Month In Review: June 2014...

♥ Locking down the officiant, photographer and restaurant for the wedding.

♥ Booking our honeymoon to Greece.

♥ Going to my sister & Erin's jobs breast cancer fundraiser.

♥ Finding my wedding dress.

♥ Finishing the reading club on time (We were cutting it close this year).

♥ Taking our engagement photos.

♥ Seeing Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall.

♥ Hanging out with my cousins.

♥ Going to the beach every weekend.

♥ Ocean City, MD In Instagram

♥ Ocean City, MD Vlog: Part One

♥ Overdue: Floyd Bennett Field In Brooklyn

♥ Actually Doing Work At Work

♥ Twenty Years In The Making

♥ Breast Cancer Fundraiser

♥ Dave Chappelle At Radio City Music Hall

♥ Wedding Update

♥ Afternoon At Belmont Lake State Park

 

♥ Timehop ♥

♥ Titanic's Final Mystery (2012) ♥

♥ The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz (2013) ♥

Snippets From My Week...

Here is a little glimpse of the past week of my life via my Instagram...

Snippets From My Week...

Here is a little glimpse of the past week of my life via my Instagram...

Actually Doing Work At Work...

I just wanted to touch base and let everyone know the only reason that I've been missing in action this time around is because I've actually been busy at work -- Shocker, I know. The summer reading club starts next week so I've been out on the floor decorating and when I'm not doing that, as well as my regularly scheduled programs, I've been setting up iPads (We just got a Crayon Kiosk yesterday, which is this thing that looks like a crayon that hold iPads for the kiddies to use) & other tablets for the patrons to use. So, I should be done with almost all of that by next week but I'm hoping I can sneak in a post or two before that.

Sorry I suck. I leave you with Steve...

Week In Instagram: June 9th-15th...

Summer 2012 Reading Club Bulletin Boards...

I was just looking through the pictures I had on my memory card and I realized that I never posted the pictures I took of the bulletin boards I made for the reading club this summer. So here are my summer reading club bulletin boards...

Need Swim Trunks? Ask A Librarian...

I've been so busy trying to get this years summer reading club together I forgot to write about this over the weekend...

On Friday mid setup a man walks up to myself and "Mini Page" and proceeds to ask if I could help him with something. I said sure even though I was obviously busy and asked him what he needed help with. He begins to tell me that he is new in town and that he is having trouble finding a bathing suit that fits properly. He goes on to tell me what size he wears and how one size is too big, while another is too small even though it should fit. He explained to me about his trunks falling off in the water, etc. Without laughing at the guy because the whole thing was so odd, I tell him various places on Long Island where he could find himself a bathing suit. He says thank you and walks away.

"Mini Page" just stood there with her jaw open after he left and couldn't find the words to describe how odd the interaction was.

Gotta love weirdos in the library...

Week In Instagram: June 10th-16th

The One That Runs The Reading Club...

I just got a phone call from a mother of a teen reading club volunteer asking for "Julia" whom she referred to as "The one that runs the reading club." Um... No lady. "Julia" does not run the reading club what-so-ever. If anyone ran the reading club it would be me because I am the one that has put the reading club together for the past four years. Ugh!

"Mama Page" heard me on the phone and when I got off she was saying that she wouldn't put it past "Julia" to be telling patrons that she is in charge. She is probably right! I am so annoyed right now.

"Julia" Makes Me Want To Scream...

"Julia" drove me crazy at work today and I wasn't even dealing with her directly. Every time we have a reading club at our library she is put in charge of the teen volunteers and for some reason every year she does the same stupid crap. Like she doesn't have a flashdrive with all of the volunteer instructions saved, so every year she has to write a new one up and she has a hard time doing it even though nothing has changed from the year before. Also she has trouble remembering the fact that every year, year after year that the three reading clubs are color coded. They are always green, blue and yellow for the babies, kiddies and tween/teens. I don't understand.

All day today she kept asking people stupid questions about stuff she should know like the back of her hand. I don't know what is wrong with this woman!! Listening to her ask questions about all of these things just made me want to scream today. I don't know if I can handle listening to all of the same things tomorrow.

365 Days Of Pictures: Day 327...

Winter Reading Club Bulletin Boards...

I spent my entire day at work putting together the bulletin boards and decorating for our winter reading club -- I busted my ass, I skipped lunch and ended up staying an extra hour to get everything ready. Here are some of my lovely decorations...

Reading Club Drama...

Holy bitchface Batman! I just had the nastiest patron ever. A woman just walked up to the reference desk with her son and asked to join the reading club that ends this Friday. I asked her politely if she was sure she wanted to sign him up because he only has three days left of this particular club and that we have another club starting up at the end of the month. She gives me the nastiest look and says very loudly "Are you suggesting that he not read anything between now and then?!?!!" I said of course not and went to go get the book to sign him up. While I was doing this her son asks a question and the mother says "She obviously doesn't want to be bothered..." I was so pissed I just came back and killed them with kindness. I signed him up with a smile and explained to him the club, prizes and what he needed to do by Friday. They thanked me and left.

What a bitch this woman was. I just suggested that they didn't join because I didn't know if he'd even be able to get anything read between now and Friday. We've had people that signed up the first week of the club that haven't brought in a single book slip, so why should I think that someone could do it in three days.

Summer Reading Club Bulletin Boards...

I just realized that I hadn't post pictures of the bulletin boards that I did for the Summer Reading Club. So, here they are...

As you can see these are a portion of what I spent my time doing throughout the course of my seven day work week from June 12th through the 18th.

I worked on these for hours and at the time I was hoping that everyone would like them. Since they've been up I've gotten nothing but positive feedback from my coworkers, as well as patrons and I'm so glad because I put so much effort into decorating for this club.

