Court and I spent our lunch hour stalking a student on campus.Why?
Because we are desperate.
You see, weeks ago, we planned and, most importantly, pre-paid for a getaway weekend at the beach to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Everything was in place, including arrangements for a friend of ours to stay at the house with Amanda.
Our friend got called for a job interview in Kansas, so she can't stay with Amanda. As it turns out, all of our other friends have something going on this weekend, be it camping, attending an out-of-town HR conference, staying with an elderly parent in the hospital, helping a friend move into an out-of-town condo, photographing a wedding, and so on. We are SOL.
Desperate as ever, we decided to, out of the blue, ask this one student we see all the time. We found her, but she was talking on her cell phone. So we waited. She walked as she talked. We stalked. This went on for some time, until Ray, one of our campus policemen, asked what we were up to. We confessed. He laughed. Then he saw a student he knows and asked her if she wanted the job. She said she had plans for the weekend and couldn't, but offered to tell her friends about it. When we told her what it paid, she said she might change her plans and do it.
Keep your fingers crossed. We'll be so disappointed if we can't have our getaway.
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Crossing fingers, toes and everything (is there anything?) else.
Luck Much! ! !
I don't know how we've had so many sitters fall through. Talk about an unlucky streak!!
*sigh* I really don't want to cancel our weekend.
Wish I lived closer. I'd do it.
(But... um... isn't Amanda old enough to stay by herself for a weekend rather than having you cancel your plans?)
I've got nothing on the calendar this weekend. I'll be glad to visit w/Amanda...I'll bore her to death with history. :-)
Amanda is only 15... a borderline age for staying home alone over night. Her irresponsibility and failure to make good decisions when unsupervised is what has made us rule that out. (It wasn't a bad suggestion though. :) Kim and I *did* talk about it and she *did* ask for it [without knowing that we were talking about it ourselves]. But in her case, it would not be responsible parenting.) That is a mega bummer as much for us as it is for her.
Compounding the finding a sitter problem is that most of the area high schools have prom this weekend, and most of the college kids are gearing up for finals week, so its just an altogether bad weekend to be finding someone at the last minute. *sigh*
Chapin, that would be SO awesome! History would be good for her! ;) lol
Hoping you're able to find someone.
I hope it works, Trop & Court!
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