Nanny Adventures

I just spent an hour or so typing up a 700 word post over my work week this week and last…and it totally disappears.
For those that know what has been going on with work, you know this just goes on the pile of stuff.
I will have to rewrite it at some point.  But just so [...]

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My favorite memorial: The Lincoln Memorial!

Today, I took my friend Kellie to Reagan National Airport at 4:45am. It was still dark when we left my house. As we were driving along George Washington Parkway, the sun was rising in that lovely pink jewel toned sky above DC.  The monuments were lit up from the nighttime [...]

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Apparently one of the little kidlets got a nasty virus on the computer.  I saw this thing called “Antivirus 2009″ once it was booted.   Well that is spyware/virus stuff. I tried to open and update AVG and Spybot, but it wouldnt’ connect to the server. sigh.
I happened to mention to my friend about it and [...]

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has arrived at my house today!  I am so excited. I am participating in 3 online secret santa gift exchanges. One with my nanny friends, and two through another online message board.   Today I scored…Look what came in the mail:

 
 
 This is what was in Day 1 and Day 2 gifts… I love, love them! Thank [...]

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I was given this site, Who should you vote for , tonight and went and filled out the questions.  It then told me who I was more aligned with.  It was pretty interesting.  You should check it out!
On Tuesday many places are giving away freebies for coming in with your “I voted” sticker on.
Krispie Kreme is [...]

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I was alerted by a nanny friend about a 1.6 million crib recall, so I wanted to let my readers know.   
The affected cribs are :   Delta’s “Crib Trigger Lock with Safety Peg” drop side hardware (almost a million of these) and Delta’s “Crib Trigger Lock with Spring Peg” drop side hardware (almost 700,000 of these).  
Go to [...]

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Yesterday I was watching some episodes of “The View” on my Tivo, and this one happened to be their Hot Topic Monday one.  I just love the girls at the View, they and Ellen are my comedy relief of the day sometimes.   Elizabeth as you know is a die hard Republican while everyone else seems to [...]

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for Toodles Tisha the fish is being held at right now, with buriel at 9pm tonight in the backyard.
I got a phone call from Kidlet #3 about an hour ago, and he was crying. He said that Toodles Tisha was dead.  That Kidlet #1 found Toodles dead-floating upside down in the fish bowl.   I told [...]

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So I am sitting here watching today’s “Ellen” and they just played this thing regarding voting. It had a whole bunch of actors etc on it.  It had a website  www.maps.google.com/vote   and on there on the left side you enter your street address.
It tells you how many days are left to register to vote etc.  [...]

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On Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 5:00-8:00 PM, all guests to any Cold Stone Creamery location in the nation will be treated to a 3 oz. serving of ice cream. Donations will be accepted to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. 

http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/promotions.html
Too bad we don’t have any close to us!

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