaking of Oldest Sister, totally missed out on a family thing at Second Sister's house today cause I had to work. Bummer. Oh well, I shall hopefully see them at some point this weekend since I'm off for three days.

And then have to go back to work on my birthday, but the three days before it make up for that.

I think.

Ah, she does believe you John Bosley. And she's sorry for drugging you, kidnapping you, and for shooting at your friends.

She's a keeper.

Carter is less than enthused about this show, he fell asleep on my lap about 5 minutes in, then glared at me every time I've gotten up to switch out discs.

But really it's either this or Storage Wars as that is currently filling up my DVR.

Don't judge me.

It's good to fall asleep to.

Interesting, yet not interesting enough to keep me awake for three hours after I should have fallen asleep.

Speaking of sleep it's getting late. Big day tomorrow, gotta finalize my TAB agenda for the meeting on Tuesday cause I only go in for two hours Monday.

Finally found a bunch of fun ideas for Summer Reading Events - aside from the golf, which I got my official approval email about, woohoo!

All thanks to the rebuttal email that took me 2 hours to write and drove BossLady nuts cause I kept making her proofread it.

But the other stuff sounds fun too, bring your favorite book and make a board game about it - found some fun templates - paper lanterns, painting glass, sand bowls, making masks, homemade bracelets, etc. I'll post more about them after they make their decision on Tuesday.

Alright, on to the music. 

I'm slowly running out of songs to recommend, but I guess that happens after 725 posts. I didn't do music recs until about 3 months in, but with 2 per post after that that's still over 1000 songs rec'd.

Geez.

So I'll hit you with some classics.

The song that never dies:

Footloose - Blake Shelton

reminds me of him on The Voice. "I don't wash my truck. Ever."

haven't seen the new movie cause i figured it'd kill the original.

And one I sing often at work:

Thank You - Alanis Morissette

too catchy for its own good.

and i'm out.

Groove is in the Heart

So, what did I do with my halfday off?

Rizzoli and Isles dancing behind the scenes - gotta love it

oh the joys. they do this a lot. but this was angie's birthday so i felt the need to post it.


She's back!

Paget's back on set. love it. Totally stoked for Criminal Minds - coming back September 21st! And the whole gang is signed in for the new season. They said they're bringing her back first episode but we'll see. You know Morgan's gonna be mad. Hotch will probably take a beating cause he knew. Not sure about JJ.

Other than working 11-2, not finishing my puzzle, writing barely, cleaning out my desktop, I did catch up on my TV/movies.

Watched the new Warehouse 13 online. HG's back with a vengeance! I heard rumors of a spinoff, I'm stoked but not. Cause I mean it'd be awesome cause she'd have her own show. But then it wouldn't because she wouldn't be with Pete and Myka and Claudia and all that. Maybe they'll do crossover episodes like they do with Eureka. and now apparently Alphas. It's like SyFy is blending all their shows together. Which is sweet. I know, nerd. Moving on. This week's episode was awesome, I highly encourage you find it online. Jack and Rebecca are back - "And me?" "You gaze at me lovingly." - they were Warehouse agents back in the 60's and Rebecca came in first season to help with case. They brought her back in second season and now in the third. Awesomeness.

Then went to see this:

Cowboys and Aliens


It actually was pretty good. Scale of Awesome says 8/10. Indiana Jones meets Space Cowboy Bond in this western good vs. evil flick. Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell. Directed by Jon Favreau - but see, everytime I hear that name I think of him in the Replacements, not him as the director of Iron Man.

Anyway, despite peoples' negative opinions on the movie - those who haven't seen it and say it looks dumb - I rather liked it. and would totally see it again...on DVD.

Quotes of the night:

"You're a bit of a blonde in a brunette's body."
me to my niece. cause it's true. she's just a little goofy. and blonde...at times. We told her she needs her own blog and that can be the title. The post can all be about B words. Boys. Brains. Bananas. Whatever. We'll see what happens with that.

"Watch out for Bobis."
not even gonna try to explain that one.

Oldest Sister: "Get your head out of your purse!"
M: "It smells nice in here!"
goofy.

and the famous
M: "Blame it on Dad. It's his fault I'm stupid."
but she knows how to spell stupid, so she's not that bad.


Also tonight saw the preview for the new Three Musketeers movie - totally going go see that.

Love Mr. Darcy with a sword and Orlando Bloom as the bad guy.


Music Rec's for the night:

"King of Wishful Thinking" Go West

played before the movie tonight - had to google the original artist

"Groove is in the Heart" Deee-Lite

love the video. everything disco is just fantastic - clothing, dancing, just pure awesomeness.

I'm a pancake. I'm a pancake.

Nice job, pancake.

Happy Women's Murder Club day everybody! On this day, like - holy toast - 3 years ago, the best show ever had it's finale. And I'm still obsessed with it. Yet another fun quirk.

"That's not coffee, that's diabetes on ice."

