Snippets From My Week...

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

Greek Vacation Wishlist...

1. Rebecca Minkoff Mini 5-Zip - $195.00
2. Michael Kors Oversized Golden Stainless Steel Lexington Three-Hand Watch - $275.00
3. Tory Burch Miller Sandals - $225.00
4. Betsey Johnson Summer Blast Blue Drop Earring - $40.00
5. Fashion To Figure Tidal Wave High-Low Skirt - $22.50
6. Wild Fox Bel Air Sunglasses (Navy Blue) - $179.00
7. Forever21 Faux Quartz Pendant Necklace - $7.80
8. YoursClothing Black Floral Print Sheer Longline Kimono Shrug With Fringed Hem - $54.00

Library Articles...

♥ Eight Are Removed As Queens Library Trustees
♥ Plum Librarian Takes Lead At American Libraries Association
♥ CPS Board Warned Of Drought Of Librarians
♥ Zoia Horn, Librarian Jailed For Not Testifying Against Protesters 
♥ Losing School Librarians In Chicago Public Schools
♥ Elmont Library Disputes State Comptroller's Audit Finding
♥ SC Libraries Seek To Override Trespass Bill Veto
♥ Billy Joel to Receive Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Read
♥ Amazon Wants You To Pay $120 For A Glorified Library Card
♥ Library Card Signed By Elvis When He Was In School To Be Auctioned
♥ Defending The Title Librarian, Library As Refuge & More Letters To LJ’s July 2014 Issue

This Just Pinned: Week One Hundred & Nine...

Here are the highlights of my last two weeks pinning...

(via: Passive Juice Motel)

(via: Oh So Lovely Obsessions)

(via: Love My Dress)

(via: The Vault Files)


(via: The Marvelous Misadventures Of A Foodie)

(via: Handmade Mimi)

(via: The Moonblush Baker)

As always if you want to see what else I have up on Pinterest you can check out my account here.

Listening To The Radio...

The other night I was driving home from work and I decided to manually search through all of the radio stations because I was bored and I came across this random station playing "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" by Weezer, so I left it on. After the song was over the people on the air started talking about how the Blue Album, which the song is from, is twenty years old and they were playing it because the station "Is looking back to the summer of 1994 to explore the hits, defining albums and pop culture of 20 years ago."

After the shock of realizing that the Blue Album is twenty years old, I started listening to the station (Which happened to be WNYC 93.9FM Soundcheck, it took me a while of listening to figure that out) and I cannot tell you how entertained I was.

Here is what I was actually listening to that night...

And here is the article the Soundcheck website had up about the Weezer thing I was listening to, which was entitled "Summer '94: Comedian Hari Kondabolu On The Golden Age Of Weezer"

Looking into Soundcheck I found that they have a podcast up on iTunes, I think I'm going to give it a shot.

Description: WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.

I'm really glad I decided to search through the stations. It was a nice change of pace and I enjoyed listening to what John Schaefer and Hari Kondabolu had to say instead of listening to "Problem" for the millionth time.

When was the last time you were pleasantly surprised by what was on the radio?

Forgotten Photos From My iPhone: Meant To Instagram Edition...

Trying To Give A Dog A Bone...

Oh wow, so "Julia" did this fossil program yesterday and she apparently bought cheap dog bones for the children to use to make imprints into whatever dough was made. And since last night she has been trying to give the extras away. First she asked "Emily" who cooks dinner for herself and her dogs and then she asked me if Nella would like them. To which I stopped myself from telling her that Nella eats better than most humans, and definitely better than her.

So just now she walked up to the teen reading club volunteers and asked if any of them had a dog. Then proceeded to tell them that she has these cheap dog bones she is trying to get rid of. And she forced the box on one of the teens.

What is wrong with this lady?! Just throw the damn cheap dog bones away. God knows she bought them in a dollar store and they were probably made in some random country that allows weird chemicals and metals to be put into their products.

I just don't understand...

Little Free Libraries...

