God's Dry Cleaning

Okay, so the sign actually said Good Dry Cleaning but how cool is what I thought I saw. God's Dry Cleaning... no stain too tough and mention that you just love my son and get 100% off. I have never understood the mysteries of DRY cleaning. Sounds like a miracle to me : )

So I made a midnight run the night before tonight and had a Krystals' hangover. The midnight run is a parental unit invention. When we were growing up, we would beg our parents to go get donuts late at night. We all pile into the car in our pajamas and head to whatever donut place was open. It was simply the best. So in their honor, I ran up to Krystals the other night in my pjs and got Krystals. For one brief second I thought of calling a parent or sibling but it was midnight. I figured on the way home I would have to start pre-arranging my MNRs if I wanted to have company.

We are all dressed up at work today. I've got a gypsy, cat, and pirate on staff today. I love Halloween. I love the idea of dressing up and getting to pretend. But I keep forgetting about my wings (no, not angel I am that the other 364 days... I'm a butterfly fairy). I've got another foot to add to my shoulder width. We are having an anime costume party tonight with some lovely "Fear Factorish" treats. We're having kitty litter cake, chocolate covered worms, snot on a stick and blood punch with frozen hands. YUM!! I'll let you know how it goes...

Ghoul day and have a horribly happy Halloween!

Yippy Skippy!

I love getting my own email. Not the junk mail that gets to everyone and their llama. But mail just for me. I found out this morning that my brother J. is coming down in December and has granted my birthday wish to be taught how to waltz. I have already told him to bring his steel toed boots.

I am so thankful that right now as I sit in my office writing this, life is good. My cats are all healthy. ..once Hazel got over whatever she had and I had my slight scare with Henri (he had a day and a half of being sick). They are loving that I drug out the comforter the other night. It has been getting down into the 40s here at night and with no C&A... it's like a meat locker with tv. It is the only time that they will sleep with me. It's not love, it's survival : P

My family is just the best. We rally together so well and every getting together is filled with laughter. And stories... always stories. We are all born storytellers. We must get that from Dad who is a great writer. Plus we're all weird... we get that from Dad too :P

My job is great too. I have a wonderful staff who just fit together so perfectly. We are a really good balance. It makes my running of the place so easy. This place is the perfect idea of community from both the patrons and the staff.

Can you tell I am an optimist yet? Life falls into place with this simple saying: God is Good. Has life ever been bad? Yes plenty of times. There have been times when I thought it was bad and even times when I thought to be nothing would have to be better than this. Yet even in these darkest of times for me, He was and still is there. It reminds me of those stereographic pictures that were really popular a couple of years ago. You stare and stare and stare at them looking for whatever was supposed to be in the picture. You'd swear that they were a crock and then pop... you finally see it. It was there all along right in front of your face. Looking for God is a stereographic picture. LOL Though I never have gotten one of things to work... at least not all the way. I would start to see a piece and then lose it.

I could make this into a country song... Looking for God in all the wrong places...LOL

Good day and look hard.

Be Wery Wery Quiet... We're Hunting Patty

This is an all points bulletin for Patti. I know she is alive because I talked to her Tuesday. She was entertaining a guest and she pinky swore to call me back. But no such luck.

Otherwise all is well here. I hope all is fab with you too.

Good day and Happy Hunting

Insert Something Witty Here________________

This is the first day since starting here as manager that I have felt stressed. My day started with a fendish cat who would not let me sleep in. Pat my face, dig in claws, in my ear purring.... UGH! Alright I'm up already.

Next came the call from a sick staff person. My mind attempts to grasp the whole rearrange scheduling thing but it is still too sleepy. It takes me an hour after getting here to figure it out. You just take several deep breathes, allow your mind to calm down and yell HELP!!!! I will have some for my end of the day which is a bit of a stress reliever.

