Better than Miley

For anyone that's heard the Miley Cyrus ('Hannah Montana' from the Disney channel) song that made it on to normal radio play "The Climb", this version is better! Same song, just Kelly Clarkson and her backup singers playing around doing their version.

I Got the Job!!

As most people that would be reading this already know, I will be starting full time at the museum on September 30th. I am ridiculously excited about it! I've been wanting this since I first started working there over two and a half years ago and it finally happened. It didn't happen before this because a full time position didn't exist. Creating a position on the University of Washington campus is not a one step process as one might imagine. Anyways, it came to existence and I got it! I will be working Wednesday through Sundays (as they need someone to be working the weekend) and hours will be something like 8:30am or 9am to 5:30pm. The job I will be doing is pretty much the same I do now, but possibly more integrated with PR and membership. The only unfortunate thing about taking this job is knowing that I am taking most of the other hourly employee's hours for the week :-/ Basically they were cutting back all the hours so that it was taken by just the one position and they'll have hourly people on my days off and on weekends and busy days (first Thursdays). Obviously I'm happy that I got the job or it wouldn't have looked good for me! I really do love the museum and I know I will be great at the position.

This also means that I get to quit Office Depot! I only need one job now. ONE JOB. What am I going to do with myself?? I gave my notice already at Office Depot and I've already begun to train a new person in the cash office. It's a bit tricky as I am not the most easily replaced person in the building, but really it won't be my problem. I know that sounds terrible, but it's true! I am training the best I can and the person I am training is competent, but it still won't be the easiest transition for the store. There are a lot of things that I do that ONLY I do. I have people that cover me for my days off, but they don't get a chance to do everything. Not that they're missing out on fun or anything. It's strange to be leaving Office Depot as I just hit my 5 year anniversary a couple of months ago, but I also got gyped on my raise so the store could save money so my sadness is not at its full potential. Under appreciated? Yeah, pretty much. Could have been worse, though as it has been in the past with the first Office Depot store manager I had to work with.

I'm still toying with the idea of remaining on the temp employee list for the University Book Store for some extra money around the holidays (gift wrapping) and things like that. But it's nice knowing that I don't HAVE to.

Other things that have been going on: Not much. Well actually I had to get permanent glasses instead of the part time glasses with an upped prescription. I got different frames as my old purple ones were heavy and the nose pads hurt my nose. Now I have navy blue plastic framed ones with no nose pad that just carve a nice line into my nose, but it's still less painful than the nose pads. I like the way my old ones look a little more than the ones I have now, but being in less pain and being able to see better is nice and not overrated.

Reid's parents came to visit this week which was nice. It was nice to see them and also Reid cleaned his room (the spare room that serves as his giant laundry pile).

Also Chrissy, Chris, Ben and Tiffany will be visiting in Spokane in November and Reid and I plan on being there!!!!! Something to look forward to.

I put this link on my facebook, but here it is again! The super cute song about being a paleontologist that will be stuck in your head all day as it is mine. Enjoy!!

Moving Rocks!

And not 'rocks' as in another word for awesome. Basically the Burke Museum geology dept. has a huge moving project going on so they can get new and earthquake safe storage. The Burke Museum blog posted a video that they made starring Ron Eng (the collections manager for geology...he's awesome!). He can explain it better than I can. The rooms they show are rooms that I don't get to go into too often (as it is not part of my job to be in there), but I love to get in there and play whenever I can! There is also an older woman shown wearing a green shirt pulling out a specimen drawer. That's Ruth! She's a grad student and is also awesome. These are two of my favorite people at the museum! Ruth was also a TA with me when I TA'd the Dinosaurs class at the UW a couple of years ago. We have also done little excursions (one in which I obtained my mammoth tusk). She can climb a cliff wall better than me! It's ridiculous... Anyways, you should watch the video! Only 2 minutes and this one is much less likely to be removed from YouTube for copyright issues as all of my So You Think You Can Dance videos are.

Yay!!

Yeah, not feeling creative with the title today. So the other day this magical new job listing at the museum showed up. It is basically the exact job that I already do, BUT full time!!!!! Of course I applied! I'm so excited and obviously really hope that I get it. I LOVE the Burke Museum. Maybe I would only have to work 1 or 2 jobs instead of 3 in the near future! The job starts September 28th and goes Wed through Sun. The job seems too good to be true, so I'm trying (unsuccessfully) not to get excited about it. The wonderful thing that the museum did when setting up this job was to only allow applicants that currently work at the Burke Museum and have been there for at least one year. This way me and the few other people that will apply don't have to compete with hundreds of applicants. Very exciting potential here. The really sucky thing would be if I DIDN'T get the job because basically come September when this new job starts, there will be pretty much no hours for anyone. They created this new job to cut down on hourly positions and money so most of the hours goes to this new position. There will be a couple of other shifts available here and there, but barely anything. Very scary. I'm trying not to think about that particular 'what if'.

On So You Think You Can Dance this week was one of my favorite dances ever! It was so hot! Even Reid agreed with me with my use of the word 'hot' and he never uses that word unless he is describing the weather (like today at almost 92 degrees) or me of course haha. See it below!! 1 minute and 58 seconds of your life. :)

Pennies!

This morning when I was counting cash I came across a penny that I had never seen before. It was a 2009 penny with a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the back of it sitting on a log reading a book. It really threw me off as I had never seen a penny that was different on the back except for pennies that were made before the 1950's in which it just says 'one cent' instead of having the Capital Building. I looked it up and found that they released 4 different penny back designs for the celebration of the bicentennial of Lincoln's birthday and the 100 year existence of the one cent. This is really going to ruin my ability to quickly spot and separate out Canadian coins...

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things!

My new water bottle! It has a nautilus on it. It's so cute it tricks me into drinking water, which is a good thing because normally I'm not a fan of drinking water.



My favorite dance of the week on So You Think You Can Dance. It's the butt dance! All about the booty, but in a classy way. And with my favorite dancers of course.



My new favorite song of the moment! "I'm not a robot" by Marina and the Diamonds.

It's that time again!

My favorite summer show, So You Think You Can Dance, is airing! Yay! There have only been a couple of real episodes that have aired so far (not including the audition shows). I have jumped to early favoritism of dancers with dancer Evan. My favorite! He's a dancer with a Broadway background. He's also vertically challenged compared to the other dancers, so they had to stick him with one of the shorty girls. The following clip is my favorite performance of the first episode.



And the next clip is my favorite from the second episode.



These are both contemporary/jazz routines and are kind of sappy, but I love it! The second clip is much better quality, but you can only do so much with YouTube.

Obviously nothing very interesting is going on in my life right now. Reid and I painted the dog's room. It's kind of a shade of tannish yellow. The room had come with brown trim and when we painted the room from it's previous lilac color (it was gross...hopefully it was a little kid's room at some time in the past) I realized that we had just created a very 1970's colored room. My new goal is to paint the trim white, which makes it look much cleaner and much less like I should be adding lime green shag carpet. I spent quite a while at Home Depot staring at different color swatches for different shades of white. That was a headache that most people have to endure at some point in their lives. I eventually settled for marshmallow white. I've painted a small section, but it's difficult as the trim is very thin and not very straight, so using painter's tape isn't helping me keep a straight line as well as I'd like. I am currently on the computer procrastinating getting any further painting trim. Hence the new post.