I just realized I'm really for real leaving tomorrow. What? I just flew. Don't wanna!!!!

posted by Kristen at 9:43 PM   

This is the cruise!!!

posted by Kristen at 1:53 PM   

Yo Yo Yo. Got a digital cam for christmas!!! Guess I'm gonna go into reclusion for a few months. Merry Christmas!

posted by Kristen at 5:04 PM   

This is what we're going to see over New Year's!!!!!!

posted by Kristen at 6:05 PM   

YAY! I made it back to Minnesota...but DAMN it's cold! Got to see my fam and now I'm in Fargo visiting my peeps (well, a couple of them!hehee). NOW we can have Christmas cuz there's snow on the ground and presents under the tree. I love this time of year.

posted by Kristen at 6:03 PM   

The lady who did my nails today was kind enough to give me the gift of rubber. Rubber gloves. Is that a normal gift to get from your manicurist?

posted by Kristen at 6:56 PM   

I'm going home TOMORROW MORNING! Eekers! I'm packed but I must go buy a new wardrobe to make my friends think I've done something with myself out here! hehee. Yah right. After this trip home, I won't be back until at least May. That's so sad...however, then I will have time to do something with myself out here!;-)

posted by Kristen at 9:43 AM   

Apparently I have an email address I didn't know about. Everyone should write to me at nannykristen@netscape.net just cuz it's fun.

posted by Kristen at 9:42 AM   

Got to see The Wild Thornberries movie today. Oh, and meanwhile, it was 60 degrees! Ummmm, yah, I THINK it's December but I really can't tell.

posted by Kristen at 8:22 PM   

A Christmas Recipe you can't refuse...

CHRISTMAS CAKE
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
lemon juice
4 large eggs
nuts
1 large bottle Jose Cuervo
2 cups of dried fruit

Sample the Cuervo to check quality.
Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again.
To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat.
Turn on the electric mixer.
Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one teaspoon of sugar.
Beat again.
At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK.
Try another cup .... just in case
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the frigging fruit off floor.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a
drewscriver.
Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt.
Or something. Who giveshz a shit.
Check the Jose Cuervo
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window,
Finish the Jose Cuervo and kick the cat.

CHERRY MISTMAS!

posted by Kristen at 11:14 AM   

J is Shabbat boy at school today. Don't worry, I'll video tape it. You can see it later.

posted by Kristen at 8:01 AM   

Was a very easy day today. It's beginning to actually FEEL like Christmas! I love that. I also have J singing songs from "The Grinch" for me. Ahhh, how I love kiddies!

posted by Kristen at 8:18 PM   

I took a step aerobics class today. For real, that can't be good for you. I thought I was going to die. I was the first person in the history of exercise classes to walk out halfway through. Shiiiiiiiit.

posted by Kristen at 2:15 PM   

I was just looking at a salary calculator to see what I would have to make in New York in order to live. It told me that the cost of living in NY is 364% higher than St. Cloud, MN!!!! That means, if you make $24,000 per year in St. Cloud, you'd have to make $111,371 per year to live to that same standard!! I think I'm having a heart attack.

posted by Kristen at 3:31 PM   

This image was in New York magazine this week. It made me laugh.

posted by Kristen at 8:26 AM   

I want chicken noodle soup. Where are your friends when you need them. Damn you, Joey.
(I enjoy blaming EVERYTHING in my life on Joey)

posted by Kristen at 8:58 PM   

SO I didn't sleep the other night, but by Saturday morning I had the best Christmas list ever. Yesterday I finished my shopping!! YAYYYYY for powershopping me. Don't get too excited though;-)
Something you SHOULD get excited for: my arrival to the Minneapolis International Airport at 9:30AM exactly one week from today! Yikers! I better pack.

posted by Kristen at 10:58 AM   

I just realized my computer's clock is WAY fast. Damn. Even longer till morning.

posted by Kristen at 2:05 AM   

I am SO creative in the middle of the night! YAY me. Just thought of some presents I should buy. This is the beauty of having your own website. You can ramble into the Internet any time and no one has to care or even listen. Wait...did that make sense? no.

posted by Kristen at 2:04 AM   

Ok..it's 2:09AM. My heart is pumping so fast I feel like I'm having a heart attack and when I close my eyes they pop right back open. I liked those drugs all day, but I really wanna sleep!!! POOOOOOEY. Wouldn't you know it...I wait all week to sleep Friday night and then I get sick and am wide awake. Funny joke. See my face, not smiling?? Yah. Well. I'm rambling cuz there's nothing else to do at 2:10AM in the morning.

posted by Kristen at 2:02 AM   

I'm sick. I want my mommy.