I also had to take care of the money today. I haven't done it in a while and I think I was cursed with the week that all sorts of mess broke lose. One thing didn't void properly and there was at least one miskey. Which I then have to show and sign off on in triplicate. Save a Tree... Rent a DVD : P

Ever now and again I had being a grown up. This could have been influenced by my watching Peter Pan last night. The work, the driving, the money, the responsibilities... It is a rather good thing tomorrow is my day off. Perhaps I'll do something outrageous like get up early :P

Oh and for all of you wondering how Sunday went. I am still on the fence about A. He has potential but I am still not certain. I am hoping that another date will settle it. But this time I have to be more vocal. We spent the entire time in the bookstore which was great. But I kept being distracted by books and didn't spend nearly enough time talking to him.

Note to self: Must call G tonight. I hate to go through him to get to P. It helps that he is a really nice guy.

Au revoir and always dance in your pjs!

As Promised

I figured everyone is pretty visuals... so here are some pretty visuals from my vacay at Three Rivers State Park and the Florida Caverns! If you are looking for peace and quiet, check this place out...

Where There's Smoke....

The week has been another exciting one here at the branch and personally too. Hazel is on the mend and doing wonderfully. She is back to her oh-so quirky self. LOL But so am I.... : P She still is continuing to make the bathroom her oh-so cool hangout spot.

We had a fire drill this week and a pygmy rattler visit last week. The fire drill was just great. A weird thing to say about a fire drill but very true. We got everyone out to the parking lot and learn just how to shut the darn thing off. Then the fireguys ( in the name of gas saving) made this a combo trip and checked books, CDs, etc. out. Dad says that it is one way to boost our circulation : )

The snake was a whole other kettle of fish ( and we have those too by the way). One of the patron came in and talked to my children's librarian, took her outside and then they came to get me. I however did not go outside. There was a pygmy rattler just outside by the walkway for the bookdrop. We were a bit in a tizzy as what to do. This was not covered in my policies or my procedure manual. Thankfully by time we finished closing up for the night, it had found a better place to sun. Eek... One of my staff wondered why we didn't just shoot it. She had a pistol in her truck for that very purpose. I wonder if I could that by my boss... I'm thinking no... When I did email her for more instructions she suggested asking one of our fireguys who are just over the hill. So we did and he very calmly suggested getting a snake shovel. I'm a city girl and have no idea what a snake shovel is. He told us it is like a snow shovel. You hit the snake with the flat end to knock him out and then the square end is used to slice his head off.

Ummm being the boss is great. I just turned to my token guy (Libraries just don't attract a lot of guys) and delegated him to be the offical snake shovel handler. Ahhh! I love to assign tasks. : P

Speaking of guys, I have a date with one of those creatures on Sunday. We're supposed to meet at a bookstore ( a very dangerous store for me to be in) and have coffee. I have been talking to him via phone for most of this and last week. We get along great on the phone so I have high hopes for a F2F meeting. It will also hopefully make up my mind as to whether he would be a possible boy friend or boyfriend. I am a bit nervous about the whole deal as I haven't dated much since stalker boy and have never done the whole online dating and meeting. I have told everyone I know about the date (including you blog persons) and am meeting in a public place. I have also googled him, asked for more photos and looked him up on the public records and corrections site (Thanks for the advice, big brother ). Ah amore!

Good day and when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie...

Ciao!

Gone Wishin'

My deepest apologies everyone. I hadn't been kidnapped by weird shoe fetish aliens with suicidal tendencies. Last week was a manic week of highest highs and lowest lows. Due to expected craziness of the week, I decided to pack up and leave town. I headed off to Sneads, FL. Home of the nothing special. But it did have a very nice state park in Three Rivers State Park. It had one and only one cabin which I took over for a couple of nights.


It was peaceful personified. I chilled there and also went adventuring in the Florida Caverns. It was just lovely... I hope to get the photos posted soon. I took Dad's advice and took 90 all the way across. I must have gone through at least a dozen little towns. It really was a great drive over all. With the exception of the love bug love fest on my bug...: P I had to stop at least twice to clean off my windshield so I could see to drive.