The Cop, the Lawyer, the ME and the reporter of awesomeness originated in James Patterson's Women's Murder Club book series (1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree ... he's up to 10th Anniversary) and took to screen on October 12th, 2007 on ABC. Did I mention I'm a fan?

"Do you know anything about her personal life?"
"She had one?"

Anyway, three years later and I'm still upset it was cancelled. Now, thanks to the BFF, I have a giant picture on my wall (that she drew cause she's Sketch) of the 4 of them with the tattoo design in the middle. Look to the right, that's the tattoo of awesomeness. Yes, more awesomeness. Everything about WMC was of awesomeness. Except, of course, it's cancellation. And switch in storyline, they fired the head writers halfway through and gave us 3 crap episodes at the end that completely switched the Kiss-me-not storyline. They were going with fairytales, then the new writers - I don't know if they didn't like it or weren't allowed to use it - then switched to this psycho's sister being dead and her keepsakes and...yeah it's a long story.

"Did you know that the crime desk assignment came with a pepperspray keychain and and police scanner? It's like my new Tivo, I can't turn it off."

Plus it was right in the middle of the writer's strike so it had awful timing and basically no chance.

"What'd you do, go to a biker bar?"
"I went to seven. They're a little scary. The people are surprisingly helpful once they figure out you're not a cop. Bikers are not fond of cops."

Anyway, Angie Harmon's got Rizzoli and Isles which is basically just like Lindsay Boxer moved to Boston and met another Medical Examiner.
Laura Harris had Defying Gravity and to my ultimate joy guest starred in Warehouse 13.
Paula Newsome is now a serial guest star in NCIS, Bones, Grey's Anatomy, Flashforward, and Parenthood.
Aubrey Dollar has only been in Ugly Betty, Cupid and most recently The Good Wife. She needs a permanent placement.

"Do you need me for this conversation?"
probably not. ask the bff. okay, moving on.

Aside from WMC day, work today flew by pretty quickly. Shelved then lunch then upstairs, backroom, backroom, backroom, public service. It was an exciting time in the backroom figuring out more quirks with the holds list. *sarcastic tone* No, I think we've figured it out, we're just pros and cons-ing the different styles internet explorer vs. google chrome vs. firefox which one is faster and can print and you can eliminate things and yeah. Cause with Firefox you can't print but you can do everything else. With Internet Explorer you can't eliminate information but you can print. and with Google Chrome you can print and eliminate information and it's much faster. But then you also have to wait because with every screen change it's like constantly adjusting its size so you have to wait until it picks one to move on to the next item so the speed kind of cancels itself out. If that makes sense. It probably doesn't.

And then, finished my book, wrote out my questions with time to spare. Now I'm going to crash so I can wake up early tomorrow for class and have time to pick up coffee for myself and the Library Goddess as we will both need it. BTW - my voice is also gone. That was a fun development throughout the day. I'm hoping it's back by tomorrow since she calls on me and stuff.

Okay, clip for the night:

"They" by Jem - great song.

Here's a video - the beginning amuses me. Jill and Claire went to Lindsay's ex's wedding (who's now her lieutenant) and Jill's boss caused this big scene so Jill called her and made her come pick her up and Claire was helping Lindsay work a case over the phone - mid wedding - and they meet up in the alley behind the reception and the bride like stomps out and yells at them. Hysterical.


It's NOT a club!

"Right...I'll hang...catch you on the B-Side."

High School Never Ends

Just watched "Body of Proof" with Dana Delaney as an M.E. It's like a combination of "The Closer" and "Rizzoli and Isles". Amusing actually. She's got the personality of Brenda Lee Johnson and the abilities of Maura Isles. Looking forward to the next episode, on Sunday this time then back to Tuesdays.

And I'm waaayyyyy behind on my Greys but I will watch the musical episode cause I'm stoked. Sara Ramirez has an amazing voice - I'm not gonna overload you with spoilers and all that as you may be fans as well. She actually has an EP out now. Loving her version of Brandi Carlile's "The Story" check it out on itunes.

So, I was going to post "Bliss" by Muse but watched the video and since he's falling down this big hole that looks suspiciously like the one Darth Mall fell into when he died I decided it was morbid and depressing. And I'm staying away from morbid and depressing since I've already overloaded you with two of those videos this week and it's only Tuesday.
Insead, have some fun with Bowling For Soup. Love this song, major anthem actually.

See, it's only disturbing, not depressing or morbid. And it's true really.

have a good night.

"Is this ad relevant to you?" "No!"

