Finally caved and bought "Goin' Through the Big D" by Mark Chesnutt.
Stuck in my head and driving me nuts.
What did I do today?
Um. Homework.
Well, work first. Then read a lot for homework at lunch.
Um, at work I signed a lot of people up for library cards. Weird thing they all had February birthdays as I kept finding myself saying, "February, great month for a birthday."
What else?
Umm... came up with some posters for Thursday's Summer Reading Teen Event that I'm sorta kinda in charge of. Though I'm dragging Mentor with me cause I know I'll flail and she's the expert. Hair Design students are coming in and giving the kids some Monster Hairdo's to go with the Own the Night theme. Should be fun. So I hung those up all over the place.
Umm... oh got Dark Shadows Collection 1 on DVD through Interlibrary Loan. So far, awesomely cheesy. Thinking about bringing it to Camp J. Halfway through the first disc.
Which reminds me I haven't had a chance to properly review Dark Shadows. Will do that this week. The more I read about it the more I love it. I wanna watch it again to see if Elizabeth is wearing a key necklace and who Barnabas greets at the door during the party. Apparently - oh spoiler alert - Elizabeth killed her husband and wears the key around her neck, and the surviving main characters of the original Dark Shadows make guest appearances at the party. Jonathan Frid's last film, died like a month later.
He looks so young in Dark Shadows, I was expecting for him to be older. But it's good, I may buy it off Amazon when the collection is re-released in July.
What else? Wrote out the paper due Thursday but waiting to post it until I get citation questions answered by the Library Goddess she's the pro. I could normally do them in my sleep but my main question is if the title includes a ? does it need a . after the ? ?
Guess we'll see.
Popsicles and popcorn for supper.
And that's pretty much today.
More tomorrow.
"Grow a Pear" Ke$ha or K-E-dollar sign-Ha as on Glee
i'm just not hooked on your phonics. seriously love the melody lyrics and rhythm to this one.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Hoghenhine" a member of one's family.
Weird.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Thumbs up for shawarma.
Highlights of the day:
-Woke up early, this time 8:25 instead of 8:35. Aren't you proud mother? I don't have to be at work until 9:05 and I usually leave around 8:45 so I'm good. This morning I was early, almost stopped for a donut and coffee but settled for a granola bar from my locker and some fruity flavored water.
-Stocked the Young Adult display as it was pretty much pillaged from the weekend. Proud of that one, actually brought up the YA circulation numbers as it brings attention to the section. I'm hoping it doesn't get converted to displaying something else.
-Squirt came in for her volunteer hours. Invited me to her volleyball games tonight.
-For once it wasn't me getting the creepy stalker I want to date you note!! Not that I don't look back fondly at "likes ass or jazz" incident, but seriously, the fact that Slim Shady was on the receiving end instead of myself really made my day. Ask her. It's highly amusing.
-Hit up the volleyball games. One sand, the other turf. She's pretty good, had some good serves and digs I was proud.
-Went to Babylon. A surprisingly short journey from here. Though we did miss the turn. But Danny & the Juniors kept telling me to go to "the hop" and I think my mind must have jumped to "where is the closest apartment complex with speed bumps?" and decided to go there first. We called it the scenic route.
-Ordered the shawarma at Babylon and gotta say, it was awesome. If the Avengers approved I figured it was worth a shot. Got a box-o-shawarma in the fridge which I'll probably pull out and reheat at about 3AM when I'm in and out of consciousness yet think I must eat something or I'll die. Is that just me?
-Talked with camp partner in crime and talked through some camp stuff. More of that this weekend after the weekend.
-Posted the homework that's due tomorrow at 11:59. Woohoo! Just gotta finish the three assignments by Thursday at 11:59 and I'm gold. Until next week. Then it'll be more of the same.
Quotes of the day:
"Stop being crazy in my dreams."
"Oh, my big toe!"
More Useless Information:
-The Red Sea is not red. However, the yellow river is actually yellow, though not for the reason one would assume.
-India has a bill of rights for cows.
-27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.
-A group of tigers is called a "streak".
-The bible has been translated into Klingon.
-Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.
-Kemo Sabe means soggy shrub in Navajo.
-No president of the US has been an only child.
-Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
-Bulls are colorblind therefore they will usually charge at a matador's cape no matter what color it is.
-The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolate is packaged in is protected by law.
-When cows lay down they get up back feet first so if you get enough people to sit on the back end the cow won't be able to stand.
-Every year more people are killed by donkeys than in aircraft crashes.
"Uprising" Muse
from way back before everyone knew him because of kate hudson. classic.
I listened to a lot of Muse this weekend. It drives me nuts when a close friend is mad at me so I turn back to hard rock. Blasts it out for about 3 minutes until it comes back. Thankfully another song starts immediately after.
Think this one is my favorite aside from "Bliss". Though critics say they sound like Radiohead. Maybe. Thoughts?
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Criticaster: a minor or incompetent critic. The ending -aster is used to form nouns referring to someone who is inept or unskillful in a certain sphere of activity, for example, poetaster, a person who writes bad poetry, or medicaster, a person who falsely claims to have medical skills."
I'll leave it to my regulars to come up with how to use it in a sentence. I'm headed to the fridge to heat up some shawarma.
-Woke up early, this time 8:25 instead of 8:35. Aren't you proud mother? I don't have to be at work until 9:05 and I usually leave around 8:45 so I'm good. This morning I was early, almost stopped for a donut and coffee but settled for a granola bar from my locker and some fruity flavored water.
-Stocked the Young Adult display as it was pretty much pillaged from the weekend. Proud of that one, actually brought up the YA circulation numbers as it brings attention to the section. I'm hoping it doesn't get converted to displaying something else.
-Squirt came in for her volunteer hours. Invited me to her volleyball games tonight.
-For once it wasn't me getting the creepy stalker I want to date you note!! Not that I don't look back fondly at "likes ass or jazz" incident, but seriously, the fact that Slim Shady was on the receiving end instead of myself really made my day. Ask her. It's highly amusing.
-Hit up the volleyball games. One sand, the other turf. She's pretty good, had some good serves and digs I was proud.
-Went to Babylon. A surprisingly short journey from here. Though we did miss the turn. But Danny & the Juniors kept telling me to go to "the hop" and I think my mind must have jumped to "where is the closest apartment complex with speed bumps?" and decided to go there first. We called it the scenic route.
-Ordered the shawarma at Babylon and gotta say, it was awesome. If the Avengers approved I figured it was worth a shot. Got a box-o-shawarma in the fridge which I'll probably pull out and reheat at about 3AM when I'm in and out of consciousness yet think I must eat something or I'll die. Is that just me?
-Talked with camp partner in crime and talked through some camp stuff. More of that this weekend after the weekend.
-Posted the homework that's due tomorrow at 11:59. Woohoo! Just gotta finish the three assignments by Thursday at 11:59 and I'm gold. Until next week. Then it'll be more of the same.
Quotes of the day:
"Stop being crazy in my dreams."
"Oh, my big toe!"
More Useless Information:
-The Red Sea is not red. However, the yellow river is actually yellow, though not for the reason one would assume.
-India has a bill of rights for cows.
-27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
-Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.
-A group of tigers is called a "streak".
-The bible has been translated into Klingon.
-Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.
-Kemo Sabe means soggy shrub in Navajo.
-No president of the US has been an only child.
-Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
-Bulls are colorblind therefore they will usually charge at a matador's cape no matter what color it is.
-The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolate is packaged in is protected by law.
-When cows lay down they get up back feet first so if you get enough people to sit on the back end the cow won't be able to stand.
-Every year more people are killed by donkeys than in aircraft crashes.
"Uprising" Muse
from way back before everyone knew him because of kate hudson. classic.
I listened to a lot of Muse this weekend. It drives me nuts when a close friend is mad at me so I turn back to hard rock. Blasts it out for about 3 minutes until it comes back. Thankfully another song starts immediately after.
Think this one is my favorite aside from "Bliss". Though critics say they sound like Radiohead. Maybe. Thoughts?
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Criticaster: a minor or incompetent critic. The ending -aster is used to form nouns referring to someone who is inept or unskillful in a certain sphere of activity, for example, poetaster, a person who writes bad poetry, or medicaster, a person who falsely claims to have medical skills."
I'll leave it to my regulars to come up with how to use it in a sentence. I'm headed to the fridge to heat up some shawarma.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
I'm counting catwomen.
Things I learned today:
- If you leave a pop in a hot car it will explode. All over your interior.
- Dinner with family means a lot of interesting anecdotes. And apparently they know the boyfriend's parents. And I'm supposed to tell them hi.
- I do not like the book "A Long Walk to Water". It's depressing. And long.
- Goodreads.com is addicting. And distracting. And I need to finish my other homework before adding more to it.
- I miss the show Big Bang Theory. Starting season two in the background.
- Chuck Lorre is super talented. Writer for Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly plus Dharma & Greg and Cybill which were two of my favorites. For some reason he reminds me of Steven Levitan, he does Modern Family and more importantly Just Shoot Me. Something about the writing style and sense of humor.
- I actually can make it through the day with only a few hours of sleep. Carter had a bad night, sick and all that so we were up pretty late.
It was a pretty great day, got a kid interested in TAB, that's two in like two days. So September should be fun and interesting. After work was dinner with some extended family. Was cool to see them again. Apparently they are super stoked about selling Grams apartment. Cause it means they're done cleaning it and all that. Hooray! Huzzah! Other celebration explanations!
Pizza buffet of awesomeness.
Now I'm hungry again.