I really didn't see that much in the way of wild life. I could never decide if I should walk quietly to see the animals I did want to see or loudly to keep away the animals I didn't want to see. I did see a flock of quail eating by the side of park road and a humming bird that came right up to the door of the cabin. Very cool beans!

But the rest of the week and a little of the first part of this week was wretched and beyond. My littlest cat Hazel had gotten very sick and was unable to eat or keep anything down. She lost a lot of weight and I was very scared for her. I took her in on Tuesday and got antibotics. But the stuff they gave to keep her from vomiting so did not work. I had to work on Saturday so Donald my brother took her back in for more test ( Major major gratitude for that... that was definitely brother of the year kudos for that). I didn't want to go home most nights for fear that I would find her either sicker or not alive.

But for the first part of the week she didn't get any worse and she did stop throwing up. She still wasn't eating so I headed out and got some baby food. She ate it! And as of yesterday, she went back on her regular food. YAY!!!!!!!!! They never did figure out what was wrong with her. They warned me that she might get sick again after the antibotics if it is something wrong with her. Hopefully not. Fingers crossed and mucho prayers for that not to happen.

As far as the rest of my week, I'm still emailing A. He sent me his cell number and we talked for about 2 hours last night. I had to beg out kind of early as I wasn't feeling good. But he is very cool and funny.

Good day and TTFN

Tired tired tired

Hmmm... not hard to guess how I am feeling right now. It is the end of the work day and all I am hoping for is a nice quiet bed. It makes me even more tired to think that tomorrow is an early day. Ugh! It doesn't help that next week is a majorly busy one. Time to look into another personal day... I need a vacay. Or at least a minibreak. One with time to read and no deadlines on my plate. One more thing to research.

I spent part of today investigating a Batman storyline for a staff worker. And another part of it working on making finances work out due to a cancelled guest pass. Like I said major time for beddy bye.

Good night and sweet dreams..

Pissing Cats

I had a lovely day off yesterday. I washed my car (evil though it is), cleaned out my pantry and enjoyed a lovely morning/afternoon of sleeping in. I needed it... today has been quite crazy for a Saturday. For one, there are people here. Or at least more than the normal amount. That and I am getting mucho complaints about the grass. It is prairie grass and it is supposed to be tall but the community obviously doesn't like tall grass. This is the most vocal community I have been in yet. I am beginning now to understand why they chose not to drop a day around here. Imagine the complaints we would get about that!

I heard back from M. She is doing okay but was a bit down from all the testrostone flying round her way. She is surrounded by guys so it is a bit to be expected. Once things get settled around here, I want to go visit her. It has just been ages since I've seen her. I think the last time was at the wedding and she was a bit preoccupied with everything else:) I also got a call from R. yesterday. He sounds older. I didn't even recognize him on the phone. We are going to try and coordinate schedules so that we can get together for lunch. I've heard of strategic strikes that are easier to plan!

I've got another recruit for the Operation Love Match. J from work is determined to get me set up. Her first suggestion was just a wee off base though. It was the eighteen year old she was checking books out to. I told her to skip the formalities and cut straight to the jail house. He does have an older brother though... a definite possibility.

Nothing back from the cruise ship yet. At this moment I just need info to help me decide whether or not it is even a possibility.

Oh the title! R. was filling me in on the fact that he has a depressed cat. Through my laughter, I had the inspiration to ask how exactly one knows the a cat is depressed or not. Apparently, pissing on everything is a pretty good indication that your cat is unhappy. Obviously mine are pretty content though Hazel does piss on my bed but only when she is in heat. She's getting fixed in about 2 or 3 weeks. Fingers crossed that this behavior doesn't continue about being fixed.

Good day and as promised Annie on Acid

Annie gone bad

I decided this morning that it is what I look like. I am taking over two storytimes for my children's person and decided to dress up for one of them. The main character looks like

and I will have to post my pics after the storytime. Thank goodness the other storytime is on Humor and I can get away with looking like Annie on Acid... It is a good story however. The things I do for my job.

