Creeping Beauty tagged me, so here’s 10 random things about me. I’m going to stick with the facts instead of my idiosyncrasies…

1. I detest my current job, yet my library continually has the highest scores of any department for student satisfaction with services. I guess I’m pretty good at faking it.

2. I have worked in many different types of libraries, but never a public library. Thank God!

3. If I had to choose between being a rodeo volunteer and playing derby and choosing one would mean losing the other for life, then I would choose rodeo.

4. I would have tried out for banked track derby in Austin when I finished playing football if I had not gotten pregnant. And I was living in Houston at the time.

5. I played tight end for a full season but only caught 2 passes because my skinny ass was too busy filling in as right tackle for the fat linewomen that couldn’t move their feet fast enough to block.

6. I completed an application for Survivor in 2001 and never sent it in because I tore my ACL. One of these days, I WILL BE on a reality show (ok, that might never be a FACT…whatever).

7. I served 417 people at my wedding. I’m talking about plates of food, you pervs.

8. I dated a guy that was shorter than me for way too long.

9. I skated in a department store commercial when I was around 10 (along with my sister).

10. My grandparents had a vacation home in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, so for several wonderful years of my young life, my family skied for Thanksgiving and Spring Break. Oh how I miss that!

I’m not tagging anyone specifically, but if you feel like doing this, go right ahead and return the favor of a few seconds of amusement.

Leigh Buchanan, editor-at-large for Inc., just became every librarian’s best friend. In her December column for the magazine, Ms. Buchanan lists the Christmas presents she would give to every reader if she could. At #5 on the list…a librarian.

Hey, all you employers that ignore my resume because I’m a seasoned librarian applying for a position in marketing or some other job that doesn’t EXACTLY match my years of experience, listen up! According to Ms. Buchanan, I know “what’s what.” And that’s that…

This weekend, I finally fulfilled my promise to The Kitten to take her on a train ride. We journeyed into East Texas to ride the Texas State Railroad that travels between Rusk and Palestine. I know she looks like she hated it…

but she was thoroughly enthralled…

While we were there, I signed the petition to save our Texas state parks. There are currently not enough funds to keep these trains going, and it’s a shame. Texas’ parks serve not only as a glimpse into the history of this magnificent state but as affordable vacation spots for families. Sign the petition, then get out and see the state!

since hardly anybody reads this blog anyway…but go to the Hunger Site and click the yellow button. Then go to Jenny at Mama Drama’s post about the Hunger Site and leave her a comment saying that you clicked the yellow button. Jenny usually gets a ton of comments on all her posts (because they’re HILARIOUS so bookmark her, too!), but she’s never gotten a hundred and if she does hit that milestone on the Hunger Site post by Saturday, it’ll make for another outrageous post. Thanks!

This is where I’ll be Saturday night:

Do you think I should prepare a speech?