"but when it comes to torture I trust the lady who spent 3 years married to James Cameron."

Ah, the weekend.

Can't believe it's already over.

Not that I don't like my job, I love my job. I'm just not looking forward to going back as much now that I'm Slim-less.

It will also probably take a while for her position to be filled so we'll be short-staffed.

But that's fine, gives me stuff to do.

Though I'll have plenty to do tomorrow. Still freaking out and feel like I should go back and start over on my scavenger hunt.

That takes place Tuesday.

I mean, it's fine, but there's like these things hidden in books that they have to locate meanwhile answering bonus questions and I'm debating if I want to like...

... yeah, I think I'm going to glue the questions to the clues in the book and then just give them like a blank sheet to write the answers on. That'll be good instead of having a seperate sheet.

Yeah.

I know, it's dumb and I'm over analyzing

What else?

The boyfriend and I took the kiddos to the hockey game last night. Bubby, Squirt and Squirt's boyfriend. It was amusing, but we lost. We always lose when I go. Either I'm bad luck or we really suck.

Or maybe both.

Anyway, it was amusing though cause there were like 5 fights.

When I say fights I don't mean slam a guy against the wall and steal the puck, I mean sticks on the ground, gloves off, fists flying and all that.

But they look like such dorks because they have so much padding on and they're on skates so they're off balance and their fighting just looks hysterical.

One of the fights was between goalies - this was fight number 4 I think, it happened at the same time as fight number 3 and about 2 minutes after fight number 2. But it was like the goalies looked at each other and went, yeah, why not and met up in the center of the rink.

10 minutes for fighting.

Perhaps if our boys were more focused on scoring and less on hitting people for no reason they would have won.

But that's just a theory.

Anyway, we got hosed but the game was fun. The kids seemed to have fun. And it was a fun date night. Today was super lazy. Slept in, watched the rest of season one of Game of Thrones - don't even get me started about my feelings about sean bean's character - went out for some lunch, then he went and bought more motorcar stuff before heading home to sleep more cause he has to work tonight.

I hate our schedules. It's only weekends that he doesn't have to work and I end up working half of mine so spending time together when there's actually time to spend is difficult.

But after he left I had all these plans to like clean and all that. See, I vacuumed yesterday so the floor is all clean and the trash is gone but the rest of the place is still covered in dust. But it's the weekend and as my sister would say, "I'm on my vacation!" so I instead chose to watch Homeland - awesome, btw - and took a nap before turning on the Golden Globes. Which is where the title of this post came from. Pretty sure I filled up everyone's newsfeeds. But they'll get over it. Gotta keep track of my score and all that. Sketch and I like to commentate but she was gone so one-sided it's not as funny.

Here are some of my highlights:

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosting - The queens of comedy so you knew their intro would be good. That's where the title came from. Though I was surprised that they weren't on stage very often. I mean, I know the majority of the talking is done by the presenters and then of course from the winners with their long speeches but I think they were up there like 3 times total, 1 was the intro and the other 2 were with drink in hand. Maybe it was 4 I don't know. Though I did like their outfits. In a couple of the awards they were in the crowd dressed in costume and were announced as one of the nominees. Amy with bad teeth and Tina with a mustache. And they were both up for an award but got beat out by Lena!! You knew Girls would win big tonight. Which leads me to my next highlight.

Lena Dunham's Girls - Even Girlscout was excited about this one. She won for best actress in comedy/musical TV series and also for best comedy/musical tv show. Only got brief glimpses of her tattoos but when you get a chance you should take a look. They're all characters from children's books, Ferdinand, Eloise, etc. - yay read!

Is that Bill Clinton? - I think he got more applause than anyone else, but what the hell was he doing there? I like sat up and everything. Apparently he was invited to introduce Lincoln as it is a presidential movie. But the only other person that got a standing ovation from everyone was Jodie Foster for her Cecil B Demille Award. She was great as well though her speech felt like half an hour. And it was hard to follow that intro by Robert Downey Jr. Anyway, I posted on Facebook something about what the heck was he doing at the Golden Globes and my college professor posts back, "Why not? Clinton is one of the greatest actors of all time."

"Thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today." - J-Law is awesome as ever. Even with the flu she kills it on stage.



Probably my favorite speech of the night.

Followed closely by this one:

I want to high-five James Bond! - Adele beats Taylor Swift and Keith Urban for best original song.



love her, she's fantastic.

Homeland still dominates - See, I've just today gotten hooked on the show so I felt like I could legitimately vote on it. I would have watched it earlier but the holds list for it at the library was madness. Anyway, it's awesome and it deserves all the awards that are thrown its way. Both Damien and Claire won - "who took my pants out every damn week", I was hoping for Mandy to win as well - it's amazing how similar Saul and Gideon's characters are - but he lost to

Les Miserables takes the cake - Loved Anne's speech dedication to Sally Field about breaking stereotypes. "and our crew who deserve a special award for pretending they like live singing at 7AM". She's just cool, you know? I loved her growing up in the Princess Diaries, she was hysterical in Get Smart, badass in Batman and now incredibly talented in Les Miserables. Which I have yet to see, same as Little Brother so we bonded over that. Everyone was claiming that Lincoln was gonna dominate but actually I think Daniel was the only one who won for it. But I got to proclaim my love for Hugh Jackman to which my favorite Aussie responded "of course you do, he's an Aussie!" This is true, but not as cool as my favorite Aussie. It's amazing how many of my Drew-mates jumped on to my commentary. Little Brother, Favorite Aussie, UZ, etc. Feel so behind on that stuff, she got married, had a kid and I barely know anything about it.

Argo F Yourselves - Glad Argo won best picture. It was afterall the only one that I had seen in the bunch which is why I voted for it, but also because it was a really good movie. Ben deserved the win, both of them in fact. Though it was amusing that he had his wife on stage later thanking the people he forgot.

With that vote I ended up with 17 out of 25 which isn't bad. That's a passing grade. I think. Barely. Maybe not, my math is a little rusty.

Speaking of math, it feels so weird for the semester to have started and I don't have homework due until like next week. My only classes don't start until like the 22nd and then my Special Libraries class homework isn't due until the night before our field trip. Granted I'll do it before that, but still. It's nice. Though with 2 of them online and no one around to remind me about homework I'm really gonna have to work on my time management.

Gonna enjoy my freedom as long as I can so with that I will post this, shower, and sleep and then head back to work all week, plus the weekend as my next day off isn't until Monday.

More of 2012's greatest hits

Drive By - Train


really liking their new music. drops of jupiter was good until it was played repeatedly without end. the new stuff is excellent.


Glad You Came - The Wanted


came out in 2011 but more popular in 2012, most requested/played of the year according to ryan seacrest.


Good Time - Owl City Feat. Carly Rae Jepsen


excited to see them live!

we don't even have to try it's always a good time.

popsicles, castle keeping score, and some of 2012's greatest hits

Went re-shopping tonight.

You know re-shopping, right?

After you realize all the crap you forgot the last time you go and redo your shopping?

Though this time it was all about the popsicles.

Remember yesterday's post about the epic fail?

Dude, those things were nasty. So I ditched them and went back to my regular ones and guess what, they were on sale!! Score!!

2 boxes of 20 for only $6.00 total.

That'll last me like 2 weeks, I'm stoked!!

Okay, 3 tops.

Did I mention my love of popsicles?

Aside from the day flying by not much else to say.

In kind of a funk.

And it's a guilty funk which is the worst kind of funk.

Cause I'm surrounded by people who have legitimate reasons to be in a funk but they're not and I am.

So what the crap?

Oh well, I'm off tomorrow - good thing as it's 3AM now - so I'll sleep and get over it.

"i'm the worst kind of a cougar, a self-hating cougar"

Name that sitcom.

