total nerd

i'm a total nerd, it's obvious. i love to learn and take classes and always loved going shopping for new school supplies when i was younger (and older, i'm still in college). Well i needed a new magazine holder for work, i knew i wouldn't find one the same as what i have already, because they were on clearance about a year ago. so i ended up getting a plastic gray one, i really wanted a cool metal one, but it was $24 and i just couldn't justify that purchase. anyway...so i was wandering around with dylan who was begging for anything (which is kind of weird at staples) when i found the coolest thing...it's like bulk candy for office supplies!! you get a little container for $5.99 (or a larger one for $9.99) and fill it up with whatever you want, binder clips, paper clips, push pins. i got paper clips in the shape of guitars and musical notes. and i got cool binder clips too, and some push pins. dylan said he needed a binder clip (i have no idea what for, and he doesn't even know what they are) so i let him pick one out too. then i let him get a new binder, purple, and a notebook. both are for drawings and comics. i think dyl will be a bit of a nerd too, because he saw a stapler and was like "oooh! mom, you should totally get this!" and we saw a cool magnifying glass in the shape of a hippo, but really...i don't NEED one of those!!

soup

i don't think i would be bad in a supervisor's role. yesterday i had the opportunity to play supervisor for the day, well i was kind of appointed because all the supervisors were at a training thingy. i think i did well, it was funny to see some people pushing the envelope a bit while others sucked up like i was a real supervisor. it felt like halloween, all i was missing was going door to door asking strangers for candy. anyway, i think i did an ok job, although really there was no crises to fix so it was kind of a cake walk. i'm sure i'll be asked to act as supe again some time, i'm really the only one who doesn't generally leave the office so it kind of makes sense.

weekends

weekends are nice. everything i don't get done during the week i cram into those two little days where i don't have to work and dylan doesn't have to go to school. I just registered for a class, searched the best (read: cheapest) place to buy my book, went to the movies, cleaned my perfect sized apartment (anything bigger would never get totally cleaned) and finished watching season 4 of buffy and made a lot of headway in the dead witch walking book i have mentioned previously (it's actually picking up and getting somewhere...i just don't know where it's going).
Anyway, looking back it seems like a lot, and yeah a lot of it is just mindless stuff, but it's still a lot. one of the things i keep thinking as i watch the buffy series is that i can't believe i didn't watch the show while it was on tv, it's really entertaining, and Spike is one of my all time favorite vampires. so anyway...monsters vs. aliens was really cute, there were a lot of young kids there, dylan was probably one of the oldest kids in the theater and while he did get most of the jokes, i don't think many of the kids did. there was a big laugh when b.o.b shot an alien...and well it was pretty funny. we'll probably get it when it comes to dvd. Also, there was a preview for cloudy with a chance of meatballs, which actually looks kind of cute and we will probably go and see it. i think the new star trek looks good, but dyl wants to pass on it so i'll probably have to wait for that one to come to dvd too, but i think theaters is the way to go with that one and all its special effects.

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Dead Witch Walking

I recently read the twilight series, closely follwed by the Sookie Stackhouse series. Both were excellent in their own way. But I craved more of the supernatural world, what can i say? i love reading about that stuff. So I went to my scifi bookclub store and browsed around looking for another series to hold me over until the next sookie book is available (may 9th) and found these books about a witch named Rachel who hunts baddies. I thought hmmm, maybe. So then i read the reader reviews and everyone loved these books. So I thought ok, I'll give them a try and ordered the set. I's been about 3 weeks and i am still in the first book. i try to read it as often as i can, i just find myself bored with it. I keep telling myself that maybe it's just the first book, that once the author has all the back story laid out things will click and move more quickly. i really hate it when i think a book is going to be great, even good, and it falls short of my expectations. Meanwhile i have the third fablehaven book sitting and waiting to be read, a book i am sure will meet my expectations as the first two have exceeded them. i will continue to plug along until i at least finish the first book before moving into fable haven for a few days (that's right i usually finish a good book in 2-4days).