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
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 .
