Urban Poly Princess

I am grateful for so many things. I love my life and all the opportunities I have to grow although it does not feel amazing every second of the day, it really is incredible. I discovered there are MANY duplicates on the shelves. I am going to go through them as quickly as possible and rearrange things. It's like the DVDs all over again. Shelf space is being taken up by things I need to get rid of asap. There is going to be yet another huge DRMO delivery. While it felt overwhelming yesterday, I got a bunch done in just a couple hours so I know while it is a lot of work it is completely doable work.

I went to see the museum Curator again about displaying some of the large model planes in the library. YES I am definitely interested. He emailed me yesterday. They delivered one of our play mats there by mistake. Thankfully my name was on the package. Justin and I are going to chat.

I went to the temple this morning to work for the nice lady who worked for me when I went to ULA. I got a lady from the base Wells Fargo Bank to do story time for me. She said she had fun. I am very grateful for that. I bought her a Giradelli candy bar and I'm giving it to her tomorrow with a Thank You card. I feel like there hasn't been enough Marketing for our Kick-off event. Courtney and Eli seemed fine with it. I'm just used to doing MUCH more MARKETING for ANY event I have. I plan to invite EVERYONE I know.

The weather is perfect right now but it changes quickly which I don't like. I am very happy we got rid of a lot of books that need to go to DRMO or the military department that takes our unwanted furniture and/or other stuff. There are so many things I need to do. It is a little frustrating. I wish I had my other worker now. I am delegating work more which is good.

Aimee is going to be my alternate facility manager as well as my safety go-to girl. I hate all of these rules and regulations and I really appreciate my staff who are intelligent hard workers. By assigning this stuff out I am going to have time to order things and plan programming for everything.

I FINALLY set up Internet with Century Link. They will set it up Monday. I am so happy. FINALLY. I kept putting it off because I'm waiting for Google to offer their service but they still haven't done it yet. I am getting Netflix asap and using an HDMI cable to connect to my bigscreen TV that is just sitting there not being used. There were MORE DVDs I had to get rid of asap. I have many to watch now enough even that I need to buy one of those CD cases so I can throw away the DVD covers.

It was so nice to see my niece on Skype this past Sunday. She just got accepted to BYU-Idaho. She begins in the Fall and I want her to go there. She will love it.

I had a hard time leaving from work yesterday. There's just so much to be done and not enough time to do it all. I told my boss I planned to go to ULA even if he didn't pay for it. He said to send him the information and he'd see what he could do. I did and hadn't heard from him so I planned to pay for it but yesterday he emailed me and told me he'd pay for an institutional membership plus my conference fee. It is held in Layton this year which is awesome and rare. I am so stocked. It would've cost me about $240.00 and I was trying to tell him I should be paid for attending the conference. Now I get both without costing me any money.

I am ordering a hundred different books for the library. Our adult book contract ended in September so the sales guy gave each AF library 100 points to spend by tomorrow. They FINALLY as in yesterday got me into the system so I can order this stuff. I am up to 80 but I'm going crazy. It'll be done before tomorrow's deadline which is great although this hurry up and spend before you can't attitude is a little stressful. I know it seems silly to complain about having to spend money BUUUT I am spending a lot of hours doing this on a day I should be completing my Star Wars marathon.

My ward has fast Sunday next week but I need a little extra help right now with some things in my life so I'm fasting now.

I will be so excited to get my library technician. I am going to assign he or her all the stuff I don't want to do like safety, facility stuff, DEFINITELY our cash box and life of the fund folder. I still need to do the stuff like the annoying accounting things that include purchasing supplies, and a billion other things. Maybe I should try to get the slide presenter projector and/or ask Larry what they use in their classes. Our community meeting room would benefit from having something like that. With the conference table we're getting it's going to be very nice.

It is going to be a place we can hold meetings in that is attractive, comfortable and is just a good space. Once I get the model planes and decorate the children's and teen rooms the way I want people will be drawn here. I can't wait to get it all under control. I am so glad Luis agreed to do the Wheels of Wonder event I had forgotten about. The Children's Center and the Youth Center are jointly putting on this event they hold yearly. They asked us to participate and I said yes. I don't want to lose this chance to gain good publicity for the library.

