Surprise!

OK. I'm going to do this because I enjoyed it during the 24 things. NOW it is not a chore, it is a luxury and you know how those things go on the list of things that actually get done. This coming from a person who can waste a ton of time on free cell. It is my day off, the cat is curled in front of the computer and the house is warming up from the overnight heat shutdown. I bought a Kitchen Aid stand mixer at Lowe's last week and as soon as the hour is decent for turning it on, I'm going up to start on making some yeast bread. I have made bread before on several occasions with enough time between them to forget how much physical work it is to knead that dough. Those pioneer women must have been tough to do that every time they needed a loaf of bread. Now the mixer will do the hard part. I'm also taking a KYVL class on library technical stuff. We got to cataloging this past week. I got the AACL2 book out to read the first two chapters. OMG. Fortunately the instructor has a paper to go along with it that actually makes it somewhat understandable. Understandable...whether I remember it long enough to do any good is still up in the air. I went to the library's valentine party last night. It was upstairs and I didn't get up there until it was almost over so I didn't get to see how crowded it was but what I saw was a lot more pleasant than the times I have seen in the basement. I think the setting makes a big difference. Can't wait for the new building. Stephanie and Anne seemed like they were happy with the results. Catherine's quilling was a surprise. There were a lot of cute things she had patterns for. It seemed like a sweet little thing to do and the mom and daughter I talked to were quite taken with it. Is there anything other than library stuff I can talk about...I have a bunch of music on my MP3 player. I keep finding new stuff I forgot about and go back and download more. My credit card bill is going to be a big surprise this month. It feels like a lot but when you think about it, how much can it be? Less than a dollar a song and maybe 2 or3 every other day or so...maybe average out to one a day. That's 30 bucks. Wow. Two teens at the library game night the other night had their laptops with them and had their music library's up. One would play a song for 30 seconds and the other one would bust in with "You gotta hear this" and start up another. They were very polite to each other about it and it was an education for me. I pretty much stay with music I know and love...which is what I listened to in my teens, twenties and thirties....some forties. I'm sure they will consider Marilyn Manson the same way I do Simon & Garfunkle or The Doors when they get to my age. The one boy teen was doing the head banging thing...I was thinking "you are going to give yourself a headache" while watching him. Times change. Guess I'm going to get off my fat behind and get something done. Somebody else write something.