A Different World

The more time I spend in East Hampton NY, the more I realize that even though NY and UT are in the same Country--we are miles apart. Just a few differences include that the average mom of a 6 year old is my mothers age (around 40), getting married before you're 30 is not a good idea, and the kid to nanny ration is 2:1. It has been such an experience being here, and in only two weeks I have learned so much.

I have been really lucky to have found a good family, the Seitz's are an amazing family and have really done a great job raising their kids. In fact today we had a BBQ at a friends house, (it was my day off but I went to help out) and the kids were running crazy!! I figured no worries the parents will step in, but oh why would they do such a thing when a nanny could do it for them? So mine and Summers day was spent wrangling and entertaining a large group of children. Another fearful fact?? I was raised to help out, you eat it you help clean it right? Not so much here...Dine and Dash was probably invented here actually. So I did my parents proud, I stayed and picked up trash and washed dishes and put food away, yep I am a super hero!!

My time here has taught me not to take the little things for granted, like a car, toilet paper, a dad who unplugs the toilet, a mom who does my laundry (its been two weeks and I need it done BAD), and of course a family that helps out.

One down...Ten to go...

Oh my Ga-- I finished my first week as a nanny. Not only do I love my girls, Kelly and Nicole, the Seitz family is feeling like well family. Don't think I don't miss my family and friends in Utah, but me and Summer are having a blast in the Hampton's. The beach is about a ten minute walk from home and it is LOVELY!! I spend most my day with 2 year old Nicole, (Nicky) so its a good thing that she is a talker or I'd be talking to myself. The girls love to watch Noggin, although they only get an hour a day, every minute is spent asking for more noggin time. One week down means another to conquer, and although we have our ups and downs I am having a blast getting paid to be a practice stay-at-home mommy!

Me and Summer are not without adventures on our own as well. On our day off we ditched the strollers and diaper bags for some magazines and hit the beach. A warm sunny Sunday turned from beautiful to dreary in a flash, and we were suddenly caught in the rain. Without a ride home, and me in shorts we rain around and hid in the door way to the bathroom for cover. Soon we started walking home in spite of the rain around us.

Later we stopped back at the beach in Melissa's minivan, yep a hottie snatcher, and ate our dinner. A fun and messy dinner turned into a big problem...Summer had left the headlights on and the van's battery went dead!!! With not a friendly person around...(the surrounding cars offered no help) Summer was about ready to break down, a minute later who shows up?? That's right folks a friendly police officer, who we promptly flagged down to jump our car. The moral of this story?? Always have a drivers licence and registration (we had neither) and be nice to our uniformed officers. And as always, with Summer and Jordan....BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING!!

Off to Never Never Land

Where's Peter Pan when you need him? Today I start my new job, being a nanny...as easy as it may sound to many people it's been a bit more of a struggle for me than I expected. Although the girls are super cute, Nicki is 2 and Kelly is 5, being in a new place with people I don't really know well has been tough. The time change from Hawaii to Utah to New York has made my tummy cranky, it wants to eat at very inappropriate times. Although I am really glad that I made my decision to come here for the summer, three months is looking like a lot longer than I had originally planned. I know it will fly by but I still expect to see my parents and sisters every night, and having to talk to them on the phone just doesn't cut it. I miss my family and my bed, my pillows and my bed...yeah I LOVED my bed. But a new experience is here and I am hanging on for the ride.

On the road again...

I am consumed with nervous energy, my trip to Hawaii is tomorrow, and that means that New York is getting closer. Not that I am getting cold feet, nope I am in it to win it, but leaving my life behind...disappearing in a sense...hasn't been as easy as I had thought. Finally I decided to sit down and write thank you's to my bosses at Kohl's store 195 but I couldn't do it. It was almost too hard to say good bye. This made my thoughts go into a tail spin...if I couldn't say goodbye to Kohl's can I say goodbye to my family?