Irony is I just watched a clip of her back when she was Daphne with Niles on Frasier. I got hooked on that show back in early '11. Still quote it from time to time.

"just passing by, thought i'd stop in for a career."

Speaking of clips, found this one highly amusing.

Yes someone did literally go through every episode of Castle analyzing his theory of him saving Beckett more times than Beckett saving him.

watch and learn.




Alright on to the music.

2012's Greatest Hits: Day Two

Mitt Romney Style - College Humor


listened to this one while voting for Mitt Romney. don't think that's what it was meant for but it worked for me.

Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People


also very popular on the Voice. heard it twice in two seasons.

50 Ways To Say Goodbye - Train


the boyfriend and i agree. we weren't major fans of Train when they first hit it big, mostly because the radio played "drops of jupiter" over and over and over and over, but their latest hits are pretty good.

one without a permanent scar...

Big Husker victory tonight against Michigan, woohoo!

Brett Maher is back in action, redeeming himself for those previous missed field goals. Must have had Wheaties for breakfast.

Our defense really stepped it up, especially in the second half causing a lot of turnovers.

I watched the game with the boyfriend. We went out for half of it - steak and shrimp was great - and stayed in for the rest. I attempted to not yell at the TV as often as I do on my own or with my family.

Though I'm not quite as bad as my brother, but I explained that last week.

Anyway, glad to have a win since they were our last rated opponent and now we're at the top of the Legends Division of the Big 10. Next up Michigan State @ Michigan State. Should be interesting.

The game/dinner with the boyfriend came at the end of what was a pretty uneventful Saturday at the library. I checked my work mail this morning and saw like 6 new incident reports from yesterday alone, and since it was a home game I was expecting more, but the most rowdy the library got was when this one did wanted to talk to my supervisor about some expired hold fees.

And then he was fine.

I did fill out a program planning sheet and come up with a flyer for an upcoming TAB event. We're hopefully going to do some fun stuff with the community in a couple weeks, but we'll see what The Powers That Be have to say about it. Fingers crossed as my kids are excited about it - totally their idea - more on that later.

I did get to work twice with my Trainee which was fun as we never get scheduled together, and twice with BossLady who again dissed my shoe choice.

I LIKE THESE SHOES. I don't care that they're falling apart and their laces don't stay tied. I cut them twice already. But now there is a giant hole - well, in both of them - but in one especially to the point where my sole sticks out of the side and if I were to step in a puddle I'd be screwed. As Oldest Sister once told me, "I'm not going to stop praying for rain just because your feet are gonna get wet."

But I wore the last pair - the same brand and style but blue instead of grey - until they fell apart completely.

I have this weird quirk where I own a lot of shoes because I like shoes. Yet I wear the exact same pair every day until they die horrible deaths. I drag my feet which kills the bottoms of the shoes and the backs of them since they're rubbing against my heel. It always ends the same no matter what the brand or style - with holes in padding in the back and uneven soles due to the dragging, plus some tearing along the stitching.

I have no idea where I'm going with this or how I got here in the first place. Let me scroll up.

Oh right, so yes, BossLady made fun of my shoes SO I'm pulling out the duct tape! Just for survival sake.

And though I will no longer be able to wear them to work - while good conversation starters they wouldn't be very professional looking - I will still be able to wear them to things like church softball, and around the farm.

Shoes.

Shoes.

Shoes.

Oh my god, shoes.

Liam Kyle Sullivan.

Whoa. Flashbacks to Youtube hits from the high school era.

I'd post it but it's wildly inappropriate.

Though I'm guessing anyone my age that's reading this knows exactly the video I'm referring to.

So I will instead direct you to this one as the song has been stuck in my head since listening to it this afternoon.

Even though I attempted to drown it out with two hours of Carrie Fisher's "Shockaholic" aka 1 disc on the way to the boyfriend's and 1 disc on the way back with 2 discs remaining. More on that later.

