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Showing posts with label rolling stones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rolling stones. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2014

I need you darling, come on set the tone. If you feel you're falling won't you let me know.

Big day.

Slept in - excellence - then hit up the annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet.

As the volunteer supervisor I got to go set up tables, welcome the volunteers, eat fancy food, listen to speeches, then take down and get paid for it.

Our set up only took a record setting 30 minutes so we had time to take fun pictures.



Stealing that picture from one of our many fabulous Sarah's.

We have a lot of Sarah's. And Julie's. And Pat's.

Granted I can't talk, there are two of me too.

We're a goofy bunch, but lots of fun.

The food was good, my kids had fun, we took lots of pictures, I'm calling it a success.

After which I cleaned my apartment - kitchen and bathroom included.

Not sure what to do with myself now, it's almost too clean.

Don't worry, that won't last.

Along the way I bought a bunch of fun new music for my iPod (this after buying over 100 songs for Dad this past weekend. Did I mention how it's all fun and games for us kids to buy him an iPod but when you're the only one around to download them... now I come home and he has lists for me. It's wildly amusing. He even calls when it's been a while to see when I'm coming home. He used to have lists of reality TV episodes I needed to watch, now it's downloading music.)

Anyway, I went Pentatonix crazy - I love iTunes, they have everything - and then, for fun, searched the top lists and ran into this one.

This post is actually just an excuse to post this song as its my new obsession. If you haven't heard it already listen to it now, it's fantastic.

Sing - Ed Sheeran


It only took about 30 times of listening to it before I realized how much it reminds me of my favorite Rolling Stones song. One that I've posted multiple times but will post again.

Miss You - Rolling Stones


Compare and contrast, ready, go.

Didn't hear it the first time, now I can't not hear it.

Now I'm off to watch the second Hobbit. Or perhaps I should save that and watch it with the boyfriend. We skipped seeing it in theaters. Having it on DVD means I can fast forward through the boring stuff.

An option I wish I had when we saw the first one in theaters.

Is that sad?

I think it's just because I liked the trilogy so much that my expectations were high and it fell short.

I can only imagine how I'll feel after the upcoming Star Wars movie. My love for that series nearly quadruples my love for any other movie series.

Except the Mummy series that is (minus the third of course, god that was awful). And Charlie's Angels but there's only two of those. And Harry Potter. And the Hunger Games.

Maybe only triple of the Die Hard series. And the Marvel series. But other than that....

Did I mention I liked sequels?

That's all I got. Have a rockstar weekend.

Friday, May 17, 2013

"You're a vampire. I'm a half blind private investigator. These stories always end up tragic."

Back to Blood Ties.

Still on season one.

Need to finish this so I can move on to season two and then return them both.

Had them for like 2 months now.

Gotta love Interlibrary Loans.

Though I may just end up buying them off Amazon.

"any other vampires in town i should know about?"
"we don't all belong to the same book club."

It's an amusing series.

Though not inspiring enough to make me want to read the novels.

There's just something about vampire books that I can't get into.

I blame Twilight and Bella's immediate fascination after two pages of Edward.

We had to read the first book for class.

She knew him for like 2 days and was already, "i'll die for him" and all that crap.

It was repulsive.

Vomitrocious one would say.

Well, a friend of mine would anyway.

So today was fun.

Got to work at the home branch with the new supervisor and the new aide.

The one I was hired along with 3 years ago finally quit and has a new job.

Speaking of 3 years, yeah, it's officially been 3 years as of yesterday that I've worked for the library system.

And on the 24th it'll be 3 years at the work branch.

It was nice to go back to the relaxation that is the home branch and its usual patrons.

Except it wasn't relaxing for long as the computers would turn themselves off after about 15 minutes into each session.

That made for a fun morning.

But I was off at 2 so it wasn't that long of a day.

Tomorrow is gonna be a weird one as well, work the morning then camp meeting in the afternoon.

Sending out our application letters, woohoo!

We always have fun, even if it's doing the mundane task of folding letters and stuffing them in envelopes.

But we're goofballs.

And now we're excited goofballs cause application letters going out means camp season is officially upon us.