Although its not forever this is a step into uncertain waters and I haven't ventured far from my swimming hole in almost two years. I've had the same job, the same friends, the same responsibilities since High School. I see the same people day in and day out, heck I get asked questions when I am in my sweats and shopping not working. But what is it about new things, about change that makes people, well me so scared? Its the fact that I have to start over, from scratch. Everything I knew, everyone I knew changes...I am no longer in control over my life, I am simply a wave that can be tossed upon open water.

This is the same reason that I've been afraid to find new friends, to meet new people, and try new things. Because I am scared of losing control over my own life. Well today I am cutting my own strings, I am letting go and I am not going to live my life as a puppet, or a puppeteer. I am not going to be so controlling, I am going to live for the moment, even if the moment scares me to death. Man I sooo need a vacation!

Ode to Karen Walker

The one person I want to be like when I grow up would have to be Karen Walker, Megan Mullally's crude, drunk, and fabulous character from Will & Grace. Not only did she have wonderful style and a killer voice, she wormed her way into my heart with her witty yet slightly off remarks. She could 'poodle' or 'kitten' her way into any working girls heart. This married made millionaire was Grace's (aka Debra Messing) assistant and bff to Jack McFarland (aka Sean Hayes.) Karen Walker had more one liners than I've heard puns on CSI, some of my favorites...

"I'm fabulous... I'm an incredible dresser, I've got buckets of money, I'm a hoot and a half, and I got a killer rack!"

"My mother was crazy, that’s why I had her committed. Well, she wasn’t so much crazy as she bugged me..."

"I love errands. They’re like mini adventures for the undesirables"

"Look at me. When I first started working for "Grace Adler Designs", I was worried about so much. Would she like me? Would I be good at my job? And now look, I'm one of the richest women in the world! Sure, the two things are unrelated, but if you say it with the accents on the right words, it sounds inspiring!"

Megan Mullally is also an icon she has been in everything from Seinfield to Boston Legal, and The Bee Movie, she was also the voice of Pebbles on the Flintstones. She also had a daytime talk show that had a short run on NBC, there on of the best breast cancer awareness songs was created... This wonderful song can be heard on YouTube at the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ccMeL3IwFQ you know your all dying to hear it. If I could be any one person for a day it would be Karen Walker, powerful, rich, and funny as hell. Catch a Will & Grace rerun or rent the season you won't be disappointed. I grauntee you'll be quoting the sassy vixen by the time the episode is over.

CSI: NY

After the writers strike I went through a long phase of insomnia. And thankfully the wonderful networks put past episodes online because I would've gone crazy. 11:00 pm to about 4:00 am was my 'awake' time and you can go through a lot of books or shows, by chance I stumbled upon CSI:NY the particular episode was an exciting one and I was hooked. After purchasing season 2, 3, and 4 and watching all the episodes, I am one happy fan. Although the writers strike means that episodes will come slower the old episodes don't get boring. So who is my favorite people in the New York crime lab?

Don Flack-(Eddie Cahill) the wise ass detective... you may know him as Tag Jones, Rachel's boyfriend/assistance/red sweater guy in FRIENDS...

Danny Messer-(Carmine Giovinazzo) the steamy hot CSI who has a dirty streak, and yes we like it:) Carmine was also voted one of People Magazine's sexy men alive, can't go wrong there!

Catch up on the season on CBS.COM and watch WED nights at 9:00pm after Criminal Minds...And feel the love!!

It's time...

It's time...
I sort of feel like its new years resolution time, like I need to reevaluate my life. Maybe its because its the end of my first year of college or the fact that I am not talking to people I knew all my life. So it's time, time to decide what I want for my life. Ah scary... well I will take it one day at a time. In 17 days I am moving to the other side of the United States, yep the farthest I have ever traveled in my 18 years has been to California. And within the next two weeks I will be going from one extreme of the country to the other, but I am welcoming the challenge because its time... yep that's my new slogan for my new summer resolution. I have to start changing my own life because no one else is going to.