Priority: Find Food. Then sleep.
Word of the Day: "Panache: dash or flamboyant in manner or style"
Songs you know but forgot you knew them:
"If You're Not The One" Daniel Bedingfield
acoustic, i love it.
is that really how you spell that word? acoustic?
yep, definitely time for bed.
- If you leave a pop in a hot car it will explode. All over your interior.
- Dinner with family means a lot of interesting anecdotes. And apparently they know the boyfriend's parents. And I'm supposed to tell them hi.
- I do not like the book "A Long Walk to Water". It's depressing. And long.
- Goodreads.com is addicting. And distracting. And I need to finish my other homework before adding more to it.
- I miss the show Big Bang Theory. Starting season two in the background.
- Chuck Lorre is super talented. Writer for Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly plus Dharma & Greg and Cybill which were two of my favorites. For some reason he reminds me of Steven Levitan, he does Modern Family and more importantly Just Shoot Me. Something about the writing style and sense of humor.
- I actually can make it through the day with only a few hours of sleep. Carter had a bad night, sick and all that so we were up pretty late.
It was a pretty great day, got a kid interested in TAB, that's two in like two days. So September should be fun and interesting. After work was dinner with some extended family. Was cool to see them again. Apparently they are super stoked about selling Grams apartment. Cause it means they're done cleaning it and all that. Hooray! Huzzah! Other celebration explanations!
Pizza buffet of awesomeness.
Now I'm hungry again.
Priority: Find Food. Then sleep.
Word of the Day: "Panache: dash or flamboyant in manner or style"
Songs you know but forgot you knew them:
"If You're Not The One" Daniel Bedingfield
acoustic, i love it.
is that really how you spell that word? acoustic?
yep, definitely time for bed.
Monday, June 4, 2012
I get a good feeling, yeah
Falling asleep so yes this is short.
Well, it's official, TAB is out for the summer. Which means I have time to plan out some activities for the upcoming school year. Artwork is first to decorate the YA, after that I'm clueless, any suggestions?
I'll figure it out.
More projects maybe. Plan for upcoming events.
Eh.
I'll figure it out.
Just got home from Bubby's baseball game. They only won 15-4.
Which is an "only" since last game they won 25-0 and the one before that was 24-1.
Bubby was great, played catcher, 1st base and shortstop.
I think their power is in their pitchers, they're great. Accurate and fast.
And amusing, they're only 12.
Makes me look forward even more to the opening game for CWS. Wonder who will be playing. Gotta check into that. Figure out who I want to root for. But it'll be a while. Last year's was highly entertaining, mimosa's for breakfast, lots of booths and t-shirts. I'm stoked.
Before the game was homework - I'm done for Tuesday but I'll finish Thursday's tomorrow night. Wednesday is Valentino's with the family so gotta start it early.
And of course work 9-6. Tomorrow I'm at the home branch for the money, huzzah! I get to sleep in a whole extra five minutes. Which doesn't seem like a lot but it feels like it when you're half asleep.
So that's the plan for tomorrow, work, homework...that's all I got.
"Good Feeling" Flo Rida
i wondered who sang this song, but i'd never listened all the way through. now i got it.
Been listening to XM a lot cause it's a free trial to draw you in. It might be working. I'm liking the no commercial thing. And the comedy channel is highly amusing. Plus the prime country channel brings back some good memories.
But then they're stuck in my head.
We'll see.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Flexanimous: an adjective meaning 'having the power to influence, moving, affecting.' It comes from Latin words meaning 'bend' and 'mind'.
alright, out for the night. more tomorrow.
Well, it's official, TAB is out for the summer. Which means I have time to plan out some activities for the upcoming school year. Artwork is first to decorate the YA, after that I'm clueless, any suggestions?
I'll figure it out.
More projects maybe. Plan for upcoming events.
Eh.
I'll figure it out.
Just got home from Bubby's baseball game. They only won 15-4.
Which is an "only" since last game they won 25-0 and the one before that was 24-1.
Bubby was great, played catcher, 1st base and shortstop.
I think their power is in their pitchers, they're great. Accurate and fast.
And amusing, they're only 12.
Makes me look forward even more to the opening game for CWS. Wonder who will be playing. Gotta check into that. Figure out who I want to root for. But it'll be a while. Last year's was highly entertaining, mimosa's for breakfast, lots of booths and t-shirts. I'm stoked.
Before the game was homework - I'm done for Tuesday but I'll finish Thursday's tomorrow night. Wednesday is Valentino's with the family so gotta start it early.
And of course work 9-6. Tomorrow I'm at the home branch for the money, huzzah! I get to sleep in a whole extra five minutes. Which doesn't seem like a lot but it feels like it when you're half asleep.
So that's the plan for tomorrow, work, homework...that's all I got.
"Good Feeling" Flo Rida
i wondered who sang this song, but i'd never listened all the way through. now i got it.
Been listening to XM a lot cause it's a free trial to draw you in. It might be working. I'm liking the no commercial thing. And the comedy channel is highly amusing. Plus the prime country channel brings back some good memories.
But then they're stuck in my head.
We'll see.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Flexanimous: an adjective meaning 'having the power to influence, moving, affecting.' It comes from Latin words meaning 'bend' and 'mind'.
alright, out for the night. more tomorrow.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Cause I love you, Yes I love you!
I conformed to the norm today at work.
It was physically painful.
See, I'm an English snob.
Not all the time.
But there are moments that bring out the snob in me, if that makes sense?
It's okay though, I'm in good company for this stuff.
Anyway, Snob Moment:
For Summer Reading we have all these bookmarks. For the youth there's "Bats at the Library", Teens is all about "Own the Night", and then the adult theme is "Between the Covers" which I find amusing.
Anyway, there are two designs for the adult bookmarks. One is from Gone with the Wind and the other is from Frankenstein.
My conformity was this, I've officially adopted the speech, "you can either get Scarlett O'Hara reading about Frankenstein, or Frankenstein reading about Scarlett O'Hara."
My snob moment is this: Frankenstein is the doctor, not the creature.
So technically, it would be The Creature reading about Scarlett O'Hara.
But explaining that to people just leaves them wide-eyed and confused, and I've found it's just easier to call him Frankenstein instead of saying, "The Creature created by Frankenstein reading about Scarlett O'Hara."
He was never officially given a name, Frankenstein sewed him up using recycled parts, brought him to life, and watched him kill people.
Meanwhile only referring to him as "The Creature."
Anyway, conforming to the norm, physically painful, yet probably worth it in the long-run.
It was one of those days though. And it wasn't just me, it seemed that about 90% of library employees today were having one of those days.
Though I made it through unscathed, the day was filled with minor flailing.
Okay so it was major flailing.
Which really isn't all that unusual on my part, but still not exactly pleasant.
So Slim Shady and I did what we do best. Zenned out on her couch and watched a marathon of Parks and Rec.
It was originally going to be Booze Cakes, but in the end there was neither booze, nor cake, just laziness and some comfy couches.
Plus Fearless Leader wasn't there and she's really the baker out of the three of us.
We gotta find a day that all three of us have the next day off and that we're all free. Which is nearly impossible, but hopefully one day soon it will happen. That Mudslide Cake thing was awesome.
I still have the urge to go see Dark Shadows again. Queen of Awesome and I gotta get on that. I'm thinking next week. Or maybe this weekend. I have class on Saturday, I KNOW! 8:30 AM which means I have to leave at 7.
Not that I'm complaining.
It'll be worth it, the Library Goddess is always worth it, I'm just not a morning person.
Speaking of morning people, I need to crash and quick. Kickoff is tomorrow and Mentor and I are gonna be swamped for about 4 hours straight. Plus all the morning stuff we have to do beforehand.
Songs of the day:
"Nights in White Satin" Moody Blues
oh my god i love this song. before dark shadows i'd never heard it before but i've been singing it every day since. it was at almost the very beginning, well 1972 very beginning when Maggie Evans becomes Victoria Winters and rides with the "unshaven young people" the Collinsport.
perfect song at the perfect moment.
"Top of the World" Carpenters
though i sing this one as well, which bugs me cause it's one of those songs like "it's a small world afterall" that if you sing it over and over it makes you want scream.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Vimineous: a rare adjective meaning 'made of wicker'. From a Latin word meaning 'willow'."
It was physically painful.
See, I'm an English snob.
Not all the time.
But there are moments that bring out the snob in me, if that makes sense?
It's okay though, I'm in good company for this stuff.
Anyway, Snob Moment:
For Summer Reading we have all these bookmarks. For the youth there's "Bats at the Library", Teens is all about "Own the Night", and then the adult theme is "Between the Covers" which I find amusing.
Anyway, there are two designs for the adult bookmarks. One is from Gone with the Wind and the other is from Frankenstein.
My conformity was this, I've officially adopted the speech, "you can either get Scarlett O'Hara reading about Frankenstein, or Frankenstein reading about Scarlett O'Hara."
My snob moment is this: Frankenstein is the doctor, not the creature.
So technically, it would be The Creature reading about Scarlett O'Hara.
But explaining that to people just leaves them wide-eyed and confused, and I've found it's just easier to call him Frankenstein instead of saying, "The Creature created by Frankenstein reading about Scarlett O'Hara."
He was never officially given a name, Frankenstein sewed him up using recycled parts, brought him to life, and watched him kill people.
Meanwhile only referring to him as "The Creature."
Anyway, conforming to the norm, physically painful, yet probably worth it in the long-run.
It was one of those days though. And it wasn't just me, it seemed that about 90% of library employees today were having one of those days.