I've already gotten 2 applications in the mail - you can always tell when the pastors get them cause their kids send theirs back immediately.

We actually mail out individual application forms to everyone who went the previous year and then out to the churches as well to attract more kids.

So that's Saturday, and I'm off on Sunday and Monday so for Mother's Day I told Mom I would clean her house.

Cause that's all she wanted.

Alright, I'm zonked.

Gonna crash.

Music for the night:

heard these two on the way to the motorcar run last month.

yes i did go through my SoundHound history to find music to post.

i do it quite often.

both SoundHound-ing things and looking through my history to find stuff to post.

it's quite handy when you can't remember the name of a song or want to know what year it came out.

and having it on my phone it shows the lyrics as they're sang, it's a pretty cool app.

Shattered - Rolling Stones

i knew he was a spaz but this brings it to a whole new level.


Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty

they look so young.

granted it is from 1981.


alright, legitimate pre-midnight post, holy crap tag in use.

back to Blood Ties though I'll probably konk out soon.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

"and I did it all in Birkenstocks."

Ah teenagers.

They make my life so interesting.

So we had our last TAB meeting of the school year and spent it working on our Library Golf setups.

I figured an hour would be a good start and yep, gonna need a few more.

They picked out their supplies - we're sticking with library materials otherwise it wouldn't be Library Golf - so ramps out of books, archways made of magazine holders, shelves as borders, mailing tubes as tunnels.

It's gonna be fun.

But yeah, gonna need some more time to finalize those designs.

It took a whole hour before they got there to pull out possible supplies - myself and Bosslady. It's amazing how much crap she'll climb over just to get a nice box.

And she did it all in Birkenstocks.

Should tell the Reference Queen that could be her life motto. She wears them every day.

That and the teens were the highlights of the work day.

Unless you count being called by both of my bosses aka Boss #1 and Boss #2 within minutes of each other.

Both about work stuff, library and grad school-wise.

After work I went out to see the boyfriend. We got Runza and watched Kingpin.


You're on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.

Classic movie.

Hadn't seen it in like a decade.

I'm zonked, it's been a long day so I should probably crash.

Song of the day:

Showdown - Electric Light Orchestra


reminds me of this one:

Miss You - Rolling Stones

used to listen to it on repeat back in the days i used my CD player. it was on the Austin Powers soundtrack, ha.


oh my god it's Lovesong, they're singing Lovesong on the Voice.

now i love the show even more.

will post that one tomorrow.

over and out g-man.



Saturday, April 20, 2013

We are not the B-Team! Fool, we are the second A-Team!

Saw this today.

Watch it and tell me you're not intrigued.

I dare you.


Serendipity is my stripper name.

Aw Claudia, how I've missed you and your snarky remarks.

No, seriously you should watch the clip. It's a great show, totally underrated though it is gaining speed.

Got a bunch of library friends hooked.

But how can you resist?

Though now every time I see anything by HG Wells I picture Jaime Murray instead of an old dude with a mustache.

Which makes library life interesting.

Not that it's not already interesting.

Take today, the work branch closed early because of a water leak.

Didn't really matter to me though as I wasn't there anyway.

Today was our annual volunteer recognition banquet.

Got a panic text from Superwoman asking me to go over early and cover for her.

Spent the majority of the time setting up tables, putting out chairs, napkins, programs, silverware, and staring longingly at the food - it's catered like cheesecake and chocolate and fruit and all that. Got a whole plateful and ate it whilst listening to speeches.



Lots of good speeches, the mayor - totally shook his hand - library director - aka Boss's Boss's Boss - and then our library board director.

Who I've talked to once.

Which was today.

Superwoman played emcee.

Joke of the day being her remembering what our volunteer tokens were called.

Sweat-free double-walled tumblers.

Looks like this complete with straw.

And she's allowed to cause she and I picked them out.

They are awesome.

I use my UNO one from the Cool Aunt all the time.

After the recognition I attempted to finish the homework I couldn't last night - see yesterday's post - cause their site was down.

Turns out it's still down.

