Premier Party

Last Friday the movie One for the Money came out. It's a book based on the popular series by Janet Evanovich. It was a funny moive, not as funny as the book, but still good. I feel for people associated with the movie because I keep seeing poor reviews, but I have to say it wasn't as bad as all that. Anyway, back to the issue.

The Carroll Public Library hosted the most awesome premier party on Friday. It cost $20 to attend but included was the ticket to the movie and a Friends of the Library dues for the year. They did a great job with games, trivia, food, and prizes all themed around the book/movie. I had a great time and got a lot of ideas for my own premier party.

I've talked with a couple teachers in the building and given a heads-up to the principal. So far I've gotten great feedback so I'm going to move ahead with planning. Hunger Games Movie Premier Party here we go! We are going to have it the Thursday before the movie opens in the high school library. I can't wait! This is actually going to happen!

So that's going to take up a bit of time outside of school this coming month. I'm still working on getting my eReader proposal up and running. I've got a lot of really good input and I'm ready to start ordering and purchasing. Which scares me because I'm still not 100% sure where the money is coming from...crazy! But I'm excited about moving to the next stage. February is going to be a really busy and short month!

A really long story

Some people may have noticed I showed up over the holidays with a "boot" on my left foot. Surprising I know, but it was such a long story and I did a horrible job of explaining...so I'll try and get it all out now.

It started around the last week of September. I had ordered a piece of shelving from Amazon for the house. Well, it doesn't come put together so I just set it aside. Now I have this weird heater that's in the floor. It's kind of in the path coming from my only hallway right over to the kitchen. I don't like walking over it so I put an old shelf there while the heat was still off. And right next to this shelf is where I set the BIG box with the new shelving inside. It was NOT in the walk way, but it was right next to it.

So one day I'm going from the hallway to the kitchen and cut the corner I have made just a little too short. BAM! My foot, little toes first, slams straight into the side of my box of shelving. I step back, and it hurts. I limp to the couch and it hurts. I look at my foot, nothing looks off, but it still HURTS. So I decide to sit with the foot up for a while. After about 30 minutes it's not hurting any longer. It's still tender to walk on though.

Now, flash back even further! I had hurt my foot in January while I was finishing up at UNI. I went to the health center when it became too painful to walk any sort of distance. The doc there looked it over and said my foot was probably broken, but they didn't do much for broken bones in the foot. He didn't say that OTHER doctors outside the university might do more, no. He said to buy better shoes and to take it easy. Which brings us back to my new problem. After the last debacle. I decide it's better to just take it easy and wear my best shoes because there is no point in going to the doctor if there is nothing to be done.

Yes, my foot hurt for a while after the incident. Yes, it started to feel better after a while. Then I made the big mistakes. I started changing up my footwear at work, one day good shoes and the next crap from Payless. Then the first weekend of December we got 6 inches of snow. I got to try out my new snow boots, which worked fine but put different kind of pressure on my foot. While I was shoveling everything was fine, but the next day my foot felt just as bad as it had the week I'd hurt it back in September! So I decided it was time to get to the doctor.

Happy Birthday to me, I've got insurance! I went to the doctor in Manning after work on my birthday. She actually took an X-ray and looked at what was going on. She prescribed a "boot." So I got a boot for my birthday. It was to keep pressure off the break. I was so good at hiding it that most people didn't notice it the first week I had it! So I'm told to wear it for a couple weeks and then come back for a check up. I finally scheduled the check up last week.

The doctor was pleased that I was able to stick with the boot so long. Apparently people don't care for it. But my foot NEVER hurt the whole time I wore it. What was to complain about? The break is by no means completely healed. So she suggested I try wearing it for half days my first week back. She says to stick to my tennis shoes for the next six weeks as well. Which is fine with me, they're comfortable! So I don't have to wear the boot around the house and I'll probably skip it for driving now as well. I figure I ditched it just in time. Pretty soon here we are gonna get the real smack down from Old Man Winter. I'd rather have two solid feet under me when the crap starts to pile up!

Random Thoughts

I am beyond obsessed with the whole series of Hunger Games books. I suggest them to everyone I see, even the students I know don't read Science Fiction or Fantasy. I've got the board game and I'm counting the days until the movie comes out, 66 days. So I've decided I want to have a movie premier party in March. I think the best time will be the week before the movie comes out, but I'm not sure. Right now I'm just thinking about what I like about the idea. Discuss the books, discuss the movie(s), play the game...and then I'm stuck. I'd like there to be food and maybe a couple other game options. But for now it's just an idea. I was really bummed when UNI Rod Library decided not to have a Hunger Games this year. I was going to have THE best team! So this is my consolation prize...PARTY!

On to a new topic! There seems to be a craze for hot pink hair running through the school. It started with a new girl who came at the beginning of December. She had hot pink hair with black as the undertone. Just last week I saw another girl with hot pink as the top color and her more natural "dirty blonde" under it. The trend starter's sister showed up this week with the same hot pink on top but a platinum blonde under that. It's an epidemic. I feel like I keep running into Jem in the hallway!

Next topic: my library suffers from afternoon heat waves! In the warmer months my library was the BEST. Other people would wear layers to keep warm in the cooler that was my library. Now that the winter temps have finally arrived so has the heat. When I get here in the mornings things are good, but as soon as I get back from lunch I'm dying! Which is funny, because after lunch is when people would get the coldest at the beginning of the year. So I guess it takes half the day for whatever hot OR cold air to pump it's way to the library. ARG, I much preferred my cooler temps.

In other news I found this neat video online the other day! Enjoy!

Upon reflection this is one of the strangest posts ever...random thoughts about The Hunger Games, the Jem epidemic, and the current cold front/heat wave...I guess I've got a title for the post now.

Christmas Break

I had a wonderful break. After two years of University schedules I was afraid that this break would seem too short, but it actually felt perfect. I left for Blue Grass right after work on the Thursday before Christmas. The teachers got done an hour early so I was able to get on the road by 3pm. What a difference an hour makes! Since it was a Thursday traffic wasn't horrible and I got to drive longer in the daylight. I wasn't even tired when I got to the house!

Christmas with at home was nice and low key. I got exactly what I wanted, which was great! It was a banner year for me. I got a Nook Simple Touch, a hand-held mixer, an awesome Green Day coffee table type book, and more Polish Pottery than I know what to do with! We went to Midnight Mass at 11pm at Our Lady of Victory. It's my favorite Mass of the year because we get to sing all the best music, including THE BEST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER: Joy to the World. I love it!

The day after Christmas was the family gathering at Grandma Bush's house. Emy couldn't be there because she had to be at the store, but what can you do. We can't always get everyone there every year. But my cousin Becky was there with her 7 day old son Issac (spelling?)! He was such a cutie. He's a sleeper, and his big brother doesn't quite know what to make of him yet. It's fun to have little ones to watch for entertainment!

The rest of the week was perfect. I got some errands run and was able to spend time with my friends. For New Year's Eve Claire came over and we played games had fun. I was able to start back to Manning on Monday morning which gave me most of the day to unpack and re-organize once I got home.

Tuesday was the first day back for teachers in my building. It was a "work" day so we were able to spend the day doing whatever needed to be done for ourselves. It was the best way to come back to work. I got to wear comfy clothes, one step up from PJs. I got all the biographies integrated into the Non-fiction section and had a productive meeting the the librarian from the other buildings. It was awesome!

Now it's the first Monday back to work. If the nice weather can hold out a little longer I'll be happy enough. There aren't enough "breaks" in the Spring semester, but that's no reason to start wishing for snow days! Happy Monday!