Sunday Ocean City here we come!

We have to finish the paint job in the master bedroom. Little by little it's looking like a desirable house.
Now about that second sock, I'm stuck! I'll try back later. I'm reading my Avon Representatives Times insert. I really need to see what I need to do to stay focused on what I want my Avon business to do for me. I have not been working on it at all.

Sunday OC day

Sock Knitting day

Today is Sock Knitting day. Well, I hope the class will be worth the $60.00 I paid. I then need to figure out if I am going to a pancake fundraiser before this 10am class. And how about a little Saturday cleaning? Diluted lemon scented ammonia my new found cleaning agent here I come!
I went to Veronica's church fundraiser a pancake breakfast and ended up an hour late for my knitting class oh well. But I finished the sock! Good advanced beginner pattern. Working with four needles can be a challenge for newbies at knitting like moi. It was worth the $60 bucks but I should have gotten Teresa to teach me and payed her the $60 bucks.

Friday June 26th-Aftermath

The kids along with a couple of teenagers; started a blog on Summer Reading at Wadsworth on. I have a wonderful Temple workstudy student named Rebecca and she asked me for suggestions for the creativity and computers slot I scheduled on Fridays throughout the summer. Since I started a blog for myself I suggested starting a blog for the library, giving the participants an opportunity to "write" about what they did @ the library and or what they enjoy about coming to the library. Voila! it was a hit! I really hope it is not a faze (spell?) and it will grow beyond the summer.
In the computer upgrade from Friday, they did not forward all of my contacts to my new computers (one on the floor one in office) now I have t dig in to my sent stuff to retrieve emails. Which I have not done because, frankly it shouldn't be this difficult. I have yet to send the friends flyer for the flea market!
Friday I also learned distressing news of being blamed for a decision someone else made that has a direct impact on her and her family. Funny how some people can't or simply don't want to accept responsibility for their own actions. Maturity, such a slllloooww process for some folks.

Farrah Laine Fawcett & Michael Jackson died today.

Wow, it's a sober moment when two memorable stars from my youth die suddenly and all the channels on tv and radio are talking about it. I remember watching the Charlie's Angels show all the time when I was growing up. Michael Jackson's thriller dance sequence I learned at my dance school. No more Michael Jackson. No more Farrah. May you both rest in peace.

Work was yet another busy day. Toughest part of management is making the tough decisions that they (the ones affected by the decision) are not going to like. I need to get the friends flyer done and I need to start weeding the collection. And also I need to do the monthly report for May. The second week of Be Creative at your library Summer Reading program, I need to get 23 kids signed by the end of the day tomorrow. Even though I am not a children's librarian, I want to sign up 100 kids a week to Summer reading so I can give All the prizes away and have strong numbers.
Okay, I should go to bed, but it's only 20 minutes to Charlie Rose! I know I'll crochet a little, or better yet, I go have some yogurt. Good Night.

Missed the DVD List Deadline!

Yikes!  Three hundred dollars worth of DVD's that I didn't order.  I hope I can submit a late order.  Otherwise I will be so not be happy.  Yesterday, was a  full day at the branch.  I started with a storyhour at McClosky school with my pre-K pre-readers.  They are the library's future!  We are rewarding pre-readers this year with Summer Reading.  It's a great idea.  I want to come up with a surefire program that can convince a 3-4 year old that the library is the coolest place to visit often.   Yes, the library once a week.  Wouldn't that be great?

IT was in the building upgrading our computers with new 19 inch screens and new operating system Vista with spellcheck.  (The regionals don't have spellcheck for their patrons).   They installed an Express PC and they installed a new Computer in the Supervisor's office!.  

I had two librarians in addition to myself Andrea from Roxborough and Bonnie from Ogontz.  Andrea was kind enough to spruce up my shelves and Bonnie pulled out all of the summer reading list (Philadelphia public school list)  on one cart.  Yes!  Two steps to a better looking, organized branch.  I MUST build in a time daily to look at my shelves!  Look, weed, pull, what's needed.  Oi, the time, where does it go?

