a day in the life of a librarian...

pretty boring.
today was the first day of work. I am pretty sure my boss is crazy. he has absolutely no idea what goes on in the library. plus he made a schedule and forgot to add a lunch for me! he was like 'oh. hmm. i'll move stuff around." what?! but i was outta there at 12:30 and am free and clear for the day. it's going to be an easy week.
For Randy:
What happens to cows during earthquakes?

They give milk shakes!

back to school, back to school

tomorrow is the big day! i'm not overly thrilled, but i'm sure it will be fine. I'll keep you updated.
kasey the librarian strikes again...

For Randy:
Why did the picture go to jail?

it was framed!

a lazy day!

Today is going to be a very lazy day! Just chilling out and watching some chick flicks. I am very excited about it. I think we are going camping this weekend with jon and mary. it's really, really foggy out today all down the state coast (or so i'm told) so it dramatically drops temps. down. I think we are aiming for a high of 70 today. so i don't know what the weather will be in big sur if we go there to camp.
I should probably get ready for my big line up.
I think it will be: Serendipity, Steel Magnolias, 13 going on 30 and maybe some You've Got Mail to round out the day before Rob gets home. Sounds like a good day to me.
For Randy:
What happens when you eat yeast and shoe polish?

You rise and shine!

ho hum

Today is a busy day in a ho hum way. I slept in, go figure, then made a batch of cookies, met rob for lunch, found out I made $3 (wahoo!), went to Borders, spent an hour in the kids' section brushing up on what's the best, two little sisters (a 6th grader & a 4th grader) helped me know what is cool to 'big kids', (did you know that they read The Giver in 5th grade here? I read that book in 8th and was scarred for life) and then came home to a mess because the dogs found some paper towels, and now i sit. Tomorrow I meet with Principal Nelson to go over budget and supplies and what exactly i'm supposed to be doing. always a handy to-know tip.
I'm excited to start work though. I don't really know how this is going to work out, being the only librarian and all. that strikes me as funny. we'll see.
This is going to be a busy rest of week though. i have two seperate meetings tomorrow, friday i go to change my ss card (still says Denham, whoops), go to the dr to have blood taken, go to sheriffs office and get fingerprints, and then i think we are meeting jon and mary and going camping. and work starts monday. whew.
For Randy:
What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
frostbite.

homecoming

back in monterey today. the weather is beautiful. i think we are going to go see click, or go lay on the beach for a while.
I miss you maelie!!! hands down, she is the cutest thing i have ever seen. i love her little gummy grins and her affair with stevie the tv is hilarious. it was nice to get to see everybody, but i felt really busy all week. so, i guess it's nice to be home again where i can slow down and get a nap in. I know i could have there, but that kid is like crack. i didn't want to miss a second with her! i hope she and emily really do come out in october. a) i would love em to see the place and b) i would love for rob to get to see the baby! three more months.
For Randy:
a guy sits down at the bar after a long day and sees a bowl of peanuts sitting there. all of a sudden the peanuts come alive with things like "hey, I like your pants!" "New haircut? looks good!" "Have you lost weight?!" the guy starts feeling a little better and says "hey bartender, what's the deal with these peanuts?" and the bartender says "their complimentary." (does that help?)

TGIF?

It is a bitter sweet symphony.
Today is Friday. A) I get to see Rob's smiling face tomorrow after 6 days apart. and I get to go back to cold monterey! 65 degrees year round. that sounds nice on a day where it looks like it's going to be 108.
but B) it's my last day here and that means no more maelie for three whole months. she's in striped p.j.s right now so she looks like cindy lou who from who-ville! it has been so much fun getting to be around her and see her face smile and yawn. she's been so good too! yesterday she rolled over for the first time from her back to her tummy. it was a struggle, but she is very smart and pushed through it. I'm so crazy about her little face.
But at least I will see her in three months and not six like we were thinking. I know uncle rob will be very excited to see her again. he talks about her all the time. it's safe to say she is/will be spoiled.
A) i miss rob and the puppies and it will be nice to be in my house again and to be living out of the dryer instead of a suitcase (i'm not great with laundry). all in due time.

I have arrived!

I made it!! It's 3 a.m. and i'm about to have Mac and Cheese with my brother. I had to offer to make it for him so that he wouldn't sneak out the window and go to whataburger. more tomorrow... or today... ugh.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow!

alright, who didn't see that one coming?
Today has been busy, espec. for a saturday. we went on base to try to take the rob to the dr. That didn't pan out. so we took fresh cookies to the cafe, and found out (dumdadadum!) I sold twelve cookies! twelve of them! I made $5.50 this week! That's $4.50 I made more than last week! It's like i'm a household name now! i'm a cookie celebrity. you'll see my behind the scene story on VH1 in no time. "I used to bake a couple dozen a day, until I got hooked on brown sugar. After a stint in rehab, I can say I'm totally clean and can now bake without temptation. Don't think don't think about it... It's an everyday battle." I can see it now.


