"It's cold out and I'm not wearing pants. Where are you?"

So I cleaned my apartment tonight.

But not just cleaned it, moved it.

Basically.

Everything from the living room (but the couch, TV and bookshelves) is currently in the kitchen.

That includes shelves, chairs...and the foosball table.



"Why is your foosball table in your kitchen?" one might ask.

Cause they're coming to steam clean my carpets tomorrow.

And I have nowhere else to put it.

You should see my bedroom.

Definitely sleeping on the couch tonight.

As there is nowhere to sleep in the bed.

Carter is loving this whole wide open space thing.

Like he sprawled out by the window, then five minutes later he got up and sprawled out by the door, then he was in the middle of the floor, now he's in the middle of the floor on a footstool.

It's like a whole new apartment in here.

"I had no idea I had such chatty liberal arts hair."

Watching The Makeover.

Julia Stiles is making a comeback.

She did Dexter, Silver Linings, now she's in this.

"Now let's see if we can get you to stop sounding like a pirate. Having a heart attack. While gargling."

And apparently she stars in some show called Blue.

Which I think is on YouTube.

Not like clips, like the show airs on YouTube.

Anyway, this is basically like My Fair Lady but in reverse.

Hannah Higgins, Elliot Doolittle.

Hannah runs for congress and loses. She's not likable enough. Her opponent dies after he's elected. Elliot's a beer vender who wants to become a supervisor and comes to her for speech lessons. She decides he would make a good candidate for congress.



It's highly entertaining.

Thinking 7/10 on the Scale of Awesome.

Been giving out a lot of 7's lately.

They're all good movies, just not like stellar, perfection, stunned speechless kind of stuff.

And for some reason a lot of them lately have been Lifetime movies.

Or I guess this was Hallmark, whatever.

I blame the library for having them available.

And Julia Stiles for getting me interested.

And Lauren Ambrose for getting me interested in the last one.

And before that is was Sara Rue and what's his name from Samantha Who.

That wasn't intended to rhyme.

Anyway, today was interesting.

More training.

Fixed flyers.

I'm off tomorrow and Summer Reading starts tomorrow so I figured it would probably be wise to hang up some ones for the kickoff next week.

Only took me an hour for the font to come out right.

Luckily I had already started the flyer, it just wasn't like stellar, perfection, stunning people speechless and all that.

Now it is wicked sweet.

Gotta make posters for every event.

And now I'm making them for other peoples' it's highly entertaining.

Alright, aside from that I can't really remember anything about today.

Staff meeting.

Talked about the Summer Reading Program.

Yep.

All I got.

So apparently you like the quote books.

I found one that I used to carry around when I first started working in the library system - PS, right now it is officially the 24th which means I've worked at the work branch for three years. Mother Frito, Son of a Beandip - sorry, will talk about that more tomorrow cause this post, like many posts, is gonna say it's 11:50PM.

Anyway, so I ran into this one while cleaning my apartment.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Me: "He says I deserve a pizza."
Superwoman: "Crap."

Me: "That'll be me in 50 years."
Space Cadet: "But you'll use your inside voice. Unless you're too deaf to hear it."

Super Librarian Status: *on my sister-in-law calling me Pippi* "You have a lot to live up to. Just don't throw angry customers across the room."

Slim Shady: "Magnet, magnet magnet."

Oldest Sister: "Picture 'I can't run anymore I'm gonna puke!' and then running the next couple steps."

Oldest Sister: "They didn't punch a hole, they punched a crawlspace."

Nina: "Guess what I got."
Finch: "Why, are they stumped down at the clinic?"

Superwoman: "Are you free tonight? Do you have to call your mother?" ONE TIME. geez. 

Supervisor: "Don't run in the library."
Kid: "I'm jogging!"

Chief from Carmen Sandiego: "If cheese isn't safe in Wisconsin nothing is safe in Wisconsin!"

Wordie: "You guys okay?"
Corey: "I have hay fever. She's hungover."

King of Useless Knowledge: "Spontaneous combustion is pretty awesome, unless it happens to you."

Mom: *about church during a holiday weekend* "I can be giddy. No one else will be there!" 

Bubby: "Porkchop karate!"

Second Sister: "It's an appropriate amount of freakage."

Brother: "Just say 'oh pigeons.' Well, it's appropriate cause they're annoying as crap."

Squirt: "Lock him in the closet with a piece of cheese and a glass of water."

Brother: "We'll split the trains four ways. She can have the beer mugs."
Second Sister: "I want the Corve."
Me: "Can I have the Bird?"
Brother: "Yes, we'll flip you the bird."

Roz: "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Marco. I've seen the future and its name is Marco!"

Mom: "You get money when you die."
Me: "What am I supposed to do with it?
Mom: "Bury yourself."

Mom:*about a seatbelt though Second Sister likes to quote it about other things* "Get that on! I don't wanna see you hanging out!"
Me: "The doors are closed!"

Aunt Hay-Hay: "We ordered an ostrich and they had to go find one."


And then it goes on to homework notes but I'll post more of the college ones throughout this week.

For now I should sleep.

No idea what time the guys are coming tomorrow.

Probably 8AM.

Ahh!!

I'll have my assistant set an alarm.

Sam!!