For the past seven or so months I've been working on getting the library, in conjunction with the city we are in, to install Little Free Libraries on the local boardwalk as outreach and I'm excited to announce that it's finally happened.

After months of annoying my Director, me threatening to annoy our City Counsel and subsequently my Director annoying the City Counsel and the Library Board of Trustees, we have four library sponsored Little Free Libraries on the boardwalk.

I'm so excited to have my pet project come to fruition and hear all of the positive responses that the community has had to them in the few days they have been operational.

I'll keep you all up-to-date on how they are doing and if we end up get more.

Stuck In My Head: Black Widow...

Since I first heard Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora's song "Black Widow" it's been stuck in my head.


I'm not going to lie, I kinda love Iggy Azalea. How do you guys feel about Iggy?

Annual Rafting Trip Recap...

As mentioned in my last post, I went Upstate for a long weekend for Phil's annual rafting trip and here is my brief recap of my trip...

Wednesday evening after we all got out of work Erin, Justin and I packed ourselves and our crap into Erin's tiny car and we started our five hour trip Upstate. This year Phil asked us to meet him in White Plains by his job so that we could caravan up to his grandparent's property, and since it's his trip we did.

We took a minor detour and stopped at Wal-Mart for a variety of crap that Phil thought we would need and then we were off. Phil stole Justin from us so that there would be two people in each car and we made our annual trek.

We made it up to camp around 11:30pm. We cleaned up a bit (Camp can be GROSS). Justin built the tent, as well as a fire and then the four of us hung out around the fire until 2:00am.

As we have every year prior, we used our free time Thursday to go to Cracker Barrel in Binghamton, NY for breakfast and then we hit up Iroquois Antiques & Collectibles in Bainbridge, NY to see what goodies we could find. I didn't get as much as I have in previous years but I still got some sweet stuff. I ended up with an awesome hand painted ten piece matryoshka (Russian nesting doll), brooches for my bouquet, matchbooks, etc.

Once we were done at Iroquois Antiques & Collectibles we hit up a another antique store that Erin's coworker told her about, but it wasn't nearly as amazing as Iroquois. And after almost dying from all the dust in the second antique shop we decided to head back to camp and hang out before some of the other arrived -- Which wasn't until almost midnight. 

Like the night before it was kinda cold so we built a fire early and kept that sucker going until 3am.

Friday morning we woke up relatively early and got ready so we could head up to Cooperstown, NY to go to Brewery Ommegang for lunch, a brewery tour and beer tasting.

After we had our fill of Ommegang, we headed into Cooperstown just to walk around and kill time.

When we finished walking around (Cooperstown isn't that big), we headed back down to camp to wait for the rest of our friends who were arriving in the early evening.

While we were just hanging out Phil's dad decided that we should have paddle boat races, so he formed teams and there were paddle boat wars.

Eventually our other friends showed up and we ate, drank and sat around the fire until we were all tired.

Saturday was rafting day, so we all got up around 9:30am and gathered our rafts, beer, food, cameras, etc. and set off on our boozy day of floating down the river.

After hours of river tomfoolery we eventually made it to our end point. Thankful unlike last year we were able to make it up the river bank without almost drowning in river water and mud -- It was really bad last year.

We ran our rafts across Country Road 8 and the boys cleaned and packed them up as Erin and I snuck into Phil's grandparent's house to take showers -- They let us girls take showers in their house instead of making us use the showers down at the dam which has bugs and gross stuff.

When everything was packed we hopped into our cars, the boys headed to the dam to shower and Erin and I just hung out around camp -- Actually I wasn't really hanging out because I was suckered into making homemade mac and cheese for everyone.

After everyone was back at camp we just relaxed, had dinner, hung out by the fire and eventually went to bed.

Sunday morning we all woke up, packed our stuff up and headed back to Long Island. 

I can't believe how great of a trip it was. We all had an amazing time and no one fought with anyone this year -- We think it's because we're all getting old, at twenty-eight and twenty-nine we are too old for stupid stuff. I cannot wait until our next trip.