Though I made it through unscathed, the day was filled with minor flailing.
Okay so it was major flailing.
Which really isn't all that unusual on my part, but still not exactly pleasant.
So Slim Shady and I did what we do best. Zenned out on her couch and watched a marathon of Parks and Rec.
It was originally going to be Booze Cakes, but in the end there was neither booze, nor cake, just laziness and some comfy couches.
Plus Fearless Leader wasn't there and she's really the baker out of the three of us.
We gotta find a day that all three of us have the next day off and that we're all free. Which is nearly impossible, but hopefully one day soon it will happen. That Mudslide Cake thing was awesome.
I still have the urge to go see Dark Shadows again. Queen of Awesome and I gotta get on that. I'm thinking next week. Or maybe this weekend. I have class on Saturday, I KNOW! 8:30 AM which means I have to leave at 7.
Not that I'm complaining.
It'll be worth it, the Library Goddess is always worth it, I'm just not a morning person.
Speaking of morning people, I need to crash and quick. Kickoff is tomorrow and Mentor and I are gonna be swamped for about 4 hours straight. Plus all the morning stuff we have to do beforehand.
Songs of the day:
"Nights in White Satin" Moody Blues
oh my god i love this song. before dark shadows i'd never heard it before but i've been singing it every day since. it was at almost the very beginning, well 1972 very beginning when Maggie Evans becomes Victoria Winters and rides with the "unshaven young people" the Collinsport.
perfect song at the perfect moment.
"Top of the World" Carpenters
though i sing this one as well, which bugs me cause it's one of those songs like "it's a small world afterall" that if you sing it over and over it makes you want scream.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Vimineous: a rare adjective meaning 'made of wicker'. From a Latin word meaning 'willow'."
Monday, May 28, 2012
now you're just somebody that i used to know.
Ah, living the dream.
The vacation was great, short-lived, but great.
So I'm back to life fulltime tomorrow, which is fine, I have a lot to do. Juiceboxes, finish campfires, etc.
Visited the cemetery today with mom and great aunt, it reminded me of a story my uncle told me a few years back. Apparently, one of our relatives was quite the drinker and the doctor told him it was unhealthy so he should quit. The dude looks at the doctor and says, "I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors."
Was cool to see the headstones and hear the stories. Learn family history and all that. Though a little creepy considering you never know where to step.
After that I watched some more Swamp People with dad, got caught up, and yes HeeHaw clips as well. Had them all lined up for certain sketches. Then watched some Leverage, mom liked it so that was cool. I got her hooked on Chuck before, looking forward to the season premiere for this one. Gotta have something to watch, my favorites are dropping like flies either being cancelled or the storylines suck.
I've given up on Greys, Private Practice, Glee, Body of Proof, and Criminal Minds - I really like that last one but if Paget is gone gone then I'm officially done. Will have to watch the finale and see what happened. They better not kill her off for real this time.
Then they cancelled Chuck, possibly GCB, plus the Closer will soon be over, which leaves me with Castle, NCIS, the Voice, and....crap, what else is on my DVR? Leverage, Warehouse 13, Hot in Cleveland, that might be it. And I don't watch those live. Oh Bones, but I'm behind on that. As well as Big Bang Theory. 2 Broke Girls, I love that one. Watched a bit of it tonight as well, Max throwing Caroline a birthday party and them ending up the prison to see Caroline's dad but instead Max met an old ex who had her tattooed on his stomach. Awkward.
Wipeout is gonna come back for the summer, love that one. We watched highlights of it at Stop Class.
Made the day go by pretty quickly.
I'm sure there's something I'm missing, I could just check the DVR but I'm too tired and lazy.
Maybe the cancellations are good as camp is coming up. I don't really have time to watch anything anyway.
So, tomorrow. Big day. And the word of the day will be: "Agliff: a verb only found in the past participle as aglifft, meaning frightened. It is related to the equally obsolete gliff, meaning to alarm."
Would you add an -ed after that? "Like I agliffed myself when I saw the creepy stalker?" or would it just be "I was agliff after he approached me." ??
My favorite covers of Gotye:
Somebody That I Used to Know
Tim Whybrow's Acoustic Cover
super cool video. except for the egg with the face. that was weird.
Lindsey Pavao on The Voice
love it, she was one of my favorites.
though the dancers were a little...much?
alright, i'm out.
The vacation was great, short-lived, but great.
So I'm back to life fulltime tomorrow, which is fine, I have a lot to do. Juiceboxes, finish campfires, etc.
Visited the cemetery today with mom and great aunt, it reminded me of a story my uncle told me a few years back. Apparently, one of our relatives was quite the drinker and the doctor told him it was unhealthy so he should quit. The dude looks at the doctor and says, "I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors."
Was cool to see the headstones and hear the stories. Learn family history and all that. Though a little creepy considering you never know where to step.
After that I watched some more Swamp People with dad, got caught up, and yes HeeHaw clips as well. Had them all lined up for certain sketches. Then watched some Leverage, mom liked it so that was cool. I got her hooked on Chuck before, looking forward to the season premiere for this one. Gotta have something to watch, my favorites are dropping like flies either being cancelled or the storylines suck.
I've given up on Greys, Private Practice, Glee, Body of Proof, and Criminal Minds - I really like that last one but if Paget is gone gone then I'm officially done. Will have to watch the finale and see what happened. They better not kill her off for real this time.
Then they cancelled Chuck, possibly GCB, plus the Closer will soon be over, which leaves me with Castle, NCIS, the Voice, and....crap, what else is on my DVR? Leverage, Warehouse 13, Hot in Cleveland, that might be it. And I don't watch those live. Oh Bones, but I'm behind on that. As well as Big Bang Theory. 2 Broke Girls, I love that one. Watched a bit of it tonight as well, Max throwing Caroline a birthday party and them ending up the prison to see Caroline's dad but instead Max met an old ex who had her tattooed on his stomach. Awkward.
Wipeout is gonna come back for the summer, love that one. We watched highlights of it at Stop Class.
Made the day go by pretty quickly.
I'm sure there's something I'm missing, I could just check the DVR but I'm too tired and lazy.
Maybe the cancellations are good as camp is coming up. I don't really have time to watch anything anyway.
So, tomorrow. Big day. And the word of the day will be: "Agliff: a verb only found in the past participle as aglifft, meaning frightened. It is related to the equally obsolete gliff, meaning to alarm."
Would you add an -ed after that? "Like I agliffed myself when I saw the creepy stalker?" or would it just be "I was agliff after he approached me." ??
My favorite covers of Gotye:
Somebody That I Used to Know
Tim Whybrow's Acoustic Cover
super cool video. except for the egg with the face. that was weird.
Lindsey Pavao on The Voice
love it, she was one of my favorites.
though the dancers were a little...much?
alright, i'm out.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Oh Captain, My Captain.
So I picked up "Dead Poet's Society" from the library yesterday thinking it's a classic, and hey, it's got Robin Williams in it, so it'll be hilarious!
I've come to realize that SuperHumann was right all those years ago when she said, "just because something is a classic doesn't mean it's any good." Even though she was referring to the Grapes of Wrath I think it still applies in this situation.
Not that I doubted her wisdom. I've always taken her words to heart.
Even when she's throwing markers at my head.
Though, to be fair, I did deserve it.
"What's unique about the word 'equal'?"
*absolute silence* *raise hand*
"It has a q in it."
*red marker flies past my head and hits the wall behind me*
Good thing her aim is lacking.
Or was at that moment.
That woman got me through high school and then some, which was no easy task, believe me.
Going to a dorm school when you're used to living with your parents back home isn't exactly paradise. It was more like homesick central. I mean, I'd met the other kids before at school events, but that didn't prepare me to live with them on a daily basis with no escape.
So I'd talk to her. About pretty much everything. Looking back I don't know how she put up with all my crap. But she was patient. She was kind. And she wrote me a five page letter front and back that we labeled "The Safety Net." I carried it around every day in my back pocket for years until it started to fall apart. Now it resides in my wallet and I've read through it a few times in the past few years.
Frayed around the edges it still gives me the strength to keep me on the road I'm on.
She's the reason I majored in English in the first place. So really, you can kind of blame my profession on her as well.
Well, her and the Library Goddess.
Both very strong and independent people, watching out for me. I've been lucky that way, always having someone watching out for me.
Ironically, some of those inspirational words she quoted actually came from her teacher...my uncle.
My favorite of course being:
Say One Thing
Mean Another
Write A Third
Expect A Fourth
If It's Simple, Complicate It
It It's Complicated Draw A Picture
If It's On The Test Don't Talk About It
In true Everts fashion.
And I still frequent the phrase "comments? questions? snide remarks?" at most of the meetings I lead.
So Dead Poet's Society, yes, horribly horribly depressing and not at all what I was expecting. Which sometimes is a good thing, but in this situation was not so cool.
Scale of Awesome says 4/10.
In order to sway from the depression of the moment I began to write out skits for camp while still watching. Giving it my full attention was too much.
Why is Red Foreman always Red Foreman?
Seriously, does he ever play the good guy?
Typecasting.
Which amusingly enough is yet another high school thing involving SuperHumann. In drama productions I was always the dumb girlfriend. Or the evil queen. Maybe they were trying to tell me something.
In one instance I actually had to sing something on stage - in a non-musical - and the script listed something boring so we decided to go our own way. During a sophomore World History class she pulled out a boombox and "forced" us to listen to "Istanbul" by They Might Be Giants. I say "forced" as the other kids were like, what the crap? But I was totally into it. Which led to me singing it onstage during a One Act performance whilst being photographed by my current boyfriend though he was not at the time.