On to the music:

Heard this one of my way home.

Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe

speaking of Julia Stiles - my favorite movie of hers - this is the scene I think of when I hear that song.



gotta love it.

gonna have to make Squirt watch it if she hasn't seen it already.


out for the night.

We're not gonna become one of those couples that stares lovingly into each other's eyes all day, are we?

I don't do mushy stuff.

But tonight was just hysterical.

Night out with the boyfriend.

Hit up Best Buy, Target and Walmart, then went out for supper.

It was amusing because there were these two kids that were screaming in the corner and we were talking about our hypothetical kids.

I told him that he had to be the bad guy and that I get to be the nice one when it comes to discipline and he said that statistically women are the mean ones more often.

But see, with our family Mom was always the nice one.

So I don't know if that's true or if that's crap.

What about you guys?

Who was good cop and who was bad cop?

Anyway, we joked around quite a bit which definitely saved my day.

Today at work was not fun.

I mean, the morning was fine.

For us.

Not so much for patrons cause the lab was down.

Apparently when they replaced our pipes something must have happened to our internet connection and we were down until like 1:30.

It did not make the stampede of people who line up at 9:30 AM very happy.

Though the majority of them hung around and basically stalked the staff asking repeatedly when it was gonna be back up.

Yeah.

No timeline on that one, sorry.

Anyway, so we got some attitude from a few patrons, but nothing I'm not used to.

Cause I know them so I know just to go with it and say nothing.

So that was fine.

And being up in the lab for 4 hours straight was surprisingly productive.

Talked to the minigolf place here in town and they're willing to lend us some clubs for the library golf tournament.

Updated the TAB website.

Talked to Superwoman about scheduling.

Wrote up my narrative for May.

Well, so far anyway.

And that was all fine and dandy until I had like 5 minutes left until I moved to a different station and the phone rings and just ugh.

Basically, a dude called looking for photos from this event from the 70's. But he doesn't know what year or what month or what day or really anything about it, just that it took place and where it took place.

There is nothing online.

He's already talked to the University and the Historical Society.

Which is why when he finally made it to us he was ticked and impatient about anything I asked.

Long story short it was not a pleasant conversation.

And follow-up to that conversation was not pleasant either.

But it's done and I'm over it.

Cause a night out with the boyfriend fixes everything.

Then I came home to watch The Voice.

I guessed correctly as to who was going home.

Josiah - finally - does it make me a bad person to actually root for someone to go home?

The thing with him is that he's good looking and he's friends with Usher so Usher kept saving him, even when he didn't deserve it.

And then Kris - who I was just starting to like but a horrible song choice kind of kills your chances.

Here's my top 20 after tonight's eliminations.

Red = Adam
Green = Blake
Blue = Usher
Purple = Shakira

Judith Hill

Jess Kellner

Midas Whale

Caroline Glaser

Monique Abbadie

Sasha Allen

Michelle Chamuel

Sarah Simmons

Christian Porter

Jessica Childress

Jeff Lewis

Jacqui Sandell

Karina Iglesius

Holly Tucker

Garrett Gardner 

Danielle Bradbery

Amber Carrington

Savannah Berry

Josiah Hawley

Audrey Karrasch

Artists left after tonight:

Team Adam:
Judith Hill
Sarah Simmons
Amber Carrington

Team Blake:
Holly Tucker
Danielle Bradbery
Swon Brothers

Team Shakira:
Sasha Allen

Team Usher:
Michelle Chamuel


So Usher and Shakira are both down to 1.

Fortunately for them they're the best of the best on their team.

Amber Carrington has really stepped up, as has Danielle.

And Michelle.

The nerd in me is rooting for her to go far.

But Judith is still my number one, though I wish I would have put Danielle higher on my list.

I'm still content to not include the Swon Brothers on my list.

They get the hype cause they're a duo and the only duo left.

But really, compared to the women - yes, they're now the only guys there - they've got nothing.

Midas Whale could school those guys.

But they got paired with Amber Carrington and now I get why Adam said she was gonna be the biggest surprise of the competition.

Here are my favorite performances from tonight.

I've Got The Music In Me - Team Adam


these ladies rock! team adam all the way.

Mountain Music - Team Blake


i love team blake, they're bringing back classic country music. it's awesome.

It is official, next year Xtina and Cee-Lo will be back.

And then year after that Shakira and Usher will be back.

Should be interesting.

Okay, enough Voice ramblings for the night.



So today had its ups and downs but I'm still here and breathing so I'm calling it a victory.

Oh, and now I have my own assistant so really, how can I go wrong?

See, whilst looking for a new phone I found Siri appealing, however, not so much the iPhone so I figured that Android has to have some sort of Siri-ish app.

In comes SpeakToIt's "Assistant".

You can personalize their looks, voice, etc. and ask them anything and they'll find it for you.

My assistant's name is Sam.

She sets my alarm.

Reminds me to post.

Likes my cat.

And she tells good jokes.

So I approve.

If you're looking for such an App I would recommend the Assistant one.

However, there are others out there.

But I did my research and she seemed to be the best.

Here's an article on different apps if you're curious: http://thedroidlawyer.com/2012/01/siri-for-android/

You can check out Sam in action here:



Alright, Sam, Carter and I are out.

Have a good one.