And I wasn't the only one with issues, Maegan also commented on my post, along with one more and then I got an e-mail from a 4th asking if I'd heard anything.

Which I didn't.

So I just submitted everything with a note at the bottom and screenshot of the website when it was down.

Got an e-mail back from the prof saying she couldn't access it either so just to send it in and she would consult with the other prof.

Hoping we don't get docked for something that's not our fault.

Though the irony is that the question is something like go to Complete Planet and search for something you know a lot about. Are there databases listed that you've never seen before? Is Complete Planet worth checking again in the future.

Um, the answer to that right now, is no.

This assignment was much easier than the last one with all the census crap - yep, remember that one and the professor that hates me?

Though I can't decide if she still hates me or not.

She seems to be pleased with my work as of late.

So that's exciting I guess.

Aside from homework I've started watching Blood Ties.



He has some great moisturizer.

They're Canadian.

It's.

Weird.

But oddly entertaining.

I got the first two seasons from ILL.

2 discs in, we'll see where it goes.

Alright, on to the music and then I'm out.

Song of the night:

Miss You - Rolling Stones


Meeting tomorrow morning for class then a whole day off.

With no homework to work on.

Stoked.

Probably nap and watch more Blood Ties.

Or one of the other movies I have checked out at the moment.

The stack is growing.

And they all look good, but the problem is that the boyfriend and I watch a lot of movies and I think he would want to see some of them. So I'm waiting 'til he gets back.

Which is Monday.

Yay!

legitimate pre-midnight post. holy crap tag in use.

Monday, September 17, 2012

yeah, you been messin' with my mind, foolin' with my time.

First off, birthday shoutout to the Cool Aunt.

Actually watching the Stony Brook vs. UCLA game at the moment. Just saw us, woohoo!

It's on in the background, I can't do silence, it just doesn't work.

Hence the constant headphones.

So here was my day. Fell asleep about 2ish, woke up about 12ish, watched some Voice and Leverage, though I'm holding off posting about The Voice until after all the blind auditions and I can officially choose my top ten.

The problem though with sleeping in that late is that you're still half asleep all afternoon so when someone like a makeup saleswoman calls you answer. Cause you're used to seeing unknown numbers pop up on caller ID cause you direct a youth camp and get frantic parent calls constantly. I knew it was a bit late for a parent to call me about camp stuff, but I was still in that half-asleep state so I answered.

And now I'm gonna kick Oldest Sister's butt cause for some reason - okay it had a lot to do with the sleep - now I'm going over to this chick's house on Thursday to buy even more makeup.

Cause apparently I need it.

Though I don't wear it to work cause I have enough creepers hitting on me and asking me out. And I don't really go out often, though I did wear some to the wedding this weekend.

Before that....eh, I'd have to find a calendar.

Perhaps if I have new stuff I'll be motivated to wear it.

Don't quote me on that cause there's a 90% chance you will never see me with it on.

Unless you're my boyfriend, in which case that percentage will drop a bit.

But that's only cause I'm in love with him and his opinion on my appearance matters.

I'm sorry, I know you're all severely wounded that it's not for you, you'll get over it.

Sadly this is not the first time someone has referred me. Kitzworld did it back in high school and somehow I was able to turn the chick down. Perhaps the consciousness was a factor in that case.

After that I went in to work for 2 hours, talked to my prof about meeting - I'm heading over to her branch after my shift with my laptop, I enjoy immensely that we work for the same system, lots of LCL references in class - checked a lot of stuff in, signed up a few for cards, the usual. And then came back to jam out with my big fat cat.

You'd have thought I'd been longer than just 2 hours since he was all nice to me for the majority of the night.

Though that seems to have changed. He's pacing back and forth in front of the couch trying to figure out how to get passed the blankets so he can bite me.

Did I mention he's devious?

Alright, it's pretty late at the moment and since I'm working all day tomorrow I should crash.


Miss You - Rolling Stones
totally had forgotten about this song until i heard it on the radio this weekend. it's fantastic, definitely something you should check out if you don't already know it.


Have a good one!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

A Nightmare on Elm Street aka Sketch Uses the Code

There are no words for today.

I'll throw some out anyway.

