Today I am caught in quite a conundrum-- follow this, if you will.
Yesterday was the first day of school for most; not for me. It was my first, first day NOT having school.
It was definitely bittersweet. Mixed emotions of laziness, happiness, sadness, and an aimless future with infinite possibilities--let's just say I was slightly overwhelmed.
I would say my greatest lesson of the day, if you want to call it that, was that if a 2 year old doesn't take a nap, it's ROUGH.
My recent en devour of nannying has made me realize that I need a few things in my life
#1. As much as I love playing all day (which I honestly do), I don't understand how stay-at-homers can NOT talk to a peer or adult during their day. I feel like I go home from just 6 hours of non-grownup time and language comes out of my mouth like word vomit. Diarreah of the mouth.
#2. I CAN read more than one book for entertainment and intellectual stimulation. If I read everything in front of me, I can still absorb as much as possible before I continue on to grad school...Thank GOD!
#3. I see why and why not to have children. It makes my life more complicated just thinking about it. I mean I realize I have a whole hell of a lot of things I selfishly want to accomplish before making another person with whom I will spend a good two decades. But whoever invented the idea knew how to hook people: A) They made sex appealing. B) They make the end result cute enough to invest in at least until they can talk, and by then you're in over your head anyway so you mine as well stick with it.
I did learn a lot more yesterday I'm sure. These are some of my more prominent points.
Yesterday made me realize how much I want to go back to school. I'm not ready for this to be my life. I have to constantly be learning, and I am learning...and I do love my job.
It's probably the best place to be in though...I mean I love spending time with the little one, but I also realize that if I did this for more than this "in-between" time, I would possibly play turtle in traffic.
That sounds harsh.
Okay, I'd probably just be discontented. But I'm writing, I had to give you a real idea.
One MAJOR accomplishment from yesterday would be-- tada!
I taught her to say "hot mess" when she sees Sarah Palin. Proud. Proud. Proud.
Now I must go work on two papers. I want to write about my favorite movie for an application, but I cannot decide between Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious and Mike Nichol's The Graduate.
I'll just pick the better of the two papers, or maybe I'll find which one is TRULY my favorite?!
1 comment:
I think that The Graduate has possibly been a little overdone whereas I have yet to hear very much about why Notorious is so awesome.
Also, I think you should write a blog every naptime because then I have something interesting to read.
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