Have any of you ever shopped at Eyes Lip Face?. I ask because $1 makeup seems like a get what you pay for proposition.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 10:02:42 am PST #7941 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
JZ - Feb 06, 2008 10:04:51 am PST #7942 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Or do we get resurrected for the second coming? My knowledge is faulty there.
Yup, that's it. Second Coming = Big Finale Dance Number, everyone back on stage.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2008 10:05:19 am PST #7943 of 10001
My Presidents' Day holiday just got rescinded and re-issued as a floating holiday that I can only take after April 1. The budget year is April to April. I suspect someone made a budgetting error.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 10:05:53 am PST #7944 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sox, what's going on? Is it the Watcher or the Kid?
lisah - Feb 06, 2008 10:08:48 am PST #7945 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
What, are you reading the latest WYPR news?
I hesitate to ask...what else has happened??? (Businesses I know are pulling their sponsorship over the Steiner thing.)
Sox, I would flip out in your position. At the nanny and, especially, at her agency. And never invite her back.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2008 10:12:35 am PST #7946 of 10001
Hah. Actually, I'd defer to parents.
That babysitter was insane to do that. I do think it is all to easy for a caregiver to shut down if a parent is around, especially if they are not used to those circumstances. Not right, mind you, but pretty common. Especially if they are relatively inexperienced.
I do think working at home when the kid is home is..well, my dad used to take me into his office when I was sick. Someone (not always my dad! ) always didn't get as much work done, and that was me sick & subdued. If you are used to it great! If not, it could go ferwonky.
hippocampus - Feb 06, 2008 10:12:37 am PST #7947 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Watcher
change verb to cellphonetalker/internetsurfer. I'm working and chasing a three year old who doesn't seem so deathly ill and who will absolutely be going to school tomorrow as long as I'm not in jail.
megan walker - Feb 06, 2008 10:12:58 am PST #7948 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Sox,
As someone who worked as a nanny, that is unacceptable. I worked for a number of type-A NYC lawyers and I'm sure you are far from being unreasonable.
And, even so, your caregiver is there to care for your child, not do personal business. Did I like the mother who didn't believe in baby wipes and made me use cotton balls and distilled water when I changed diapers? No. But I was there to care for her child, not mine.
However, I didn't refrain from doing work for myself, reading, or being on the phone if the baby was sleeping. And I always was happy when mothers explicitly said that was okay, because they would do that themselves, you know?
When mothers were there at the same time, I made sure that they were not disturbed if at all possible.
Jesse - Feb 06, 2008 10:15:34 am PST #7949 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
the mother who didn't believe in baby wipes and made me use cotton balls and distilled water when I changed diapers?
OMG that's hilarious.
Vortex - Feb 06, 2008 10:17:53 am PST #7950 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
"As you can see from this description, this argument is extraordinarily [tenuous, I guess]."
convoluted?