Met up with the Library Goddess for coffee at 7AM.

Actually I got there at like 6:55 and the doors were still locked so I leaned against the building for a while.

Then, (after they opened) thinking I could get away with it, I went immediately to the counter to get my coffee, I put in the order, I reached for my wallet and suddenly "Hey, put that away!"

The woman won't let me pay for coffee. So close yet so far, I thought I could beat her to it.

Instead I get a "hold this!" as she holds out a bag for me to grab. "what is it?" "your ipad." "my what?"

So apparently waking up to meet her before I'm completely conscious is worth it. I get coffee and an ipad.

And a list of stuff to do with said-ipad, but still, it's an ipad.

That's mine until May cause that's when the assistantship ends.

We met up super early this morning since I had to be at work by 8:30 but then our meeting really only took like half an hour so I ended up going to work at like 7:35 - pretty sure I freaked out Boss's Boss's Boss. I was all set up in youth services with the ipad, my laptop and then all my contact stuff I was updating when she walked in and paused when she saw me. We talked grad school for a while then she left. And was followed by multiple members of administration - I didn't realize they got there so early. No wonder they're all gone by 5.

Anyway, so I had to get there at 8:30 along with the BossLady and Slim Shady because we had a group of college kids who were there to volunteer. We basically cleaned the library top to bottom. Started with all the computers on the first and second floors, cleaned all the tables and chairs, dusted shelves, cleaned the books on CD area which is always gross, organized youth services, even washed each individual chair upstairs on the fourth floor. And there are like at least a hundred. They had them all sat out in a row and worked together to wash, dry, and stack. It was amusing but effective.

They were actually really great kids, I was impressed and super grateful for their help without any complaints. That part was my favorite, we got them started and that was their focus. And they asked to come back again next year so apparently I didn't scare them off completely.

So, after cleaning with them I attempted to finish all that TAB stuff I was attempting to do yesterday and yet again was interrupted by all sorts of flukes. Running out of printer paper with no backup in sight - because I've had no time to do supplies at all - and then my personal favorite was when a guy came to place an ILL request, from our side it said he was disavowed though he didn't have any fines and then on our ILL staff side in the basement it said his account was fine.

No idea what was going on, something to do with a second card but he said he'd never had another card then remember he had one once that was all worn out but by this time the Interlibrary Loan Goddess was already on the case and get it fixed. Felt bad for the dude cause I had no idea what was going on. But he seemed pretty cool and very patient, so again, grateful.

So, busy morning, flukish afternoon which led to an even more busy day cause those both happened at the same time and there were literally like 10 people in line and it was just the three of us. Awkward.

Oh well, we made it unscathed.

After work the boyfriend came up and we went to see "Possession" it intrigues me that Kyra Sedgwick would rather have her family torn apart by a demon than take down bad guys with LAPD's finest.


Just saying.

Scale of Awesome puts it at around 5/10. It was interesting....kinda cheesy, though the majority of it did scare the hell out of me so I was tempted to make the boyfriend check my apartment, though I don't think you can really see demons so it wouldn't do any good. Besides he had to head out cause he had to work tonight at 11.

And asking would just make me sound weak and pathetic.

Though I'm pretty sure he knew that already since I was like grabbing his arm every other minute during the loud and scary scenes.

So, big huge extravaganza of a day, hoping things will be much more boring tomorrow since I have to redo all my TAB stuff, plus stock supplies, plus cleanup all the cleaning supplies from today, plus finish up the assignments from the Library Goddess and then the last question left on my homework quiz.

Boring.

Yay.

Root for boring, please.

Moving on.

Yesterday you got Sketch Meets the Parents, today you get the sequel. Well, technically it's more like 5th in the series, but you catch my drift.

First was this: Sketch Gets Some Flowers
Next was this: Sketch and Edit Buy Some Plants
Yesterdays was this: Sketch Meets the Parents
Code reference comes from here: Sketch and Edit Cook a Turkey

there are others that you should read in a certain order but none of those are included today so I'll shutup.


