Topic Tuesday: Jet lag

Today's Topic: Jet lag

Going off of the title of this post, I still have major jet lag, so this post probably won't be that long.  I know I got back from vacation very late Thursday night, and it is now Tuesday, but I just want to sleep.  I've never experienced jet lag before because I've never been in a different time zone.  It didn't really hit me until Saturday after we got back, and I still can't shake it.  

Thank goodness I only have one more 10-hour day of work tomorrow and then the kids go back to school!  So instead of working full days, I'll only be working about 4-6 hours.  Then it's back to sleeping in.  Hopefully then I'll be able to get back on my normal schedule and not have to yawn a million times a day. 

Topic Tuesday: Missing Makeup Bag

Today's Topic: Missing Makeup Bag

So I wake up this morning and go straight to the bathroom to get ready, as I do every morning.  I start off by brushing my teeth and washing my face.  Then as usual, I open the cabinet underneath the sink to get out my makeup bag, and when I go to grab it, there's nothing there!  I step back for a second thinking maybe I'm still half asleep and my eyes haven't adjusted to the light quite yet.  But no, there's this empty space where my bag used to be.  I look around the small bathroom that I have thinking maybe I left it out or misplaced it the day before.  Nothing.

I then proceed back to the bedroom where amazing boyfriend is sleeping and wake him up.  Now I know he's a man and would have nothing to do with my makeup, but I just had to ask if maybe he moved it for some reason, or is playing a funny mean joke on me.  He obviously says no, and that's when I really start freaking out.  Not only because its my makeup that is probably altogether worth, bag included, I'd say around $100, but because we are the only two people living in our cute little apartment.  So if I didn't do anything with it and he didn't do anything with it, then that leads me to start thinking freaking out that someone has been in our apartment!  Now, why they would only take my makeup bag?  I have no idea.  Call me crazy, but where else would it be?!

In the little time I had before I had to be at work, I searched everywhere!  I checked the bathroom, again.  I looked all over our bedroom.  I looked in our tiny walk-in closet.  I checked in cabinets in the kitchen and living room.  I even looked on the patio!  NOTHING!  I know I didn't take it anywhere, because why would I need to, I work 10 hours a day with kids, and then I go straight home.

So, my stomach has been in a knot all day, and I'm trying to think back to yesterday to remember if I put it back, but it's such a ritual that I don't remember.  Ugh.  I'm at work until 6, and then I'm going over to the leasing office, because they're open until 7 on Tuesdays, and I'm asking if any of their employees were in my apartment yesterday.  I will find my makeup bag!

Going on FOUR hours of sleep!

So as I told you in Topic Tuesday: Fourth of July, my amazing boyfriend and I got burned, him way more than me.  Well, his burn, which was all over his upper torso, is starting to heal, and it was itching him like crazy last night when he got off work around midnight.  I told him it probably didn't help that he played a hockey game that night, when I told him not to, because of the friction it would cause...but did he listen to me, no, of course not.  He said he'd be fine, and now he's in pain.

He hopped in a shower and put aloe vera on when he got out.  I guess the aloe was really doing its job, because he was in extreme pain of needing to itch his sunburn.  I felt so helpless because I didn't know how to help him.  So, I went online to look up remedies for sunburn itch.  Everything that I looked at said to shower with cool water (done), put aloe vera on (done), take pain killers (done)...ugh.  I kept looking, and, of course, the next things I found, we didn't have, and couldn't go get, because by now it was 1:30am.  Some said to put white vinegar on the burn, or take an oatmeal bath, or rub anti-itch creme for sunburn.

Then, finally, I found a home remedy that involved something that we had in the house...tea bags!?  It said:

This is incredible: brew enough tea bags to cover a considerable area of the sunburn and ice down to get the tea really cold. Place the cold, wet tea bags and/or a rag drenched in the tea over the affected area, keeping the bags and rags cold. If you can submurge the burned part of the body, do so into the tea. Do this for at least one hour as often as you can (3 or so times a day) until it fades. This works for second and third degree burns as well and will prohibit scarring! The tea works as an antioxidant and pulls the heat out of your body. It stops the pain temporarily also. 

So, I figured, what the heck, lets try it...and surprisingly it worked!  His chest and stomach started to feel better and less itchy/irritated.  Thank goodness!  It was about 2am by now, and I could barely keep my eyes open.  I made sure he was feeling better and re-drenched the rag one more time, kissed him good night, and went to bed...only to be woken up four hours later to go to work for ten hours plus four hours of class.  I think maybe leaving class a little early might be necessary...shh, don't tell!

All in all, I guess you can say I'm mommy-ready.  

...but don't get any ideas...that's not happening for a looonnnggggg time!

Topic Tuesday: Fourth of July

Today's Topic: Fourth of July

I saw last week on Under Cover Blonde's Blog that she made margarita popsicles.  Can you say, "YUM!?"  I definitely had to try this out since it was going to be a hot weekend and we were celebrating the fourth of July.  Our plans were to go to the pool at amazing boyfriend's parent's apartment complex and BBQ.  So, I figured, what better than to have delicious margarita popsicles to cool us down.

Instead of using regular size cups, like she did, I used plastic shot glass cups, and cocktail spears, instead of popsicle sticks (or plastic spoons).