I wrote M and R a day or so ago but have only heard back from R. You would think that it would be easier in this day and with this technology to keep up with people. I have done a pretty bad job of that. But M I apologized to and R I just ragged about not keeping up with me. But it is my job ( one of many) to pick on R. My life's work : P He seems to be doing okay. He's got awoman and cats :) I wish I knew of a better job for him. I really wish he could have kept up with school. I want him to be happy in all aspects of his life not just some. Weird though it is when talking of an ex. We drove each other crazy in good way and bad. But he is also the only one I kept up with. He is the only one that I thought of (outside of everything) as a truly good guy. Does this mean the rest of the guys I dated have to wear black in my spaghetti western? No the others had shades of good and bad. They'll be wearing grey. Dark grey some of them....

Good day and yippee -ka- yaw- yay!

Coo, coo, coo...

Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people at sea. This was my Snapple fact of the day. I love it. What line of the budget is that one in? Well, we'll provide $ 15 million to the Coast Guard for boats, crew, training and pigeons? Coo, coo, coo-coo... little Timmy's lost off the Coast of Palm Coast. We'll get right on it, Pigeon Toad. Another fine rescue!

I have spent the afternoon grave hunting. No, it is not something all the cool librarians are doing. I am hunting for the grave of a particular person that is the great uncle of another particular person. I have narrow it down to two possible cemeteries. Can we say field trip? I wonder if the library will fund my mileage for that one : ) Actually I came across a cool article on a class of elementary students who did go on a field trip to the cemetery and other cool points in the city. They were studying city history ( I should write the teacher and make Dad's book required reading for the class: )

Just a normal day here in LibraryLand. I did send it my resume and letter to the cruise people. What an awesome job title for hopefully a very awesome job. I wonder if they have a club. The Cruise Ship Librarians. Talk about exclusive...

Good day and happy digging!

Tapping at my chamber door...

P. and I watched "The Crow" Thursday night and thus the quote to begin us off. He misquoted it though seeing as it was from "The Raven" and he was the crow but same family. Speaking of family, I got back from P's this morning to work. I do miss my cats when I am gone but I will see them after work today. She is going to be just fine. I hunted up a great opportunity to work in the Reading Room/Library of the College of Vet Med. It sounded right up her alley and it was for the university so there is the possibility of tution coverage for a couple of classes.

I revamped my resume this morning and will be sending it off on Monday for the cruise offer. Car, apartment, cats, job and family... My ties to here :)I have some friends but not any near and dears here. Each day brings new possibilites. Today could be the day I (fill in the blank). I know, I know. I sound like an afterschool special. LOL.

Good day and vivent le reve!

And I ran, I ran so far away....

Eighty song lyrics get stuck in my head occasionally. Whenever they make the movie of my life ( and you know they won't be able to resist:), the soundtrack will definitely be memorable. I am currently housing myself in Gatorville for my day off. I've come down for two reasons. I didn't want to get blown away by Ophelia (out damn hurricane out) and I needed to come visit P. She's got some major stuff going on. She resigned from her job due to worries that she might be fired. She also isn't able to continue classes this semester due to finances.

I figured it was best to make sure everything would be okay with her most of all. She is my favorite little sister by the way. It helps that I have no others to get jealous of that fact. She is doing fine though. She is working parttime at a soon to be opened coffee bar and helping with the manual side of setting up i.e. painting, moving supplies, etc. I am not sure what she wants to do next. J. is wanting her to move back home but I know that she loves here so very much. God, I just want her to be happy regardless.

On my front, I just got an email from a friend about positions open on Celebrity Cruises for a librarian. I have thought long and hard about it and I am going to send them my resume. They only sign contracts for 6 months with the option to resign at the end of it. It should like a great opportunity. With only one life, I have got to enjoy it. Maybe there should be prayers for all of us... with Ophelia, D and H dating, J and P selling the house and M and D hanging in there...

Good day and smooth sailing to you!

