Random Quote Summary

You've survived a year of the strange things I say...what were the best?

January:
"I need more wisdom. Same subject, more wisdom."

March:
"I'm being put in high company, I may have to stop blogging about my hair."

"You only get one pillow per hamster."

May:
[I want to]"Be silly with friends and forget for a while that advertising demographics consider us grownups."

July:
"95% of the world can be defined by picture books. The other 5% needs a time-out or a nap."

"Some things in life shouldn't be taken seriously and there are many days when I'm one of them."

September:
"It's proof of how long we've known each other: he can see the skepticism through my sunglasses."

"There was bat movement and then he looked displeased."

December:
"Can I not just be offended that you don't have something I find offensive?"

Random Quote Sunday: On the Road Again....

What state I'm in when you read this will depend entirely on what time I get out of bed on Sunday. Everyone hope that I got up when I was supposed to and made it out of the door on time.

But did you think I could make it in and out of Atlanta without something odd being said? Of course not, you know me better than that, don't you?

"They're nice women, but they would have bought the chickens."
(M and I neither one are much for decorating with china/glass/ceramic/wood/straw/etc chickens)

"I will have a social life for one whole day."
(I'm seeing four different friends in about 8 hours on Sunday in Chicago)

Random Quote Sunday: I had better be in Atlanta

I'm off to visit M this weekend, weather in La Crosse permitting. Lots of lovely plans ahead!











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"Because everyone wears a bichon to write..."
(me to M regarding this picture of Barbara Cartland)

"I get a look of geek cred for reading his books."
(About Neal Stephenson--he's a good writer but it seems to surprise men that I read his stuff.)

"I keep a snowshovel in my trunk for just such occasions!"
(It's Wisconsin...)

"It's not often you get your lullabye cds to go!"
(I ordered the Rockabye Baby! series--all are either one hold or checked out of the 11 different titles I got)

Random Quote Sunday: Rhetorical Questions

My orthodontist had originally recommended oral surgery. I declined, not really seeing the need to break my otherwise perfectly healthy lower jaw and move it less than 5 mm. Lo and behold, as we started moving the upper teeth, my lower jaw began to move forward and realign on its own. (This wasn't something I really noticed myself but the good ortho happily informed me Thursday morning.)

"Isn't it amazing what happens when you move the teeth out of the way?"

Of course, said appointment also led to

"I'll be in the ibuprofen bottle if anyone is looking for me."

and then....to the ever fabulous WarMaiden, I wondered about libraries

"Can I not just be offended that you don't have something I find offensive?"

Random Quote Sunday: Keyboard Aggression

Ah the start of the holiday season...where some people seem to think it is to the benefit of the library staff that they bring their overstressed child in to scream hysterically. And you wonder why I wear a knitted headband (hides the earplugs).

Me to coworker:
"You're typing in a really frustrated manner."
(I couldn't see her, just could hear her typing...)

Random Quote Sunday: Only 62 More Knitting Days...

I'm actually home in La Crosse with the Incredibly Patient Mother. And I don't leave the state until December (if all goes as planned). AND election day is nearly here, which means in just over another week I won't have to look at any more campaign ads. I will, however, have to survive my library as polling place.

But until then:

"It's a good pattern, life force sucking and evil but a good pattern."
(Can we tell the holiday knitting has started?)

"He did his best but I managed to survive the evening."
(Re-enacting Anne Boleyn's death for the library Halloween party.)

"No one else seemed to realize I was in mourning, but wearing black in New York--even to a wedding--is almost always acceptable."
(Quote from a hopeful NaNoWriMo project)

Random Quote Sunday: My College Motto

My college motto was as follows:
Breathing is necessary
Eating is essential
Sleeping is optional

I would now only add one additional piece:
Caffeine is required

Random Quote Sunday: Rhythm and Rhyme

Guess what state I'm in? (Beyond the state of confusion or exhaustion, I'm an almost permanent resident there.)

Clue #1: It's not Wisconsin.

As some of you know, I like dance music. My-Friend-the-Lawyer often sends me mixes and tracks he thinks I should hear and I have a YouTube list that I usually have running when I need to zone out and get down to work. DJ Steve Boyette also does some nice stuff. But it was a long week this week and by Thursday this was indicative of my mood:

"The dance music isn't working. I'm not perky."

And a bit of a story today for you. An acquaintance of mine just welcomed a second child. Beautiful healthy boys, both. And they've chosen traditional names.

John

and

Jacob

And...I'm a children's librarian. (Hands up if you can see where this one is going--and yes, you're required to sing along.)

May I be the only person whose first reaction on hearing the baby's name was to exclaim, "John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt...his name is my name too...." and then stop and look really really guilty.

This is what happens when your brain is full of nursery rhymes.

Random Quote Sunday: Blame the Kitchen

"I can't go...my appliances won't let me."
--Apparently every time M goes away one of her appliances goes bananas. When she went to France it was the kitchen sink. She just got back from Germany and it's the TV. I suggested that excuse for her next business trip.

Random Quote Sunday: There's a Reason We're Friends

If you skipped last weeks posts, well--you missed some awfully pretty pictures. But when you put Tech Sergeant and I in the same place/conversation for very long, something crazy is going to come out.

"It's proof of how long we've known each other: he can see the skepticism through my sunglasses."
--Me to TS's dad. Did you see how big the sunglasses I was wearing were?

"Death and despair and lizards and such"
--Tech Sergeant's description of Nevada

"Here fish, fish, fish, fish..."
--My tried and true fishing call. I will attest that it worked, I caught a trout, much to the relief of the patient guide who kept telling me I was casting appropriately but the fish just weren't biting. JB was awesome.

"I'm impassioned about 25 cent tacos."
--Tech Sergeant, why he wanted the Rockies to win.

