My schedule makes my head spin sometimes, lol.
I managed to give everyone at WSE their Christmas cards and little gifts. I was pleasantly surprised to receive an Angel ornament from a coworker (she calls me her "Library Daughter", she's so sweet).
At the downtown library, I've been sorting through tax forms. I've put out the ones that we've received and I've been noting down the quantity of the shipments. New York State makes me unhappy because they label their box one thing, then there's other things inside and they don't list how many forms or instruction booklets are in the box. -_- Federal is much more efficient, though I haven't received all the forms yet. I've been keeping a spreadsheet of the forms we've received so far, so I'm going to put that in a folder on the S drive for both departments and let the other librarians know since we've been getting questions.
One day I had a "little buddy" help me with the tax forms. I was sorting through them and smiled at a little girl (about 5 years old) who was sitting next to her mom (who was on the computer). She came up and asked if she could help. I said it was okay if it was okay with her mom. I had her help me push the cart (much to the amusement of the other patrons & my coworkers) and help me put the tax forms in the rack (much to the amusement of security). I gave her some stickers from my cart for helping.
My little tax assistant wanted to come downstairs with me for Reference duty (which is on the first floor, tax forms are on display on the second floor), but I told her that I had to go help other people and that she should help her mom. I ended up going back upstairs to find a book and she comes running back to me, "MY BUDDY!!!!"
Security Guy who is bringing her cookies: "Hey, I thought I was your buddy!"
Little Girl: "I have TWO buddies!"
Me: *chuckles* "Want to help me find a book?"
Little Girl: *assists*
Me: "Thank you! I have to go back downstairs now, so why don't you go see your other buddy."
Little Girl: "Okay!!"
In other news, I'm teaming up with another librarian to go through our collection to find out if we have any test booklets that can help with the New York State Unified Court System exams. A board member wants to have the library be a place that test takers can utilize, so we're seeing what we have and researching where we can get purchase study booklets. However, what we don't have the board member can point us in the right direction.
I'm slated to work Christmas and New Year's Eve. *tilts head* Hmm, not sure quite when I'm going to relax. I think I have a day off somewhere in there, yeah, I think there's a couple. I'm soooo not getting out of my PJs on those days.
Let's see, over the past few weeks I saw a few advanced movie screenings. I took my mom to see
Up in the Air (okay movie) and thanks to a kind little old lady patron, I got to see
Sherlock Holmes (Hee!! I liked it!! I even managed to snag the good seats next to the critics!). I also went shopping with my mom to get some new work outfits (I even found some sexy pirate boots for super cheap! Okay, not so much sexy as comfy. These shall be my working pirate boots and the other my show boots, wait that sounds wrong...moving along!).
The house is still coming along. Counter tops are being delivered in a couple days, then once they're installed the plumber can come back to work on everything all at once. Electricity is running (yay!) and gas has been hooked up. The tile in the kitchen still needs to be done and we need to get carpeting. I'm crossing my fingers that we'll be back by the end of January.