frustration...with just my own self...

some things i do well.

some things i do really well.

some things i try to do well but they take work. (that's okay. i'm good with challenges...)

and sometimes i think i'm on my game and then *bam*.

i'm not.

so tonight i realized it's october 29th and i am behind in a monthly duty for work
(there are very vaild other work reasons for this occurring in the first place. i didn't mean to slack, scout's honor!)
also got a rightfully questioning email from a coworker basically saying 'what gives??'

so i am sitting here at home after a good workout with my run club (praise the good guy upstairs for this group...they really save my sanity and make me a better person...) and am slaving away over ordering books for the kids department from a major library jobber's website.

so tired....

but then right after i sit down, here comes my girl ellie...


and all is right with the world in that moment. purring commences...and i continue to frantically type away ISBN numbers...

and then, all of a sudden, it's almost time for bed and another day to start....*yawn*. til later...~jd

what to do at 5am?

*yawn*
well post a little i guess...

yesterday one of our little neighborhood breakfast spots was turned into a hollywood set....Joel & Ethan Coen (the geniuses behind Fargo and No Country For Old Men) are shooting for a few days at the Keys Cafe about 2 miles from our house. lots of 1960s cars around as I guess the film is set in '67....so that was cool to drive by a few times...

LibraryLand is good...looking forward to the time coming up in early winter when it looks likely our building will close and pack up to move to a temporary locale for a year while they build an entire upstairs onto our building. I look forward to jeans jeans jeans and good hard work. Our county board still has some big decisions to approve, and once that's done next month (we hope!) the ball really starts rolling...it's been really interesting to be part of the redesign committee and see how major projects like this take shape.

RunningWorld is going well. less than 2 weeks til the first of 3 big races this fall...the team and i have set dates for our post-races fall retreat, and it looks likely it's going to be at our friend Kim's cabin, which I have heard nothing but great things about....on a lake, brand new home, campfires outside.....heaven basically. and right after my birthday...way to ring in 35 :)



and looking forward to some harvest time this upcoming weekend....one of my favorite little local wineries hosts anybody who wants to bring in the grapes every weekend in September to come out and do so. Nan, the owner who I adore, is awesome and she gets local chefs to come and make lots of yummy food (usually big huge pots of soup and other easy to feed a crowd meals) to feed the folks who want to help a small farmer/vinter out. It's great fun and will keep me occupied while Mark is off in Paris for a week singing.

so I should try and nod off again if possible before heading to storytime in a few hours. The chill has returned to the early morning hours here in MN and we fired up the pellet stove for warmth for the first time this season just yesterday....hi to Dad & Leesa and those family far away who I don't see often enough....be well. ~Jen

all in a day's work....

who thinks libraries are always quiet? serene? a place to learn?

many, which is all good.

but funny how one popular free thing can turn people into maniacs...

we have this program where many twin cities museums offer admission passes if you check them out at your local library.

they get 2-4 folks in for free.

some aren't museum passes...they are things like admission to the mn zoo.

or the landscape arboretum.

cool places that are usually $10 or so to get into.

plus sometimes parking.

well the zoo passes this summer have gotten so crazy popular that folks line up in the lobby to get them. all TWO of them remember.

one lady a few days ago, i heard through a coworker, blocked the front door before opening sitting in a chair so she would be the first one to get the zoo pass since she had just missed it the day before.

friday we had a physical clawing-at-each-other-girl-fight about them.

no police were called but two grown women were literally trying to wrench out of each others hands these hallowed passes. (THREE women wanted them and, i'm not a math girl, but with only two available, it quickly became a brawl with the numbers not in their favor...)

all in the public eye. other patrons standing there with wide eyed wonder. kids coming in the door still.....

all over really nothing that big a deal. sheesh. PAY the $10 people....i realize a free thing is good, but physical battery is not the way to solve the problem.

and our library isn't the only one these get fought over or run full speed at when the doors open for the day. in our little suburb, it could almost be an olympic event watching the pass dash come toward you, the librarian on guard for what could happen next....

now the zoo passes at our library have moved from being out with the rest to behind the referencee desk so that folks can run to be the first ones *there* to get them.

oh, and did i mention one of the first comments i heard a page (someone who shelves books in our library) say to a supervisor yesterday?

"um yeah, there's a bottle of vodka over in the stacks on the shelf"

the joys of working in a library :)
~jd