about me and my baby

Hi, Dianna - I'm another Palmy one!  OK, I live kinda centrally, but not central enough to walk into town and back with Ella today.  TIme for me to suck it up and drive with my baby in the car for the first time (eeep).  Welcome to the website - geeking here is one addictive passtime!  Top place for advice and hints, too. 

I'd be keen for another Palmy get-together.  How'd the one at lollipops go?  Actually, is Lollipops still there?!? 

When it first opened in Palmy, I went for a job "interview" there, for a get-me-through-Massey job.  Well, the owner said that the interview would take the whole morning, and basically they'd get me to work in all different areas for the morning and see if I was up to scratch.  About 5 of us did it at the same time.  He put me in the uniform (2 sizes too small... I looked so porno it wasn't funny and the mum's there stared at me as if to say 'you work with kids?!?'), and I slaved for 4 hours.  Even got to be "Lollipops the cat" - the suit hadn't ever been washed, and the mouth that was meant to have a peep-hole in it to see through had caved in, so a staff member had to lead me around by the hand.  She led me into a kid's party room, where the little terrors squealed "it's Lollipops....." and before I knew it I'd been knocked to the ground by tiny people who were then climbing all over me while the staff member said innefective things like "don't do that to Lollipops... please".  And worst of all - none of us were paid for our time, and I don't think they employed anyone out of it!  Craziness!!