I worked on my plants after everyone left.  I really should have worked on the DVD list!  But I didn't.  Well at least the plants are well fed and watered.

2nd day of Summer Reading (Well Sort of)

It's actually the third day since it's 1am Wednesday morning.  I got home after work and after eating half a bowl of pasta, I fell asleep on the couch till 11pm.  Woke up and skimmed through two gardening books, one of which I really liked.  The Country garden by Charlie Ryrie.  A country garden "...there are no rules, and another huge advantage is that your garden should largely take care of itself once you have the basics sorted out.  This is where we can take cues from the earliest country gardeners who where short of time, money, and space, yet still created productive and increasingly beautiful gardens  over the centuries."  I have found my formula for my garden!   Informal, scented, functional gardens.  Functional in that vegetables are a part of them and thus feed me and hubby.  Not to mention the birdbath and bird food that is a must for all Country gardens.  She even suggested  a garbage pan lid as a substitute for a traditional birdbath.  Now that's using what you have!  Of course that is if you own a garbage can with a lid, which we don't.   The book was published 7 years ago.  She included a resource page with urls.  Definitely worth a space in my book shelf.  A look to Amazon to see if I can get a used copy.   

At midnight I watched Charlie Rose.  Wish he came on earlier.  The last half hour he had author Michael Lewis on talking about his latest book Home Again: An accidental guide to fatherhood.  Well, he sounded like a spoiled brat who grudgingly realized (or was coerced by his wife) that he had to participate in the raising of his children from day one.  Boo hoo.  Poor baby.  Oh the work and the toil.  He even admitted how he has the unique ability to avoid unpleasant tasks.  Do I hear lazy?  

Tuesday at work was a blur until the last two hours.  I had a Friends' meeting, and I have to document a conversation I had with Lyman regarding how he injured his back because of the "heavy" boxes of flea market leftovers he moved into the LEAP storage closet of which I moved (by myself with ease I might add) to the meeting room for the friends' meeting.  What a loser. 

Then the last half hour, my boss shoots an email out with pointers on balancing staff vs. sending a representative from my branch to a meeting where our Director held a meeting on budget info and a new advertising campaign for the library.   So much for showing her support and wanting to simply know what our leader has to say.  We are scheduled to have a meeting on Thursday regarding just that staffing and schedules.  Oh joy.  If only I had a staffing shortage so I don't have to go to that inevitable gripe session.  

It's time for bed.  I think.

Summer Reading Kickoff- Be Creative @ your Library!

Yesterday June 15th was our official kickoff of a Summer Long program called Be Creative @ your Library for Summer Reading.  We had hotdogs and watermellon after a wonderful performance of good old fashioned storytelling by Janice Bishop.  She had serious library fines and in lieu of paying them she gave us a performance for a our Kickoff!  How's that for being creative!  

I was not looking forward to the day, simply because I am so short staffed right now.  To top it off my LA I Teal Goodman (My only full-timer at the front desk who just put in a request to go part time last week) came in sick, stuffy nose the whole nine yards.  I said you're outta here.  I called for backup and got Velma from East Falls.  Otherwise we would have had to close, since we didn't have four people on staff.  But at the same time I knew they would send someone especially since I had a summer reading kickoff event scheduled on that day.  

Luckly Geraldine from McClosky school came by as well as Kimberly from the neighborhood stopped by, they became grillmeister and assistant respectively, yet Lyman my Municipal Guard still found it possible to disappear on my dinner break so I had to stay on the floor so their wouldn't be just one person literally on the floor.  Talk about lack of safety.  Sometimes I wonder about Lyman.  It doesn't last long, though.  

Maybe a blog for the teens would be a good activity for them to start this summer.

My first entry (Not really)

Actually is was way back in 06 0r 07 when I titled my blog librarians' lament. I never used it and thus here I am trying at blogging once again under a not so depressing title as librarians lament but Juanita's Web instead.  Thinking of all the things I enjoy doing as a web and somehow they are all connected and created by one source: moi.  I've tried writing in an old fashioned (gasp!) journal but I never last for more than a couple of days for regular entries, so let me try blogging.  Wish it was called something else.