Drops of Jupiter - Train


That's right, a freeze-dried romance.

Look it up.

caught in a mudslide, eaten by a lion, got run over by a crappy purple Scion

"Thank God it's not flip flop Friday."

You know when your supervisor calls you in the morning and you look at the clock and freak out, thinking you're supposed to be at work and totally forgot or slept through your alarm?

That was me this morning. I saw Girlscout's name on the caller ID and like jumped up off the couch, ready to run to my closet. 

Turns out she was looking for someone to switch days with a different coworker who couldn't make it in today. 

However, I had a dentist appointment and a bunch of errands to run so that killed that. 

Surprisingly, I survived the dentist. 

It is not my favorite place to visit, mostly cause I have a crazy history with them. 

Like literally, the only memories I have from visiting the dentist are all horrible. 

Or awkward. 

Like the time the new dentist asked me if I was married to my brother. 

Well, he didn't phrase it like that, it was more like my brother was there the week before and he's like, 

"Is he your husband?"

"Um, gross."

"Brother, got it."

But he was new. 

Cause my old one got arrested. 

And my orthodontist committed suicide. 

Didn't think my teeth were that bad. 

But I'm famous at the old dentist's office. He was gonna pull a tooth but it was adhered to the bone so he ended up cutting it out in four pieces. Which would have been bad enough except that when he put the numbing stuff on I felt like I was gonna pass out so I ran out to my mom in the lobby, smacked my head on the desk and konked out. 

Woke up in his arms, apparently he was freaked. 

Not exactly something that happens to him every day. 

Which is the reason why I'm number 3 in the top 5 highlights list. 

And the only reason I know that is the last time I went in to that office I was talking to the receptionist and she was like, "should we put a big red x on the floor in front of the desk?" and the girl standing next to her looks up at me and goes "that was you?!"

Anyway, so there was that time. 

And of course braces were no fun, so there's that memory. 

What else? 

The first time I visited this new dentist I went in and they said I had 4 cavities. Though I'm pretty sure there ended up being 5 of them filled. 

And the only reason I got through it was the nitrous being pumped into my nose. Though I'm pretty sure it was more of a mental thing than a physical thing. 

Which is fine by me cause I survived. 

Much like today, though of course I need to start actually flossing flossing, not just doing it when I force myself to cause I have an appointment coming up. 

But my teeth have gotten better and I didn't have any new cavities so I'm calling it a victory.  

"Nothing says spending Friday nights alone like a calculator watch."

After the appointment, since I was on that side of town anyway - and how weird is that to say, that side of town? I grew up in small town Nebraska, population 2500, there were no sides. 

Though technically I was a farm girl outside of town, but it still counts. 

But still feels weird that it takes so long to get to work and back even though I'm in the same city. 

Where was I going with this?

Oh yeah, camera, I was on that side of town so I stopped in at Best Buy to get my new camera. Which I've been wanting to do for a while, but haven't had a day off off where I had the opportunity in a while. Most of my days off are either spent in class, doing homework, visiting the boyfriend, or going to the farmhouse. It was nice to stick around here and be able to run errands, take a nap and watch some of those library DVDs I have out that are due soon. 

Anyway, the camera is all fancy and was on sale. It's got the same features as the bigger ones but it's still compact and I can carry it in my pocket. 

Well, my coat pocket, it's not that compact. 

But I'm excited. I wanted to get a new one for Vegas because my old one is literally old doesn't have that great of quality. Plus this one has the photo burst option so I can take like five with one press of a button. Figured it will be good to capture some night life or entertainment in Vegas. I'm stoked. 

Even more stoked than I already was. 

"Nothing like crying into a bag of Doritos on a Friday night."

After buying the camera - and the new Avengers movie - I got some groceries, did some laundry, started season one of Grimm - one of my many library dvd's - and took a nap. 

Which was fantastic.

As is Grimm. I always meant to watch that one but never got around to it. Glad I waited 'til the DVD to get out cause I'd be totally lost without the first episode. 

