well read

The reference librarian inside me covets these bookish necklaces by The Blackspot Books. Not exactly in my price range, but a girl can dream can’t she?

via NOTCOT

let me unwrap that for you

I have a little admirer named Michael who visits me at the Children’s Information desk at the library every week. Sometimes he even brings gifts. In the summer he’ll bring bouquets of dandelions, and in the autumn he’ll bring me choice selections of fallen leaves picked up along his walk to the library.

Last week he filled up a bottle cap with a quarter, two dimes, three pennies, and three Goldfish crackers. I asked him if he was sure that he wanted to give me his money, and his mother answered for him,  ”He wants you to be rich”.

This week, four year old Michael brought me a sucker, he ran over and set it on my desk and then came back and said, “Let me open that for you.” Four year old ladies better watch out, this kid is smooth.

paper, rock, scissors

i think i have carpal tunnel from preparing crafts for winter diversions at the library

3 things I did, that I now know better than to do again.

So Tuesday was my big Halloween get down at the library, the one that I so sensitively advertised as a “Masquerade Party” so that even families that shun the more obvious pagan rituals could come too. I decided to dress up like Pippi Longstocking, who I am constantly being compared to anyways. I mean, all I had to do was put some pipe cleaners in my braids, and POW! instant spunky storybook heroine. I wore this super fantastic 70′s flowy pantsuit jumper thing, with a really cool red & white stripey shirt underneath. You can’t see the patch, but it’s all molars and rainbows in perfect harmony. The stripey shirt was acquired from the merch table of this band Neon Hunk, who look like their stylist could be some hypercolored freak on walrus Ritalin. I’m not sure if they still “exist” or even really where they were from, but I saw them play a few times, and mostly remember that they were super cute. Except that you couldn’t tell that they were on the pretty side because they wore these full out costumes. For some reason, I really like when attractive people wear masks.