Ayuda me!

Watching a two year old eat is pretty entertaining. Yesterday as part of his lunch I gave little man some sliced apple and peanut butter. He would scoop up the peanut butter on the apple and then eat the pb using the apple only as a spoon. It was pretty funny considering the whole reason for giving him apples and peanut butter is that the two flavors go good together. He also spears his pesto-covered tortellini with his little fork and then grabs the nugget with his other hand and shoves it in his mouth. It's pretty adorable except you have to wipe his pesto and oil covered hand for like twenty minutes after he's done.
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Most people will feel rejuvenated by spring's arrival but I feel a big case of the blahs approaching. I'm starting to burn out on some of my babysitting and I'm sleeping a lot less because I lay there and just think about how my work future is looking more and more bleak. There's nothing special about me. I'm not a lawyer taking time off. I'm not some math genius who can go into accounting. I'm not getting anywhere taking care of these kids and I'm not feeling inspired by anything. Nothing makes me want to really go out and fight for it. Let's face it, the only job I can do can be done even better by 21 year olds getting out of college with loads of internships under their belts.
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I'm sitting around hoping that my super will show up today to examine what the heck is going on with our toilet. We've always had a pretty strong flush. So strong you had to flush with the lid down for fear of your deposit flying across the bathroom on a giant rush of water. But a few weeks ago it became harder to push the plunger down and when you release it the pipe makes a crazy clang noise. It sounds like something is going to burst through the wall. You could hear it in all the other bathrooms on our line too. But recently I feel it's gotten even harder, I've noticed the other bathrooms aren't so audible anymore, and the clang is so hard it's waking me up in the morning when Mark is getting ready for work. So I mentioned it to the super who is very nice but pretty busy and the language barrier is pretty strong so I always feel embarrassed speaking to him because I should know how to tell him in Spanish but we all know the bitter story behind that...