I had this horrible habit of dating my fellow actors which drove SuperHumann nuts. And it made it awkward when you're playing the dumb girlfriend. Because for some reason I was never dating the one that I was paired with onstage. Like in Candid, the one where I was walking around with headphones and singing "Istanbul" I had to play my current boyfriend's girlfriend, but at the time I was dating the guy who played one of his best friends.
Awkward.
I still remember SuperHumann telling me about an interesting reaction, apparently I put my hand on my current boyfriend's leg and the boyfriend at that time shot straight up in his seat.
Woops.
Then, senior year when we did Arsenic and Old Lace I was engaged to that straight shooter on stage whilst actually dating my current boyfriend who played Jonathan's henchman, Dr. Einstein. "My how I've changed!"
See, now, if I'd been anything other than the dumb girlfriend that wouldn't have been so awkward.
But apparently they liked making me sit on the windowseat and watching me re-apply my makeup for eight pages straight.
I've got the photos to prove it.
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It took two people to get me into that dress.
And running across the stage in those heels while trying not to make noise was more difficult than you'd imagine.
Especially as I was not so good in heels. Cause I didn't wear them.
Don't wear them.
I loved high school drama.
I mean, the stage kind.
The living drama I could do without.
We'd have so much fun in practice that I'd look forward to it all day.
That's the boyfriend on the far left.
Doesn't he look focused.
This dress was a bit more manageable.
And comfortable.
But for some reason I stuck with the silver heels throughout the whole thing.
Though that's probably a good thing, I was having trouble navigating that pair already, you didn't have to throw in another to make it worse.
Plus my roommate loved giving me crap about them.
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That coat was massively itchy man.
The freshman playing Jonathan said it was a bit intimidating to play against a bunch of seniors.
But he pulled his weight pretty well.
Oh yeah, such a hard worker.
Actually pretty sure that was our first read-through/block-out for Arsenic and Old Lace.
I miss the good 'ole days. "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Candid", "Pecos Bill & Slue Foot Sue Meet the Dirty Dan Gang", "Briar Rose", though my all time favorite is still "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". The boyfriend playing Charlie Brown with bleach blonde hair. That was interesting. I'll leave that picture out of the bunch, though it is on Facebook.
I probably should have joined drama in college, but really I was just looking to get out of their as fast as possible. As much as I loved high school, that was as much I hated college.
Most of the people were great, but four years seemed like a century. So glad to be out and in the real world.
Drama-central, seriously. It was like, sharing a hymnal with someone at chapel meant you were engaged and off the market. Even if you didn't know their name, people assumed you were an item and backed off.
Memories.
Speaking of.
As I'm on a roll with them, Random Quote Book entry: Let's try Freshman Year.
"What do you think of this dress?"
"Stick two candles in it and make a wish?"
"We never really had problems."
"Then why'd you break up?"
"I cheated on him...I guess that's kind of a problem."
"Any job skills?"
"I'm a snake-wrangler."
"Did you bat your eyes?"
"I batted everything that wasn't nailed down."
"Can you vacuum the rugs?"
"Can't you shake them out?"
"I'd have to pick up the house."
"Oh, you meant the carpet."
"My mind is like cheesecake, whatever cheesecake is. Fluff. I don't know, ask me later." that was my mother.
"Herod really had his undies in a bunch."
"Did he really just say that?"
"Send your parents a report card: 3 A's and a baby."
"I like him, but he's a pimp!"
"I'm sick of talking about boy problems. Remember in the beginning of the year when we never talked about boys? Let's do that again."
*silence*
"What did we used to talk about?"
Okay, overload. Music Rec and I'm out.
"Istanbul"
fantastic. remind me a bit of some guys i went to high school with.
Now SuperHumann and I sing this for karaoke.
It's highly amusing.
Woops, tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Rhathymia: the state of being cheerful, merry, and optimistic. It comes from a Greek word meaning 'to take a vacation, be idle'."
Gonna have to do a lot of that tomorrow, it is Summer Reading afterall.
I've come to realize that SuperHumann was right all those years ago when she said, "just because something is a classic doesn't mean it's any good." Even though she was referring to the Grapes of Wrath I think it still applies in this situation.
Not that I doubted her wisdom. I've always taken her words to heart.
Even when she's throwing markers at my head.
Though, to be fair, I did deserve it.
"What's unique about the word 'equal'?"
*absolute silence* *raise hand*
"It has a q in it."
*red marker flies past my head and hits the wall behind me*
Good thing her aim is lacking.
Or was at that moment.
That woman got me through high school and then some, which was no easy task, believe me.
Going to a dorm school when you're used to living with your parents back home isn't exactly paradise. It was more like homesick central. I mean, I'd met the other kids before at school events, but that didn't prepare me to live with them on a daily basis with no escape.
So I'd talk to her. About pretty much everything. Looking back I don't know how she put up with all my crap. But she was patient. She was kind. And she wrote me a five page letter front and back that we labeled "The Safety Net." I carried it around every day in my back pocket for years until it started to fall apart. Now it resides in my wallet and I've read through it a few times in the past few years.
Frayed around the edges it still gives me the strength to keep me on the road I'm on.
She's the reason I majored in English in the first place. So really, you can kind of blame my profession on her as well.
Well, her and the Library Goddess.
Both very strong and independent people, watching out for me. I've been lucky that way, always having someone watching out for me.
Ironically, some of those inspirational words she quoted actually came from her teacher...my uncle.
My favorite of course being:
Say One Thing
Mean Another
Write A Third
Expect A Fourth
If It's Simple, Complicate It
It It's Complicated Draw A Picture
If It's On The Test Don't Talk About It
In true Everts fashion.
And I still frequent the phrase "comments? questions? snide remarks?" at most of the meetings I lead.
So Dead Poet's Society, yes, horribly horribly depressing and not at all what I was expecting. Which sometimes is a good thing, but in this situation was not so cool.
Scale of Awesome says 4/10.
In order to sway from the depression of the moment I began to write out skits for camp while still watching. Giving it my full attention was too much.
Why is Red Foreman always Red Foreman?
Seriously, does he ever play the good guy?
Typecasting.
Which amusingly enough is yet another high school thing involving SuperHumann. In drama productions I was always the dumb girlfriend. Or the evil queen. Maybe they were trying to tell me something.
In one instance I actually had to sing something on stage - in a non-musical - and the script listed something boring so we decided to go our own way. During a sophomore World History class she pulled out a boombox and "forced" us to listen to "Istanbul" by They Might Be Giants. I say "forced" as the other kids were like, what the crap? But I was totally into it. Which led to me singing it onstage during a One Act performance whilst being photographed by my current boyfriend though he was not at the time.
I had this horrible habit of dating my fellow actors which drove SuperHumann nuts. And it made it awkward when you're playing the dumb girlfriend. Because for some reason I was never dating the one that I was paired with onstage. Like in Candid, the one where I was walking around with headphones and singing "Istanbul" I had to play my current boyfriend's girlfriend, but at the time I was dating the guy who played one of his best friends.
Awkward.
I still remember SuperHumann telling me about an interesting reaction, apparently I put my hand on my current boyfriend's leg and the boyfriend at that time shot straight up in his seat.
Woops.
Then, senior year when we did Arsenic and Old Lace I was engaged to that straight shooter on stage whilst actually dating my current boyfriend who played Jonathan's henchman, Dr. Einstein. "My how I've changed!"
See, now, if I'd been anything other than the dumb girlfriend that wouldn't have been so awkward.
But apparently they liked making me sit on the windowseat and watching me re-apply my makeup for eight pages straight.
I've got the photos to prove it.
.jpg)
It took two people to get me into that dress.And running across the stage in those heels while trying not to make noise was more difficult than you'd imagine.
Especially as I was not so good in heels. Cause I didn't wear them.
Don't wear them.
I loved high school drama.
I mean, the stage kind.
The living drama I could do without.
We'd have so much fun in practice that I'd look forward to it all day.
That's the boyfriend on the far left.
Doesn't he look focused.
This dress was a bit more manageable.
And comfortable.
But for some reason I stuck with the silver heels throughout the whole thing.
Though that's probably a good thing, I was having trouble navigating that pair already, you didn't have to throw in another to make it worse.
Plus my roommate loved giving me crap about them.
.jpg)
That coat was massively itchy man.
The freshman playing Jonathan said it was a bit intimidating to play against a bunch of seniors.
But he pulled his weight pretty well.
Oh yeah, such a hard worker.
Actually pretty sure that was our first read-through/block-out for Arsenic and Old Lace.
I miss the good 'ole days. "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Candid", "Pecos Bill & Slue Foot Sue Meet the Dirty Dan Gang", "Briar Rose", though my all time favorite is still "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". The boyfriend playing Charlie Brown with bleach blonde hair. That was interesting. I'll leave that picture out of the bunch, though it is on Facebook.
I probably should have joined drama in college, but really I was just looking to get out of their as fast as possible. As much as I loved high school, that was as much I hated college.
Most of the people were great, but four years seemed like a century. So glad to be out and in the real world.
Drama-central, seriously. It was like, sharing a hymnal with someone at chapel meant you were engaged and off the market. Even if you didn't know their name, people assumed you were an item and backed off.
Memories.
Speaking of.
As I'm on a roll with them, Random Quote Book entry: Let's try Freshman Year.
"What do you think of this dress?"
"Stick two candles in it and make a wish?"
"We never really had problems."
