- quit my nanny job. why...?....its a long story, beginning like this: i was sneakily reading a fashion magazine while supposedly playing with the child. in the mag was an interview with alexa chung. she was asked what her most dreaded thing was, to which she replied: 'to have to do something i hate and pretend to like it.'.... that answer was like a punch in the guts. it made me realise how much i hate that job. firstly, because instead of just supervising the child (while reading magazines), i'm expected to actually get into her play house and make pretend meals on her plastic kitchen set, enjoy tea-parties with her dolls and do the voices for building block robots....all day, with a happy face and a chirpy voice because somewhere, around the corner, the mother is always lurking....
secondly, because the mother seriously asked me if i would please call poo 'duties', piss 'wissy woo' and farts 'windy woos'.... i'm not willing in all three cases. dealing with them in nappies is bad enough.
lastly, because i just cant fake it anymore. i can't pretend to have fun playing doctors and nurses with a misbehaving two year old and a stay-at-home mum watching anymore.
so ive decided that tomorrow ill quit. life is far too short for that shit.
instead i will spend the day taking photos at the market in angel, making home-made hummus and tzatziki, skyping my mum, reading books and drinking peppermint tea.... oh doesnt that sound like such a better way to pass the day!??
i may also have to spend some time looking for a new job i guess...
;o)
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