With the quickness

A few quick takes because it’s very early in the morning. Okay, it’s 6:45am, but that is very early for writing a blog post.

1. I got a job. WOO. Ask and ye shall receive, yes? Very happy thoughts about all of that, and even happier thoughts at email I just received letting me know the office chair and desk I ordered yesterday will arrive today. My back thanks you, Big Box Office Store (who I won’t mention by name in order to mitigate spam comments.)

(I actually started this post yesterday two days ago, so now my desk and chair have arrived and are put together. Hallelujah! I twerked my neck a week ago and then got on an airplane, spent three nights in a hotel room, got on another airplane, moved furniture in the guest room around, pulled weeds, and then put together new furniture. I have basically been hobbling around for the last week, so I am very excited for some nice lumbar support. Aww yeah.)

2. We ran the MS 5k a couple weeks ago (with my parents) and a big thank you once again to everyone who donated. We beat our goal, so that was AWESOME. Next year will be bigger and better.

If you’re not first, you’re last.

3. I just finished reading Rules Of Civility (which is my sixth book of the year, GO ME) and I cannot recommend it enough. It made me want to live in 1938 and drink gin and chain smoke without judgment or any knowledge that it was killing me slowly. If you like books about periods in history without being history-ish and also with sassy main characters, then I recommend this book. I believe it’s the author’s first book, but I hope he plans to write more. He has a way with words that make you occasionally laugh out loud and that is my favorite.

4. We finally watched The Campaign, which we originally tried to watch when it first came out. We went to the drive-in, thinking LG would fall asleep in the car on the way there. She most certainly did not fall asleep in the car on the way there, so we had to jump ship right as the movie was getting underway. I thought it was pretty hilarious, but I am partial to Will Ferrell and Zach ThatguyfromtheHangover. Probably my favorite part is at the beginning, when Will Ferrell’s character, Rep. Cam Brady, is on the campaign trail and says, at a carnival, “Filipino Tilt-a-Whirl operators are the backbone of this community!” How many times in my life have I had to use that rhetoric? MY GOD. (A lot of things were the backbone of our community/economy/etc., let me tell you what.)

Also, there’s a part where Zach G’s character, who’s running against Cam Brady, says, “Get a broom, because Washington…IS A MESS” and now of course we keep going around saying, “Get a broom, because _________…IS A MESS” in the Zach G accent. (If you’ve ever seen his hour-long comedy special thing, that’s basically who he plays in The Campaign.)

5. Yesterday when I dropped LG off at school, I walked inside to put some diapers in her cubby and when I was leaving, she was standing there and all the other kids were running around like crackheads and I asked LG for a kiss goodbye and she gave me one. And then I died because that won’t last forever, will it? She so rarely even acknowledges my existence when I drop her off, so it was extra special. (Don’t worry, I fully expect her to flip me off when I drop her off today.)

6. Speaking of LG, she says fork like “fook” except she just started to put a different inflection on “fook” and at times when she’s not saying the word fork and…Oops. I’ll take the blame for that one.

7. I mentioned above that *I* put my new office furniture together. Well. I put the chair together, okay? Chris did the rest. Credit, where it’s due, etc.

Happy Thursday!