| Less than a week until Irelanda nd Scotland! Eee! We're on a tour through Ireland, then on our own in Scotland with Megan. In Scotland, we have a few days in Glasgow, then we hit the Isle of Skye, Inverness (I'm hoping to convince Nessie to come home with me, since SOMEONE doesn't seem to be allergic to aquatic animals....), Stirling, then a few days in Edinburgh before we head back to Glasgow to catch our planes home. Anyone with tips/suggestions? Renting cars and cell phones (us girls like to shop, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) redwings42 not so much) and we know a few of the sites we want to hit. Anything with "castle" in the name, Museum of Scotland (seems like a no-brainer), Museum of Childhood (I WANT TO PLAY WITH TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYS!!!) and there might have been other things lol Yup.
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| It's September 11. Right now, this means only one thing to me--I forgot to call or write Dad on his birthday. ARGH!
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| | Time: | 10:07 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/happy_sp.gif) excited |
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| Back when I first moved in to the house and was optimistic about getting redwings42's old boxes unpacked in a timely fashion (ha!) I came across this little paperback called Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede I was intrigued and he encouragd me to read it, and I loved it. It's kind of a silly sci-fi book, which really is my favorite kind where basically an image of Buddy Holly appears on televisions all over the world, and this total dork is the one who holds the key to the truth, and must go on a life changing journey to figure it out, chased by what seemed like fifty hilarious groups. It's definitely worth hunting down this out of print (though with the movie, maybe there's a chance of reprinting!) novel if you're a fan of comedy, sci-fi, or even just classic rock. Here's the author's website with the novel in PDF format and a link to the movie's website: http://www.bradleydenton.net/
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ARGH maybe someday our internet connection will stop being SHIT so I can post this! No Time Warner, it's not the modem or the router! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 09:47 pm | | Current Mood: | depressed |
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| I have determined that I am going to clean up this pigsty and turn myself into a better housekeeper. So far, I'm making great strides by doing things like blogging about it here. Start making your bets--will this last one hour or two?
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| Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. I was flipping radio stations on the way to work yesterday (redwings42's car has a tape deck and radio and my car's cd player is eating cds so I've been listening to a lot of radio lately) and just as I was switching from the DJs on 93Q to find some music, they say the name "Josh Grosvent." Well after sleepily realizing this wasn't a ballad singer they were talking about, I switched back but didn't hear anything more. Just pulled up the 93Q website to see that he does comedy bits every Thursday morning at 7:35! Awesome! Of course, my late morning :-P I'll have to make sure I stop and listen to the sound clips on his site, it just brings me back to fun weekends at Oswego, when everyone was hanging out and having fun. Only missed one Shaun Cass performance Freshman year, and not many more Sophomore year! Those are the players I think of when I think of Shaun Cass--Tomas, Ken, Shawn, Josh, Scott, Adele, etc.... so this is great!
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| | Subject: | work stuff | | Time: | 06:17 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/exhausted_sp.gif) exhausted |
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| The head of the YMCA summer camp came to me today to talk to me about a group of Autistic children they have. The sumemr camp kids have been coming to our Summer Reading programs which are at 2pm, but these kids leave before then, so he was wondering about having a special program for a small group some morning. I asked him to come back next week after I've finished that craft program so I could show him that and he and the kids' helpers could see if some version of that program would be good with the kids. It's funny, they've had a series on working with Autistic children on the ALSC blog that I've glanced at and set aside to look at after summer is over when I can focus on other things, but now I may have to go back and take a look. I'm not complaining, I think this is a wonderful opportunity to get a new and untapped group into the library, I'm just feeling a little shellshocked lately. Guess I've been getting a little overambitious in my planning :-)
In other news, Susan found a really cool program at another library called Knit flicks, which I TOTALLY want to do with our crafty community. Especially because I um forgot about the knitting group this month. Oops! I really shouldn't plan anything other than summer reading for myself June-August, it's just too much!!! But I love it all, so it's very difficult to resist. I'm looking forward to August, when I can sit back and look at things for storytime, as well as getting ready for the BOCES visits that (I hope) the director will be in touch with me about soon. I'm a little worried about the fact that since I feel twice as busy this year, that my busy-ness will increase exponentially from now on ;-)
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| | Time: | 07:26 pm | | Current Mood: | exhausted |
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| Thirty-seven people for our kick-off Teen "Wii Scream for Ice Cream" program. Awesomesauce.