"There was bat movement and then he looked displeased."
--It's better than my play-by-play of football.

"I aspire to be your desktop."
--Me in full hipwaders, it's the closest I'll get to being a calendar girl.

Random Quote Sunday: I'm in Colorado....

At least, I will be on Sunday. I'm hanging out with the one of my best friends and his parents.

In preparation of getting ready to go:

"I forgot to plan around the orange hat. I'm going to have to go home and reevaluate. Can a pink tank top work with a burnt orange hat?"

Discussing seafood--which I don't eat:

"When the eating instructions at the table involve "cut/tear the head off..." and it's not a marshmallow peep or chocolate rabbit..."

And what are we on?

"Plan Q...because we know I passed plans A, B and C a looooong time ago."

While Madame Director found it both amusing and...strangely normal, I still don't think she was expecting me to announce that I was going to an alpaca festival over the weekend. Hiking and fishing, okay... alpaca and Stephen King? But the 50SPF and I are off having a marvelous time. The alpaca yarn and I will be home soon.

(Have I mentioned how much I love scheduling posts in advance?)

Random Quote Sunday: Last Round

We had an overnight gaming event at work last night. 12 hours with five other adults, 16 boys and 1 girl. I was kitchen wench, which meant I saw all the guys repeatedly in search of more salty snacks and another soda (six each, we'd passed out drink tickets). It went well, though I don't think I will ever understand the fascination with Rock Band or FPS games. Still, it had a bit of a sense of being in a frat house, with exhaustion taking the place of the expected lack of sobriety. These were young teens after all.

But our quote this week comes from Lady-in-Charge from last night, who made the following announcement around 3 a.m.

"Last call for freezie pops."

I'm going back to bed shortly. I don't have to be up....so I'm not going to be.

Random Quote Sunday: or Monday, what?

I did make it back from New York and the Brunette's wedding shower before midnight last night but crawled into bed shortly after arriving home. Something about air travel and lots of pulling together of a wedding shower that lasted nearly eight hours--it takes it out of a girl.

It was a weekend of old and new friends, of leaky tents and sunbathing by the pool, of glamorous and messy, and of tons of hugs and kisses.

"We used to sit around talking about finals, now we talk about weddings."
(Another engagement was announced this weekend from amongst my college friends.)

"Yes, I even came back with the same girlfriend."
(DBG--talking about a trip to Italy)

"There are wire and shiny things!"
(A reaction from the groom at the wedding shower--talking about a card)

"I'm just the un-edited portion of your brain."
(To one of my coworkers)


And if you're one of my facebook friends--the photos are up from the shower. I didn't post them but if you look at pics I'm tagged in you can pop over there. One of the groomsmen took a lot of great pics.

Random Quote Sunday: Back in Quote Mode, Weirder than Ever

"She is the queen of the Hippopotami."
(Yes...referring to this book again. )

"It just makes you feel better about Texas. "
(Lovely state...I hear they have yellow roses)

Random Quote Sunday: I've been shopping.

"I just did the world's fastest sprint over there for Good Morning!"

--Good Morning is a scent of soap just released by Happy Housewife Soaps and Sundries. She did a big update last night and there was a huge swarm of soap/perfume sharks. Most of the soaps are sold out (she started with 23 scents, currently has 8) but stuff available here. Good stuff. :)

"XX skeins of yarn jump into my cart, that's what happens."

--Apparently the yarn diet is over. I'll let you fill in the blank of just HOW much yarn I got. Suffice to say it was a lot. (Sale is at WEBS) And yes, it was a two figure number so no greater than 99.

"I assume our energy levels are under control today?"

--I'm the mean librarian, I send people home when they launch themselves across the room at an 8 ft. giraffe. A little pre-emptive warning today.

Random Quote Sunday: the Wednesday Wench

I was really coming up with good lines of Wednesday

"95% of the world can be defined by picture books. The other 5% needs a time-out or a nap."
---to my managing editor at the end of a non-work related email

"Some things in life shouldn't be taken seriously and there are many days when I'm one of them. "
---from an email to the host of last weekend's party

Random Quote Sunday (EXTRA): EJ is awesome...

At a phenomenal surprise party that I got to attend last night, my friend EJ made a comment too excellent not to quote:

"My head hurts right now because it's so full of awesome."

So here is your reason for every headache you encounter: your head is filled with awesome.

Random Quote Sunday: Old School

"I recommend the punch!"
A quote from a party I attended four or five years ago. We all said it enough and used it in every day conversations for a while. Was haunting me this week--had to text the Blonde to get source. But seriously...good punch.

"Now that we've gotten mutual apologies and natural disasters out of the way...how are you?"
My phone--her email acting up; I have floods, thunderstorms and potential tornadoes--she has fires. Makes for an interesting conversation.

Oh..and btw...that building I described in detail last week? Yeah...former bordello. Thank you, Madame Director. (Although I'm told it's coolness factor just went WAY up by my-friend-the-lawyer.)

Random Quote Sunday: Not Your Usual Plans

"If you have the reception there you can have an animal come to visit...but not the penguins, they have an 8 p.m. bedtime."
--a friend's comment at a Kiwanis luncheon while describing a wedding reception at the Minneapolis Zoo. Her friend was having a sloth come.

"I think I spent more time on this outfit than I did figuring out what I was wearing to prom."
--Hopefully it will be a better time than prom was too...

And the most bizarre headline I saw this week---which I will have you click through to see. Yes--it's a real headline.

Random Quote Sunday: All Over the Spectrum

It's been a pretty busy week this week:


"No one went home purple"
Tie-Dye

"I do, however, have waist length hair--so I have to clean the beater bar every time."
New Vacuum

"Must navigate toe."
Knitting my first ever sock (yes, you have to look at the pictures)