busy wonderful day (mostly)

what a whirlwind today has been. meeting downtown all about young adult services. tons of techno stuff thrown at me, mostly really cool, but when will i find the time to do it all. then to work, filling out purchase requests for bookmarks and stickers. i tell you patrons expect you to have bookmarks. they expect you to let them have 30 for their classroom, they expect there to be different ones everytime they come. is this really what they want their tax dollars spent on, when they could use a scrap of paper, maybe their checkout slip we give them anyway? i digress.

then timesheets to fill out and sign, emails to answer, desks to man, people to help, complaining to do. next comes closing the library really quickly since we had a meeting/retirement party in the library starting right when we closed. i'm the closer. i'm also on the desk. i have people who want library cards. i have people banging on the door. stress! then the meeting lasts long enough for me to get comfortable on the floor (shortest meeting ever!) and then up to make sure everything is on the table, food, utensils, ice etc. yummy food, conversation with all the millhopperites that have been farmed out to other places during the renovation, and lots of laughs. in some ways i really really can't wait to have our building back. in other ways its kind of a long vacation. there isn't as much work, which is good, cause i'd have no time to do it. its all about the basics, not many extras, like all the programming stuff i usually do. i need to be going out to schools and daycares, and i miss it a little, but i also have enjoyed the break. cause i know when we get back, there will be soooo much to do with children and young adults and planning and presenting and creating inviting spaces and giving the patrons what they want, that i don't even want to think about it right now. wow that was a bit of a tangent.

anyway, work party to church party. so fun. it was a luau theme with leis and flowers in our hair and lots of fruit and strawberry daquiris (virgin of course). then we hulla hooped. i got applause for being the worst, but trying the hardest. then the limbo contest, which luckily my bad back gets me out of, so i just took lots of pics. the best part was that i got to catch up with one of my dearest friends and hear about all the wonderful things happening with her and her man. she hinted that bling was coming and that i needed a red dress this summer! wonderful news and then my sis gave me some bad news. she can't catch a break. i love her so much and i just got so angry for her.

then off to the gym to burn the anger away and lose myself in cardio and grey's anatomy. it did the trick the anger ebbed and i burned lots of calories (down 14 lbs. in 3 weeks! wahoo!) then home and packing for a weekend trip to orlando! paying bills, payday! and then the text message. the i'm engaged and i wanted to let you know before its on facebook message. then the phone call with lots of squealing and hearing about the proposal and talking dates and dresses and planning. i'm sooo excited for her. she's found a magnificient man. she is so wonderful and deserves this happiness and it also makes me happy to see that girls do find mr right. maybe me next? eehhh, maybe not. but i am super excited about being a bridesmaid. it'll be my fifth time, i think. its stressful and fun and nice to be there for someone during one of the greatest experiences of their life. i'm glad i didn't have any trips planned, cause now my summer's booked! okay time for bed. i've got yoga at 8:30am!!