I just can't get over how funny this family is. I've read through each post, every comment, and I've laughed enough to compensate for my daily workout. I suppose this blog is doing it's job properly after all. (Special thanks to Linda for her remark about the balls.)
As far as this dieting bit is concerned, I might have a little trouble contributing to the theme. I'm lazy and I eat all the wrong things. Especially lately. I sincerely wish I could claim otherwise... However, my laxed routine has only been in effect for a few months. Maybe it won't be too hard to find my motivation once finals are over. (2 more weeks!) At which point, I'm hoping to change these lazy ways. Perhaps I'll get back on the bike. You see, I've decided I love bicycles - road bikes to be specific. I've collected 3 sets of wheels so far, and one now belongs to my mother. I got a kick out of watching her ride around the neighborhood on that shiny blue cruiser. Perhaps she'll join me on a ride to celebrate the end of the semester. Perhaps it'll become a regular event!
On another note, I've had one thing on my mind all week - no... all month - and I can't help but share my anxieties with my dear family. It's like this: I've been contacted through Sittercity.com by a Belgian family looking for a nanny. Actually, several nannies. (It seems they don't spend much time at all with their five-year-old little girl...) They have three schedules/shifts for three potential nannies, or two nannies, if one decides to take on two of the shifts. And after several slightly strange e-mails, I've asked to take on two shifts. This would actually only ammount to 21 hours a week, but it pays $600! (Roughly $28/hour.) This would turn my world upside-down. My debts would be gone, my education would be easier to afford, and maybe I could even get out from under my poor mother's feet! (I'm sure she'd love that.) Unfortunately, there's been a bit of a language barrier and contact has been limited. It all seems a little too good to be true, and smells a bit fishy.
I'll know by Wednesday if it's a real deal or not... Cross you fingers for me?
So, just one question before I close out... How'd we get to be such a hip family?!
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A Belgian family? Like overseas somewhere? No, Meggie, you can't go. Put your application in at McDonald's and stay right there with your mama until you are much much older.
Settled.
Now ... When will your book be ready to be seen? I'm waiting for my copy.
Rest easy, Grandma. I learned my lesson, remember? My next adventures with international travel will be on my own terms. I will NEVER AGAIN subject myself to that kind of situation. (With the exception of one quick trip back to Panama this June. Just for a week. I should be ok... I just couldn't refuse the offer. I miss the little stinker too much.)
But no, the job will not be overseas. I'll be right here in SA, right where I belong (for now).
Now about that book... I've decided I don't like it much anymore, which has made it hard for me to tie up the loose ends. My motivation has flown out the window. However, I entered the book into a manuscript contest with the Writer's League of Texas and should be hearing back from them by late-May or early-June. If they decide my book is a winner, I might feel a bit differently. Either way, I'll polish it up at some point this summer and send an unofficial copy your way.
LOVE LOVE LOVE you.
Is your book a mystery or a crime drama? Those are the kind I like. Write one of those. I'll buy one.
Well... It's more like a suspensful, whiney, twisted, mainstream fiction sort of thing, with comic relief...? I wrote it nearly a year ago and still have issues describing it. I wrote it while I was in Panama with my last nanny family. It's half auto-biographical / half fiction. Basically, it's all about my experience with the family in a foreign country, losing my mind, and finding it again.
(I'll post a formal synopsis eventually.)
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