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Jun. 23rd, 2003 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terrypurple73I can not complain that no one is updating if I don't update my own, I suppose.
Life is pretty darn exciting around here these days. Please note the part where I lied in that last sentence. I'm not complaining, I promise, though. Things are just, well, going. I nanny, and I enjoy it, and I sit around here on the computer a lot, which makes me feel like I have no life, but that's kind of true.
I have the house to myself, sort of, for a few days. My parents and Cathy went to her orientation for school and left me for nearly four days. This means I can drive wherever I want to and throw wild parties. As long as I get to work by nine am. It's been crazy so far, as I'm sure you can all imagine. This 28-year-old guy named Aaron has been staying with me. Yes, my cousin Aaron is keeping my company while he is in town doing job interviews and apartment hunting with Leslie. He's low-maintenance, though- I don't feel like I need to entertain him much. Les has been over a bit; she even came over last night when she knew Aaron had gone to bed, and we just caught up a little. It's so funny knowing that she is in the cities for the summer, yet we've hardly seen each other. If this had happened while we were in middle school or so, we would have been with each other every night for the whole summer, it would seem. But it's been good to see her, and Aaron is pretty cool.
I don't much care for living by myself. It's nice to have access to a car, but I don't have anywhere to go, really. I got off work early today, so I went over to Childrens World to hang out for a while. In a funny way, being there reminded me of going back to high school after I'd been in college- less and less of the kids remember me, even the ones who I'd sought out, and I seem to there more and more to chat with the staff. And that's all okay. It reaffirms that I made the right decision to be with the Truempis this summer.
My mom made a laughing comment the other day about this nanny job being birth control for me. So I laughed too, but it's really true. Working at the daycare center, I had my set shift of when I worked, and then I sent the kids home with their parents until they showed up the next morning. I saw the classrooms empty; there was time to prepare and get set up, there was someone to take over when my shift ended. And this summer, I'm getting a different view. It's so much more blatantly obvious how full-time parenting is. Even though I do have set hours and I go home on time, it's much easier to see that things do not stop or even smoothly transition once my work day is done with. I love these kids, no doubt, but I'm realizing a little more about parenting- and so yes, this is functioning as a form of birth control. (Or, as I think Jenn would like to phrase it, that in addition to the not-having-sex!)
Anyway.... Life just seems to be going, and that's all right. I hung out with Jenn the other night, and that was really nice. We had a good talk and a fun time, and she gave me a beautiful compliment- about how I have changed, but in a really good way, actually doing something about what I'm concerned about. She said it a lot nicer than how I just did, but it was much appreciated. !!! Then, this weekend has been filled with some extended family in town, followed by my immediate family leaving.
My father has been concerned lately that I might be too bored this summer, and I keep trying to convince him not to worry about it. I might not do a lot, but it really doesn't bother me. I have a few friends around that I hang out with, and that works out. I haven't actually seen Shannon maybe all month, though, so she better re-surface one of these days. She skipped town for a while, then I did for a bit, and then there has been work and family and non-connecting-in-person-ness. But! I did get to see my Mana briefly this weekend, as she was barely in town, and I was glad.
I know this has been the most exciting update ever, but at least it got out a few thoughts. Maybe more later. I need to go to bed, I believe.
Life is pretty darn exciting around here these days. Please note the part where I lied in that last sentence. I'm not complaining, I promise, though. Things are just, well, going. I nanny, and I enjoy it, and I sit around here on the computer a lot, which makes me feel like I have no life, but that's kind of true.
I have the house to myself, sort of, for a few days. My parents and Cathy went to her orientation for school and left me for nearly four days. This means I can drive wherever I want to and throw wild parties. As long as I get to work by nine am. It's been crazy so far, as I'm sure you can all imagine. This 28-year-old guy named Aaron has been staying with me. Yes, my cousin Aaron is keeping my company while he is in town doing job interviews and apartment hunting with Leslie. He's low-maintenance, though- I don't feel like I need to entertain him much. Les has been over a bit; she even came over last night when she knew Aaron had gone to bed, and we just caught up a little. It's so funny knowing that she is in the cities for the summer, yet we've hardly seen each other. If this had happened while we were in middle school or so, we would have been with each other every night for the whole summer, it would seem. But it's been good to see her, and Aaron is pretty cool.
I don't much care for living by myself. It's nice to have access to a car, but I don't have anywhere to go, really. I got off work early today, so I went over to Childrens World to hang out for a while. In a funny way, being there reminded me of going back to high school after I'd been in college- less and less of the kids remember me, even the ones who I'd sought out, and I seem to there more and more to chat with the staff. And that's all okay. It reaffirms that I made the right decision to be with the Truempis this summer.
My mom made a laughing comment the other day about this nanny job being birth control for me. So I laughed too, but it's really true. Working at the daycare center, I had my set shift of when I worked, and then I sent the kids home with their parents until they showed up the next morning. I saw the classrooms empty; there was time to prepare and get set up, there was someone to take over when my shift ended. And this summer, I'm getting a different view. It's so much more blatantly obvious how full-time parenting is. Even though I do have set hours and I go home on time, it's much easier to see that things do not stop or even smoothly transition once my work day is done with. I love these kids, no doubt, but I'm realizing a little more about parenting- and so yes, this is functioning as a form of birth control. (Or, as I think Jenn would like to phrase it, that in addition to the not-having-sex!)
Anyway.... Life just seems to be going, and that's all right. I hung out with Jenn the other night, and that was really nice. We had a good talk and a fun time, and she gave me a beautiful compliment- about how I have changed, but in a really good way, actually doing something about what I'm concerned about. She said it a lot nicer than how I just did, but it was much appreciated. !!! Then, this weekend has been filled with some extended family in town, followed by my immediate family leaving.
My father has been concerned lately that I might be too bored this summer, and I keep trying to convince him not to worry about it. I might not do a lot, but it really doesn't bother me. I have a few friends around that I hang out with, and that works out. I haven't actually seen Shannon maybe all month, though, so she better re-surface one of these days. She skipped town for a while, then I did for a bit, and then there has been work and family and non-connecting-in-person-ness. But! I did get to see my Mana briefly this weekend, as she was barely in town, and I was glad.
I know this has been the most exciting update ever, but at least it got out a few thoughts. Maybe more later. I need to go to bed, I believe.