"Then why'd you break up?"
"I cheated on him...I guess that's kind of a problem."
"Any job skills?"
"I'm a snake-wrangler."
"Did you bat your eyes?"
"I batted everything that wasn't nailed down."
"Can you vacuum the rugs?"
"Can't you shake them out?"
"I'd have to pick up the house."
"Oh, you meant the carpet."
"My mind is like cheesecake, whatever cheesecake is. Fluff. I don't know, ask me later." that was my mother.
"Herod really had his undies in a bunch."
"Did he really just say that?"
"Send your parents a report card: 3 A's and a baby."
"I like him, but he's a pimp!"
"I'm sick of talking about boy problems. Remember in the beginning of the year when we never talked about boys? Let's do that again."
*silence*
"What did we used to talk about?"
Okay, overload. Music Rec and I'm out.
"Istanbul"
fantastic. remind me a bit of some guys i went to high school with.
Now SuperHumann and I sing this for karaoke.
It's highly amusing.
Woops, tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Rhathymia: the state of being cheerful, merry, and optimistic. It comes from a Greek word meaning 'to take a vacation, be idle'."
Gonna have to do a lot of that tomorrow, it is Summer Reading afterall.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Oh what a feeling, it must be love.
You know what's truly awesome?
When you have a really crappy day, and then you see your boyfriend and he says like two words and it fixes everything.
So yeah, crappy day, but that happens a lot in public service.
But the boyfriend fixed it, talked me down, distracted me with Dark Shadows. Which I will wait to fully review until I see it again. Which I will. Cause it was fantastic.
Though my stomach is still all weird.
I don't do well with conflict.
I avoid it if all possible.
Mostly because it makes me physically sick.
I got in this knock down, drag out, physically yelling out loud at each other fight with my professor in college after class about youth and the justice system and I was miserable for like a week.
I respect my elders, I don't believe in pulling crap like that, so you knew it was serious.
Though I still think I'm right and he's wrong.
And then, AND THEN! he brings it up in class the next session and poses it as a debate.
Which I guess is an okay thing to do as a professor, but not as a person.
"so we've been talking about this and having a great debate, at least I think it's a great debate, what do you guys think about it?"
Did I mention how much I really didn't like college?
I just need some sleep.
Tonight helped, he's great, my boyfriend. Has all the answers. And only the good ones. Not like the people who claim to have answers for everything.
Speaking of distraction I still have those quotebooks sitting on the floor.
See if I can find anything interesting.
Random page in '09.... oh geez, speak of the devil. Not that one, flipping to a different page.
Okay, Placement Seminar senior year. We came up with resumes, portfolios, went on fake interviews, actually I give credit to that class for getting the job.
Anyway, first week as a class we came up with a life plan.
1. Get born.
2. Grow up - eat spinach, drink milk, stop picking your nose.
3. Go to college - pick a major your parents like.
4. Get high...PAYING job.
5. Find a family - don't want to see them just know they're there.
6. Buy stuff - like a motorboat.
7. Get old - purchase many anti-aging projects to hide the fact that it's almost over and you've missed it.
8. Die. Or leave.
There were a lot of anti-aging products and a motorboat references throughout the class.
I loved that class it was fantastic, she had the best one-liners.
"Nothing like spending your Friday night crying into a bag of Doritos."
"What's a Zamboni? Pasta?"
"He can dunk."
"Donuts?"
"Are we drinking before or after the interviews?"
"Interview rule #1: Celebrate After."
"If you can, case the joint."
"Case the joint?!"
"Don't quote me."
woops.
"Is taking a backpack to an interview normal?"
"Not unless you plan on stealing some office supplies when you leave."
"Don't fold your resume. Especially not into projectile objects."
But that was the same semester I took Group Tech so there were a lot of quotes in the book. I still have flashbacks to that class. That's my curse, and he'll take full blame. I threatened once to make him business cards that said his name and then "Messer of Minds".
It was a fun class, mostly just about how people behave when they're in groups. It's amusing to observe staff meetings and see it happening.
I was a Behavioral Sciences major once upon a time. Before I switched back to English.
But I don't want to spill any secrets because then people will change their behavior and I won't get to find it amusing anymore.
He was a great professor though, always highly amusing.
"Rhythmic breathing. Weird phenomenon."
and my forever favorite after explaining an assignment: "Be creative. Don't get arrested."
As bad as college could be I really liked all - well, the majority - of my professors. And made some good friends along the way.
AS: "He wasn't wearing a jacket."
LA: "But I'm in the back!"
AS: "That doesn't matter, no jacket, no talk! That's the rule!"
LA: "It's okay, he was wearing a plaid shirt."
AS: "Never trust a guy in plaid!"
LA: "Okay, so in order for me to trust them they shouldn't wear plaid, but they should wear a jacket?"
AW: "What if they're wearing plaid and a jacket?"
CK: "What if it's a plaid jacket?"
AS: "Then run!"
So glad to get that one on tape. It made for an interesting drivethru at McDonalds.
Okay, I'm officially distracted and okay again.
Tomorrow's another day.
And its Word of the Day will be: "Logodaedaly ingenious or cunning use of words. Logo- comes from a Greek root meaning 'word' and -daedaly is related to Daedalus, the name of the designer of the Labyrinth for the Minotaur of Crete. His name has come to mean 'ingenious, skillful'. Another rare logo- word is the nonce-word logopandocie, which is the 'readiness to admit words of all kinds' and describes the English language and most lexicographers."
There you go, pronounce that one.
A couple hours ago the songs I had planned were a bit more angsty. But I'm liking this whole classic country thing.
Oh yeah, so I got this free month of XM radio thing so they can tempt me to buy it, did you know they have an entire channel dedicated to Hair Bands?
I enjoyed the Prime Country channel on the drive back.
"It Must Be Love" Alan Jackson
"Next To You, Next To Me" Shenandoah
classic. i enjoy the cops with the aviators. that's nice.
When you have a really crappy day, and then you see your boyfriend and he says like two words and it fixes everything.
So yeah, crappy day, but that happens a lot in public service.
But the boyfriend fixed it, talked me down, distracted me with Dark Shadows. Which I will wait to fully review until I see it again. Which I will. Cause it was fantastic.
Though my stomach is still all weird.
I don't do well with conflict.
I avoid it if all possible.
Mostly because it makes me physically sick.
I got in this knock down, drag out, physically yelling out loud at each other fight with my professor in college after class about youth and the justice system and I was miserable for like a week.
I respect my elders, I don't believe in pulling crap like that, so you knew it was serious.
Though I still think I'm right and he's wrong.
And then, AND THEN! he brings it up in class the next session and poses it as a debate.
Which I guess is an okay thing to do as a professor, but not as a person.
"so we've been talking about this and having a great debate, at least I think it's a great debate, what do you guys think about it?"
Did I mention how much I really didn't like college?
I just need some sleep.
Tonight helped, he's great, my boyfriend. Has all the answers. And only the good ones. Not like the people who claim to have answers for everything.
Speaking of distraction I still have those quotebooks sitting on the floor.
See if I can find anything interesting.
Random page in '09.... oh geez, speak of the devil. Not that one, flipping to a different page.
Okay, Placement Seminar senior year. We came up with resumes, portfolios, went on fake interviews, actually I give credit to that class for getting the job.
Anyway, first week as a class we came up with a life plan.
1. Get born.
2. Grow up - eat spinach, drink milk, stop picking your nose.
3. Go to college - pick a major your parents like.
4. Get high...PAYING job.
5. Find a family - don't want to see them just know they're there.
6. Buy stuff - like a motorboat.
7. Get old - purchase many anti-aging projects to hide the fact that it's almost over and you've missed it.
8. Die. Or leave.
There were a lot of anti-aging products and a motorboat references throughout the class.
I loved that class it was fantastic, she had the best one-liners.
"Nothing like spending your Friday night crying into a bag of Doritos."
"What's a Zamboni? Pasta?"
"He can dunk."
"Donuts?"
"Are we drinking before or after the interviews?"
"Interview rule #1: Celebrate After."
"If you can, case the joint."
"Case the joint?!"
"Don't quote me."
woops.
"Is taking a backpack to an interview normal?"
"Not unless you plan on stealing some office supplies when you leave."
"Don't fold your resume. Especially not into projectile objects."
But that was the same semester I took Group Tech so there were a lot of quotes in the book. I still have flashbacks to that class. That's my curse, and he'll take full blame. I threatened once to make him business cards that said his name and then "Messer of Minds".
It was a fun class, mostly just about how people behave when they're in groups. It's amusing to observe staff meetings and see it happening.
I was a Behavioral Sciences major once upon a time. Before I switched back to English.
But I don't want to spill any secrets because then people will change their behavior and I won't get to find it amusing anymore.
He was a great professor though, always highly amusing.
"Rhythmic breathing. Weird phenomenon."
and my forever favorite after explaining an assignment: "Be creative. Don't get arrested."
As bad as college could be I really liked all - well, the majority - of my professors. And made some good friends along the way.
AS: "He wasn't wearing a jacket."
LA: "But I'm in the back!"
AS: "That doesn't matter, no jacket, no talk! That's the rule!"
LA: "It's okay, he was wearing a plaid shirt."
AS: "Never trust a guy in plaid!"
LA: "Okay, so in order for me to trust them they shouldn't wear plaid, but they should wear a jacket?"
AW: "What if they're wearing plaid and a jacket?"
CK: "What if it's a plaid jacket?"
AS: "Then run!"
So glad to get that one on tape. It made for an interesting drivethru at McDonalds.
