Flowers for the weary!

Mark knew I was sad from the gloomy days so these appeared in my bathroom last week! What a man, what a very good man!

Google Docs

Google Docs are cool! This is a terrific way to give patrons & librarians more options! a) leading patrons to this resource at our Internet stations will be great! b) I could post documents on line for my board members especially when I am asking them to revise/edit a piece. I am definitely stoked about the possibilities. Highly distractable as I am, I "ate dessert first" and got up to level 6 in excit. I feel like I have a new lease on life! I've been playing more games this year (on-line) than I ever did as a teenager! Ha! (Facebook is nutty!) Okay, here is a document I've been practicing with.

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So, I now have Windows Live Messenger and that was easy enough to set up--and it is fun to find out others are on-line at the same time that you are! I have set up a Meebo account and a widget on this blog. That was easy, too. I am rethinking my "control" issue vented in the previous post. I see there is control here, too. If you are offline you just catch up later when you are online. That is a good way for me to set up boundaries for myself that I feel necessary for sanity! I like to chunk similar tasks together and do all my on line work in a set amount of designated time. It is too simple to become addicted to this medium! I have to watch it!

Project Play is Back!--Instant Messaging

Yeah, this is cool and fun but I don't think this is my thing, personally. I am discovering about myself that I like time delays! I like time to think things through. I embrace voice mail & texting & e.mail because they give me the control of responding when I feel like it. I am already totally distracted when a phone rings or that little window flashes up saying that I have e.mail. It's worse now because the e.mail itself actually is open as it flashes up! Sometimes I have to close e.mail or I would be off on tangents all day. (I guess I'm saying that e.mail and instant messaging are almost the same in my mind) I'm not very disciplined so it takes all my willpower to stick with my to-do list! However, the times when I think it would be beneficial for the library: A) As described, for doing reference work--yes, perfect. B)If I was working on a project with a friend elsewhere and I didn't want to commandeer the phone (which I hate doing at our library because we only have one line) I think IMing would be effective. Similar to a conference call from the past? Are there are others of you out there who feel as bombarded by information and requests as I do? Sometimes I feel completely overstimulated!

Great job, Colette, on this bulletin board for our library that celebrates the 50th anniversary of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".

Holiday Book Challenge

Do you know the titles and authors of these Holiday Books?

_____A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

_____Grumpy Luther Krank and his sweeter wife, Nora, decide to forgo the gifts, the tree, the decorations, the cards, and the parties this Christmas and spend the dollars saved on a 10-day Caribbean cruise.

_____This is a famous American poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

_____This character was created by a gentleman in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward.

_____A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

_____This book is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year! The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy this grumpy character to no end!

_____When Oswald T. Campbell's doctor orders him to head to the warm South for his health, a chance phone call finds him a room in Lost River, Alabama. In the course of a year there, he has adventures both absurd and touching.

_____The one tall tree has provided smaller Christmas trees for seven homes, from the main character’s mansion, where he dozes contentedly in his parlor, to the cozy mouse hole behind his chair, where three little mice dance around their tiny tree.

_____The Herdmans are absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie and steal and smoke cigars. So no one is prepared when they invade church one Sunday and decide to take over the annual Nativity play.

_____The minister of Harmony throws the town into a tizzy when he is absent from home one night a week making excuses. At first his wife thinks he's having an affair but then a chance comment has the inhabitants thinking this man is very ill and going for treatments at this time. What he is doing is attending a class to make a special Christmas present for his wife.

Advice From A Snowman

Be a jolly happy soul.
Spend time outdoors--stay cool.
It's okay to be a little bottom heavy. :)
Avoid meltdowns.
Be well-rounded.
Live well--life is so short.