Blub, Blub, Blub

Why did I ever think that managing would be less of a job than children's? It must have been the day my brain accidentally got hit by the shrinking ray and became dino-brain sized. I have been utterly too busy to blog. GASP! I know I know... major faux paw...

It seems I missed my Labor Day for all the sleeping I did. But I have been staying up with Stephen King and he is just so darn hard to put down. Of course, all the scary reading means that I have to read something happy before I go to sleep to hopefully ward off the nightmares. So it is Tommyknockers and Duh! Stupid Things of Human History... LOL

One cool point of interest: I was written up in the newspaper. So, okay it was my library that was the main focal point but I got my picture in it and a couple of quotes to boot. Very cool stuff. This is only the second time in my library career that this has happened. The last time I was in the Advocate. Though I had to be so careful in telling people this. Why? Because they are the same people who had a Wall of Shame and publish pics of johns and prostitutes. Before you get any ideas about my "library", I was in the Advocate when they hosted a program promoting literacy for kids. :P

I went to A's wedding this weekend. Very cool. I looked Fabulous but nary a cute guy in sight. A and her fiance had a deal where neither would invite anyone they had dated to the wedding. It made for a small wedding reception:) If this keeps up, J is going to go through with her threat of calling Oprah and getting me on the show. This week on Oprah, "Marry my Sister or Else!" LOL Okay, God, we all know that the not-good-enoughs have had their day... let's bring on the absolutely-made-fors.

Good day and what if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about?

Sleepbathing

I did get much sleeping done this weekend. Mainly due to my body being all out of sorts... But unfornuately the sleeping was not all restful. For example, I had had an early day Saturday helping with the grand opening of yet another library. Woohoo! I went home later that day and decided to take a bath. Nice warm bath, ZZZZZZZ... What woke me up was the interesting part. See picture below....

Henri, my water loving kitty, had decided to join me in the bath. I woke up to him falling on me and crawling out of the bath back end completely soaked. LOL! That was the same weekend I napped fitfully and dreamed about being really pissed that aliens had invaded. Not scared but really really annoyed that they had chosen to invaded. The only reasoning behind that dream that I could figure was watching the Cat in the Hat. I was definitely not pleased by the end of it and the cat did invade the home.

I am currently debating on whether to go to this concert of 3-11 this week. I love the music, I rarely go out at night, it is a workday the next day, I don't know of anyone to go with. These are some of my musings on the subject.

Back to the no one to go with, I did finally get in touch with Jason. I had tried several times last week and it always came up busy. So I talked to him Wednesday but we had barely started to talk when he had to go. He asked me to call him back that night. I tried the house number and was told ( I think) that he was out. I left a number on the mobile for him to call me. But I haven't heard anything since then. He is cute and nice but I just don't know how interested I am in him. In dating yes, In dating him not so much. I know picky, picky. I prefer to be called selective. God help me with this and all those other things...

Good day and you've got to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince :*

Ah, to be a Teenager again...

Not that I am to be but I do get to go to Open House on Monday. It should be nice to mingle with the commoners: ) Library cards, get your fresh Library cards here! We are going to have a table with info on the library and sign people up for library cards. One guy I signed up today told me all about how he was such a book lover and then only checked out DVDs... me thinks he doth protest too much.

I also need to take the car in this weekend if possible. It's a 2001 but it is freaking out. That's it ... my car is having a nervous breakdown. The check engine and EPC light comes on and then goes off. Or I can not get out of park because the car does not realize I have my foot on the break. Or I can't turn on my cruise control.

Though personally I like to batten down the hatches and sleep all weekend. .. I will let you know Monday which I did.

Good day and thar she blows!

Going once, going twice...

My apologies bloggiest of the bloggers. I have been swamped at work and seeing as work is the only computer I have daily access to... it affects my blogging. Tomorrow will be no exception. Tomorrow is Staff Development Day. So to be better library workers, we close all the libraries. Why does this sound like an oxymoron or an anymoron...?

