Look Who's Back!

MYK! i like this one best, but scroll down for s'more!

Myk

a little too posed

Myk

wet white...always nice

Myk

notice the strategically placed holes in his jeans.

Myk

somebody going to a cowboy funeral?

rock the cat box

i don't watch tv, so i have not seen the Rock the Cat Box commercial. i hear it is very funny but surely NOT as funny as 5 women who range in age from 24 to 58 trying to remember the REAL words to the Clash song Rock the Casbah. since i own their CDs, i think i got most of the words right but in the wrong order. we all agreed that "drop your bombs between the minarets" is not very PC. for those who care, the Lyrics are:

"Rock the Casbah"

Now the king told the boogie men

You have to let that raga drop

The oil down the desert way

Has been shakin' to the top

The sheik he drove his Cadillac

He went a' cruisnin' down the ville

The muezzin was a' standing

On the radiator grille

[Chorus]The shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah

Rock the Casbah

The shareef don't like it

Rockin' the Casbah

Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet

We ban that boogie sound

Degenerate the faithful

With that crazy Casbah sound

But the Bedouin they brought out

The electric camel drum

The local guitar picker

Got his guitar picking thumb

As soon as the shareef

Had cleared the square

They began to wail

[Chorus]

Now over at the temple

Oh! They really pack 'em in

The in crowd say it's cool

To dig this chanting thing

But as the wind changed direction

The temple band took five

The crowd caught a wiff

Of that crazy Casbah jive

[Chorus]

The king called up his jet fighters

He said you better earn your pay

Drop your bombs between the minarets

Down the Casbah way

As soon as the shareef was

Chauffeured outta there

The jet pilots tuned to

The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was

Outta their hair

The jet pilots wailed

[Chorus]

He thinks it's not kosher

Fundamentally he can't take it.

You know he really hates it.

i hate losing

had a visit today. got to leave work early on vacation time. lost at cards to MM for the third visit in a row. DAMN! i hate losing and i hate losing to HIM who gloats and grins and just makes me want to spit up! look I want to win. ME. MOI! still, he has never beat me more than three games in a row, so i am confident that i will win tomorrow. MM claims he has been winning because he pealed the alligator sticker off the jinked Stuff On My Cat (in an alligator costume) postcard...very worth the 10 bucks i paid for them...stuck it on his tv and strokes it for good luck. what a nutcase!

no wonder i got a LEG LAMP for christmas! Hino, pleeeeaaaaase borrow the LEG LAMP!

cards and flowers

well, thanks to Swampy the alligator i conned my husband into buying me for Christmas, i had won at cards an unprecedented 5 visits in a row! see, we have this thing about alligators being lucky or jinxed and Swampy was lucky for me 5 times in a row. boy, Maniac Mike did not take it well. by the fifth time, he was sure i was cheating and i had two fingers on the chopping block if he ever found out how i cheated him. but i DON'T cheat. i use Voodoo, magic, jinxes, prayers and spells, but i don't cheat.

i'm sorry to say that my luck ran out and he won the game during the last visit. he was gloating and going on and on but i told him it will be a long time until he will ever win 5 visits in a row. then he said, "i have defeated you Ricky Bobby" and i smacked him when the guards were not looking. on the hand. he deserved it!

on January third, MM sent me flowers at work for our 5th year together. they had many lillies and white roses with gold sparkles on them. very pretty!

Happy Birthday! NOT!

this week i have been wearing a cardboard and glitter tiara that reads Happy New Year! you cannot believe the number of numbnuts that wished me a Happy Birthday!! hmm...first week of January....hat has Happy in it, yes, but i do believe it is followed by New Year and NOT birthday. now WHY WHY WHY would i advertise that it was my birthday??? sheesh!

Dr Khan

i should mention that Dr Khan came into the library the other day and i got the chance to thank him for the Vicodin and show him my tooth so he would not think i was some Vicodin craving junky. he said that i was very welcome and he was glad i was better. then he introduced me to his very nice and very pretty wife (who had a large Louis Vitton bag) and he signed on a computer for a moment and checked out some films. see. there are good and caring doctors out there!

where's Marlon?

we have several extremely annoying old lady patrons. some are hapless and helpless. a particularly pathetic and mean one came in today. she borrowed The Godfather II on videocassettes. it was a long move, thus a 2 parter with 2 videos banded together with an elastic (rubber band to you non-New Englanders). she returned the movie to me and grouchily commented that this was the wrong movie because Marlon Brando was not in it.

Grouch: "this isn't The Godfather. Marlon Brando was not in it."

Me: "right. this is the sequel...the second Godfather movie. there are 3 different movies."

