tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19171379494790953232012-01-27T16:53:29.811-06:00The art of life......is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~Kakuzo OkakuraCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125blogspot/beatlejuice64http://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-23234429066092931912012-01-05T23:29:00.002-06:002012-01-05T23:36:51.513-06:002012-01-05T23:36:51.513-06:00On LibrarianshipThe last couple months have been super busy! I worked a lot--that's not really a new thing, but I had other stuff going on so it seemed like more than usual. I did some traveling--visited Agatha in South Carolina in November, visited Colin in Lake Forest over New Year's (both very fun and relaxing vacations). And Kristine and I started the "Unofficial Library Movie Club," so I've been going to Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-44402768931745065792012-01-04T00:56:00.002-06:002012-01-04T01:03:53.422-06:002012-01-04T01:03:53.422-06:002011: The Year in Review1. Where did you begin 2011?
At Zack Stickrod's in Stillwater
2. Did you have a New Year’s Resolution?
1. give up all non-chocolate candy; 2. do some kind of physical activity at least 3 days a week
3. What was your status on Valentine's Day?
single
4. What did you do for St. Patty's Day in 2011?
Six Flags Over Texas with Heather
5. Did you play an April Fool's joke on anyone Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-3423314432974136802011-11-24T01:18:00.001-06:002011-11-24T01:58:29.716-06:002011-11-24T01:58:29.716-06:00I am thankful for...Having Colin as my best friend and boyfriend.
My job at ZooFriends and my awesome coworkers there, all of whom I consider friends.
My job at the library, and my coworkers/friends there.
The library, with all the free books, DVDs, CDs, and information it offers.
My dad, who lets me live at his house and is a great roommate.
My mom, who takes me on cool vacations, like Disney World.
My sisterCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-56756004581285781022011-11-12T00:27:00.001-06:002011-11-12T03:20:42.948-06:002011-11-12T03:20:42.948-06:00And the Academy Award for Best Costume Design goes to...I just got back from seeing Anonymous at AMC. It's extrapolates on the theory that William Shakespeare didn't actually write his plays, that he was a frontman cover-up for the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. It's an interesting idea. I recently borrowed from the library a documentary about the whole thing called The Shakespeare Conspiracy, which I thought was quite fascinating, and I find I'm Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-51654152245840036622011-10-16T22:53:00.000-05:002011-10-16T22:53:39.011-05:002011-10-16T22:53:39.011-05:00Sometimes I feel as though I never get to see my family.
My cousins Melinda and Sid are moving to Seattle soon, so they had a little going away party for family today at my sister Melissa's house. It started at 1 and I was scheduled to work at the zoo 'till 5, so I figured I probably wouldn't make it, 'cause they'd all be gone by 5:30. I actually managed to get off work early, though, and I arrived at Melissa's at about 4... just as everyone who Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-30092329959316569002011-09-12T23:38:00.001-05:002011-09-12T23:45:55.506-05:002011-09-12T23:45:55.506-05:00I Heart ZooFriendsLast Friday I had my 6 month work review for ZooFriends, and it went really well. It was nice to get a confirmation that I'm doing a good job. We did talk about things I needed to improve on, as well, but many of them are things that I'm already working on anyway. One thing that will be harder for me to do is speak less in the style of "Yeah" and "Uh-huh" and more like "Yes, ma'am" and "Of courseCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-44233995731653048142011-09-12T01:12:00.000-05:002011-09-12T01:15:28.270-05:002011-09-12T01:15:28.270-05:00The Guard and the Wrong GuyA couple weeks ago I went to see The Guard with Kristine, a library coworker. It's an independent Irish film starring Brenden Gleeson and Don Cheedle, and I loved it! It's very typical Irish dark humor (hilarious!), and the acting, of course, is brilliant (my favorite baddie, Mark Strong, is in it too!). It's nice to see a non-Hollywood, non-American film every once in a while to keep me from Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-77928287296114205482011-08-31T16:48:00.001-05:002011-08-31T16:48:38.247-05:002011-08-31T16:48:38.247-05:00The internet and stuffOur internet has been having problems this week, so I've been having to go to cafes to get online. Right now I'm at Panera. Kind of annoying, but also nice in some ways. I've been going through my clothes as well as my books to give away all the stuff I don't want. And I've been reading a bit more. I just read this book I picked up at the library called A Guide to Quality, Taste, and Style by TimCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-36504495280213989682011-08-26T14:11:00.000-05:002011-08-26T14:11:18.550-05:002011-08-26T14:11:18.550-05:00Say no to hateI drove up to Tulsa yesterday, I'm sitting in Colin's apartment on TU's campus now, and I just realized that for the first time in 2 years, I don't hate school. I hated it during my senior year--I could hardly wait to be finished. I hated it the year after that, remembering how "awful" it was the previous year. But now that I'm a little more removed from experience, I no longer have such negativeCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-81430957799778236302011-08-18T21:57:00.002-05:002011-08-20T08:37:13.176-05:002011-08-20T08:37:13.176-05:00Alphabet DateOn Tuesday, Colin and I decided to go on an "Alphabet Date." This consists of choosing a letter from the alphabet, and then everything you do has to start with that letter. We chose "P," and I decided to take Photos of everything we did. First, we read a bit of Poetry. I read some that I'd written, and we also read some together from the collection Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices.