We had dogs today at the library. Though I am avowed cat person, I must say they were quite nice. We are talking about starting a program where kids get to read to the dogs. It is mainly for kids to need to work on their readaloud fluency. They do take cats but I know of not one cat that will sit in one place for 15 minutes ... awake. Major confidence killer when the animal you are reading to wanders 5 feet away and starts cleaning itself.

I am thinking of taking next Wednesday off as just a Me Day. I am still debating on traveling in December/January to visit relatives out West. I love to travel and am thinking of dragging P. with me. She'll probably need more of a break than me from work and school.

I had the chance to go to a Graphic Novel workshop last week and it was just great. Mmmmm.. graphic novels... mainly just comics in book format. But I have already or will have gone through all of the X-Men here within the next week. I can totally understand why teens like them so much... hmmm everyone against me, picking on those whose are different, staying up for what's right, major style points, totally different person once you hit puberty... ring a bell, anyone?

Good night and Biff, Bop, Zap! (Batman sounds) : )

Any Time is Book Time

I could crawl into bed right now. Yesterday was my day off and it has totally thrown me for a loop. I ended up sleeping until 2 pm and then heading off to the mall to see "The Island". It was a very good movie all about clones. It matched well what I have been reading which is the Dune series. In the series, they can use dead cells to create a living person back again. Someone murmured as we were flooding (all 6 of us, no one goes to the movies midday) that it didn't matter if the clones died as they didn't have souls. Oh talk about philosphical debate time, kids. Were my brain totally coherent...

It also got me thinking about values. How much is life worth? Mine compared to another? Mine to a couple? Mine to a million? Ugh! That is it... I am switching back to mindless bather of romance novels. Something will a typical plot: girl meets boy, girl despises boy, girl finds out she actually like boy, typical misunderstand including someone in boy/girl's life, equal declaration of love. Not one use of critical thinking in the whole bunch. Yay!

The day (work) is almost over. I need to go check out blather...

Good day and remember a waist is a terrible thing to mind : )

Nessie Sighted!

As per my week, it has been strange enough to warrant a Nessie sighting...

There has been a calling of police, torrential downpours, blessing on the guy who flipped me off, calls from the cute rodeo guy and snuggles from my new kitty.

I can tell from the awed silent that I need to explain. The calling of police was last Saturday when I came home at midnight with P. and my neighbor's door was open. He wasn't home so we called the non emergency number just to make sure everything was okay.

It seems like that around 4 - 6 (around closing time) we have been getting major rain. I mean I keep expecting someone to come in looking for two animals kind of rain.

I am a fairly new driver so I can't get a handle on people who get mad at me for speeding (5 + over) in the left lane on the highway. I am part of the fast traffic but I am guessing I am not the fastest. I just don't get it. But in the manner of loving enemies and all, I remember someone preaching that you should bless them instead of cursing them. UGH! Major hard... so I try to pray something like "Keep them safe, God" instead the curses that would make a sailor blush : )

Rodeo Guy... oh I am the worst blusher in the world. I am pretty sure that my face is as pink as my shirt. Before I left my last library, there was a guy there that gave me his number. I took it home and that night I lost it. All I could remember was Jason and 355... My friends at the old library promised to give him my number when he next came in. Well, he came in today and she called me and put him on the phone. I apologized perfusely and he gave me the number again. Fingers crossed, everyone? I haven't dated in like 4 years. He seems pretty sweet and I'll keep you updated.

Snuggles from new kitty has been this last week as I lay in bed reading. Hazel (pictured above) comes in and snuggles close to my side. It is really nice since my two guys are more at the feet and out of the room snugglers.

Thus ends the news of the weird week... but then again my week's not over yet...

Good day and may all your daughters bring 14 camels :)

Yawn....

There is something about Wednesdays. I even got out of work earlier and went home to kitties and movies. Yet still I am just as tired today as if I had stayed until 9. It has got to be something mental. All in favor for either national instituted naptime from 1 to 3 or going home and started the day over, say Aye!

Good day and grab your mats....