Okay, I'm officially distracted and okay again.
Tomorrow's another day.
And its Word of the Day will be: "Logodaedaly ingenious or cunning use of words. Logo- comes from a Greek root meaning 'word' and -daedaly is related to Daedalus, the name of the designer of the Labyrinth for the Minotaur of Crete. His name has come to mean 'ingenious, skillful'. Another rare logo- word is the nonce-word logopandocie, which is the 'readiness to admit words of all kinds' and describes the English language and most lexicographers."
There you go, pronounce that one.
A couple hours ago the songs I had planned were a bit more angsty. But I'm liking this whole classic country thing.
Oh yeah, so I got this free month of XM radio thing so they can tempt me to buy it, did you know they have an entire channel dedicated to Hair Bands?
I enjoyed the Prime Country channel on the drive back.
"It Must Be Love" Alan Jackson
"Next To You, Next To Me" Shenandoah
classic. i enjoy the cops with the aviators. that's nice.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
What exactly do Boogie Shoes look like?
Falling asleep at the keyboard here so I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet.
All day at work, spent the majority of it stuffing bags for summer reading, and I'm still not done, but maybe Squirt can finish that tomorrow.
Summer Reading is getting exhausted and it has barely started. In fact, for the public it doesn't start until the 25th. Which is interesting since myself and Mentor aren't on the schedule that day. And we're kind of sort of in charge of parts of it. But that mostly takes place on the first.
After work was Bubby's baseball game, they won by about 23 points, they're really good, been playing together forever. I think that was the other team's weakness, didn't play very well together. Or maybe it was cause it was the first season.
Bubby hit a triple it was fantastic, we all screamed.
And I brought my own chair and everything, courtesy of the school's silent auction, woohoo!
I miss playing softball with my old teammates, that was fun stuff. The only sport I ever semi-excelled. But now we've still got church league so that makes it all better. This year is gonna go in the record books, we're gonna win them all. Or at least have fun in the process of doing it. We play better when we're scrappy anyway.
That's all I got at the moment, I'm falling asleep and anything other than that would be gibberish.
Which I'm making my word of the day for tomorrow.
Gibberish. I'll speak in it and use the word in a sentence.
Music Rec:
"Boogie Shoes" Glee Cast
was that jesse st. james? wow, i'm really behind. but season's over so i'll catch up when it's out on dvd.
i have no idea who that chick was, but she's fantastic. great dance moves as well.
sad small post but i'll make up for it tomorrow.
PS - Sent out application forms on Monday, already three questions as of tonight. Probably get some back as early as Thursday.
All day at work, spent the majority of it stuffing bags for summer reading, and I'm still not done, but maybe Squirt can finish that tomorrow.
Summer Reading is getting exhausted and it has barely started. In fact, for the public it doesn't start until the 25th. Which is interesting since myself and Mentor aren't on the schedule that day. And we're kind of sort of in charge of parts of it. But that mostly takes place on the first.
After work was Bubby's baseball game, they won by about 23 points, they're really good, been playing together forever. I think that was the other team's weakness, didn't play very well together. Or maybe it was cause it was the first season.
Bubby hit a triple it was fantastic, we all screamed.
And I brought my own chair and everything, courtesy of the school's silent auction, woohoo!
I miss playing softball with my old teammates, that was fun stuff. The only sport I ever semi-excelled. But now we've still got church league so that makes it all better. This year is gonna go in the record books, we're gonna win them all. Or at least have fun in the process of doing it. We play better when we're scrappy anyway.
That's all I got at the moment, I'm falling asleep and anything other than that would be gibberish.
Which I'm making my word of the day for tomorrow.
Gibberish. I'll speak in it and use the word in a sentence.
Music Rec:
"Boogie Shoes" Glee Cast
was that jesse st. james? wow, i'm really behind. but season's over so i'll catch up when it's out on dvd.
i have no idea who that chick was, but she's fantastic. great dance moves as well.
sad small post but i'll make up for it tomorrow.
PS - Sent out application forms on Monday, already three questions as of tonight. Probably get some back as early as Thursday.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Down on the corner, Out in the street
The problem with getting a new datebook is that you have to transcribe everything from the old datebook.
Well, I have to transcribe all the crap from my old book.
And there's a lot of crap to transcribe.
But I'm the kind of nerd that keeps notes on random stuff, like the regular stuff: this week I'll celebrate my second year working at my current branch and in my apartment,
....and then there's stuff like upcoming October 11th, 6 years ago, my college friends and I would play this game when we went places where we would count vehicles. We each had our own thing, Mustangs, bicycles, motocycles, etc. So on one occasion in particular Lindsay was kicking our ass cause she had bicycles and we were driving downtown Lincoln where they had all those bike racks. This is when we instituted the "it must be moving in order to count" so we pull up to this corner where this guy is sitting on his bike and Lindsay just can't wait to add another number to her total. But the dude is stuck at the crossing, so we of course have our windows down, and she decides to scream out, "6-6-6, Move! Move! Move!"
Which, if you didn't know she was counting six moving bicycles, you could really have taken that the wrong way.
Or how about this one, upcoming August 23rd, 5 years ago, Favorite sister-in-law and me are driving Dad's T-Bird back from Strang after eating some great burgers, when we're almost out of gas so we run to town to get some. But with the T-Bird, this thing is, the windows don't actually work so well...and it started to rain.
Then there was something about a liquor store in there somewhere, but that's a longer story.
October 4th, 3 years ago, triple to the fence. I was up to bat on church softball - this is after one of the other team's men had yelled out "back up their women can hit!" and my sister's ex was giving me crap, but we give it right back, me and my brother. Anyway, so pointed to him with the bat and told him it was coming to him, he yelled out whatever, so I hit it over his head. To the fence. And got a triple. Then he shutup. Also in the book are the two dates I slid on the gravel field and ended up with a pretty nasty scraped up leg.
It's actually amusing going through this old stuff, brings up some memories. In college I used to carry around these quote spiral notebooks in my back pocket everywhere I went, filled one per year.
Now it's just like a build-up of paper slips in my pocket.
Let me see if I can find something interesting...Flip to something random from '08.
Dr. Serck: "She covered it when we noticed I was carrying boxes that said, 'vodka'."
Basically, Serck is my 80-something year old Children's Lit professor, the one that invites me back to introduce authors like Dan Gutman and Gordon Korman at Plum Creek. Nicest lady ever, and apparently, after 20 years of teaching I was her first student who offered to help her clean up after class. It was a night class and she brought out like 80 books per session. She had this rolling cart so she could tote them back and forth between that and her pride and joy - the only professor to have their own library on campus, organized and everything. Along with the cart were these boxes covered in Snoopy wrapping paper. One student, I can't remember which, asked her one class period why her boxes had Snoopy wrapping paper on them. Her explanation was that she and her mother were carrying boxes of children's books across campus and she was getting weird looks. It wasn't until later that they noticed the boxes they were carrying the children's books in were labeled "vodka." So her mother covered it with any mother's fool-proof solution, Snoopy wrapping paper.
Sara: "When in doubt, pelvic thrust."
For my Shakespeare class with Thurber we were divided into groups to present plays that we'd gone over that year for a our final project. Our group was assigned Twelfth Night so we did a sort of Whose Line Is It Anyway kind of style, there was a E-True Shakespearian Story, the Dating Game, Malvolio the Crocodile Hunter, and Censored version. There's this scene that gets a little, um, gross so we decided that I would be the "Censored Seductress" and when it got to that part I'd put on earmuff and hold up a sign that said "Censored". When that happened they would just mouth the words and make their actions very bold. This line came into play when trying to remember where we were at in the script.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Weesle a very rare, undeservedly obsolete word meaning 'to ooze'." Can't wait to use that one.
"Down On The Corner" Creedence Clearwater Revival
Alright, I'll give you more tomorrow. Sleeping in this morning was nice, but tomorrow it's a full day.
Well, I have to transcribe all the crap from my old book.
And there's a lot of crap to transcribe.
But I'm the kind of nerd that keeps notes on random stuff, like the regular stuff: this week I'll celebrate my second year working at my current branch and in my apartment,
....and then there's stuff like upcoming October 11th, 6 years ago, my college friends and I would play this game when we went places where we would count vehicles. We each had our own thing, Mustangs, bicycles, motocycles, etc. So on one occasion in particular Lindsay was kicking our ass cause she had bicycles and we were driving downtown Lincoln where they had all those bike racks. This is when we instituted the "it must be moving in order to count" so we pull up to this corner where this guy is sitting on his bike and Lindsay just can't wait to add another number to her total. But the dude is stuck at the crossing, so we of course have our windows down, and she decides to scream out, "6-6-6, Move! Move! Move!"
Which, if you didn't know she was counting six moving bicycles, you could really have taken that the wrong way.
Or how about this one, upcoming August 23rd, 5 years ago, Favorite sister-in-law and me are driving Dad's T-Bird back from Strang after eating some great burgers, when we're almost out of gas so we run to town to get some. But with the T-Bird, this thing is, the windows don't actually work so well...and it started to rain.
Then there was something about a liquor store in there somewhere, but that's a longer story.
October 4th, 3 years ago, triple to the fence. I was up to bat on church softball - this is after one of the other team's men had yelled out "back up their women can hit!" and my sister's ex was giving me crap, but we give it right back, me and my brother. Anyway, so pointed to him with the bat and told him it was coming to him, he yelled out whatever, so I hit it over his head. To the fence. And got a triple. Then he shutup. Also in the book are the two dates I slid on the gravel field and ended up with a pretty nasty scraped up leg.