I GO HOME TOMORROW!!!!!!

hey hey hey!

Bill Cosby is 69 years old. and still very funny. except when he takesthe long pauses. i think that used to be part of the act, now it's a part of life.
we had a great time, except that the lady sitting next to rob caused hearing loss and some brain damage with her super obnoxious and incredibly loud laugh.
but when she shut up and we actually heard the jokes, it was very funny stuff.

2 legit.

Two more days!!!!!!!! i see my maelie in two more days!!!!!
tonight we're going to Bill Cosby. I'm so excited, having grown up wih the Huckstables. I've got my dress and shoes all ready to go!! and i'm pretty much packed for Ft. Worth too! I went shopping today to pick up a few things since it is so monkey hot there right now, and it's probably 60 here right now and windy and foggy and misty.
Jon and Mary are coming over for game night tomorrow and then church and then San Fran and I'm home! I can't wait!

attention class

so it's official! I am Foothill Elementary's new librarian. I'm very excited about it. I'll be the only librarian so the library is basically my classroom and i've been given permission to do with it as i see fit. how funny is that?! I can't wait. it's only half day and that is great! that means on tuesdays i can still do farmer's market! how great is this?! all praise be to God.

4 and auglug-ing!

i go home in 4, count 'em, 4 days! i can't wait!! i have a whole list of things to do!
Sunday- get in at midnight; go to mom's and go to sleep
Monday- prob. lunch with dad at Logan's; hang out with Maelie; maybe see the in-laws
Tuesday- hang out with maelie; have chick-fil-a; dinner at macaroni grill with Yo; more Mae
Wednesday- Hang out with Maelie; have taco bueno; eat mi hac; more Mae
Thursday- hang out with Maelie; eat chicken express; more Mae; more Mi Hac; Mae again
Friday- pack up : ( ; hang out with Maelie; eat chick-fil-a again; dinner party with the family
Saturday- get to DFW early morning; fly back to my Rob; watch some raymond

it's a very busy week! i'm very excited about it! I can't wait!
i'm watching Al Roker right now and he's saying the high in TX is going to be at least 95 today... we're hoping to break 65.

5 mwahahaha!

it has been the busiest day i have had in big CA. i hit the ground running at 5:30 this morning with rob and am just now sitting down at home. I had a 7:45 dr. appointment this morning that lasted until 9! and then i had to speed to alberstons to buy hose to wear (changed in their bathroom~gross) to an interview i had at 10 to be, get this, a librarian at an elementary school! that went well, i think. i was out of there buy 11 and had enough time to swing by home and change into jeans, let the dogs out, and grab some cookies i made for rob's class before i was off again to meet him for lunch with jon and mary. from there i stopped by the church and chatted with the preacher for about thirty minutes and then off to walgreens to fill a rx from the dr.s this morning. bring on dr. phil, because i could use an hour to stretch out on the couch and watch a large, bald man fix other people's problems in thirty minutes or less. i wonder if he flies his guests out or they come on their own dollar only to be told some crazy backwoods southern expression from a man that lives in L.A.? What true good ol' boy would ever reside in LA?
Puh-lease. all he's tryin to do is be a pimp in high cotton (words i once heard from a true southern, ah hem, good ol' boy) and live higher on the hog than his daddy did (words from the same southerner).
on a note, not much the same as the last, i get to see the most precious girl in only five short days! my little miss maelie is very excited about the visit too, or so i hear. usually it sounds like "mwaouauo blliahar" but you and i both know that that means " i love my aunt kasey and am very excited to see her pretty face in five days!" that's right, pretty. she loves me.

it's been one week...

who doesn't like the barenaked ladies?
I come home in one week!! i'm so excited! and mae and I get to spend the entire thursday together! i can't wait! i'd get on the plane tomorrow if i could. i mean, you know, it will be sad leaving rob and all. oh i'll be heart broken. what will i do with myself? SPEND TIME WITH MAELIE!!! rob understands he is now second fiddle. really he's fine with it. in fact, i think he prefers that all of my attention go towards her for a change : ) i am so excited! i miss my sister and my brothers! and of course brother matthew. you really don't get the right effect unless you see the mckillip boys together. and not to mention, my other brother matthew that actually has no family tie, but takes up residency at my mother's. and my mom! i can't wait to see my mama! and crazy! and val and nita! and possibly the ran and ash! and the whole of the bradford/rainwater clan! and my yo! and my dad (slash, business partner)! I have a very busy week ahead of me. except thursday. that's my maelie day.
i have to make myself not pack right now. i guess i really could. i don't wear anything that rises above my ankle here. it's too cold. oh Texas heat, how i look forward/dread you!

from both us

i'm sitting in our big red chair with rob watching the sixth season of Raymond. last night we watched almost 3 hours of it! it's such a nice thing to do on such a dreary day. now that we're out of church for the day we are able to relax and hang out. it's cold out and is gray and mistyand the perfect weather for a fire and movie day. actually this weekend has been like this. yesterday i had a tummy ache so we laid on the couch and watched beauty and the beast, aladdin, and then raymond. it's been very cozy and relaxed. i think that we needed that this week. it's been a crazy busy week with school and house work and everything, so it is nice to be able to calm everything down.
two weeks left until i get to see my family! i'm so excited about it. 2 weeks, 14 days, 336 hours, 20160 minutes Maelie! put on your prettiest outfit and biggest bow! tia kasey and tio rob love you very much!

