turkey day memory that helped me become a librarian...

I feel like I've posted this memory before but I'm gonna post it again because who the heck besides me gets bored enough to go read my past entries????

So, one of my strongest Thanksgiving Day memories to date is, oddly enough, not about the big meal or family goofiness. It was back in 1995...we had eaten around 4-5 and now it was getting to be 7-8 so I wanted more food. I made myself a turkey sandwich, slathered in delicious mayo, a bit of salt and pepper...anyway, I took my tryptophan filled feast downstairs to where the TV was while all the adults talked it away upstairs. I settled in front of the set and started flipping through in hopes of finding something to amuse me...and I stumbled upon a rerun of the 'Beatles Anthology'. Too lazy to keep flipping (I wanted to get down to eating!) I left it on there but was quickly sucked in to the story of the Fab Four.

That was the day my Beatles obsession started.

The day that led me to go to the library on a regular basis, searching for music CDs and books about these 4 guys who changed the face of history. It led to me actually *talking* to the librarians at the Maryland City Branch and asking for help finding books. Which led me to the discovering the joys of Inter-Library Loan - ah, the day they had a book sent from CALIFORNIA just for little old me...it planted the seeds of "hey, this job seems cool".

And, of course, they asked me if I wanted to work there while I was in high school and so began my journey as a library employee...

and if I hadn't sat down that evening and been more interested in my sandwich than what channel I stopped on...who knows what I would be doing today!

:)

iTunes meme

Type these words into the search bar on your iTunes and list the first song that appears in the results.

(I am ordering my iTunes by play count to reflect what I actually listen to vs random cds I have ripped over the years...mostly worked)

happy: merry happy - kate nash
love: dominos - the big pink
hate: kate - ben folds five (I don't know WHY this came up in the search?!!?)
light: in your light - gotye
dark: dark paradise - lana del rey
good: sweetest goodbye - maroon 5
bad: bad things - jace everett
smile: sarah smiles - panic! at the disco
cry: one day, robots will cry - cobra starship
girl: lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - panic! at the disco
boy: breakable - ingrid michaelson
sad: camisado - panic! at the disco
lost: center of attention - guster
night: let's kill tonight - panic! at the disco
day: I was made for sunny days - weepies
wolf: lisztomania - phoenix
robot: i am not a robot - marina and the diamonds
dance: tiny dancer - elton john
time: little of your time - maroon 5
life: hanging by a moment - lifehouse
death: summer skin - death cab for cutie

And now time for bed because I work tomorrow. Have a feeling the library will be DEAD because everyone thinks we are closed...or it will be nuts because we are between home and Kohls...either way, sleep would be good.

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