Monday...still in bed...YESs!!

Hellloooo everybody!! Yes it has been a while...THAT was due to the fact that DJ and I would both leave around 6 each morning and not get home till around 7:30 each day. Once we got home...we would eat...and be so exhausted that we pretty much just fell down into sleep.

TODAYYY though....is my first day of being un-employed again!!! lol...(don't worry, i will only think it's a good thing for another day or two...probably not even) But it DOES feel SO nice to get to "sleep in" I don't know what is happening to me..."sleeping in" is now only like, till 8am now a days. What happened to sleeping in till 4? ;}

Friday was my last day with the girls..and i can actually say i was a little choked up throughout the day. We had a really great last week together and i was getting more and more used to being touched by the little ones filthy hands, and her attitude was even dwindling...she was actually saying please sometimes and thank you sometimes...which was really great. The oldest one pretty much looked up to me like an older sister and would ask me these questions about growing up that were so interesting to have to answer. The middle child finally got her back-hand-spring that we had been working on so hard...

...and in our final week together we went all over DC doing fun things.
we went to the spy museum, the national zoo...a bunch of other cool places as well...

The mother said they were really going to miss me and said that out of their 15 previous nannys...i had been hands down their favorite. It meant a lot to me...it feels so good to get to walked away knowing you did a job well. She also said that it i ever wanted to go to the white house or into any other restricted areas of DC to let her know and she would take me. She was actually just promoted into her own office in the Pentagon. As great as that is...i can't even count how many times the kids had made sad comments as to how they never get to see their parents..or they are never there...and when they do get home...they just want to relax. It's just so hard...life takes so much energy and so much time that just never seems to be enough. I'm glad the girls have each other...and i tried to remind them every day and after every fight, how lucky they really were to have each other.

I will def be seeing them and staying in contact with them...i promised rachel i would be there for her competitions and promised carolyn she could call me anytime for advice. The mom told me she would love to be able to have me babysit every now and then so i could stay a part of their lives. I guess thats really a great accomplishment now that i think about it...having been accepted and appreciated in other peoples lives. people who were strangers so recently...are now people who will be a part of me forever.
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Onward!!....

Since i have moved here i have been researching different dance studios and gyms....bc i think it would be a huggeee uplifter to get myself involved again with something like that.

Ive been very very VERY disappointed in how i've let myself go through all the craziness of moving. Being healthy is SO important to me, and i feel like i have just forgotten and given up. So this week...i will put a stop to it. I have already started eating healthier again and yesterday I figured out a brilliant plan.

I found the gym that i want to join. It's huge, has a spa...is very close, very clean and offers EVERY CLASS known to man(and woman) ...actually...prob not known to every man but known to every woman...HAHAHA...they offer the yoga i love...pilates of course, the kickboxing i wanted, every other normal workout class, dance workouts, zumba...they even offer ballroom dancing! SO...i was really pumped about joining...and was going to either join right away or make that be my birthday present...BUT, while paroozing their site...i landed on their career website...and they offer the most amazing benefits package that of course includes free membership. The BEST part about working there though...over dental and medical and all that jazz...iss......dun dun dunnnn......you get to wear this cute workout outfit everyday. And if you know me...u know i HATE uncomfortable clothing and the first thing i do when i get home is change into workout clothes or pjs. SOOO....i MUST get a job at this place. i know i have been stressing over finding a meaningful job...but i feel like this IS a meaningful job to me...i wanted to go into nutrition...this is the perfect place to start...and this IS part of nutrition.

SO...i will keep everyone up to date on how that goes...i plan on going in either today or tomorrow and not leaving till i have a job. lol. We shall see what happens...lol.

Oh...dj and i finally had a a weekend off here together so we took the opportunity to figure out the metro system just for the fun of it...really simple...really clean...you can even take your bikes on. THAT is the next purchass for sure.. getting dj a bike and getting my bike here. there really is no better way around dc than on a bike...saturday we must have walked 50 googillion miles around dc....went to every monument...and every sculpture and art museum and went to the air and space museum and on and on and on...my feet had never felt such agony in my life...and AFTER this...we took the metro straight to clerndon to meet up with his friends from work for their Koons celebration for being number one in CSI's. Koons just gave them this huge allowance to spend on food and drinks and all that...so it ended up being a long and dizzy night. LOL.

Ok...this is getting a tad long...so i should prob say goodbye for now!!
GOODBYE FOR NOW!!!! MWAAA MWAA!!!!

*M