(The poems Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-26798627263002480992011-08-12T23:46:00.000-05:002011-08-12T23:46:19.447-05:002011-08-12T23:46:19.447-05:00End of summer cleaningToday has been a really nice day off. I got a lot of things done I needed to do--buy a gift for Grandmother, buy groceries, check out Vintage Stock, pay my speeding ticket online... So I've been really productive, which feels nice.
This evening, though, is has been super awesome. I decided that I'm going to go through all my stuff again and get rid of stuff I don't need or want, and repack theCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-41814835194366857402011-08-12T15:37:00.000-05:002011-08-12T15:37:16.709-05:002011-08-12T15:37:16.709-05:00Dear GrandmotherAs a birthday gift to my grandmother (on my dad's side) this year, I decided to get her a journal, blank except for a letter from me at the front. This is that letter:
Dear Grandmother,
This journal is for you to write down whatever you want: stories from your life, stories you've been told, little bits of wisdom you've learned, small things you notice, advice about anything, etc. Feel free toCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-25510616897555430492011-08-09T18:30:00.001-05:002011-08-09T21:18:42.315-05:002011-08-09T21:18:42.315-05:00Books, backstories, bowlingI decided to get a 2-month free trial membership to Barnes & Noble. Not sure if I'll end up keeping it, but it's not that much--just $25 a year, and I do tend to buy a lot of books as gifts (and a few for myself). My first purchase was A Game of Thrones, the first book of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. I ordered it online and just got it today... and it was damaged. If it was Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-41713368185434452482011-08-03T22:49:00.001-05:002011-08-03T23:00:43.304-05:002011-08-03T23:00:43.304-05:00My arms hurt.That workout video I tried yesterday must have worked, 'cause I've been pretty sore all day. I think I'll keep it up for a couple weeks 'till I can remember the exercises and then do my own thing from there. I checked out another video from the library today, too. It's a yoga one. I might try that tomorrow.
So this weekend is Oklahoma's tax free weekend--Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I want to Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-25029259411694463882011-08-02T21:44:00.001-05:002011-08-02T21:47:46.789-05:002011-08-02T21:47:46.789-05:00Yay for exercise videos that aren't obnoxious!Yesterday Melissa came to Edmond and we went to see Crazy, Stupid, Love. I loved it! I loved the characters, especially Steve Carrell's and Emma Stone's, and JOSH GROBAN had a small role, too! Ha! I did not expect that. He was really funny! The whole movie was. The climax reminded me of a Shakespeare comedy, the way everything was drawn together with secrets exposed in a flurry of confusion. It'sCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-79188472485191476602011-08-01T12:02:00.002-05:002011-08-09T21:19:24.489-05:002011-08-09T21:19:24.489-05:00It's been a pretty busy weekend.On Thursday, aunt Nancy came to Edmond on her way down to Abilene. She, my dad, and I went to Old Chicago for dinner (yummy), then went back to my dad's and watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 'cause Nancy had it with her and Dad still hadn't seen it. It was a nice, though short, visit.
