Blog of a Teenage Nanny

YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST and I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my flist, so let me know with whom I'm friends! (Feel free to only answer some of them if you like!)

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)

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 So, I have discovered why Barack Obama won the election...

                                                                                                                 
                                                                                         
                                                                                          
                                                                                         
 

Secretly, he is Sam, the American Eagle!  There's no disguising that brow!  (who would have guessed?)


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So, in the grand tradition of really, really late entries;  I thought I'd tell you all about my day at the Spa.

 ( But you're gonna have to work for it... )

Hey y'all!
  
  Had a fun and semi-relaxing weekend.  Got to see Christian perform in Grease, which was highly amusing.  In this performance he played Sonny, in the last one he played Eugene. ^_^  it was lots of fun.  Now Soph is in camp, Christian is romping at the water park with his friends, and Dad is at work, so it is veeeery quiet at the house, with Mum and I being the only two-leggers inside.   So I am enjoying my last hour or so of peace and quiet, to bring you all this lovely blog entry!  *beams benevolently*

....*snickers* 

For those of you who wanted to see my new hair in it's current tempermental state, I've taken some pictures.  They're a bit dark, but they'll have to do for now.   ;-}


































Aaaand; 


heehee...

Soo,  I've been home just about a month now.  woo-hoo.  Spent four hours mowing the bleedin' lawn today, then another half hour hauling all the grass shavings and spreading them between the rows of corn, as well as hacking down a few burdock with the hatchet.  All in all, a rather productive day.  

 We all went to the drive-in last night, to see the showing of Indiana Jones 4  and Iron Man.  Unfortunately, the fog kicked in midway through Iron Man, subsided briefly, and then came back in horror-movie force for the end of the flick, resulting in that nice audio-book feeling for the climactic battle and all that jazz.  ^_^    But Indiana Jones was good.  

Also, we had a kick-ass Solstice party a couple of weeks ago  (yes, I know, I'm behind. what else is new.)  My uncle Lloyd and aunt Noelle came over early and helped us prepare food, and I got to hang out with this little demon-baby:
  generally known as Baby Braeden in our house.  Isn't he cute?  We had a good time playing together; throwing grass, playing ball, feeding him sugary treats...  And I could feel Noelle studying me very carefully and plotting ways to get me down there for the weekend to watch him.   Yes, I saw that, Noelle, you can't deny it!

We  played badminton as well, and that was lots of fun.  While us crazies played sports, Noelle and Soph bonded over Sophie's bunny, Columbine Agnes:

   
















and then we had the crowds converge, and we ate goodies and talked and laughed and then Lloyd and Noelle conveneintly had to leave before the soliloquies.  Hmph.   ^_--  

All in all, it was a grand time.  We had lots of fun and should definitely do it again next year.  Except, hopefully we'll be able to have the bonfire next year.

And now; to see who is still actually reading this.

In other news, I offed my dreads.  

























 

I am HOME...

ahh...

Sunday, two days before I leave...

Not much to say, really...

Yesterday I was decadent and slept in until noon, mwa ha ha...that was very nice indeed.

Mum and Dad are driving down here tomorrow (thank you thank you thank you!) to come get me, then we are all going back up on Tuesday, and then I will be back home.  0_o    Whew!

Asia has a new favorite word:  Nibblers...it's similarity in sound to 'nipples' is no doubt one reason for her using it as often as possible while cooking up some 'chicken nibblers' for Arianna's supper.  She even brought in the package label and put it in one of my notebooks, to go with the Snorlax sticker she put on my pretty red box.  >:-(

Ahh, the joys of living with your cousin.  *sigh*  I will miss hanging out with her though.  

Well, this is it...the last day of my watching Arianna. 

Whew. 

*wipes brow*  I made it.   Asia and Josh get home late tonight...

Over all it has been a pretty decent week.  We had a bad day, but the rest have been alright, aside from the occasional temper tantrum, and the meltdown each night when she realized once again that her mommy and daddy had gone away without her and weren't back yet.  *sigh*

What am I going to do tomorrow? 

Nap.  ha.

Last night Asia's friend Cara came over for the evening, bearing pizza and a girly movie.  We sat and colored with crayons, which made Cara Arianna's new best friend.  When Arianna heard Cara knock on the door, she ran right to her room to put on a shirt, because she didn't want to wear just pants in front of company.  ^_^   Once Arianna was in bed (talking to her stuffed animals, much to our amusement) Cara and I watched '27 Dresses'  which was a fun movie.  

And for those who are wondering; my icon is just about how I felt this week...

 

Well, the morning of day four...urg

The day thus far has been uneventful, given that it is still morning.  Arianna is watching Clifford and finishing her bahbah, after a breakfast of grilled shrimp that her grandmother brought over yesterday.  Yes, she is eating shrimps for breakfast.  It's probably healthier than the breakfast cereal that I had, anyway.  ^_^  

Ari has been good for the most part these past few days, but occasionally she will burst into tears and sob about Mummy and Daddy being at the beach and leaving her here.  Poor baby.   Luckily, the grandparents are chipping in, which keeps Arianna busy and happy, and gives me some peace for a couple hours each day.  Thank goodness.  *wipes brow*  

For your amusement; I present a partially completed joke list.