I made two different kinds, Don Viejo margarita and Skinny Girl margarita, because that's what I had in my fridge, and didn't have time to go get different flavors, like I wanted to.

I made about 12 of the Don Viejo kind and 6 of the Skinny Girl.  I just poured them into the little shot glasses and put them in the freezer for two hours.

By now they should have frozen just enough for you to be able to put the sticks in the middle of them without them falling over.  If they do fall over, let the cups sit in the freezer for another 15 minutes or so, then try again.

Then, let them stay in there another two hours or so and wah-lah!  Make sure they are fully frozen and take them out.  If you're planning on serving them right then, you can take the popsicles out of the cups and place them on a tray of ice, or if you're taking them somewhere, leave them in the cups and place them on a plate with ice, and put foil around it.

Skinny Girl

Don Viejo

**Sprinkle some sugar on them to balance out the sourness of the margarita flavor


Now, if it's insanely hot like it was this weekend...I'd suggest securely putting them in an ice chest or cooler, because in the 10 minutes it took to get to his parents place, they melted and became margarita popsicles shots.  Sad, I know, but they were still good.  That just means I have to make them again!

As for the pool though, it felt great!  The hot heat from the sun, mixed with the cool, refreshing pool water, was wonderful!  However, I do need to get a new towel though, because it wasn't long enough for the lounge chair, and I kept burning my legs.  We hung out with his mom, Sweet-As-Pie Mom, and his dad, Surfer Dad, for about 6 hours.  We got a lot of sun and Surfer Dad cooked us up some awesome hamburgers!

Afterwards, we headed over to my parents house for some burritos and Hard-Working Dad's famous homemade rice.  After we scarfed down all that delicious food, we headed out front to set off some fireworks Hard-Working Dad bought.  It was so much fun!  We set a bunch off and got to play with sparklers, and laugh and hang with some of the neighbors.

We finally made it back home a little before 10, and man, were we tired!  It was a long, fun day, that we got to spend with each other and family :)

**And, it was so hot yesterday, that even though amazing boyfriend and
I kept reapplying sunscreen, we both burned...badly.
Him more than me, but lets just say, I've never wanted to
 go bra-less more than anything right now, and he just looks
like a (red) oompa loompa.  I felt so bad.
Aloe vera is now his best friend.

How was your fourth of July?

Topic Tuesday: Kids

Today's Topic: KIDS

I make this today's topic because I'm a nanny and today I just need to vent about the kids I watch.  I don't know if it's because I'm just tired from lack of sleep or because I've been with them 10 hours a day for the last week and a half, or because it's almost that time of the month, but I am just so irritated with them the last two days.  I love these girls to death, but I think the biggest problem I have with them is that they are too spoiled.  Their parents let them do whatever they want, eat whatever they want, and buy them whatever they want...and they (the kids) know it.

Now, they're not the typical spoiled brat girls that you see in movies, where they talk back and only care about themselves, thank God.  However, since they do get whatever they want, when they don't, they whine and Miss 5-Going-On-30 throws a tantrum.  And in the end, they get what they wanted in the first place, so no lesson is taught, and they don't learn anything.  Uh, yeah, Miss Sarah does not tolerate that.

When I first started working for them, they were pretty bad in that aspect, but after a few months of teaching them that that is not how you're supposed to act and they need to be grateful for what they have already (which is way more than I ever had when I was their age), they slowly but surely got better....however, only when I was watching them.  As soon as one of their parents walked through the door at 6pm though, they went right back to their old ways.  Ugh.  But the thing that made me laugh a little inside, was that the mom would admit to me that she knows they act better with me and then go crazy when she has them, and she doesn't understand why.  Hah!  Well lets see, I actually discipline your children and don't give them whatever they ask for, that may be why.

It's been almost a year now since I've been with these girls and they act a lot better and from what I've heard from Miss Lazy-Know-It-All, her sister doesn't throw tantrums anymore when she doesn't get her way (when I'm not there).  The greatest thing is that Miss 5-Going-On-30 knows now that it's not good to throw tantrums, so she'll get all excited when she tells me she went to a store and didn't get mad when she didn't get something she wanted.  So I give her a high-5 and tell her what a good job she's doing.

The only thing that we're still working on (well me mostly), is my 'say-so' getting overruled.  The girls will ask me for something or to do something, and if I say no, Miss Lazy-Know-It-All will then (sometimes) text her mom or dad for the same exact thing, and of course they say yes.  That has only happened a few times, but depending on what it is, I will either stick to what I said, or let the parent's decision overrule.  They will also do the same thing when the parents come home, usually when it involves sweets.  They will have already had a dessert with me, and then when the mom comes home, they will ask for another, and I will say that they've already had one.  And of course, mom will say yes...(still working on that with the parents and enforcing my rules).

The last two days, they've gone back to their old ways a little bit, and I think that's another reason why I'm so stressed out.  I've been trying to keep a good attitude and stick to my rules, but I'm just so tired that I've caught myself slipping, and letting them get away with things I don't normally let them do.

I need to stay strong (and breathe...) because I'm with them for 10 hours a day for the next few weeks until I finally get a week vacation, which will be very much needed!