Caricature Of Oneself...

Yesterday we had a caricature artist come into our library for the kick off of our summer reading club. We had about twenty-five kids and their parents show up to have their pictures drawn and sign up for the club -- It doesn't sound like a lot but the last time we hired someone to do a kick off even hardly anyone showed up to have their faces painted. It was a nice time, the kids seemed to enjoy themselves and it wasn't too chaotic, which is always a good thing.

Towards the end of the artists time in the library there weren't really anymore children around so I had him draw a picture of me ("Emily" says it looks nothing like me), which I will have to post later because I haven't had a chance to scan it yet.

Teen/Tween Reading Club Party...

Today my day consisted of a million notes taped on to my desk pertaining to a half a million various topics -- Mostly the teen/tween reading club party that I had to throw this fine evening. It was crazy the number of instructions taped to the desk. I don't need someone to hold my hand through every step of planing a pizza party for teens and tween, geez.

After plowing through all of the notes on my desk I had to get the ball in motion for the party. I had to figure out how many children RSVPed and how many children would just show up without any warning (I actually lectured the children who didn't RSVP about needing numbers to know how much food to buy, etc). I got the proper amount of money to order pizza and drinks for the children, then I called the pizza place hours ahead of time telling them that I needed four pies by 6:00pm. Once this was all done I didn't actually have to do anything until it was time for me to set up the room with the prizes and such.

The party lasted from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and the seventeen kids that showed up ate all four pies that I had ordered and made a mess of the room during the process. But they had fun so it was all good. I made sure everyone won a prize and that they were all happy. So the party was a success and I don't have to worry about another one for several months.

30 Day Challenge: Day Twenty-Six...

Day 26 — Your week, in great detail
Okay, so here is the week of June 21st 2010- June 28th 2010...

♥ Monday June 21st ♥
I worked 9:00am-5:00pm, then I went to Erin's appartment to hang out with her and Nicole. Nicole made us dinner and then we went to Target to buy randomness. After Target I drove them home and I went back to my house to go to sleep.

♥ Tuesday June 22nd ♥
We launched our summer reading club at the library. We had a face painter come in and I had her paint an octopus on my face -- I really wanted a zombie fish but my department head said no.

I left work early because my cousin Yvette came up from Virgina with her dog Samantha to visit. On my way to my house I picked up a couple of pizzas because that is typically what she wants to eat when she comes to visit and we just hung out for the rest of the night.

♥ Wednesday June 23rd ♥
I worked from 9:00am-1:00pm then I went home to hang out with Yvette and Krissy. We went to try and get our nails done but little did we realize that it was the day before prom, so we scheduled an appointment for Friday at 5:15pm. So we went to the beauty supply shop, where I ended up picking up a bunch of nail polish.

After that we went food shopping for random supplies and then we went to get 10¢ wings at one of the local ale houses with my parents. We followed that up by just hanging around my house.

♥ Thursday June 24th ♥
I didn't really do anything in the AM, but I had work from 1:00pm-9:00pm. Work was boring, but we ordered in food from my favorite seafood place and had a feast. After work I went home.

♥ Friday June 25th ♥
I worked 9:00am-5:00pm. While I was at work Justin e-mailed me and asked me if I wanted to have lunch with him, so he came to get me around 1:00pm and we walked over my favorite panini place to have samichs. We hung out for the hour and then he walked me back to work and I continued my work day.

After work I went to get a pedicure with Yvette and Krissy. Erin, Nicole and Eileen were all already there with their situation's buffed. I had a wonderful pedicure and eyebrow wax, Yvette did not. She was pissed! Once we were done at the nail salon we went back to my house.

♥ Saturday June 26th♥
We (Justin, Krissy, Yvette, Erin & Mike #1) went to see the Mets play the Twins. Before the game we got to go to an open bar that came with the tickets we bought, plus a free appetizer.

Once the game started we got to see Prince Harry throw out the first pitch and then we sat to watching the Twins spank the Mets (6-0) in the hot hot sun. After the game we went home to veg out because the sun is draining.

♥ Sunday June 27th ♥
See yesterday's 30 Challange post.

♥ Monday June 28th ♥
I worked 9:00am-5:00pm. I got a lot of attitude from parents in the AM. Yvette came to the library around 1:00pm and we went to have pizza for lunch. After lunch we got some Italian ices and walked back to the library. I worked the rest of the day, then I went home.

Bulletin Boards...

Since I kept talking about setting up for the reading club, I thought I should post the pictures of the bulletin boards that I made for it. I mean, they aren't the best boards I've ever made but they are perfectly fine for what we need them for.

The first one is the Tween/Teen club board, it is a surf shack/tiki hut and the other one is for all of the other two clubs (Read-to-Me and School-Aged), it is obviously an under water scene.

The Tween/Teen board took me hours to make because I had to staple hundreds of tiny pieces of paper to create the roof of the shack/hut. I had "Favorite Page #2" helping me with it when I started and I think he wanted to kill me. It took forever and a year, but I enjoy the way it looks as do my coworkers.

Side note: I have told all of my coworkers in the department that if they catch anyone destroying my boards that they need to kick the perpetrator out for a week on the grounds of destroying library property.

Make a Splash Read...

I spent the whole day setting up our summer reading club "Make a Splash Read" -- If you don't know anything about summer reading programs typically just about every library in the USA will buy into the same theme, so you can walk into almost any library anywhere throughout the country and they will be doing some variation of whatever theme was picked for that year. I created bulletin boards, photocopied last minute odds and ends, went to the pet store to buy eight bettas for our weekly raffle, etc.

It was really quiet even though the kids aren't in school because all the bad kids were banned for a week by our security guard. So, I should have a peaceful week.