Elizabeth of the Library

Happy "How many lanes does Northern Lights Have?" season to all who celebrate.

Apple Music keeps trying to suggest new Christmas songs to me. And I think the algorithm fundamentally misunderstands what I want from Holiday Music.

Drove oldest and her friends to a before school club. Highly recommend starting your day singing along to Christmas music with a car full of middle school girls.

The third graders still like their labubus but if you’re tracking trends, they’re quite into tabasquishy toys right now.

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I love the snow plow names. My favorite one is “Sorry Kids”. My kids were sad at how well they worked because there was school today!
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If it legitimately keeps snowing until 6am as my weather all predicts, my children may not have school tomorrow.

I couldn’t tell for certain but given the way people navigated around it, I think the bus was involved.

First real snow. Be safe out there Anchorage.

Used my lunch break to go to Girl Scout office. Their internet was down and the GCI guys showed up to fix it pretty sure they were also about to buy some cookies. They were so disappointed to find no cookies for sale.

That’s what I wrote originally but I was trying to give some space to people who want to revisit a book to see if their perspective changed.

One of my favorite annual work tasks is brainstorming ideas for the bingo cards for our Winter Reading Challenge for adults.
My suggestions this year include:
A book you were assigned to read in school
A book with a food in the title
Time travel book
Novella

We will see if my prompts make the board

My student just talked about a prom photo from olden times. My curiosity was piqued. What year, praytell, is from the olden times? Friends, the year was 2005.

We did it! The first measurable snowfall of the year yesterday for Anchorage. A band of moderate snow set up over the western portion of town between 4 and 6 pm. The average first date for measurable snow is October 19th. @alaskawx.bsky.social

I don’t care which we keep, but if we could stop the changing, I’d be really happy.

End daylight savings time.

We get a little more traffic than that! But I’ve lived in big lower 48 cities and do not miss the traffic or commutes.

“I protect the family”, she mutters as she does open enrollment, selecting health insurance and life insurance plans.

A mother moose and two young moose lay on the side of the road in grass with a light dusting of snow.

Mama and two baby moose taking a mid morning nap.

Big day for third grade Bible Study. They’re learning about the prophets and Isaiah starts on page 767 in their Bibles.
SIX—SEVEN

Earthquake! Little bitty shaker

Just texted my husband an agenda for our conversation after the kids go to bed because I have THINGS to tell him.

Texted my siblings an agenda for a group phone call.

I’m not the chillest person to love but I get you the info you need.

I made it through my late 30s without ever developing a celebrity obsession. Then I parented and led a library through a pandemic, about a dozen crisis local and national, and more unprecedented events than I can count. I get to just enjoy the Taylor Swift fandom lifestyle.

Our kiddo and her innocence

My fifth grader just asked me if when I was a kid, I had ever wanted to do something big and important when I grew up.

Excuse me. What I do is big and important. Not cover of Time Magazine big and important. But changing my city and improving the daily lives of my community important.

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

I’m also low key eavesdropping on the teen girls in line in front of me.

So far I’ve heard college plans (nursing), super cringe things boys have done to get them back after they dumped them, and how their track team did at state.

It’s research. This is my future in 4 years as my kiddo grows.

Every marriage needs two people.
The extrovert talking to every neighbor at the block party.
The introvert reading on her phone while waiting in the food line.

I went on vacation with my siblings. I left my husband unattended for a week. First thing he told me when I got back? “I’ve been studying and I can pass my ham radio test to get my license”

Went to grab my (physical) book for lunch time reading and accidentally pulled out the book mark.

Fortunately I’m obsessive about marking my progress daily on StoryGraph.

One of my 7 year old’s vocab/spelling words was rampart.

Had a nice conversation about why Anchorage doesn’t have ramparts (defensive walls) and how that’s probably okay.

But it would be cool.

Cats. Lizard time in the sunshine (no reptiles involved, just me doing my best impression), deleting most social media for Lent