A Nightmare on Elm Street aka Sketch Uses the Code
*Edit’s phone beeps*
Text message from Sketch: “as;dflkjasfdlparlay”
*Edit dials*
*Sketch’s phone rings at dinner table, Mother glares*
Edit – “Curses, King Henry has cut off my head!”
S – “I have to take this, excuse me.” *goes outside while Edit rambles*
E – “You need to come home because I am decapitated. And even though I can still talk it is, in fact, an emergency and I need you to come and drive me to the hospital. Now. You need to come now, there’s blood all over the couch and I’m hungry and I can’t eat without a head because I can’t see the food to eat it and I don’t have a mouth to put it in and then there will be no food because I have no head so then I will die, like actually die and…”
S – “We’re clear, I’m outside. Are you watching The Tudors again?”
E – “Yep. Bad?”
S – “You know Hitler?”
E – “Not on a first name basis, but yes, I’m familiar with him.”
S – “Imagine him with long brown hair staring at you while you’re trying to eat a salad.”
E – “Is this with or without the mustache?”
S – “You need to come get me.”
E – “You don’t think they’re going to see through that?”
S – “I know. I hate you.”
E – “You like this guy right?”
S – “I’m eating dinner with his mother, I think that’s a definite sign.”
E – “Well, it’s not like you had much choice in the matter, but you seem to like the guy and you glow when you come home and you’re all happy giddy Sketch all the time. He seems worth all this and you don’t want to throw that away because you can’t stand to be in the same room with his mother for more than an hour, do you?”
S – “No.”
E – “So just finish the salad-”
S – “But she’s staring at me!”
E – “Then stare back!”
S – “What if her jaw unhinges and she bites off my head?”
E – “Well, then we’re screwed cause I’m already decapitated.”
S – “Who will drive us to the hospital?”
E – “Plantman?”
S – “Maybe.”
E – “Oh, is he not on our side anymore?”
S – “Undetermined. But he can’t think it’s going well, right? I mean, when your mother grills your dates about their personal lives and finds a way to make every answer sound like they’re a hillbilly with no hope or future do you think it’s going well?”
E – “Don’t know, haven’t really had a relationship that’s lasted longer than a mento so there’s been no need for introductions.”
S – “That’s cause you’re a commitment-phobe.”
E – “Look who’s talking.”
S – “Hey, I’m here aren’t I?”
E – “Yes, but you don’t want to be. Just breathe, go back inside, finish the salad and say it’s a school night so you need to get back to work on lesson plans. Which it is, and you do. I’ll see you when you get home.”
S – “If I don’t jump out on the interstate first.”
E – “Don’t jump out on the interstate – drive a motorcycle and get someone to door you, it’s a much better way to go.”
S – “Alright. I’m going back in. Thanks.”
E – “Anytime. By the way, was that a ‘parlay’ at the end of that text?”
S – “I thought it was fitting.”
E – “I think we found our new codeword.”


The rest are here: Sketch and Edit Collection


Songs of the day: 

Telephone - Glee

ran into this one at lunch

She's So Cold - Rolling Stones

i'm wondering how much drug usage was involved in the production of this video.


Thursday, January 26, 2012

"It's not in your face it's in my hand."

Went to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows tonight.



Is was...

Well.

Different from what I was expecting.

And not bad different, just different. Dark but not too dark, intense but not overwhelmingly intense. Lots of comedy, well-written and acted.

I'd give it an 8/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

Just not as fantastic as the original, that one's hard to beat.

I did love Noomi Rapace, she was fantastic and it was good to see her do some comedy totally different from the Millennium Trilogy, plus Robert Downey Jr. is quickly rising to the top of my favorites list as well. And Stephen Fry as Mycroft, oh my god so funny.

Song of the night:

"Satisfaction" Rolling Stones


jam session

actually today i kept jumping back and forth between willie nelson and merle haggard, drove me nuts.

"If you've got the money honey I've got the time" "roaring engines heading somewhere in flight..."

Alright, I'm taking a posting hiatus for the weekend. Yay for Sketch and Edit's Excellent Adventure! Found some restaurants and all that, should be fun.

You guys deserve a weekend away from me anyway. Reading about my crazy must drive you there as well.