Oh, and somewhere in there I got gas and went to the carwash. Which my car was in desperate need of. 

It's so nice to be able to wash the thing and then not have to drive on gravel roads to get home immediately after. 

Cause that just kills the whole clean thing. 

So the whole day off was pretty great, though I'm especially partial to the nap section of it, since I've been in dire need of an afternoon nap since the last time I had one. 

I know, I'm old. 

I'm feeling it. 

But then I go to work and am told repeatedly how young I am for this job and then I'm okay. 

Tomorrow I'm back at work, then heading out to see the boyfriend. Oh, and the Husker game is tomorrow night too, which I forgot until now so I'll have to DVR it. Though I'm assuming we'll do something similar to last time and go out to eat and watch it. Cause that was fun. 

Alright, music for the night and then I'm out. 

Carter is already sleeping and is stretched out so much that he's claimed an entire couch cushion. Did I mention he's a big fat Garfield-like cat? Perhaps I'll take a picture with my brand spanking new camera. 

50 Ways To Say Goodbye - Train

love the melody to this one. i have no idea what's going on at 4:06-:07 but it's hysterical.  

She thinks my tractor's sexy.

I'd like to introduce a new segment to the blog.

It's entitled "Weird News".

See, you've already got the useless information, music recommendations, songs you know but forgot you knew them, word of the day, quote of the day, reference question of the day... but apparently that wasn't enough.

And if Jay Leno and Seth Myers can do it I can too.

Though I did prefer Jimmy and Tina...or Amy and Tina.

Anyway, here you go, Weird News.

Day One:

But don't expect this daily, only on days when I work with my favorite comic as we've decided we should go on the road with our act. I'm the straightman who reads the headline, he's the comic who comes up with a witty retort.

Here were some from today:


"Woman arrested for lumber shopping in the nude."
"I would think the splinters would be punishment enough."

"How to grow a 14 foot mustache."
"Why to grow a 14 foot mustache."

"Man bit by rattlesnake at Walmart."
"But it only did 60% damage."


And here are others I found amusing.

Family awakes and finds Lexus in their pool. did they find my phone underneath it?

Hair dryers mailed from Paris to New Zealand. if only someone would send me one. i'm roughing man.

Dozens of flyswatters wash up on Alaska beaches. where are those when i need them?

Thief breaks into car, takes nothing leaves tortillas. yeah but they forgot the salsa.

Man surgically attaches ipod to arm. i'm into music, constantly have my headphones in, but now I have ammo to say, hey at least I'm not that guy.

Iphone app that reads animal and zombie minds i'm tempted to download this and point it at Carter.

Lady Gaga Banned from Indonesia. apparently some people can read her pokerface.


Interestingly enough that was not the end of weirdness for today. I went in 10-7, and the 5-7 was spent at a middle school helping children fish for bookmarks, stickers and transformer tattoos. Cause our library rocks.

But I got to spend the afternoon with Girlscout, Team Awesome reunited, which was fun as I don't often get to work with her. Judging by the amount of paperclips we collected that were connected to the "fish" we did pretty well. And it flew by fairly quickly mostly because the mass amount of children running through the place.

Songs You Know But Forgot You Knew Them:

"Meet Virginia" Train Live

even i forgot about this one. "so awkward" "age appropriate"

"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" Kenny Chesney

though how can anyone forget this one, really? but sorry, i don't think his trains are sexy.


Okay so I got some flack, multiple flack, flacks? cause there was no Word of the Day yesterday. And apparently I'm supposed to put it in a sentence.

So here you go, tomorrow's Word of the Day: Gammerstang - a tall, awkward woman. Related words are "gomerel" - fool, simpleton - and "gamphrel" - blockhead - Without the awkward part, such a person could be described as "leptosomatic" - lean and tall.

IAS: "Slim and I saw that Gammerstang stumbling out of the bathroom."

OUT!