July 1, 2008

Two things that remind me of my x!!


Two things I can’t do at all, and every time I am in need of having them done, I think of my x and remember how I never had to learn doing them simply because he did them!

Number one, tipping! I don’t know how to tip people, I swear it’s hard! I personally find stuffing people’s sweaty hands with money a tad embarrassing for me and humiliating for them!! Call me a snob, but even when I used to take 3eedeya, I never liked the idea of aunts and uncles stuffing money in my hand that way; so I can’t really imagine myself doing something to anyone that I hated being done to me!!

Now, I really wanna tip the nannies at my kids’ nursery for the efforts they’ve been doing with both my kids, but I can’t seem to find a way!! It’s pathetic, I have the money in my pocket, I know exactly who I want to give it to, but I don’t have the guts to give them the freakin’ money, I don’t know how to do it or whether I should be making eye contact and smiling or not!! I even thought of putting them in white envelopes with the names of the nannies, but I don’t know, it seemed too showy from my end, which is not how I want to be at all!! ARRRGGGHHHH I feel like crap not being able to show my gratitude and appreciation!

Thinking about that all the way from the nursery to work today, made me remember my x and how I could always whisper in his ears that I wanted to give a tip but I was too shy and he would take care of it!! Yes, I tried watching him to see how he did it but I guess I just never had it in me to it myself, it’s embarrassing!!


Number two, killing insects! I have mentioned my phobia before and I have mentioned that no matter how I attempt to fight insects, I will never really be able to stop fearing them. Two days ago, beem came running calling for me to see what mocha is doing, I went there to find him trying to grab a sticky half eaten skittles that was abandoned on the floor by him earlier that ants all over it! My first instinct was grabbing mocha while screaming hysterically and making sure no ants were on him; I washed both his hands and feet while feeling a million ants all over my body I started crying!!

Yeah, I see or think of any of those creepy living things that can surprise you like ants, roaches, geckos, spiders and even rats, and I feel utterly disgusted and now they remind me of him; all the more reasons to feel grossed!! Eww!! It’s scary because I don’t want my kids to grow up feeling the same way about insects just because they get to see me freak out every time I see any! I mean if there was anything I wish they take after their father, it would be his ability to kill all sorts of those things!!

6 comments:

haijekov said...

put them in small white envelopes and give them to your kids to give them to the nannies... that's what my parents used to do when i was really young.
I believe it saves you the embarrassment ... kids' smiles take away any weird thoughts on the other side ... and plus it teaches the kids something ....
at least that's my humble opinion

insomniac said...

not a bad idea! will be excecuted asap, unless there's a better one out there ;))

thanks for not making fun of me tho!

Jade said...

I totaly agree with Kov...
Or if you will have to do it - why not kiss them & in the shake of hand keep the money in there... so you're not actually shoving the money in their hands, but making the money your handshake while you give them a nice big kiss on both cheek & thank them...
Which will also come off as totally humble.

Rivendell** said...

these is a good idea
i had the same problem but at some point i forced myself to do it because i knew that they deserve that money and i felt eny batdala3 so i waited for the right time and used a huge gratitude smile - but with no eye contact - and put the money in their hands and it passed alright they weren't hurt or annoyed

Rivendell** said...

oh also i was saying shokran gzelan w rabena yekremek

insomniac said...

joujou...

i don't do kissing with strangers!!!! i rarely do that and when whoever i am being introduced to leans forward!!! so this would be extra awkward for me!!!

i think i'm sending the money in envelopes!!


rivendell,

i do it every once in a while the way you do it, bas beyeb2o nas mesh hashofhom tany, so it helps!!!

anyways, i will go for it isA tomorrow as i drop them off!


thanks gals