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The Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce named the Arlington Heights Memorial Library the 2011 Business of the Year at the Installation and Awards dinner on January 12.
You can view a picture of those of us who were at the Awards dinner here.
I am looking forward to working with the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce as co-chair of the Professional Women's Council for 2012. Demonstrating the Library's resources to local business owners is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job.
Congratulations to Library staff and the Arlington Heights community for recognizing such an amazing Library.
There is an article on the front page of today's Daily Herald about libraries and the resources and programs they offer for job seekers. I was interviewed for the article about the Job Seekers Series that I plan through a partnership with the Rotary Club of Arlington Heights.
I've added 2 additional pages to my blog, Books and Vintage. You can access the pages by clicking on the tabs on my homepage.
On my Books page I will be compiling all of the book related posts I've written on Lively Librarian since 2008. They will be organized by reviews, gifts for book lovers, trends and more.
The Vintage page is developing through my love of vintage clothing, antiquing, resale shopping and the retro remodel of my 1950's era home. I will regularly add links and information on stores, bargains and pictures of items I wear, gift and decorate with.
In 1994 I began watching a British TV series, Absolutely Fabulous. At the time I was living in a little flat near Chicago, my son was a year old and a friend from college and I would watch every episode we could find on TV (in the days before internet, DVR, HULU and streaming series it was hard to find). Ab Fab as it was nicknamed by its fans, was brilliant in its comedy, its complete disregard for taste and the flamboyant fashions. Years before the girls on Sex and the City, Absolutely Fabulous broke all the rules on TV with sex, designer clothes, drinking and outrageous behavior.
The series revolves around middle aged best friends Edina and Patsy who as a result of disposable incomes from their jobs in PR and fashion as well as alimony from Edina's 2 ex husbands indulge in drugs, drinking, sex, shopping and bizarre schemes to stay young and party in London. Edina's long suffering daughter Saffron, her mother, ex husbands and assistant Bubble are regularly involved in their crazy antics.
Jennifer Saunders as Edina and Joanna Lumley as Patsy are hysterical in their physical comedy, regularly falling out of cars, submitting themselves to insane hair and makeup and wearing outrageous fashions. Every other word is "Sweetie" or "Darling", they swill champagne and red wine all day and smoke incessantly. And no matter what they do, it's fall down funny.
2012 will be the 20th anniversary of the series and Edina and Patsy are back for 3 episodes. Whether you are a fan of the series from the 90's or a new watcher, it's not to be missed.
Below is a minute of a favorite episode of mine, "Poor". Tricked by daughter Saffy into thinking she is poor in order to reduce her spending, Edina and Patsy attempt to drive to the supermarket (they usually only have hired cars), try to figure out how to grocery shop, shoplift champagne, have the car booted after parking on the sidewalk in front of Harvey Nichols and get arrested for drunk driving. This episode has me in tears every time I watch it I laugh so hard, hysterical!
Welcome to 2012! I took a look at my Google Analytics account to see what my readers were checking out on Lively Librarian the most during 2011. Here are the 5 most visited posts in 2011.
So for 2012, I plan on blogging more on Lively Librarian, picking up the draft for a book I started writing in 2005 and work on that, submit papers on a variety of topics to international library conferences, take a class or 2 (hopefully 1 back at Oxford) and of course, travel more.
As always readers, thanks for following along, I love your comments, I love when people meet me at conferences or when I speak to groups and say, "You're the Lively Librarian". It's been a journey, looking forward to 2012. Happy New Year!
