I am home writing my blog today instead of sitting in class. I'm a goody-goody and really do not like missing class, but my baby-sitter flaked out on me. For the third day in a row she has not shown because of car trouble. I think I am going to have to fire her. I have never had to fire anybody before, but I need reliable child care. My girls will be heartbroken, because they adore her. This is not the first problem, though. She is also supposed to be helping out with the housekeeping, which she has really been slacking off on. She has also not been fixing the girls hair every day for school. This may sound minor, but it really bugs me to pick the girls up from school to see them looking like orphans with crazy hair flying everywhere--especially when all the other little girls are fully coordinated with matching hairbows. We're in a very preppy school.
On a better note, I have my first trial ad lab session. I had to give an opening statement, then go over the video to see how bad I sucked. I wasn't totally terrible. My instructor told me that I told the story wery well, I just need to work on things like tone of voice and hand gestures. I also got a little argumentative at times, which might draw objections (although the other instructor seemed to think it was ok to push it a little bit). Overall, I think this will be a fun class.
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I had to fire a sitter last year - it was hard, and i ended up lying to her. i told her the girls were accepted into an after school program, and that i was able to get a scholarship for said after school program, and that the older girl most definitely needed the social aspect of the program, and sorry - that means we can't keep her anymore.
i couldn't tell her the truth. "you're too old, you smell like urine, you are ANNOYING (i.e., bossy know-it-all - to ME, nonetheless, not even the kids! my 9 year old could have argued that woman into the coat closet for the afternoon), and we all dread seeing you on a daily basis." nope. wasn't gonna go over very well.
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