posted by Kristen at 3:31 PM   

I attended my first ever yoga class tonight. It was amazing! I wish I could afford to keep going. However, I am very soar! It's like I had....sorry, can't finish that sentence on the INTERNET. Just take my word for it.

posted by Kristen at 10:35 PM   

Happy Birthday Cindy!!

posted by Kristen at 10:26 AM   

We had a dinner party at 1AM this morning! It was delicious though! Thanks, cold Nazi...I mean Jenn!;-)

posted by Kristen at 10:26 AM   

It's SOOO rainy and gross out. Cabin fever has hit and I'm SOOO excited to go home again. I'm ready for Christmas!

posted by Kristen at 7:21 PM   

Not much time till vacation!!!!
Here's the plan, like you care:

Wed: Party at Jenn's
Thurs: Cindy's b-day/workout with Megan
Fri: Babysit for J
Sat: Babysit for A
Sun: Shopping at outlet mall
Mon: Packing
Tues: Working late
Wed: Nanny party in Port Washington
Thurs: Packing
Fri: Going out with...PSYCH...Packing
Sat: Babysitting @ Susan's
Sun: Packing
Mon: Going home

posted by Kristen at 4:52 PM   

J is sick yet again. I only tell you this as a plea for sympathy...and to log how many times I've had to sit on my butt all day and stare at the Wiggles. I must get outta here before my muscles shrivel up.

posted by Kristen at 4:46 PM   

Dang! I was doing so good at not missing a day of blogging and then I went and skipped TWO days. So sorry...hehee.
This morning I went to a class called "ab attack". You'd think it would be fun. It wasn't. It was like being taken advantage of in a jail full of big, huge, muscle-pumpin' scary women. Ok, not that bad, but I think I'm gonna feel it.

posted by Kristen at 10:30 AM   

New trip on the horizon! We're going as a nanny klan to Hunter Mountain, NY at the end of January!!! Sweet. The best part is, however, that it's not JUST a ski trip. It's also a snowtubing trip!!!

posted by Kristen at 8:22 PM   

Put Kristen's face in place of Kari's and you have my new hair. It's beautiful on Kari but...ouch. Not on Kristen. Having it fixed tomorrow.

posted by Kristen at 6:46 PM   

Thank God it's Friday today! I'm so ready for some sleep and some real Christmas shopping!! I'm not responsible enough to shop with a child. I lost J's coat today at the mall. What a LOSER.

posted by Kristen at 4:33 PM   

Note to self:
Rich Mahogany by Feria=RED. Always remember that.

posted by Kristen at 11:33 PM   

When my mom tried sending my snowboots out to me a month ago I laughed at her and snottily said, "they don't get that kind of snow here." Sorry, mom. They do, and it's coming down with a vengence! We've gotten about 5 inches today and it's not stopping. We tried making snowmen but defaulted to making 2 dimentional pictures of snowmen. Not sticky snow. Booooooo.

posted by Kristen at 2:58 PM   

Tonya's paper is almost done. Wait...nope.

posted by Kristen at 6:50 PM   

So I've been thinking...which is always bad. I think I'm gonna say "screw it" to loan payments,etc. and just take off to Europe for a few weeks. Hostels are cheap and worse comes to worse, I'll become a pimp. How bad could it be??

posted by Kristen at 2:13 PM   

Thanks, Dave! This is the graphic he has to go with my comments on his site. Makes me drool.

posted by Kristen at 10:26 AM   

Strangest thing happened this morning. I'm working out at the JCC and this older lady approaches me and asks, "Does that shirt mean SCSU as in Minnesota?" She GRADUATED from St. Cloud State in 1970 and has lived here for quite a while! She also is a teacher and teaches ESL to adults now. How cool is that? However, the irony continues. Her mother's maiden name is...Wiener!!!

posted by Kristen at 10:17 AM   

I would like this for Christmas. Especially after Jackie insisted on breaking my designer, treasured, in-the-family-for-years suitcase in the killer wind of last week.

posted by Kristen at 9:33 PM   

Had my first Jewish deli experience tonite. Potato pancakes and all. Was very different...and good. Oh, how strange we Norweigan Lutherans must be to them! They don't even eat mayo with corned beef! WHAT?

posted by Kristen at 7:36 PM   

We just turned the corner...into December. Beware: I LOVE Christmas and will probably be posting annoying amounts of Christmas garb. However, if you like it too and find cool stuff that should be posted on such a FAMOUS website as mine, EMAIL it please.;-)

posted by Kristen at 2:37 PM   

I just found one of my favorite Christmas stories online. See if you recognize it too.
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

posted by Kristen at 2:33 PM