G: "well, this can't be it because Marlon Brando was not in it. i already TOLD you that!"

M: "well, Marlon Brando ISN'T in this movie because it is the second film that's why its called Godfather II."

G: "i watched both the tapes and both tapes had the exact same movie on them."

M: "ummmm...actually, that can't be because i see they are Part 1 and Part 2. Part 2 would be the continuation (i know...don't use big words with these people. it just confuses them even more) of Part 1."

G: "LISTEN! i SAID both videos have the exact SAME MOVIE!!"

M: jesus, Mary and joseph! "well, no one has ever mentioned that in the many years we've owned the video."

G: "well I'M mentioning it! it's the same movie and it is NOT The Godfather because Marlon Brando is NOT in it!!!" hemorage already, lady and leave me in peace!

M: "fine" and i walk away.

when she went around the corner, i said rather loudly, "i'm going in the back and i'm watching this movie!!" so, i popped in the first vid and scanned through the promos and got to the start of the film. yep. it's the beginning of Godfather II for sure. then i pop in the second vid and see that it is the continuation of part 1. SWEET! i proved the mean old nasty half dead bitch wrong! YAHOO! so, i went back out to the desk and said, rather loudly, "well, the movie is fine and as it should be."

my coworker believes the bitch put in the first film twice and thought she had put in 1 and then 2 but only ever watched Part 1 TWICE.

then, as i was cleaning up for closing, i found a small packet that was a lanolin wipe for breastfeeding mothers. YUCK!!! it was packaged like a wipey and i can only picture one of our fat, ugly, lactating leeches wiping her leaky boob with this in our bathroom and then stopping at the desk to check out, handing us her card with her unwashed hand!! BLECH! luckily, the package was unopened, so we put it in a DVD case of another coworker to find when she checks out her DVD and takes it home. heh heh. we are EVIL!

has it been THAT long?

well, i had bronchitis for a while and then i pulled a chest muscle from coughing and the wednesday night before Christmas one of my broken teeth began to hurt like bloody hell. the next morning i went to the dentist and found that i had an abscess and quite an infection. this was with Dr Dominga, not my regular dentist. he prescribed me antibiotics, but after reading my hastily scrawled list of medications, said he would not give me pain pills. narcotics. nada. i told him i already took a Tylenol with Codeine from my mom which did SHIT and just how was i supposed to LIVE with the massive pain in my head? the asshole was too "cautious" to prescribe me anything and told me to either a) go to the emergency room (for 100 bucks, wait hours to get WHAT precisely?) or b) call my own doctor. i asked HIM to call my doctor. i could barely talk, let alone THINK straight. nope. so, when i got home, i called Dr Khan, who handles the fibro and BEGGGED him for something for the tooth pain explaining that i had taken EVERYTHING (literally, every type of medication i had) and nothing worked. so, he gave me 15 Vicodins . so, with those and some old Ativans i had left over, i finally slept. the next day, the pills did not work as well and after about 6 Vicodins, they just started making me nauseaus. i guess the combo of no food, pain, pills and antibiotics is a good for losing weight because i have dropped one full size since the start of december. YEAH!!!!!

we shall not discuss Christmas, the New Year or the fact that, come January 2nd, i will have to work 3 more hours a week. we WILL mention the massive retro pay i received on the 22nd (well, not MASSIVE, but nice).

WE WILL NEVER SPEAK OF THE LEG LAMP AGAIN!

i must mention that the weekend weather girl for WJAR has moved on up to Boston which has totally thrown my husband for a loop. if he isn't talking about Dale Jr he is talking about Dylan Dreyer and her hot skirts and tight sweaters.

i must also mention that i have beaten my husband at cards 3 visits in a row and he isn't happy. and if he says, "i will defeat you Ricky Bobby" to me one more time, i will HURT him!

otherwise, my root canal was begun wednesday but i'm still infected so we only went so far. my dentist is Dr Sanciago and he is very nice and never hurts me. i asked him to give me as much novacaine as he could without actually killing me and he said, "shoot her up!" i wish i could say my tooth no longer hurts, but it is sore and tastes awful and the infection is hurting my jawline. next visit is tuesday.

so, that has really been all there has been for the past 20-something days. lots of pain but atleast i lost the weight!

Eye Candy

just a little eye candy. i've moved on from Patrick Stewart to Dirk Benedict. i guess i'm in a cowboy phase.

jinxed alligator card works!

out of 9 games, i won handily 5-1. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

doctor said i have most likely pulled a muscle on/off/near my chest wall from coughing and that has been what has been hurting me. in case it is something more, he ordered a chest x-ray which i must somehow fit in tomorrow (hopefully) and prescribed Albueterol (sp?) syrup. he didn't tell me when it would STOP hurting but it better be damn soon.

