I'm off to work in a little over 10 minutes, but I figured it was time to update my blog since it's been quite a while. Life at the library has been an adventure. The kids are a little better, but only a little. I guess since they don't have a good family life at home, I have to be their parent for them. Sometimes that's really hard, because I'm not really ready to be a parent! But I'm trying. Everyday is a new adventure, with new sets of homework and new attitudes. Some of the kids are really cute, and they are so quiet and nice. Others have loud, angry mouths and attitudes the size of a mountain. They think the world revolves around them, and that I should bow down to them. No thanks. And having all these different age groups at once, well, I think that makes it even more complicated. I don't want to be a teacher, I don't think I could handle it!

On to more happy thoughts. We had a Build A Bear event at the library. It was really cute. All these kids came dressed in their PJ's and clutching their bears. The Build A Bear came and he took pictures with them, and his friend read a story about how teddy bears came to be. Then the kids went in the craft room and created a bear using papers and crayons. It was cute to see what colors they colored them. (it reminded me of the paper dolls my mom used to have) I, of course, took lots of pictures. But I'm not sure I can put them up on here, because you have to get names and stuff. So we'll see.

Halloween was lots of fun. I was Barbie, and I loved it. Everyone said that I should dye my hair because platinum looks good on me. I'd like to, but I'm scared it wouldn't turn out right and then I would have ruined my hair! Sometimes it's really tempting though.

Some of the girls in AmeriCorps wanted to dress up as the Golden Girls, so we did that too. We went around to these houses on Halloween, trick or treating for canned goods. That was really fun. I was Sophia, the oldest one (and in real life, the youngest on the show, which was fitting for our group too since I was the shortest and youngest too). I got to say mean comments, but after a while, it was too easy and I had to stop. But we all acted out our parts, which was nice. lol

This past weekend, we painted a house for a lady. We got the whole house painted in about two hours. (okay, the outside) There was a lot of us, though, and after a while, we didn't even really have something to paint! There was about ten people painted the same small area at the front of the house. I got a picture of it, and it was quite funny.

Well, I have to go to work now. Hopefully I will write more soon. Whenever I have free time, I either watch TV with my roomies (hey, we get tired), off at the beach (the waves have been huge lately, it's pretty cool), or scrapbooking (I'm still really behind!).