Wednesdays with Lauren

Alright people. So I went into the city on Sunday just to hang out and make myself feel better about this crazy decision I made. By the way...people up here call New York City... "The City". Anyways..I take the train into Penn Station...it was a delightful trip..I put the earphones in for the IPOD (thanks Hannah!) and start to turn it on....only to realize the batteries are dead! And since my lovely friend gave me her IPOD I have not yet purchased a charger to go with it, haha. So I just had to read my book with no music. Oh no, don't feel bad for me, Sunday seems so be "Family day" on the train so I had plenty of "mommy!! Is this our stop"?!? "MOMMY MOMMY"!! to keep my ears more than perky. I know what you're thinking..."she works with kids"? Yeah well I'm learning a lot. I'm learning that even though I used to want to get married and have as many kids as we could afford...I'm thinking one now..haha..and it better be a good one.. I also want to go ahead and skip the ages of 1-6. Let me tell you a little something I've learned about small children this last week or so. When you have a child between the ages of 2-5 you pretty much spend all of your time either distracting the child...or kissing their ass. Let me elaborate a bit. When working with school age kids...they do what I say because I am in charge and thats how it goes. If they don't, there are consequences (sp). With smaller children...there is no reasoning...silly me to think that with speech, toilet training and conversation, would come the ability to reason. It's more..."oh your throwing a fit cause you don't want to take a bath.."HEY!! WANNA BE A SUBMARINE!!??? SHOW ME HOW FAST YOU CAN RUN TO THE BATHROOM!! OOOOH THATS FAST!! WHAT A BIG BOY"!!! See I'm used to saying "ok, you don't want to take a bath, then go to bed, and go ahead and cancel your plans to play with Timmy tomorrow". Basically the last 6 or so years of childcare has taught me nothing about 3 year old boys. Now...on to the good stuff ; ) So...I'm sitting in Bryant Park on Sunday reading my book and eating my yummy sandwich...when all of a sudden, this guy comes up to me...now now ladies don't get all excited..he wasn't that cute..haha. He says..and believe you me I didn't know people used this line outside of movies... "excuse me, you looked so engrossed in your book but I couldn't help noticing how attractive you are, you wanna go out sometime"? ; 0 That's it?? No, "hey my name is ____" ??? I didn't want to be rude so I told him that I don't live here...then he aske me where I live, I tell him New Jersey..he says "ME TOO"!! Wow...small world...well what was I supposed to do? So I gave him my number knowing full well he would never call..and I wouldn't want him to. He walks away...I shoot a "what the crap??" look at some guys across the way...next thing I know...they are at my table asking if they could sit and talf for a bit...I figured why not, they look fun. Well I wound up talking to these 2 guys from Albainia for like an hour and a half...they were HILARIOUS!! They had the funniest accents. They gave me THEIR numbers cause they didn't want to seem "pushy" or "creepy", so they said. Will I call??..probably not...once I make a girlfriend or two I might and we could all meet up somewhere...but am I gonna go meet 2 random guys in some dark alley in good ole NYC alone?? Probably not. All in all..things are going fine...getting my room set up..starting to make it feel a bit more like home...going out with a nanny tomorrow night...the mom mentioned something about setting me up with her tennis instructor...which will of course work out since we all know how active and into sports I am..haha....hopefully some friends will come out of all these little rendevous. I miss many things about Texas..Dr.Pepper mainly...I swear you have to hire a detective to find a soda fountain with Dr.Pepper...I walked around a billion fast food places in Penn Station on Sunday for a good 10 minutes till I found some! REEE-DICULOUS! Well..I'm off to have my little afternoon alone time before my new 3 year old friend wakes up and requires my undivided attention...I hope all is well with everyone..hope to hear from you all soon!

~~Lauren