My Time on Earth can end happy for I have been to Heaven already.
Kinda Crowded
Who’s Your Nanny?
So, I rocked up at the appointed time. It’s been a while since I was there, but that’s cool the kids and I go way back. Mum and I shoot the breeze and fill in the blanks for the last couple of months and then she drops the big one.
Oh, by the way, there’s a houseful of kids, I should have told you…
By houseful she means 7.
Just upgraded from nanny to crowd control.
7 ranging in ages from soon to be 5 to 13. All primed on pizza and soda and lined up to watch the latest crop of M-rated movies Mum’s hired… even the wee’un.
So, I watch the first with them. Blades of Glory. Laughed till it hurt. Then let them watch Norbit on their own. So not my bag.
Go down at 9 to pick the 5 year old off the floor and heft her upstairs and put her to bed. Return at 10 to give the others the hurry up.
Finally get them all into their respective rooms and spend the next hour fighting them to get back into their respective beds (3 girls in 1, 3 boys in the other) and finally get so jack of it I read the riot act.
Mum and Dad come home half an hour later. 12.30am. I give them the report, including the fact I’d had to get tough. They were delighted and apologetic all at once and we go check on the kids.
1 boy missing. Toad. Probably in the girls’ room…
Nonetheless, I walk away with $120 for 6 hours work. Now that’s why I keep going back.
Because a nanny don’t mind working for someone who pays fair.
Healthy Choice
I’m eating a box dinner. You know the kind, pull it out of the freezer, punch a couple of holes in the lid and fling it in the microwave.
This is not normal behaviour for me.
Blame it on the fact that I’m sick (I know, if you’re one of my facebook friends you’ve been hearing about it all week… sorry for carrying on here too). And before you ask I’ve been laid low with nothing more than the flu. I thought it was a cold. But I’ve had to escalate it to the flu because I’m still out of action at the end of a full week. Which is why I still have a limited appetite and still can’t be bothered cooking.
Which is probably why it’s taking me a bit long to recover. I’m not eating properly.
Which is why I’m eating a box dinner. It said healthy on the cover.
Hope it’s not wishful thinking.
Now That’s a Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Me Into
I asked him when he handed me the disc… is this legit? I was assured that it was.
More Fool Me.
Here I am 2 and a half years later having purchased the upgrade software gone to install it and found that it isn’t going to be so easy as I don’t have the one serial number I need. The reason I don’t have it is because the person who gave it to me neglected to mention that while it was a legit copy of the software it was actually registered to him.
That being the case were I to be using it legitimately I should in fact be using it on a computer he owns in his employ.
So I contacted the vendor who sold me my upgrade and asked if there was any way it could be returned for the full version.
Apparently not.
Now, if this was a simple case of a $40 or $50 unit I’d be ok with that… but this is MYOB Accounting, the upgrade was $225… The full version is $285. So now I’m stuck with both. And I’m really unhappy about it.
Can Anyone Say Ebay?