It's actually amusing going through this old stuff, brings up some memories. In college I used to carry around these quote spiral notebooks in my back pocket everywhere I went, filled one per year.
Now it's just like a build-up of paper slips in my pocket.
Let me see if I can find something interesting...Flip to something random from '08.
Dr. Serck: "She covered it when we noticed I was carrying boxes that said, 'vodka'."
Basically, Serck is my 80-something year old Children's Lit professor, the one that invites me back to introduce authors like Dan Gutman and Gordon Korman at Plum Creek. Nicest lady ever, and apparently, after 20 years of teaching I was her first student who offered to help her clean up after class. It was a night class and she brought out like 80 books per session. She had this rolling cart so she could tote them back and forth between that and her pride and joy - the only professor to have their own library on campus, organized and everything. Along with the cart were these boxes covered in Snoopy wrapping paper. One student, I can't remember which, asked her one class period why her boxes had Snoopy wrapping paper on them. Her explanation was that she and her mother were carrying boxes of children's books across campus and she was getting weird looks. It wasn't until later that they noticed the boxes they were carrying the children's books in were labeled "vodka." So her mother covered it with any mother's fool-proof solution, Snoopy wrapping paper.
Sara: "When in doubt, pelvic thrust."
For my Shakespeare class with Thurber we were divided into groups to present plays that we'd gone over that year for a our final project. Our group was assigned Twelfth Night so we did a sort of Whose Line Is It Anyway kind of style, there was a E-True Shakespearian Story, the Dating Game, Malvolio the Crocodile Hunter, and Censored version. There's this scene that gets a little, um, gross so we decided that I would be the "Censored Seductress" and when it got to that part I'd put on earmuff and hold up a sign that said "Censored". When that happened they would just mouth the words and make their actions very bold. This line came into play when trying to remember where we were at in the script.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Weesle a very rare, undeservedly obsolete word meaning 'to ooze'." Can't wait to use that one.
"Down On The Corner" Creedence Clearwater Revival
Alright, I'll give you more tomorrow. Sleeping in this morning was nice, but tomorrow it's a full day.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
20 pounds of crazy in a five pound bag.
"Haircuts, Parker, count the haircuts."
What a day man, what a day.
Church this morning with Squirt's graduation. She got her diploma and all that so we went out for sushi after.
Quote of the day:
Squirt: "There aren't a lot of cute Lutheran boys so when you find one you have to jump on him."
Bubby to his mother: "Is that why you married a Catholic?"
After that it was open house at Camp J.
Oh my god.
There are no words.
Seriously, I'm still processing.
We are no longer roughing it in the woods, the new building is huge, and air conditioned, there's a huge kitchen with state of the art stuff, lots of space for crafts, we're thinking about doing skit and worship in there as well...the only thing that people aren't going to like so much is that they blocked off our road that goes all the way around camp. So the kids who are on the other side of camp have to basically carry/drag their stuff all the way over there instead of just being able to drive to the cabin and drop it off.
But they'll live.
I'm stoked.
Gonna take off that Thursday around 2, come home and pack, then head out.
Though technically half of my camp stuff is still in my car.
So, ha!
There's a reason it's still in there.
I took lots and lots of pictures...and then my camera died...so I took lots and lots of pictures on my phone...
Thinking of buying a new camera before camp.
Though there's a lot of things on my list of things to do before camp.
Aka, get my hair dyed and chopped, finish this freakin' songbook, process all application forms and send return letters, come up with a schedule, order t-shirts, find volunteers, assign volunteers to cabins, assign kids to cabins, figure out what to do with the plethora of teen helpers, clean out the trailer, what else, oh yeah, write about 18 skits. No big deal.
So I'm distracting myself with Leverage.
"Age of the geek, baby."
Even though I have lots and lots of other crap checked out, somehow I always get distracted with my own.
I love this show, I hope they keep it going. Great con show, you always wonder how they pull these things off, I'm not that clever...at stealing stuff apparently.
Anyway, double checking my schedule was a good idea as it means I get to sleep in tomorrow and I'm off early, but I'll probably spend that time shopping for summer reading kickoff supplies so it won't really be time off.
So, I'm out for the night.
After this.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Wabbit" a Scottish word meaning 'exhausted or slightly unwell,' as in 'I'm feeling a bit wabbit.' Its origin is uncertain.
And these.
Teaching Parker Persuasion
High Five - Calibretto 13
Okay, now I'm going to bed.
What a day man, what a day.
Church this morning with Squirt's graduation. She got her diploma and all that so we went out for sushi after.
Quote of the day:
Squirt: "There aren't a lot of cute Lutheran boys so when you find one you have to jump on him."
Bubby to his mother: "Is that why you married a Catholic?"
After that it was open house at Camp J.
Oh my god.
There are no words.
Seriously, I'm still processing.
We are no longer roughing it in the woods, the new building is huge, and air conditioned, there's a huge kitchen with state of the art stuff, lots of space for crafts, we're thinking about doing skit and worship in there as well...the only thing that people aren't going to like so much is that they blocked off our road that goes all the way around camp. So the kids who are on the other side of camp have to basically carry/drag their stuff all the way over there instead of just being able to drive to the cabin and drop it off.
But they'll live.
I'm stoked.
Gonna take off that Thursday around 2, come home and pack, then head out.
Though technically half of my camp stuff is still in my car.
So, ha!
There's a reason it's still in there.
I took lots and lots of pictures...and then my camera died...so I took lots and lots of pictures on my phone...
Thinking of buying a new camera before camp.
Though there's a lot of things on my list of things to do before camp.
Aka, get my hair dyed and chopped, finish this freakin' songbook, process all application forms and send return letters, come up with a schedule, order t-shirts, find volunteers, assign volunteers to cabins, assign kids to cabins, figure out what to do with the plethora of teen helpers, clean out the trailer, what else, oh yeah, write about 18 skits. No big deal.
So I'm distracting myself with Leverage.
"Age of the geek, baby."
Even though I have lots and lots of other crap checked out, somehow I always get distracted with my own.
I love this show, I hope they keep it going. Great con show, you always wonder how they pull these things off, I'm not that clever...at stealing stuff apparently.
Anyway, double checking my schedule was a good idea as it means I get to sleep in tomorrow and I'm off early, but I'll probably spend that time shopping for summer reading kickoff supplies so it won't really be time off.
So, I'm out for the night.
After this.
Tomorrow's Word of the Day: "Wabbit" a Scottish word meaning 'exhausted or slightly unwell,' as in 'I'm feeling a bit wabbit.' Its origin is uncertain.
And these.
Teaching Parker Persuasion
High Five - Calibretto 13
Okay, now I'm going to bed.
Friday, May 18, 2012
I'm going through the big D and don't mean Dallas.
Aww Avengers, you only get better the second time around. And knowing me there will probably be a third time around before it leaves theaters.
Stoked to see they're making an Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and really, if they made another Hulk with Mark Ruffalo I'd probably be stoked for that too. He made the character likeable, which is more than I can say for the previous actors.
I'd be up for a Hawkeye/Black Widow movie as well... that'd be great.
So, I actually pulled out my Word of the Day on multiple occasions today. Though my favorite was at the very end of the day when I explained it to a coworker and my Boss's Boss's Boss - who I didn't even see - stops walking, turns around and says "what?!"
Love it.
Gammerstang, a tall awkward woman. We got plenty of those.
Dig it.
But that means tomorrow's Word of the Day has gotta be even better.
Ooooo, let's give this one a shot: "Crapulous" a literary word meaning relating to drunkenness or the drinking of alcohol. Like the related adjective "crapulent" and noun "crapulence" it comes from a Latin word meaning "inebriation" itself based on a Greek word meaning "drunken headache."
I like it already. Sounds like something my sisters would say.
Not that I'll be able to use it at work tomorrow since I will be training kids on Summer Reading stuff, but perhaps in the afternoon during our camp meeting.
Yes, the first (well second) official Camp J 2012 meeting in all its glory.
Actually it'll probably be us sitting around a table eating pizza and drinking pop. Which is our usual routine. But I'm headed out early so Obi-Wan and me can mock up some application forms with Pastor. Then we can show them at the meeting and perhaps stuff a few and send them on their merry ways.
Then Sunday I'm off all day, morning is Squirt's graduation, after that I'm headed out to the Camp J open house where they're showing off the new building. I get to take pictures and put them on the website.
Which is down at the moment.
But that's both a long story and not our fault. So let's leave it at that.
Facebook, I'll upload them on Facebook.
Aww camp, turns my world upside down for about four months a year but it's worth it every time. Plus we have our golfing adventure immediately following it so that's a reward enough.
Though I did go all giddy little schoolgirl about it to Superwoman today.
K, I'm going through the rest of these quick cause I got a big and early day tomorrow. Gotta konk out soon.
Things Overheard at the Library makes today's Quote of the Day:
-"She stole my Breasts!"
Sometimes you just don't want to know.
More Songs You Know But Forgot You Knew Them:
Mark Chesnutt.
Country star man, what happened to him? He was great!
Going Through the Big D
i got the jeep, she got the palace...
"It's a Little Too Late"
i enjoy that the fish is still on the hook and everything.
Seriously, whatever happened to that dude?
I love 90's country, that's when I actually listened to it. I don't really anymore, though I do like the Pistol Annies and The Wreckers. Will look more into 90's country, maybe I'll make you suffer through a week of it, haven't had one of those in a while.