You Know You've Seen too Many Kid's Shows When:

1)  You spontaneously start singing the theme of  one of at least five shows, generally at the least appropriate times.

2) You know the catch-phrases for each of Bob the Builder's construction machines.

4) You know that at noon the PBS kid's shows end, but Nickelodeon has them for another hour before the dreaded SpongeBob starts.
 
5) You can name each of Handy Manny's eight talking tools.

6) You know that Handy Manny has, in fact, seven talking tools.


Feel free to add any you find relevant; it is a very short list.  ^_^  

Only two more days!!  (after today. sigh.)  

Day one of my week alone with Arianna.

It's been going pretty well so far; only a few minor tantrums, but I fear that the fact of Asia and Josh's departure has not yet sunk in, and there will be hell to pay once Arianna realizes her mommy and daddy won't be here to tuck her in or wake up with her.
*sigh*
But she and I get along pretty well, so it won't be too hard, and I'll have various relatives as backup, thank goodness.

Ari and I made 'chocky-cake' together today, that was fun.  ^_^  She likes to check out all of the ingredients before I put them in the bowl; which includes poking and squishing and taste-testing each thing.  For some reason, she likes to taste plain flour. 0_o   Then I put the mixer in the bowl, and she counts down to 'GO!', whereupon I am allowed to mix.

This morning after getting her dressed, we painted her nails (two feet and a hand's worth red and sparkly, to match her outfit, the other hand's worth green) and put her hair up.  I asked her how many 'bows' she wanted and she held up her hand.  "This many!"  so, now she has five ponytails, which are very cute.  

As per Dad's suggestion, Asia and Josh made a video on my camera of them singing Arianna's goodnight songs, 'Twinkle twinkle', and 'ABCs' for before the baby goes to sleep, and then Asia made another one for when she wakes up, wishing her good morning and blowing kisses (and telling her to "be good for Kea-kea", which was my favorite part).  So far she has watched the morning one a good ten times or so, and we'll watch the goodnight one just before bed.  


And that's all I have time for now, as Arianna is getting restless again and wants to go outside to play, which we shall do. 


Only five and a half days to go... 

  My first day back at home was a busy one.  Dad and Sophie drove all the way down to get me on Thursday, and we left quite early on Friday morning to drive back up.  It is a long trip. 
  Dad had to work that afternoon, so we had a little time to hang out, then Soph and I waited in the car for Mum, who was coming down to get us.  I was very proud of myself; I did not cry all day.  Us goyles then went to Goodwill and had the most interesting Goodwill experience that I've ever had.  More about that in a different post, mwa ha ha.

  So... You all would have had a nice, long blog entry to read Monday night, only the buggered computer decided to act up and shut down the window with my two-hour-long entry in it.  grr. 
   To make up for this, I now bring to you some of the notes I took on my first-ever plane trip.  

Soo, day two of my city trip began in the twilight of Mike's apartment.  True, if you look out the window and tip your head way back, you can see some sky, but it isn't really enough to light the place.  As it turns out, it was breakfast time. (do you like that generalization? it's lovely being on your own time schedule for a change, as opposed to a baby's or school's.)    
 

Where to start...Ah yes, the city.  it should be fun trying to get this all in order.  Right.  *takes deep breath*

My godfather Mike was kind enough to put up with me for a couple of days, so I took the train into the city all by my lonesome.  And this time I remembered both my camera and my cell phone!

 

 

Ha!  Finally done!

This was a bloody lot of photos, and it has taken me all morning, inbetween playing with Arianna, to upload and sort all of the bloody things. but I'm finally done!   yay!   Now, of course, I have no time to post, but here are the pictures, and I'll put up a proper post later, hopefully today.  Cheers!
love,
 kea


http://pics.livejournal.com/jerusalembaby/gallery/0000zh8t?page=1

Oh, mum, how about Room With a View icons?

Ladies and Gents, here is the tattoo at last!

http://pics.livejournal.com/jerusalembaby/gallery/0000q4fp


Yay!

Okay. So.  Sorry about my two rather unsatisfactory last entries, herein you will find most, if not all, of details previously left out.  ^_^

 Star trek quiz; dad will be proud.

Your results:
You are Mr. Sulu

Mr. Sulu 80% Worf 70% Uhura 65% Chekov 50% Beverly Crusher 50% Mr. Scott 40% Deanna Troi 40% James T. Kirk (Captain) 35% Jean-Luc Picard 35% Geordi LaForge 35% Will Riker 30% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 30% Spock 25% Data 22% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 20% You are able to master many skills such as swords, plants and martial arts. Click here to take the "Which startrek character are you?" quiz...

Man, I really need some star trek icons...*sigh*    Oh mum, you should try to find one of Witch Hazel from Bugs Bunny!

Word.  *guy handshake*

ha.  Couldn't resist, dad. ^_^  
  
 So, updates, updates.  I should start keeping a list of stuff that happens every day.  Oh,  Arianna has started saying her 'k's, to an extent.  My name is now "Ty-Kea", which is very cute.  
  My plans for getting my tattoo this week have kind of fizzled, due to the very dodgy tattoo parlor Asia and I went to go see.  Ick.  long story.  I will now test if this is still online by trying to post this entry, and then if I am indeed online, will continue with my ramblings. Cheers!

Ah ha! I have finally gotten the picture thingie to work, so hopefully there are now new pictures up!