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| | Current Music: | It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas | | Time: | 08:02 am | | Current Mood: | amused |
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| Apparently if you accidentally leave certain mp3 players plugged into the computer overnight, it will do its best to download your entire music library. Either that or I screwed up the synchronization. Basically, I have a new 2 g. mp3 player and I have no idea what music is on it lol
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| Watching Independence Day for lack of things to do and well it's fun. Just had a major SQUEEEE moment as they got to Area 51.... because there's JAYNE!!!! I think this calls for a Firefly marathon this weekend :-D
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| There is a new Monkey Island game coming out soon. Hell yeah. Original Guybrush voice actor and everything. Pretty awesome, considering if we'd been more serious about doing it, one of our ideas for cake toppers was Guybrush and Elaine because well that's cool. Anyway, looky here! http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland
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| Rita: So you played volleyball in your wedding dress? For how long?
Me: Until I got hit in the face with the ball.
More wedding details to come ;-)
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| | Time: | 10:12 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/grumpy_sp.gif) grumpy |
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| | Ok so I got a new vacuum. First time I used it, after 10 minutes it smelled like burnt rubber and found that the belt had snaped. Further investigation found that the end of one of the beaters had melted away. Sent it to be repaired, after almost a month later got it back and spent over an hour vacuuming and sucking up old cobwebs, it was great. Now, I turn it on and there's no suction except through the wand. redwings42 fiddles with it enough to get it working when not upright--except now the beaters only spin when it's on the barefloor setting. Huh? Thinking we're going to be bringing it back to Sears again *sigh* | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 09:34 am | | Current Mood: | amused |
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| I love the reaction some of my music gets...from across the room. I mean hey, what's wrong with the techno Rainbow Brite theme?
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| Yesterday, I patched up my second wounded teenager in the almost-year I've worked at our library. I ended up improvising with a paper towel just so she could stop bleeding on her ripped jeans and so dirt wouldn't get in. Turns out she needed to get 10 stitches, youch! I'm glad I was there, the last time a kid got hurt the clerk on duty told him there wasn't anything we could do for him. I STILL fume when I think of that!
I'm really looking forward to being able to shift my nonfiction. I know, not something you usually hear but dammit it gets me away from my desk!!! I really am debating taking some desk hours, but my availability changes constantly, so some days it would get in the way while other days it wouldn't. I also really need to start writing down who I talk to about certain things--need to contact a school about an upcoming visit, but am hesitating because I'm not sure who I was talking to before! Silly me.
Need to eat dinner and then shop for storytime craft supplies and birthday presents. Oooh and once redwings42 is awake we can open the giant box in the middle of the living room!
See why I don't update? ;-)
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| Know what's hilarious? 6'4" guy trying to balance on one foot on the Wii Fit. Ugh and he's 22, how irritating.
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| Awesome quote of the day: "Well, I have jet red hair and my sister is special 'cause her's is jet brown!"
In other news, Spring Break is finally over, and I can go back to my normal stress levels. Oh, except I need to finish my summer reading descriptions, and find another program for the kids' program Eek!
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| Phew, things are getting done on the wedding front. We're planning to send out invites sometime Monday. Only missing 5 addresses, which doesn't seem too bad, though most of them are my family members. Yeah my stress this past week was from these addresses, too. I would email my dad and ask him to send me their addresses. What did he send? Their email addresses. Even after I laid out the exact reasons why I need these addresses, why it would be very helpful if he just got them for me, since it would be two less emails to write. Then, last night, after I sucked it up and sent the emails? I get an email from him, saying he'll email them for their addresses. Argh!
Yesterday, I also called the person I most want as our officiant--and he said yes. Yay! So that's one more thing done. redwings42's mother gave us an ad for a sale at a local jeweller's, so we will be going to look at rings once the sale starts. It was the same place we'd been looking before, so perfect! She's also helping with the cake and the rehearsal dinner, so a few less things for me to freak out about. Today, I might be going to florists with redwings42's cousin, so thtat'll be another thing taken care of, or at least started lol Then, are major things will be calling the Glen Loch to talk about the menu, and renting tables and chairs. Oh and I need to update our wedding website. Kind of makes me wish I was marrying a webmaster-type geek LOL
So while stuffing invitations, I did discover one problem, which is thankfully a small one. Managed to leave the RSVP as April 6, instead of later in the month like we'd decided. Ooops! Guess this means I'll just be getting responses sooner? ;-)
Anyway, I wish I could have invited everyone I wanted to. However, the number of people is almost too big as it is. Here's to hoping I don't get a shyness attack and can enjoy seeing everyone instead! If nothing else, I'll just make sure they put up that volleyball net, so I can just start a game whenever I start to feel overwhelmed lol
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| | Time: | 05:32 pm | | Current Mood: | amused |
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| redwings42 just accidentally *washed* the floor with mom's homemade laundry detergeant. This probably wouldn't be as funny if I wasn't so sleep deprived...
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