Gotta love watching TV online. I love Hulu, it's fantastic, it has all my favorite shows and it's free. But they stick you with these ads that are like ridiculous then ask if they're relevant to you. Car commercial, relevant? No. Different car commercial, relevant? No. Kay jewelry commercial, relevant? No. Open hearts jewelry commercial, relevant? No. Video game promotion, relevant? No. I was like, what's next? Different video game promotion?
Is it just me or is anyone else secretly waiting for the psycho killer to show up at the end of that "i'm right here and i always will be" storming outside kay diamond commercial? I think I watch too many crime shows. Speaking of, I caught up on Bones and I don't want to ruin anything for anybody else who isn't up to date but dude. Like duuuude. Big episode last week, I'm stoked for tomorrow's. Heather Taffet man! And I was starting to like her as an actress. She was in the Closer, Saving Grace and Criminal Minds as well - although I haven't seen the last one since I'm on strike. I'll spare you the rant. Again. But a serial guest star again, like Natalie! aka "bring it on old man" chick from RED aka Go Meat chick from the Hillshire Farms commercial who also guest spotted on all my favorite shows. Scroll down a few posts and you'll find who I'm talking about. In fact, Taffet and Natalie kind of remind me of one another. Maybe it's the red hair and bad attitude.

So the roads here are awful but Jarvis and I are still having fun. Except that it took FOREVER to scrape off the windshield this morning even though I used the self-start ten minutes before. Just have to start earlier tomorrow morning. But driving and seeing snow flying everywhere reminded me of sledding on the farm. You don't just have the sled you go all out with the 4-wheeler pulling you over hills and ponds and through the ditches. You just gotta hang on for dear life. Especially when your cousin runs you into a mailbox, my bad, sorry Megan. Or over the top of a car, again my bad Megan, but it was well worth it. And it's always fun when you get stuck in a pile of snow and step on the gas only to fly right through making the person on the sled get completely yanked off because it's so sudden. Awesome. Unfortunately I've missed out on the sledding so far since I've been working but I'll have to make up for it when I go home.
One of my favorite snow memories was when it snowed so much and it piled up next to the quanset - this building of ours so big it houses the combine and tractors and all that - and so I climbed all the way to the top and slid down. Mom totally flipped, like flipped. Dad just laughed and went inside to get the camera. I was fearless. There's a picture of me standing on top of this thing and it's not like a flat top building, it's rounded. That was probably a very bad idea. But I survived.
I also liked making forts, we did a lot of that in grade school. But no snowball fights, that was frowned upon, in grade school and high school.

Music currently jamming out to - "Don't know nothing" by Maroon 5. I love the rhythm of this one. I'm recommending their Hands All Over album again, it's fantastic.
Food thinking about eating even though it's after 11 - popcorn. mmm... popcorn.
TV show I will most likely fall asleep watching - NCIS first season, I'm back to the DVDs. I miss Kate. It's so weird seeing Sasha as a Medical Examiner now. And Angie Harmon is still a detective but she'll always be Lindsay Boxer to me. Yes I'm referencing Women's Murder Club. Get over it. But I do like Rizzoli and Isles, I'm waiting for the first season to come out on DVD. Should look into when it comes out. Oh well, job for tomorrow. I'm out.

A Christmas Tree Nightmare

I put the trees up at the farmhouse today and gotta say wow. I've never wanted to burn something more in my life. The first tree, the one of awesomeness, is seriously a piece by piece thing. Every branch you have to put in individually. And even though it takes forever I love it. It's relaxing. I'm the only one who knows the order they go in. It's all red and gold and pretty.
The second tree...oh man. It's only three pieces, bottom, middle then top. It should take maybe 5 minutes to put up, right? No. Two hours and I finally had the thing standing up straight. By this time I was just plain ticked. It was bad. My secret plan is to take it out to the trash hole the day after Christmas, cover it in lighter fluid and light a match. Oh man. The problem is that the bottom thing that goes into the stand isn't like a pole. It's this triangle thing. Why would you make it a triangle? It's the base, it's supposed to be perpendicular to the floor so the thing can stand up straight. You'd think anyway. But no. Then you have to tighten the screws, there are three, and they have to be completely even or the tree is crooked. And they don't screw in easy, it takes pliers. Plus you're getting stabbed in the face by the branches because they're in the way. Then the branches all look weird because it's one of those that has the lights already on it. So the branches are all tied together and sticking in different directions. And of course none of the lights work anymore anyway. We've had the thing four years and I honestly don't remember them ever working. So I took a scissors to some of them, (sh, don't tell mom). Anyway, two hours later and it's up.
Then I have to decorate the stupid thing. And it's the cheesy tree - the one that gets all the childhood-art-class-made-ornaments, pictures of grandkids, random ornaments that make noise when plugged into the light sockets, toys and random objects with string on them but clearly not meant for a Christmas tree, silver tinsel and colored lights galore. But it works. So I distracted myself from the gag-worthiness with Rizzoli and Isles episodes I have DVR'd from earlier this year.
Now they are both up and have special things attached to the chord so all you have to do is hit a button and you can turn them on and off without even having to unplug anything. Hooray. I can sleep in peace. Or have another dream about my dad being murdered and mom and I being held hostage. So weird. It's been a banner day.