Hot or Not

nice smile, nice blue eyes AND he wears a seatbelt!

What is a Yankee?

Maniac Mike and i have had this ongoing argument over who can be officially called "a Yankee" (and we aren't talking about the baseball team). he was born in Ohio. i have insisted that only New Englanders can be called Yankees. he insists that any state that fought on the side of the Union can be called Yankee. am i wrong or is he?????

jinxed alligators, orange slips and doctors

Maniac Mike started this thing: he sent me a picture of a 'lucky alligator' he found in the paper. he said it was lucky because he took it down to the tables to play cards and always won. so, silly him, he sent it to me and i started beating him at cards. so, he put a protection spell around himself and i began losing again, so i sent him a picture of my own of a jinxed alligator and i started winning again. so, he unhexed it an put the jinx on me and i started losing again. today, he received an alligator postcard from me with a double jinx on it and he started losing at cards with his prison buddy. wow! the jinx was only meant to help ME out, not ruin his luck with others. so, tomorrow, we shall see if i can beat him at cards. he has won 3 times in a row now.

i will be late for our visit tomorrow because i have to see the doctor after work. i have pain under, over and around my right breast....sometimes it feels like it is under the chest wall, and always, my lymph nodes hurt like hell. i saw my anemia doc today and i am doing fine on the iron. he said i can stop taking it in 3 weeks but i will not stop. no way. he said i should be feeling really peppy...HAHAHAHAHA! it is hard for some specialists who only treat ONE SMALL THING to see the big picture which is constant pain and fatigue NO MATTER WHAT! like a little iron is gonna help me out.

we started using orange slips at the library again. we date them now and put them in each book to be shelved. our books have been missing or found in weird areas and we thought maybe Waverly was the culprit. nope. it's our new page. she must be dyslexic because we have been finding books with call numbers like 627.3 in the 672's. a LOT of them like that. also, in fiction, we have the BER's mixed up with the BRE's. i still say the pages need a LOT more training than they get but, then again, so does the new circ staff.

Waverly spends an inordinate amount of time IN MY WAY as i am trying to work my ass off. today was particularly bad. he tries really hard but i think he is a little lost on what to do and when to do it. like, we will have a truck full of books, a binfull of items to check-in, holds to process and he will announce that he will go shelve the DVDs. no way Jose. that ain't gonna fly. it is NOT because he is lazy: he isn't lazy AT ALL. it's because, in my opinion, he gets overloaded and can't sort out what to do next. it is overwhelming to work at circ when we are doing so many jobs at once, so i can't blame him, but he HAS to learn to get outta my way or i am gonna MOW HIM DOWN. that's just the way i am while working at top speed.

Hino fixed my printer. it was jammed. seemed i dropped a Tylenol in it. or, maybe it had a headache and swallowed one itself. who knows?

where have all my presents gone?

my husband bought me a digital camera for last christmas and Hino borrowed it to take pics to sell stuff on Ebay. my husband bought me an air conditioner in august so i wouldn't sweat, and now Hino has borrowed that, too. let us hope my husband does not send me a present from Victoria's Secret this year. HEH HEH! that would be funny!

Hot or Not

what's a Wombo?

tape flufferer

before i went to work today, i stopped at Job Lot and bought 4 rolls of clear, wide tape at a buck apiece so that we would not run out at the desk. i told my circhead that i bought the rolls for CIRC only because, sooner or later, another department is going to run out of tape and come looking at circ for some. she said that she wouldn't let it out of her sight.

i also had to explain to her who a Fluffer was. she used the word 'flufferer' to describe something and i laughed and asked her if she knew what a Fluffer was. no, but Waverly did, so i whispered it in her ear. she thought it was funny. she also had a call which she thought was a crank. a man called up and said he could not remember the title of the book he placed on hold, and could she tell him. the book was The Sex Starved Marriage. how in the heck could you forget a title like that? so, she thinks it was someone getting his jollies. i just think he was an idiot and the reason why his marriage is sex starved is because he never thinks of having actual sex...he just reads about not having sex.

i had the most God awful pain in my right side today. it felt like a gallbladder attack, but on the wrong side and it radiated down my arm and up into my ear. i have trouble with my spleen becoming enlarged, so that might be it. i feel somewhat better now, but i think sleeping might be tough tonight as it was last night. the pain may also have something to do with eating a pint of Cherry Garcia ice cream.

Hino REALLY has to let us know what he wants for christmas. how about a Visa gift card???? and we will have to go shopping soon. i am hoping he has an idea of what everyone else wants because i have no clue.

i hate christmas. can't we just have Halloween again?