stories of a real life wonder woman

Sorry I forgot to post yesterday ya'll we were having so much fun around here that posting didn't even cross my mind until sometime in the middle of the night. So my mom has this tradition that she started after all of the Lord of the Rings movies came out that every Christmas Eve she watches all the Lord of the Rings movies. Well the movies play all day but she doesn't sit in front of the TV all day. But she watches more than the rest of us because we sort of wander in and out watching bits and pieces here and there. The stories told within this trilogy lead to a grand moment of eucatastrohpe. Which makes sense because their creator coined the term. I know I have shared about eucatastrophe before but I believe it is worth talking about often. Eucatastrophe is when a situation that has come to the point when all hope is lost suddenly and unexpectedly has a turn around right into a happy ending. It's like this - the living members of the fellowship of the ring minu...

So first I think I should maybe say yes I know I am crazy for driving in the crazy weather this weekend but sometimes you just need to be home with your family and some really great friends even if the weather is crap. Second I think I should share that life is still rather frustrating. I know that I can get frustrated easy but I also know that some of my current frustrations are valid. I will not go into detail about work frustrations because well I think that is unprofessional to do on social media and doing so won't change anything. However the other big frustration right now has to do with my dad's health/body. Now I am sure you all know about dad's accident so I don't really need to rehash that. Well his good leg (aka full leg including foot) now has some problems. More specifically his hip. He has been in so much pain he has been unable to work. Doctors in the area are thinking possibly a hip replacement but we and they are unsure about how possible that is and ...

First some fun things from the week - This week I had a student come to my desk and ask me if we had any collections other than books and how we stored them. This led to an almost hour long conversation with this student about archives. And she liked that we talked that long because she kept having more questions for me. She was working on a project for a business class about the storage of files so I went over with her some of the process that I am in the middle of. And I showed her/explained to her some of the changes that have been made in archives since I started. It was really cool to to talk to her that long and hear her say the things i did made sense to her right away. I loved that because I am trying to make things user-friendly so getting that feedback from her was amazing. And I loved that I got to talk to someone that long about something that I love to do. That definitely lifted my spirits that day. Then Friday one of the IT guys came to my desk when I was talking to o...

I had a doctor's appointment this week and it was uneventful. Well uneventful in the health way cause I health is doing pretty great and that feels good to say. So instead it was an appointment where my doctor and I just laughed basically. I got my flu shot while I was there and then got sick on the way home because I forgot that I always feel the side effects of flu shots. So then I camped out on the couch feeling sick. And well the ups and downs of that day just foreshadowed what was to come for the week ahead. I have had mixed emotions all week for multiple reasons. Here's the truth - a lady at our library retired this week and I was really happy about it. Seeing how she lied to try to get our boss in trouble and then tried to do the same thing to get me in trouble got old really quick. And I would often feel swamped during the day only to look over and see her staring off into space. Those were some rough days. So it feels good to go into work knowing I won't have...