Thank you Mr. Washington!

well you're going to think i have flipped my lid. follow me though.
i went to base today to check and see how the week went cookie wise. I sold two cookies! two of them! granted i only made a dollar from this week, but just think, that's a dollar more than i had! plus, who ever bought them weren't in rob's squad. so two strangers liked my cookies and bought them. the lady said that she thinks it didn't do well because they were hidden on the counter, so next week she'll put them right out in the big fat center and we'll see if that does better. i'm really excited! i sold two of my very own cookies! someone likes my stuff! that's incredible. so included is a picture of my very first dollar (before i frame it : ) ). maybe next week i'll have more to show you...

nothing much

that's pretty much what's going on these days.
i have 17 days until i get to go home!! i'm so excited! i've been walking on the treadmill and watching what's going into my mouth so that i can shed a few lbs before i get home, because i am pretty sure it will be mi hac 3 square meals a day! and chick-fil-a... and freebirds... and mi hac... and chicken express... and mexican inn... and mi hac... and logans... and... do you know how long it has been since i had a reasonably priced GOOD meal?! two months!! living here actually makes me long for san antonio. all the great food everywhere that doesn't cost $35 for a burger. we went to this 'real' italian place and well, it sucked and still cost $30 for lunch!!! can you believe that? and the problem is I Love Food. i'll admit it. i'm a food junkie. i love the way it smells. i don't even have to eat it. i just love good food. and when you leave it, you miss it. the best place around here is Chevy's (20 miles away) and bubba gump shrimp ($30 a plate).
so i have made rob promise me that if i come back as big as a couch he will still love me. he was hesitant, but i think i won him over. i make a good cookie. that's worth sticking around for.

a cookie is an always food!!

who woulda guessed that cookie monster would be bad for my business?!

today is day one. i just got in the door from the java shop on base! i'm going to go back on saturday and see how week one has gone. while i was standing there at least five people were coming in for coffee or leaving with their coffee, so at least i know people really do go in there.

i will say this: base is confusing! my poor, sweet husband tried the best he could to map out the base so that i could find the px on my own, but bless his heart, it was time wasted! he was so sweet this morning and took time to email me a fairly detailed map and two different routes to get to the coffee shop, and i still ended up at the library, twice. parts of the base are barricaded off an it seems like the barricades are different every time i go there, so it's very tricky to find where you need. not to mention, all of the buildings look the exact same! they are all old and painted the same butter yellow.

in the end, rob showed me how to get there and the cookies are now safely resting on a counter begging to be bought! all is well with the world.

No one likes George

poor georgie (our beagle)! he has a long day ahead of him. i had to set straight the people at petsmart because they were dumb and said he didn't have his rabies vaccine. funny, when we took him to a petsmart in vegas two months ago to spend the night at the petshotel he was vaccinated! isn't funny how that works?! so i talked to the vet in san antonio and confirmed that i was right and then called petsmart to let them share in my rightness too. needless to say, george is at the groomers probably being shaved because he has this goo in his hair that won't come out. and at 4 he and little ollie are going to the vet! fun day fo them. i wonder if i could get the vet to give george more sedatives. he's almost out and that's the only way to really get him to do anyting. drug him, and then check his ears. drug him, and then wash his ears. drug him, and then i get a nap too. (not really, well except that we do drug him to check his ears out b/c he hates it. we have the pills b/c we drove 26 hours to get here so get off the phone with aspca)

mae

today was nice. i was able to get a lot accomplished today before rob got home. then we went to see The Lake House. it was good. the first is kinda lame, but what do you expect? over all i liked it very much. then we went to california pizza kitchen (one of rob's favorite spots) and had pizza. mine was santa fe chicken. not exactly the pizza you'd think. there wasn't even sauce on it. but it wasn't bad.
do you ever have days where it's just kinda blah. lately i've accumulated quite the collection of these days. i think i am just so ready to come home. i miss my family so much on days like this. i think back to the week we got to spend together before we moved out here. i cherish that week. i miss my sister and brothers. i miss my mom even though i saw her a short time ago. and mostly i miss maelie. i feel like i miss her more each day. and i barely know her. i guess i just always thought that when the day came for me to be an aunt, i would actually be there to be a support for my sister, and even more to be there to see my niece or nephew grow. i think about that week we shared together and how much she has grown since i last held her. i see her pictures and it lights my entire day. she's gotten so big. i hope one day i can be in her life like i want to be, and her brothers and sisters. i hope one day she'll have the same fond memories of times she spent with me like i do of my own aunt. emily tell her that i love her everyday and i will see her soon. i miss you guys.