Conference was amazing and just what I REALLY needed. I just watched it with my mother on her television. My favorite talk by far was Elder Bednar. He examined the sacrament and talked about how it is the spirit that refines, that cleanses and sanctifies us. It is by taking the sacrament and renewing our covenants with the sacrament ordinance that we can then be blessed with the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. This constant cleansing is required if we are to retain a constant remission of our sins.

He explained it so clearly and in such detail. We are so blessed. I am so blessed. I leave to San Antonio Sunday morning. I am going to end up missing Puanani's farewell.

I am so grateful for so much. I love that there is always the chance to learn at my job. This does have more than its fair share of frustration however. I DEFINITELY don't get paid enough AND I will remedy that situation soon. I am glad I'm going to San Antonio. I need that break and I will start to compile questions for the "big" librarians and/or the ones that get paid well. I still can't believe training is so freaking long. One entire week out of town. One of the best things about this job is I'd like to do it part time and work real estate full time. I want to get it to be a well-run machine that I just need to check up on from time to time. That's not happening until all the books are cataloged however. I want it to meet my necessities but I want my real money to come from real estate AND I want time to teach my Zumba classes, prepare for these AND story time plus other programming I might work on.

I need to write a to do list and write down a plan to work on to get my Zumba certification and then teach at the Warrior Fitness Center. The facility is very nice and I can't wait to teach there. I need to begin practicing and make sure I am fit and can do everything extremely well. I know I need to work on my social life too. There's just nothing happening there. I know I shouldn't keep pushing that aside but I try to attend FHE each week along with other ward activities at least so I do feel I'm doing my part up to a point.

I need to monitor my diabetes. I made the mistake of reporting it when I got my license last now I will forever have to report that and get a doctor's approval to just keep a current license. The clinic I went to charged me over $300. I paid half and then I forgot about it but I need to pay for the rest Thursday. I really love Zumba. Our instructors are awesome. I'm NEVER giving up EMZ even when I do teach my own classes. I'd like to do a class M-F at the Warrior Fitness Center. I have to get my license signed by April 14th to maintain my license. I am going to get a primary care physician then asap or rather next week or maybe even this week because I can use my sick hours for those appointments. Maybe I'm too late for this week but anyway next week should be fine.

I didn't watch Women's conference. I had to work for one of my girls. I haaate working on Saturdays.

 

This morning near the Hill South Gate exit I realized I didn't have my CAC card on me sooo I got off then on I-15 and promptly made my way back home to search for my CAC card. I don't remember taking it in the house so I looked throughout my car and also my bedroom. I figured it was lost so I called Dale to see what I had to do. He reminded me to check the library which I did. I left the card in the reader on my computer.

I went to the West Gate since the South Gate is closed for the next 7 weeks. They told me I needed my Dr.'s license, proof of insurance and registration. My insurance card expired earlier this year and while I tried to retrieve it on my phone, I was unsuccessful. Instead I went to the library in Clearfield thinking I'd have to reset my password but I didn't. I printed the new card then returned to the West Gate where I entered and made my way to the library.

Once here Jose who purchases from our refresh money given to us recently informed me the table I wanted isn't an approved vendor despite being on Air Force Advantage. I went to the Accounting office 3 times yesterday just to buy paper for our printer. All the hoops I have to jump through just to do this well are constantly testing my patience. While it is nice to work for the Air Force there are so many things about this job I find frustrating. The first is how s...l...o... w............. EVERY DAMN THING IS TO COMPLETE. There is not just red tape, there are layers on layers of the stuff - think a gigantic onion of red tape.

Helen and Miranda who is on loan to us for a few weeks, began to be very negative with me. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! I snapped at Miranda and she and Helen came to my office to report how people were complaining ALL day today. Sometimes things happen. We need to learn to roll with the punches. Life is constantly changing and today was an unfortunate example of this.

I looove that General Conference is this weekend. It still arrives EXACTLY when I feel I need it most. At Dale's last staff meeting I asked Larry if he taught CPR and AED. HE DOES!!! He told me to just let him know when I needed to take these since they give CPR certification at least twice a day. I am going to get certified in Zumba and teach on base at the Warrior Fitness Center. I want to teach M-F at 11am. This will give me adequate cardio. Next I'll add my own weight training with my dumbbells at home and then I need to find someplace that'll work for skating. I probably should get knee pads, elbow pads and a helmet before I start that again.

I have let real estate slide so much but I need to get on that too. My brother and I need to start flipping homes and making some cheddar.