Alright, and she's out. Summer Reading training in the morning, camp meeting after that, then lots and lots of other camp stuff after that.
Stoked to see they're making an Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and really, if they made another Hulk with Mark Ruffalo I'd probably be stoked for that too. He made the character likeable, which is more than I can say for the previous actors.
I'd be up for a Hawkeye/Black Widow movie as well... that'd be great.
So, I actually pulled out my Word of the Day on multiple occasions today. Though my favorite was at the very end of the day when I explained it to a coworker and my Boss's Boss's Boss - who I didn't even see - stops walking, turns around and says "what?!"
Love it.
Gammerstang, a tall awkward woman. We got plenty of those.
Dig it.
But that means tomorrow's Word of the Day has gotta be even better.
Ooooo, let's give this one a shot: "Crapulous" a literary word meaning relating to drunkenness or the drinking of alcohol. Like the related adjective "crapulent" and noun "crapulence" it comes from a Latin word meaning "inebriation" itself based on a Greek word meaning "drunken headache."
I like it already. Sounds like something my sisters would say.
Not that I'll be able to use it at work tomorrow since I will be training kids on Summer Reading stuff, but perhaps in the afternoon during our camp meeting.
Yes, the first (well second) official Camp J 2012 meeting in all its glory.
Actually it'll probably be us sitting around a table eating pizza and drinking pop. Which is our usual routine. But I'm headed out early so Obi-Wan and me can mock up some application forms with Pastor. Then we can show them at the meeting and perhaps stuff a few and send them on their merry ways.
Then Sunday I'm off all day, morning is Squirt's graduation, after that I'm headed out to the Camp J open house where they're showing off the new building. I get to take pictures and put them on the website.
Which is down at the moment.
But that's both a long story and not our fault. So let's leave it at that.
Facebook, I'll upload them on Facebook.
Aww camp, turns my world upside down for about four months a year but it's worth it every time. Plus we have our golfing adventure immediately following it so that's a reward enough.
Though I did go all giddy little schoolgirl about it to Superwoman today.
K, I'm going through the rest of these quick cause I got a big and early day tomorrow. Gotta konk out soon.
Things Overheard at the Library makes today's Quote of the Day:
-"She stole my Breasts!"
Sometimes you just don't want to know.
More Songs You Know But Forgot You Knew Them:
Mark Chesnutt.
Country star man, what happened to him? He was great!
Going Through the Big D
i got the jeep, she got the palace...
"It's a Little Too Late"
i enjoy that the fish is still on the hook and everything.
Seriously, whatever happened to that dude?
I love 90's country, that's when I actually listened to it. I don't really anymore, though I do like the Pistol Annies and The Wreckers. Will look more into 90's country, maybe I'll make you suffer through a week of it, haven't had one of those in a while.
Alright, and she's out. Summer Reading training in the morning, camp meeting after that, then lots and lots of other camp stuff after that.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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!
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!
Monday, May 14, 2012
When all your promises are gone, I'm the only one...
I never realized how much easier my life would be if I drank Diet Coke instead of Diet Dr. Pepper.
Hear me out, so the Target I go to doesn't carry a 24 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper, but they do of Diet Coke.
So, if I wanted 24, which would last me a heck of a lot longer than 12, I'd need to get 2 packs of the 12.
Which would be fine.
Except I then have to carry them up multiple flights of stairs.
Along with all the other crap I just bought.
So two of those equals both hands full meaning I take two trips, whilst if I drank Diet Coke I could carry that in only one hand and everything else in other.
It's the little things in life man.
Speaking of little things, I had some great ones today.
Little thing #1: Sleeping in. Until 1PM as I didn't have to go in until 4. It was fantastic.
Little thing #2: Friday Night Lights season one on DVD. I keep hoping that it will start to suck and I can stop watching it. Because I don't have time to get hooked on yet another series I will have to see all the way through. I've got a pile of series' I need to get through aka Necessary Roughness, Fairly Legal, Suits, Chuck, Burn Notice, White Collar, Heroes, CSI, Covert Affairs, SVU... I figured once it sucks I can give up and move on to another, but it just keeps getting better so that's screwing over my plan.
Little thing #3: Frozen lemonade with strawberries from the place across the street. Normally I'm not really a fan of lemonade cause it's too bitter, but this was fantastic and a great kick in the butt to keep me awake for the rest of the day.
Little thing #4: Great coworkers. It's not every day you can go up to a supervisor and say, "wow you really are a clown" and they don't get offended. Cause she is a clown. Part-time anyway. And it's always nice to have someone back your play when a patron attempts to break the rules just because they think they can get away with it.
Little thing #5: Night service. The church here has this brilliant thing called Monday night service since some people work on Sundays. And as cheesy as it sounds I feel like I get a lot more out of this than regular Sunday service because it's more like one-on-one as there is rarely more than 10 people there plus he's in the crowd not behind the pulpit.
Little thing #6: One stop shopping. Can I just say how much I love Target? Cause you've got everything you need all in one place. So I got my fruit, popcorn, carpet cleaner, Burn Notice season 4, dress shirt, dress shoes, pop, plus some chocolate all in one trip. Then it was just about carrying it up the stairs to the apartment.
Little thing #7: A cat that loves me. Sure he bites every once in a while, but then he falls asleep on my lap or on my stomach at night and I forgive him.
There are more little things, but I'll stop there. Besides, tomorrow is another day and I'm sure I'll come up with plenty to add then.
Word Of The Day:
So I found this great book - at the library of course - called "Weird and Wonderful Words" by Erin McKean and it's basically a dictionary of the obscure. While being highly amusing it is also highly educational so I'm going to start doing a Word of the Day because I'm an English major and a writer and a library service associate and a skits and worship leader so words are kind of my thing.
Here's the premiere: "Aquamanile: a bowl or jug made in the form of an animal or bird."
Well that's an interesting definition. Are they saying that birds aren't animals? Guess I'll find out tomorrow as I try to include it in a conversation.
"I'm The Only One" Melissa Etheridge
there is no smoke and mirrors with this woman, just her and her guitar. and she can pull it off. that's what makes her a great artist.
"Let Me Love You" Glee Cast
okay I must be way behind cause I don't recognize like half those kids. But I haven't watched a single episode this season as the storylines have turned to crap. Will have to catch up on this one when it comes out on DVD.
that's all she wrote.
Hear me out, so the Target I go to doesn't carry a 24 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper, but they do of Diet Coke.
So, if I wanted 24, which would last me a heck of a lot longer than 12, I'd need to get 2 packs of the 12.
Which would be fine.
Except I then have to carry them up multiple flights of stairs.
Along with all the other crap I just bought.
So two of those equals both hands full meaning I take two trips, whilst if I drank Diet Coke I could carry that in only one hand and everything else in other.
It's the little things in life man.
Speaking of little things, I had some great ones today.
Little thing #1: Sleeping in. Until 1PM as I didn't have to go in until 4. It was fantastic.
Little thing #2: Friday Night Lights season one on DVD. I keep hoping that it will start to suck and I can stop watching it. Because I don't have time to get hooked on yet another series I will have to see all the way through. I've got a pile of series' I need to get through aka Necessary Roughness, Fairly Legal, Suits, Chuck, Burn Notice, White Collar, Heroes, CSI, Covert Affairs, SVU... I figured once it sucks I can give up and move on to another, but it just keeps getting better so that's screwing over my plan.
Little thing #3: Frozen lemonade with strawberries from the place across the street. Normally I'm not really a fan of lemonade cause it's too bitter, but this was fantastic and a great kick in the butt to keep me awake for the rest of the day.
Little thing #4: Great coworkers. It's not every day you can go up to a supervisor and say, "wow you really are a clown" and they don't get offended. Cause she is a clown. Part-time anyway. And it's always nice to have someone back your play when a patron attempts to break the rules just because they think they can get away with it.
Little thing #5: Night service. The church here has this brilliant thing called Monday night service since some people work on Sundays. And as cheesy as it sounds I feel like I get a lot more out of this than regular Sunday service because it's more like one-on-one as there is rarely more than 10 people there plus he's in the crowd not behind the pulpit.
Little thing #6: One stop shopping. Can I just say how much I love Target? Cause you've got everything you need all in one place. So I got my fruit, popcorn, carpet cleaner, Burn Notice season 4, dress shirt, dress shoes, pop, plus some chocolate all in one trip. Then it was just about carrying it up the stairs to the apartment.
Little thing #7: A cat that loves me. Sure he bites every once in a while, but then he falls asleep on my lap or on my stomach at night and I forgive him.
There are more little things, but I'll stop there. Besides, tomorrow is another day and I'm sure I'll come up with plenty to add then.
Word Of The Day:
So I found this great book - at the library of course - called "Weird and Wonderful Words" by Erin McKean and it's basically a dictionary of the obscure. While being highly amusing it is also highly educational so I'm going to start doing a Word of the Day because I'm an English major and a writer and a library service associate and a skits and worship leader so words are kind of my thing.
Here's the premiere: "Aquamanile: a bowl or jug made in the form of an animal or bird."
Well that's an interesting definition. Are they saying that birds aren't animals? Guess I'll find out tomorrow as I try to include it in a conversation.
"I'm The Only One" Melissa Etheridge
there is no smoke and mirrors with this woman, just her and her guitar. and she can pull it off. that's what makes her a great artist.
"Let Me Love You" Glee Cast
okay I must be way behind cause I don't recognize like half those kids. But I haven't watched a single episode this season as the storylines have turned to crap. Will have to catch up on this one when it comes out on DVD.
that's all she wrote.
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