Then that night, I went to see Cowboys & Aliens at midnight with Aleithia and Christiana. It Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-69451020804964478142011-07-31T10:00:00.003-05:002011-08-12T15:40:33.960-05:002011-08-12T15:40:33.960-05:00Thank you letter to KrystalAt the ZooFriends office, each of us was assigned to write a thank you letter to one of our coworkers. Here's mine:
Krystal,
Thank you for being an awesome coworker! You are super nice to everyone, and you're a great team player. If one of us is busy doing something you don't hesitate to help out when customers come in or a line starts forming. I also remember you being a HUGE help to me when ICaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-79019419398616129822011-07-25T20:35:00.006-05:002011-07-25T20:48:10.558-05:002011-07-25T20:48:10.558-05:00I'm ready for fall.Just one more week of July and then it's August. Yay! Then just 2 weeks of August and Colin is here in Edmond for a week. Yay! He and I had a good talk on the phone today for about an hour. We talk pretty much every day, but sometimes it's only for 10 minutes, and sometimes we don't have much to say (and sometimes it's a little less than pleasant :P). But today's chat was a good amount of time Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-47567038500388672352011-07-23T22:37:00.007-05:002011-07-26T00:19:16.664-05:002011-07-26T00:19:16.664-05:00Planning ahead. It's what I do.Today at the ZooFriends office, Steve and I talked at some length about Halloween costumes. At dinner last night, Ally had mentioned the Halloween party that she and David throw each year, and we sort of (maybe officially?) decided that the theme this year would be "villains." I like it, especially since it fits what Colin wants to be--the bad guy from Commando. Ally said she would be Bellatrix Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-46873049788862967492011-07-22T20:33:00.000-05:002011-07-22T20:33:36.925-05:002011-07-22T20:33:36.925-05:00Free stuff!Since Melinda and Sid are moving soon, they're getting rid of a lot of their stuff, but they're letting people they know have a look through everything before giving it to Goodwill. I went over there this afternoon and came home with quite a lot!
I got quite a few books, some that are classics I've been planning to read, some that just looked interesting. I got the 3 Lord of the Rings theatricalCaseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-25652496445313494532011-07-21T01:10:00.008-05:002011-07-22T21:51:20.264-05:002011-07-22T21:51:20.264-05:00Did a lot of stuff today!So this morning I slept in really late 'cause I was having a really interesting dream. It was about Harry Potter. It had Harry Potter characters in it, including Harry, Ron, Hermione, McGonagall, Bellatrix Lestrange, etc. The plot, however, was not the one from the books. The characters were the same, but the events were completely different. Also, I was not in it. Most of the dream was in third Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-22297523710970407752011-07-20T00:51:00.000-05:002011-07-20T00:51:15.848-05:002011-07-20T00:51:15.848-05:00Two Turntables and a Library BookI've been fiddling around on this new site called Turntable that Sid and Melinda introduced me to. You join a room, build a playlist of songs by either searching on their site (they have almost everything you could think of) or uploading, and then you hop onto a DJ spot and take turns playing songs with other people online. Most rooms have themes, like "90s Music" or "Indie Mix" or "Mashups" or Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-43653381204609504152011-07-18T10:44:00.010-05:002011-07-22T22:09:15.231-05:002011-07-22T22:09:15.231-05:00Declaration of Independence from Insecurity(An exercise from Keeping a Journal You Love by Sheila Bender)
You have prevented me from being myself.
You have prevented me from having fun.
You have made me anxious.You have made me bland.You have made me silent.
You have restrained my sense of humor.You have restrained my sense of dignity.You have caused me to pretend.You have caused me to hide.You have caused me pain.
You have hindered my Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-79789259880078660362011-07-18T02:06:00.003-05:002011-07-18T03:28:30.177-05:002011-07-18T03:28:30.177-05:00Fresh startIt's definitely been a while since I've written on here. Partly, I was busy last fall working at Blunck's Photography. While I earned lots of money there, I'm glad to be gone from there. I had no life while I was there, and I didn't much like it, either.Now I have a super awesome job at the OKC ZooFriends office with super awesome coworkers. I'm also working some hours at the Edmond Public Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1917137949479095323.post-35309631555734148342010-12-31T02:06:00.002-06:002010-12-31T03:27:46.833-06:002010-12-31T03:27:46.833-06:002010: The Year in Review1. Where did you begin 2010? At Eli's in Stillwater2. Did you have a New Year’s Resolution? Not really3. What was your status on Valentine's Day? in a relationship with Sam Kirzner 4. What did you do for St. Patty's Day in 2010? I was at Disney World with my Mom. We went to Raglan Road, a pub in Downtown Disney. 5. Did you play an April Fool's joke on anyone this year? no 6. Do anything special Caseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232284150150433104noreply@blogger.com0