Thanksgiving and Winter Break Goals

The night before thanksgiving I talked my new friends Dani and Tricia to going to Manja to play foosball.  We had a BLAST!  Dani and I met in class.  We had a group paper, and Dani really kept us all on track AND was the BEST editor ever!!!

Manja's bathroom had some cool signs

Thanksgiving was great.  It was KW, Dom, Mitch, and Mitch's Mom, Dad and Brother.  Everyone brought lots of food.

The 4 mile drive home after dinner was TERRIFYING!  The ground was clear when I came to thanksgiving and within 3 hours there was at least 2 inches of snow on the ground.  I tried to take a selfie when I got home, but it didn't turn out great.

Here's a better picture of how bad it was coming down

The semester is FINALLY over!  I have huge plans for the month off.  I'll still be working part time at the OPL, and will start my internship a bit early at Strongsville, but when I'm not working/interning, my goals are:

1.  Complete Homemade Christmas Presents

2.  Complete Assassins Creed 2 (maybe start 3?)

3.  Read at least 4 books

4.  Watch (at least) two seasons of Dexter

I am SO excited for this well deserved break from school.  I'll be going home for Christmas.  I'm really excited to have a Christmas with my little nieces and nephews!!!

Bucket List

Hopefully I'll be coming back to this to update it as life changes:

Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
Go see a Broadway play
Take a vacation out of the country
Go to Burning Man
Try crab legs (Done! 1/2011)
Snowmobiling
4-wheeling
Learn to ride a motorcycle (Done! 5/8/2011)
Get a kiss under mistletoe
Learn archery
Go canoeing...I've been, but I want to go again sometime soon
Ride in a hot air balloon
Go crabbing
Go on a helicopter ride
Ride a mechanical bull
See Stonehenge, United Kingdom
The Louvre in Paris, France
Go to the Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas
Visit Ireland
Watch a meteor shower (Done! 5/24/2014 Camelopardalids at observation park)
Go on a Cruise
Receive flowers for no reason (Done 3/3/13)
build a house out of sugar cube
Do volunteer work for at least a month
Watch the movies Casa Blanca and Gone with the Wind.
Climb a water tower

Halloween, Hair Dye and So Much More!

This blog has been one of those "I'll get to it later" kind of things.  I have so many pictures now, that if I don't blog today I may not get it done till Christmas!  My excuse for laziness is school. I'm down to the last two weeks of this semester!!!

For Halloween I dressed up as the queen of hearts.  I spent a few days trying on different styles of makeup:

The final winner was:

Now lets play who wore it better?  Brother Joel circa 2011 or Jnet circa 2014?

I honestly think it's a tie!  I have a great group of coworkers who also dressed up for Halloween!  My boss, Marleen wore a renaissance outfit,

While Lee, our childrens librarian dressed as Gandolf (yup, that beard is 100% real!!)

After work, I went over to hang out with Mitch, Dom and KW.  Mitch felt bad that I was the only one in the group dressed up, so, she dressed up using kitty play places.  It was the most amazing costume EVER!!

When I finally got home, I nung up my dress in the guest bedroom.  I stayed there for a few weeks, and every time I would walk by I thought slenderman was in my bedroom.  So scary!

Every 4-6 weeks I have to redye my hair to keep the roots from showing.  I picked Herbal Essances Black Hair dye for this round of coloring.  It.  Was. Amazing!!!  While it was on, it smelled great,; as I conditioned my hair, it smelled great, and for days after my hair smelled great!!

The only problem was user error...I got some hair dye on my glasses, and while cleaning it off, I managed to splatter my toilet seat, so I now have a bespeckled toilet seat:

Over the last month, I was lucky enough to hang out with a lot of friends.  I had brunch with amber (but forgot to take a picture), dinner with Manders

and I met up with a new friend from school Dani.  While I didn't get a picture with Dani, I did get a picture of the coolest thing I saw while hanging out!

Some random things happened, like I finished my first bottle of multivitamins that mom and dad had given me for Christmas!

I threw my back out, and have been sleeping on the floor for the past week :(

I saw an awesome clock at the Westlake Porter Public Library

It snowed!!

And finally, I HAVE BANGS!!!!  This is the first time in my adult life I've ever had bangs!

That's it!  Thanks for reading!  Again, the next blog will be at least 2 weeks out as I have 2 weeks left in the semester, but then hopefully I'll have some free time to update this blog more freely.  Happy almost thanksgiving!!

My Mom Visit!!

Happy October!  I went a month between blogging because my week is usually Work, School, Sleep, Eat, Repeat.  Not much to blog about lol.

Some highlights of the past month.  I tried a new wine called Bin 50 with Mitch.  Turns out I'm not a huge fan of wine.

While we were hanging out, I saw Mitch's most recent crochet project.  Do you know how hard it is to crochet something with a diagonal?  Pretty tough.  Mitch is my new crochet hero!!

Later in the month I had a Dr. appointment and had some blood drawn.  Turns out I don't have veins.  They poked me twice in upper right arm, once in the mid left forearm before they finally found blood in my hand.

Mom scheduled to come visit from 10/24 thru 10/26.  This means it's time to scrub the condo clean!!  It's nice to have a reason to deep clean.  The main things that really need a solid scrubbing were the sink:

toilet:

and the worst culprit, the tub:

The instant mom got here we did what I do best, take a selfie (you can totally see where I get my good looks from <3 ):

When we woke up on Saturday we went on a library crawl, 7 libraries in 6 hours!  Fair warning, as mom is a childrens librarian, a lot of the pictures are from the kids rooms in the various libraries.

We started by visiting the BEST library, Oberlin Public Library.  It was nice to show mom where I work, my displays (http://opldisplays.blogspot.com/) and my AWESOME coworkers!

Next up was the Strongsville library, where I will be doing my MLIS internship in January.  It was a a cute library with dollhouses

and cute signs in the kids room

We then drove north to the Lakewood public library.  Whoever drew the advertising on the white board had some mad skillz!

The Lakewood library childrens room had some weird murals.  They were kinda formal and stiff for a kids area:

Next up on our crawl was the Rocky River Library.  It was a BEAUTIFUL library, with huge windows,

benches almost too pretty to sit on,

chandeliers,

and even a fireplace!!

We took a quick detour from our library tour to pick up my new glasses.  While I like them, they're going to be my backup glasses as I like my regular glasses better.

Mom and I made our way over to the Westlake Porter public library, where I was a substitute librarian for a few months.  It's another really beautiful, open, airy library with inspirational quotes,

and giant maps:

Our second to last library was the North Olmsted library.  I spend most days here when not at work.  This is my second home and a great place to do school work!  Mom and I took a quick chill break on the benches outside the North Olmsted library.

Our last library on the crawl was Vermillion's Ritter Public Library.  It's a green library that has actually won awards.  They have signs all around the library explaining how it helps the environment.

The inside of the Ritter Public library was no less impressive.  The kids room had a chandelier

and a BOAT!!

The teens room had this display which made me giggle:

The local history room had another gorgeous dollhouse:

The second floor of the Ritter library had a special vegetative roof

and a fireplace!!!

Over all it was an AMAZING time!  It was really neat to visit all of the unique libraries that Cleveland-westside has to offer.  We barely even touched on all of the awesome libraries Ohio has to offer.  I guess mom's going to have to come out and do another library crawl with me again.

No big plans for the next few weeks other than trying to survive school and work.  It may be another month before another blog.  Thank you for your patience my wonderfully faithful readers <3 .