My Own Nanny Diaries Continued........

Quote of the day... "I don't want to pay that $3.00 for mom's gift. I want that mermaid instead. Why can't there be a son's day?"

I have to admit, I played hookey from work today. Good reasoning though.. I have been fighting this disgusting cough that has turned into something else on it's own. I was advised on Tuesday to lay low but went against it because after taking loads of cold medicine and drinking some oolong tea I felt well enough to venture to my daily grill. Yesterday, i was advised to take sometime off again and decided to take the same course of action from the day before and literally probably ran myself into the ground. I am embarrassed to say that I played my soccer game last night but found myself hacking up a lung the rest of the night. After the game I went to dinner with a couple of friends and soothed my lungs with some tea. It helped a bit..As the night lingered on my cough got worse.

Today with good reasoning I stayed home and took a rest. I gotta admit it's hard to lounge on lawn chairs in my living room and watch televison..(*** we must get a couch soon.. I know of a really good place to get one..) so I have resorted to my bedroom where I am watching the second season of Doogie Howser. The cable thing in my room is not yet resolved... So all that works is my dvd player. My sister has some of the better dvds in my collection so i decided to re-live the second season of Doogie Howser. What a dreamboat.. Well maybe 10 years ago i would have thought so...

Because of me staying home, my worries start to stream in again in regards to me being home. Yikes, the realization that I have left for a full day and I am sure things are about to go to the shits. Yes, folks thats right.. I am more worried about being away from the kids for one day than my own welfare. Pretty scary. It's thursday and I know we have a list of items that needs to be taken care of before the frightful weekend. Today i was supposed to take the kids to go mother's day shopping.. It should be nanny's day on sunday in some cases. **** and I got something yesterday for his mom but he about shit bricks when i told him that he had to pay me back. I told him that she wasn't my mom and we have to start to think about our mom for once and not ourselves....**** on the other hand wants to buy her mom a build a bear.. But I think I know her motives too well. I am sure that her and **** will take it over after sunday comes around.

Besides mother's day **** has some deliquent homework from last week that I failed to make sure it was done and turned in on friday. She did pretty much the rest of her homework for the week except for that frightful spelling homework. We got a note home yesterday that she is behind on her keys to reading.. Mind you I have left that up to her parents to deal with since the begining of the year because that was something they could do as a family. Now it's my turn to turn up the heat and watch make sure that this is taken care of before the third week in june.
And yes the dreadful haircut situation. Their mom has been talking about getting their haircut this week. Truthfully, it takes me to actually make sure its gets done. There is usually whining and crying from the peanut gallery when their mom tries to take them in along with a bribe. These kids really have a hold on them... **** is the only one that whines and cries and eventually has to get some kind of materalistic item that I will undoubtly step on or have to find in his dreadful mess of misplacing things. I gotta admit, she does give in way too much and needs to hold her ground more. So instead I just take them for their haircut without telling them where we are going. No matter what they have to get out of the car. Weird pyschology thing.. It works though with ****. On the other hand **** is in the car kicking and screaming and usually making a huge scene. But once I drag his ass into this cute exspensive kids hair salon he immediately stops. Anyways, I keep on trying to tell their mom that bribing, etc can only go so far these days for a stinkin hair cut and I will not do it. So I must sadly say the **** will look like a rasta for one more day at school and **** will look like a hairy green monster for one more day.

I could probably sit and stress over all of this the rest of the day and into the night. I am in debate on whether or not I stay home for one more day. Probably not.. There is too much to do and it needs to get done. I just need to sit back and relax for a bit... Good advice.. I need to take it.. huh?

I am also in the midst of trying to talk to the bossman about my own compensation. He is not the easiset person to talk to. When he wants to say something to me I either hear it second hand from the mom or through RUDE notes that are left on the counter for me in the morning. I was jipped out a couple hundred dollars this past week and the last pay period another hundred or so. I am about to go bonkers here. I am determined to get paid that money and will do so by tomorrow.. Keep your fingers crossed folks. The bossman has been scoffing about his own compensation at his work I wonder if he knows I am feeling the same way but with him. *bleh..*
So my own nanny diaries must continue......