a "real" post!
I haven't posted a real post--not a ditl--in so long, and when poppleshatesyou did a meme i thought it would be a good opportunity! if you comment, you'll get your own set of seven questions to post about.
1. What is your current favorite song?
I...don't really have favorite songs. I don't listen to much "new" music--my car stereo is always on oldies stations. picking between awesome songs would be akin to picking a favorite book, or a favorite child--completely impossible.
2. What are you going to do once your nanny family doesn't need you anymore?
I'm planning to take a month or two off and then hopefully start right up again with another family with another tiny baby. In my month(s) off I plan to spend a lot of time by the pool at my boyfriend's house with his mother (she's a teacher so she has summer off, and i adore her). I have a few trips i want to take. Basically I just want to enjoy what could be the last long vacation of my life...because who knows when i'll be able to take a month or two off again?
3. What part of the country do you live in?
I live in the Northeast. I have a love/hate relationship with it...i love the people, the towns, the cities...but i hate hate HATE the weather.
4. Are you going to school? If so, what's your long term school goal?
Nope. Alllll done with that. Someday, SOMEDAY, i might go to grad school, but not until i absolutely need it. I love learning and would love to audit some classes, but I really really really don't want to have to do papers and grading and TAing and presentations and shit again. I'm so done with that.
5. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
I've always dreamed of taking a Grand Tour of Europe like they used to do in the olden days. I want to see all the sights, meet new people, hear new languages. I also really want to see Australia/New Zealand, parts of Africa, some part of middle/south America, and of course Israel again. I love traveling.
6. Latest book you read and throughly enjoyed?
I thoroughly enjoy every book I read, or else I don't finish reading it! This morning I finished Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr. It is the latest in a series of romances set in a town in northern CA called Virgin River. I adore them.
7. Favorite part of being a nanny? Least favorite part?
My favorite part has to be the fact that I am an *integral* part of this child's life. He *knows* me. I have been with him almost 45 hours a week almost every week since he was 4 months old--aka as long as he can remember. I'm his third parent. He lights up when I come in the door in the morning, and lately has been sad to see me go. He comes to me for comfort, and for giggles.
My least favorite part...other than the hours and the commute and the general annoyances of life with a crazy toddler who can't talk yet...has to be leaving. Both leaving every day and not knowing what he's doing overnight, and the fact that in just a few short months I'll be leaving him for real. I'll still be a part of his life--his mother told me that she definitely wanted that. But I'll be relegated to friend or aunt status, not third parent status. He'll forget me soon enough. It kills me.
1. What is your current favorite song?
I...don't really have favorite songs. I don't listen to much "new" music--my car stereo is always on oldies stations. picking between awesome songs would be akin to picking a favorite book, or a favorite child--completely impossible.
2. What are you going to do once your nanny family doesn't need you anymore?
I'm planning to take a month or two off and then hopefully start right up again with another family with another tiny baby. In my month(s) off I plan to spend a lot of time by the pool at my boyfriend's house with his mother (she's a teacher so she has summer off, and i adore her). I have a few trips i want to take. Basically I just want to enjoy what could be the last long vacation of my life...because who knows when i'll be able to take a month or two off again?
3. What part of the country do you live in?
I live in the Northeast. I have a love/hate relationship with it...i love the people, the towns, the cities...but i hate hate HATE the weather.
4. Are you going to school? If so, what's your long term school goal?
Nope. Alllll done with that. Someday, SOMEDAY, i might go to grad school, but not until i absolutely need it. I love learning and would love to audit some classes, but I really really really don't want to have to do papers and grading and TAing and presentations and shit again. I'm so done with that.
5. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
I've always dreamed of taking a Grand Tour of Europe like they used to do in the olden days. I want to see all the sights, meet new people, hear new languages. I also really want to see Australia/New Zealand, parts of Africa, some part of middle/south America, and of course Israel again. I love traveling.
6. Latest book you read and throughly enjoyed?
I thoroughly enjoy every book I read, or else I don't finish reading it! This morning I finished Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr. It is the latest in a series of romances set in a town in northern CA called Virgin River. I adore them.
7. Favorite part of being a nanny? Least favorite part?
My favorite part has to be the fact that I am an *integral* part of this child's life. He *knows* me. I have been with him almost 45 hours a week almost every week since he was 4 months old--aka as long as he can remember. I'm his third parent. He lights up when I come in the door in the morning, and lately has been sad to see me go. He comes to me for comfort, and for giggles.
My least favorite part...other than the hours and the commute and the general annoyances of life with a crazy toddler who can't talk yet...has to be leaving. Both leaving every day and not knowing what he's doing overnight, and the fact that in just a few short months I'll be leaving him for real. I'll still be a part of his life--his mother told me that she definitely wanted that. But I'll be relegated to friend or aunt status, not third parent status. He'll forget me soon enough. It kills me.